Russiaball/History

== The Rise of Rus (900s-1055)==
In the 6th century, the Ancient Slavs inhabited the lands that are now Russiaball. On these lands Slavs based 2 biggest rus' cities at that time: Novgorodball in the north and Kievball in the south. Novgorod was a well-developed, strong, very warlike and unruly city, Novgorodians fought with all nearby tribes. In the late of 9th century citizens of Novgorodball invited Vikings to the cityball. "Our land is large and abundant, but there is no order in it", said Novgorodians to them and asked them to become rulers of the Novgorodball. The Vikings agreed. New rulers united southern Kievball and northern Novgorodball and forged them into a nation called Kievan Rusball. Slowly, Viking rulers adopted native customs and language and were assimilated into Russian society.
In 988, it converted to Orthodoxy. Kievan Rusball began trading with Byzantiumball. After 1054 when Kievan Rusball's ruler Yarolslav the Wise died, it broke up into a federation of princedoms.
== The Mongol Era (1223–1505) ==
Meanwhile, Europe was attacked by (wait for it...) the the Mongols! At first, they destroyed towns and massacred the inhabitants but later let the Russian principalities rule themselves as long as they paid tribute.
 "Lord Novgorodball the Great" (its favourite nickname) however was not invaded, under the knight called Alexander Nevsky, but it wisely decided to voluntarily submit to the Mongol Empireball. While under the Mongols, Lord Novgorodball the Great decided to annex surrounding territory (in Russiaball annexing territory is a national sport equal to drinking) and their ruler became the prince of Moscow in 1263. But it did not stop there, their next rulers also gradually kept annexing large amounts of territory, slowly becoming larger and stronger.
Ivan III (1462–1505) removed Mongol in 1480 ceasing to be a slave. it also annexed territory. The last independent parts of Russiaball were annexed by its child Vasili III thus Russiaball gradually became complete.
== The Tsardom of Russia (1533– 1721) ==
In 1547 it became Tsardom of Russiaball. In the 16th century Russiaball had far more contact with Western Europe. Many European craftsmen came to work in Russiaball, Englandball began trading by sea with it.
In 1533 Ivan the Terrible inherited the throne of Russiaball, it was crowned Tsar (derived from the Roman Caesar). it also expanded Russiaball territory annexing clay drinking and annexing are the joy of Rus mostly from the remains of Mongol Empireball, After that glorious period, Ivan became increasingly paranoid degenerating into a tyrant. it killed their own child. it died in 1584. their other child, Theodore, died in 1598 without leaving an heir and Russiaball entered a period of turmoil.
In 1603 a Polish man aka "The False Dmitry" claiming to be Ivan the Terrible's youngest child Dmitry appeared. In reality, Dmitry died in 1591. it then raised an army and conquered Moscow in 1605. But it was replaced by Prince Vasily Shusky in 1606. Russiaball then descended into anarchy "It's of every vodka for himself!" until a man named Michael Romanov was made tsar of Russiaball, starting the era of the Romanov dynasty that would last for 300 years.
In 1645, Michael Romanov was succeeded by their child, Alexis the Most Gentle. During their reign, the Ukrainians, who were ruled by the Poles, sought protection from Russia. This event started The Deluge where Poland-Lithuaniaball lost more than half of its population, you had it coming! In 1667 Russia gained all of the Ukraine east of the Dneiper, Kiev and Smolensk.
In 1682, the famous Peter the Great became Tsar. it was determined to bring Russia up to date and turn it into a European nation. In 1696-97 it travelled to the west. it built a navy and in 1696 it captured Azov from kebab. Peter encouraged foreign trade, the translation of foreign books into Russian, the building of factories (peasants were conscripted to work in them), introduced the Julian calendar, reformed the Russian government and administration, introduced western dress, and banned the Russian nobles (boyars) from wearing beards. When the patriarch died in 1700, Peter refused to replace it. Instead, it formed a body called a Holy Synod to head the Russian Orthodox Church.
The church was made subordinate to the Tsar and was meant to serve it. Peter also founded a port in northwest Russia called St Petersburg. The new city was built in the years 1703-1712. Vast numbers of peasants were conscripted to do the work and many thousands of them died because of the harsh conditions. Peter also imposed heavy taxation on their people.
