The Former Soviet Republic of the Russian Union

> It's after one. You've likely gone to sleep. The Milky Way streams silver, an Oka through the night. I don't hurry, I don't need to wake you. Or bother you with lightning telegrams. Like they say, the incident is closed. Love's little boat has crashed on daily life. We're even, you and I. No need to account. For mutual sorrows, mutual pains and wrongs. Look: How quiet the world is. Night cloaks the sky with the tribute of the stars. At times like these, you can rise, stand, and speak. To history, eternity, and all creation.
>
> Russian-Soviet poet, **Vladimir Mayakovsky'**s Last Poem' before his suicide, 1930

## The Former Soviet Republic of the Russian Union

The fate of a nation hangs in the balance. Hatred of the enemy is its last string attached.

**1947-Present**

### Head of State

Minister-President of the Russian Union
* Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1947-1963)
* **Konstantin Rokossovsky** (1963-Present)

### Head of Government

Chairman of the Provisional Council of the Russian Union
* Georgy Malenkov (1947-1956)
* Ivan Serov (1956-1964)
* **Alexei Kosygin** (1964-Present)

### Capital

* Novosibirsk
* Moscow (de jure)

### Official Languages

Russian
 Ukrainian
 Belarusian
 Kazakh
 Georgian
 Azerbaijani
 Armenian
 Turkmen
 Polish

### Governing Body

Provisional Council of the Russian Union
* **Russkoye Yedinstvo** (ruling party)

### State Religion(s)

Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam, Slavic Native Faith [de facto]
State Secularism [de jure]

### Government System

Unitary semi-presidential semi-constitutional republic

### Ethnicities

East Slavs [Majority]
 Turkic
 Others

### Military Command

General Staff of the Defence Force of the Russian Union

### Military Forces

Workers' and Peasants' Russian Army
 Naval Forces of the Russian Union
 Air Forces of the Russian Union
 Airborne Forces of the Russian Union

**Russia**, officially known as **The Former Soviet Republic of the Russian Union** (FSR-RU), is a country that was established in the aftermath of the Second World War. The country is considered as the successor of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was established on the 8th of March, 1947, the 30th Anniversary of the February Revolution, by the Novosibirsk Provisional Committee overseen by Supreme Commander of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Mikhail Tukhachevsky. It was preceded by the Provisional Government of the Former Soviet Union which existed from 1942 to 1947 following the Red Army Revolt, also known as Tukhachevsky's Coup, or the Samaran Revolt of 1942.

The German-Soviet War forced millions of natives of the Soviet Union to flee eastward to escape the advancing Germans. The Germans halted their offensive along the Arkhangelsk–Astrakhan line, and an informal ceasefire ensued. The failure of the Soviet leadership during the war led to the Communist Party's demise, and many Russian exiles returned to the Former Soviet Union. The revolting Red Army marched from Samara to Novosibirsk, from where the new government was to be established. On 1 November 1946, the Novosibirsk Provisional Committee was established to write the Novosibirsk Constitution, and establish a unitary semi-presidential government. The Provisional Committee retained many offices of the former USSR, but drastically reduced the power of any ruling party and the power of the General-Secretariat, due to fears of democratic centralism and another Dzhugashvili-like or Trotsky-like figure to re-emerge from the latter position. Most of the powers of the General-Secretary were transferred to the office of the Minister-Presidency, and the General-Secretary position was merged with the Chairman of the Council, which became known as the "Prime Minister".

On the 8th of March, 1947, the Novosibirsk Provisional Council voted for the establishment of The Former Soviet Republic of the Russian Union. After three days of voting, on the 11th, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky was elected as the Minister-President of the Russian Union. With the powers of the Council transferred to him, President Tukhachevsky abolished the Novosibirsk Provisional Council and re-established it as the Provisional Council of the Russian Union, the highest governing body of the country. President Tukhachevsky then offered his close friend Dmitri Shostakovich the office of the Prime Minister, but the famous composer refused on the grounds that he was apolitical. Georgy Malenkov was later chosen as the Prime Minister, on the 30th of March.

The Alash Republic, established on the 12th of November, 1943, became the Russian Union's first military target. The Russian Army launched Operation Kalinych on November 7, 1947, defeating the Alash Army, and annexing Kazakhstan with the help of the Kazakh Red Army, a Kazakh splinter group that was waging a war of resistance against the Alash Orda. A series of conflicts in Central and Eastern Siberia led to the pacification of the Russian splinter states. The Norilsk Republic was crushed with Operation Snowfall on December of 1949, the Krasnoyarsk State was crushed with Operation Red Ravine the following month, the Altai Republic was annexed with Operation Center the following week, and the Buryat Autonomy was peacefully incorporated with Operation Vladislavich the following days.

