2062 Russian Government Massacre

From Wikimerica, the United States Encyclopedia
The 2062 Russian Government Massacre was an event occurring on 6 March, 2062 that wiped out the remaining Russian Government during World War III and effectively ended the existence of the Russian Federation as a political entity. The massacre was carried out by Former Russian Soldier Makar Pavlov who did so in revenge for the death of his family earlier in the year during a Russian bombing of St. Petersburg.
=Background=
World War III had been raging for years by 2062 and was drawing to a close for several months at that point. Russia, a member of the CTSO, was backsliding into an anarchic state as Allied Military Forces successfully invaded, then occupied large parts of Russia. The Russian Federation's civil and military control over most of the Federation had been rapidly disintegrating for the past few weeks. By late February, the remaining Russian Government had concluded that conducting the war from Moscow was untenable as Allied Forces were going to succeed in taking the city.
=Fleeing to Yakutsk=
On 28 February, Russian President Soymon Zotova, alongside Prime Minister and later President Valerian Polo with the remaining Russian Cabinet and Generals decided to use their last safe chance to flee Moscow into Siberia, eventually settling inside a bunker within the city of Yakutsk. This decision would in the short term prove to be a good one as Moscow would fall to the allies advance on 1 March. Arriving on 3 March the rump Russian government was dead set on continuing the war despite having lost control of nearly the entire country.
=Breakdown of Communication=
By 5 March, the "rump bunker" had lost most communication with the outside world. Generals had extreme difficulty commanding the remains of their soldiers and the dwindling of food and loss of clean drinking water caused much of the Presidents own security detail and armed guard to desert him and make their way towards either allied lines or deeper into Siberia. At least 3 of the Presidents own cabinet members are known to have lost faith by midday of the 5th. They decided to abandon the President and exit the bunker only to be blown apart by an allied air-raid hours after leaving the bunker.
==Zotova's Death Hoax==
One of the final operations approved against the Russian government by the United States of America was the spreading of a hoax that President Zotova had taken his own life inside the bunker. This hoax would spread like wildfire and was extremely successful.
=Failed Nuclear Launch=
During the night of 5 March, Soymon Zotova had decided to launch an all out nuclear attack against the allied front line in a last ditch effort to stop the inevitability of his governments collapse. At 9:38 PM Zotova himself called the last remaining staffed nuclear bunker in Karelia to order the bombing of Moscow. The soldier at first refused to believe that it was actually Zotova on the phone as he had bought into his death hoax. After being convinced it was actually the President, he outright refused. Refusing the nuke Moscow for a lost cause war, he the soldier hung up on the President.
==Zotova's resignation==
Believing that all hope was lost, Zotova decided that he would himself flee the bunker to seek safety elsewhere. Zotova had heard word of an angered former Russian soldier heading towards the bunker and believing that this was the perfect opportunity to give himself an escape he neglected to inform the rest of the bunker of the mortal danger they now faced. He quickly penned his resignation letter to the Secretary of Defense and abandoned his post as President, leaving it to Valerian Polo without telling him. Polo would only learn of his ascension to the office of President. Zotova would vacate the bunker at around 11:48 PM. This move would prove to be a blessing for him as it allowed him to survive the massacre.
=Pavlov arrives at the bunker=
At around 9:15 AM on 6 March, Makar Pavlov would arrive at the bunker and gun down the two soldiers guarding the base of the bunker. He would make his way through the inside of the bunker, gunning down another 5 guards. On seeing that what little of now Polo's security assessed that it was not worth it to lay down their lives for the President and surrendered the bunker to Pavlov. Pavlov, entered the main command center of the bunker and ordered the guards to exit the bunker, they obeyed the order without hesitation.
=Massacre=
Pavlov ordered the Presidents cabinet away from the control post as he approached and blasted the controls, causing the door behind him to slam shut, sealing their fates in. CCTV captured the ensuring slaughter that lasted for 7 minuets, between 9:31 to 9:38 AM. The first to die was Secretary of Education Wassily Kalinin who was shot in the head, followed by Culture Dmitry Naumova who was shot in the throat. A knife then extended from Pavlov's hand who used it to cut across the throat of the Deputy Prime Minister, Timur Omarov. The only two left were Secretary of Defense Dmitriy Solovev and Russian President Valerian Polo. Pavlov demanded to know the location of Zotova, Polo screamed that he didn't know but Solovev admitted that Zotova had fled the bunker headed towards Beijing. Pavlov thanked him for the information then slammed his knife into Solovev's heart. Polo then attempted to flee but was shot through his knee, blowing it clean off. Pavlov then removed the shotgun he had kept on his back and demanded Polo climb up the wall and face him, bleeding out, Polo was barely able to comply. Pavlov then whispered something to Polo before shooting him in the head with his shotgun, removing the last Russian government official and thus ending the Russian Federation as a political entity.