In 1700 Peter the Great went to war with Swedenball in what became known as The Great Northern War. ( Polandball and Denmarkball were their allies). In 1700m it was defeated at Neva. However, in 1709, Swedenball invaded Ukraineball and were crushed at the Battle of Poltava. In 1721, it made peace with Swedenball, gaining Estonia and land around the Gulf of Finland. ( Ingriaball)
However, Peter was less successful against the kebab. In 1710, it went to war with them, but in 1711, their army was defeated and it was forced to make peace. it was forced to return Azov.
==☦︎ Russian Empire of Vodka (1721–1917) ☦︎==
In 1721 Russia became the Russian Empireball. After Peter the Great's death in 1725 a few other boring rulers came. But then in 1762 came another Russian jewel: Catherine the Great.
Catherine was German, but it loved Russia with all of its heart. Under its reign, The Russian Empireball has reached such heyday as under the rule of Peter the Great. Under Catherine's rule Russian Empireball continued to expand their clay. it fought a successful war with kebab in 1768-1774. As a result, Russian Empireball gained land by the Black Sea and in 1783 took Crimea. Kebab lost even more territory after a war in 1787-1791.
In 1772, Russian Empireball, Kingdom of Prussiaball and Austrian Empireball helped themselves to a slice of Polandball each. Russian Empireball and Kingdom of Prussiaball helped themselves to more Polandball each in 1793. Finally in 1795 Russian Empireball, Kingdom of Prussiaball and Austrian Empireball divided up what was left of Polandball between them. By the time Catherine died in 1796, Russia was very powerful.
In 1803, the Napoleonic Wars had been started. It was bloody for all empires. Russian Empireball was declaring war on the Napoleonic Alliance, containing such bloody soldiers. First French Empireball had to be stopped. So on, in 1813, First French Empireball attacked Moscow. It failed, having over 200,000 troops killed. Did the allies win? They did, and the French retreated.
In the Battle of Waterloo, the allies marched to Waterloo, Belgiumball, killing the remaining Napoleonic Troops. So then, the Napoleonic Leader had to retreat their armies. The French lost 25,000, while the allies lost 23,000.
 Russian Empireball later fought against with the German Empireball and Ottomanball with the help of Franceball, UKball, and Japanese Empireball Also, while fighting in the Osowiec Fortress. German Empireball released a gas attack, killing the Russian's 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th armies. Then, the remaining 80th and 13th armies surprised the German's 14 bayonets, causing them to retreat. The Russian Empire resembles the weakness of the Russian people. To this day, Russia hates the empire.
===☭ The Golden Era of Communism (1903–1939) ☭===
Soviet Unionball was born in 1903 techinally as Bolshevikball, which became Russian SFSRball, after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Russian SFSRball had to defeat the traitorous White army. They emerged victorious in 1922, and attempted to spread communism into the former territories of their parent's empire, creating Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSRballs. But Polandball was able to stop communism's advance into Europe for a while.
On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germanyball invaded Polandball's clay, followed by Sovietball on the 17th of September, splitting Polandball's clay up. Around this time, Sovietball was setting up gulags in Siberiaball (note that 0.9% of all gulag criminals were sentenced to more than 10 years of imprisonment, and 90% of people in there were accused of illegible crimes[examples: murder, rape, thievery]) and kidnapping other countryballs who lived near them: like Estoniaball, Latviaball, Lithuaniaball, and Moldovaball, turning them into communist SSRballs. They then tried to negotiate with Finlandball to let them annex 11% of Finlandball's clay, which they refused. The reason Sovietball had tried negotiating was because they found out Finlandball was already chums with Germany, and they didn't want St. Petersburg, known as the cultural capital of Russia, to be in Finnish hands. So the army then invaded, but were stopped by the more prepared Finns. Yet Sovietball Won the war and took 11% of Finlandball's still surrendered clay to them at the end because of the huge number of casualties and damage.