The Far Eastern Republic, established on the 16th of September, 1946, following the Japanese Occupation of Vladivostok, became the Russian Union's last target for what came to be known as the Reclamation Wars. To the surprise of the Japanese and the rest of the world, the Workers' and Peasants' Russian Army crushed the Far Eastern Army in Operation Amur Partisan. A peace treaty known as the Treaty of Chita was signed on October 25, 1952, consolidating the Russian Union's control over the remnants of the Soviet Union, with the exception of the four Central Asian Republics of Kirghizia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, and the Mongolian-occupied Tannu Tuva.

Between the years of 1945-1950, a series of border conflicts on the Arkhangelsk–Astrakhan line termed as the West Russian Wars occurred. The term had also come to encompass the insurgency campaigns and revolts under German-occupied territories in the former USSR. Many have since then fled the Eastern Reichskommissariats to cross the A-A line for the Russian Union. A stark rise in poverty, homelessness, suicide, drug trade, illegal activities and crime started the Russian Crisis of the 50s. Under President Douglas MacArthur's Dulles Plan, the United States of America began supplying the Russian Government with military arms to stabilize its borders, and essential industrial tools and resources needed to create facilities for construction, food, water, energy, and other necessary activities.

In 1956, President Tukhachevsky appointed Chief of the Police Ivan Serov as Prime Minister to head the Russian Reconstruction Program. Prime Minister Ivan Serov created and mobilized the General Militsiya to coordinate national security operations throughout Russia. The General Militsiya was formed from the ranks of the NKVD, and enacted brutal crackdowns and enforcements of law and order to secure the stability of the state, effectively eliminating all disloyal elements in former Soviet breakaway states, drastically reducing illegal activities throughout the Union, and ending the crime epidemic that came to the Russian state after the disastrous war.

Since the late 1940s, the Russian Union has been reconstructing the civilian economy by mobilizing what is left of its post-war formerly-Soviet organizations. The infamous NKVD-led Dalstroy General Directorate was transformed into a construction business magnate to help operate Russian infrastructure and all mining operations for both the private and public sector. The Soviet councils formed pre-war were abolished by the Novosibirsk Provisional Committee, and were later organized into labor unions known as the Alliance of Soviets, forming the largest federation of worker's unions in the former Soviet Union. The fledgling arms industry was resurrected by the paramilitary sports organization DOSAAF (Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Navy). DOSAAF was staffed by American engineers in the 1950s, and the organization later became one of the main sources for the modernization of the Armed Forces. Education within the Russian Union is coordinated by the Ministry of Education alongside the Ruskomsomol (Russian Young Communist League), several education-oriented organizations, and other notable youth organizations.

Despite the normalization of Russia's state of affairs, the Provisional Council of the Russian Union sees itself and the country's status as temporary. Every annual session of congress, the President vows to reclaim its territories lost from the German-Soviet War, and vows revenge on those responsible for the suffering of their peoples. Despite these promises, every proposal to declare war on Germany have been rejected by a supermajority vote of the Council.

In the New Year's of 1963, President Mikhail Tukhachevsky retired from the office owing to his illnesses. One of his allies, then Minister of Defense Konstantin Rokossovsky, was elected to the Presidency after four days of voting. On March of 1963, the death of President Tukhachevsky was met with sorrow both nationally and internationally. The President of the United States, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and several other world leaders paid their respects to the former Russian President. With the situation of the economy stabilized, President Rokossovsky began a build-up of the Russian Union's Armed Forces, and started its military modernization programs projected to last until the 1970s. Defense Minister Pavel Batov became a key figure in the Russian Union's modernization of its armed forces.

In the late 1960s, many former commanders of the Red Army began to retire, resulting in the waning influence of the "Red Army cliques" over the government. The apolitical military commanders started handing over their civil-administrative positions to civilian leaders as part of the transition of Russia into a modern republic. President Rokossovsky announced his intention to retire from the Presidency, with the full intention of handing over the powers of the President to a civilian figure.

The Arkhangelsk Crisis of 1969, also known as the Arkhangelsk Border Incident, caused by a shootout and the subsequent confrontation between the Russian Army and the German Army, has fueled tensions across the continent and has hastened calls for rebellions within the Reichskommissariats. Anti-German sentiment has peaked across the former Soviet Union, and calls for war have increased at an alarming rate. International observers fear a new war in Eastern Europe to be on the horizon, owing to the fact that both belligerents consider the relative peace on the border as a temporary ceasefire. Across Russia itself, politicians, workers, and soldiers alike have dubbed the incident as the beginning of the continuation of the Great Patriotic War.

The Russian Union remains an underdeveloped country by the standards of the developed world, yet its government has managed to stabilize its unfortunate situation. Russia suffers a myriad of problems which plagues its economy, society, and administration, but since the 1960s, has began to re-assert itself on the world stage. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources remain as one of the world's largest, and its industry has been growing back post-war, re-emerging as a potential leading producer for minerals, and natural gas globally. Russia is considered as one of the world's primary defeated powers during the 20th century, but since then is being considered as a potential re-emerging major power across Eurasia.