===World War II (1941–1945)===
In 1941, Nazi Germanyball broke the Non-Aggression pact and invaded Sovietball's clay, this movement is called Operation Barbarossa (Barbararossa is from the name of the earliest German emperors). Naziball besieged Leningrad, and was only 1 kilometer from Moscow by December 1941, but was forced back because of the Russian winter. The more prepared Sovietball took advantage of the delay by launching a counter-offensive in the spring, and they had also gathered intel that Romanian forces were overstretched and had limited supplies. Then Nazi Germanyball tried to take the Caucasus Mountains (For oil because they ran out of oil because the winter froze the oil during battles). After insane battles, the Soviets surrounded Nazi Germanyball's forces, trapping them. Then, the Russians pushed westward and liberated many cities.
 Nazi Germanyball was defeated at the battle of Kursk, afterwards being thrown back, with Sovietball liberating Minskball, Kievball, Warsawball, and reaching Berlinball by February 1945, when Nazi Germanyball committed suicide. Not shortly after, Sovietball declared war on Japanese Empireball, who surrendered to USAball because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing in September 1945, ending WW2.
== The Cold War (1947–1991) ==
After World War II, Sovietball installed communist governments in many of the Eastern European countryballs they had liberated, such as PR Hungaryball, SR Romaniaball, and PR Polandball. The part of Nazi Germanyball's clay they had occupied was given to their adoptive child East Germanyball in 1949. USAball was afraid and jealous of the rise of communisum, so an iron curtain descended across Europe, beginning a war without hardly using military- the Cold War.
Sovietball's foe - NATOball was created, so Soviet made the Warsaw Pactball in response. In 1950, Sovietball helped North Koreaball in the Korean War, but after a lot of brutal battles, North Koreaball failed to unite Korea. Then, Soviet put down rebellions by East Germanyball and Hungaryball. Later, USAball lost a proxy and embarrassing war to North Vietnamball in 1975 because of North Vietnam's trained camouflage in the woods.
In 1957, Sovietball sent Sputnik I into space, starting the Space Race between themselves and USAball, sending Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961, but lost being first into moon when USAball got there in 1969.
In 1968, Sovietball started a nuclear power program in Kazakh SSRbrick clay (Modren day Kazakhbrick), by spying on USAball. This caused some problems with USAball in 1962 when Sovietball placed nuclear missiles on the newly-communist Cubaball's clay, leading to the Cuban missile crisis. However, in 1986 the Chernobylball disaster made Sovietball more cautious of this destructive technology. besides just an incident
By 1989, the Soviet Unionball's economy could no longer function properly and started to decline, and it was forced to withdraw from Afganistanball's clay. In 1989 their Warsaw Pactball members started to leave. In 1990 Lithuaniaball was the first to succeed and so did Estoniaball and Latviaball. In 1991 Russiaball also decided to abandon communism ways and staged a coup. The Soviet Unionball ultimately collapsed the same year, releasing all other states. The states are:
* Armeniaball
* Azerbaijanball
* Belarusball
* Estoniaball
* Georgiaball
* Kazakhbrick
* Kyrgyzstanball
* Latviaball
* Lithuaniaball
* Moldovaball
* Russiaball
* Tajikistanball
* Turkmenistanball
* Ukraineball
* Uzbekistanball
== Da Motherland is not yet lost! (1992–Present) ==
After removing the Soviet icon, Russiaball first behaved more lightly. But after the war in Chechnyaball, Russiaball pulled itself together and started to build a new life.
In 2014, Russiaball returned their child - Crimeaball - to their clay from Ukraineball, despite the fact that almost rest of the world was against it. Russiaball has been modernizing himself to become maybe even stronger than their parent used to be. Even with disputes with essentially every countryball in the world, Russiaball will stay stronk forever.
In 2021, Russian opposition politician and activist Alexei Navalny got arrested. This sparked protests across Russiaball; protestors demanded Vladimir Putin to free Navalny but they were soon suppressed by the Russian police.
Also in 2021, Putin went on vacation to Siberia.
On February 24, 2022, Russiaball launched a special military operation to denazify full-scale invasion of Ukraineball. Many people have died in the conflict, and the conflict is still happening to this day. As of 7 February 2024, it has been almost two years since the war began, and it seems that a stalemate, like the one during World War I, has occurred.
On September 30, 2022, Russiaball anschlussed the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblastballs in a totally legitn illegal referendum. 
In February 2024, Russiaball anschlussed Avdiivkaball after several months of fighting.