Soviet Union

Flag of the USSR

State Emblem

* 1922–1924

Joseph Stalin

* 1924–1946

* 1922–1924

Joseph Stalin

* 1924–1946

### Government

Federal Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic under a Stalinist totalitarian dictatorship

### Population

Unknown

The **Union of Soviet Socialist Republics** (also known as the **Soviet Union** or **USSR**) was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1946. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a Federal Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist union of fifteen republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized and controlled by the government. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under a Stalinist regime, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic, the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, leading many to conflate the USSR with Russia and refer to the Union as **Soviet Russia** or simply **Russia**. It was the largest country in the world by land area, covering over 22,402,200 square kilometres (8,649,500 square miles) and spanned eleven time zones.

The Soviet Union acted as a key power in the fight with the Allied Powers against Nazi Germany and was crucial in Hitler's plans for world domination as it would be a crucial source for raw materials such as oil, and would act as *Lebensraum* or living space for the Germans - after the millions of Slavs already living there were murdered or displaced (and then murdered). In our timeline, the Soviet Union had managed to repulse the Nazi invaders at great cost in life and material, and by late 1944, managed to push German forces out of Russian territory, reach Berlin and officially topple the Nazi Regime.

## History

In the *Wolfenstein* timeline, this success did not materialize. The war was still raging on the Eastern Front by March of 1945. Bolstered by the recent introduction of Deathshead's inventions copied from Da'at Yichud technologies, the Nazi armies instead pushed the Red Army back and managed to secure victory at Stalingrad in the first week of March. Between March 8 and 15, the Nazis reached Moscow again and subjected it to a brutal aerial bombardment campaign, followed by mortar barrages, reducing the city to rubble and repulsing the Army. With the western front collapsed due to the failure of the Normandy landings in 1944, and the German-Japanese victories in the Pacific cutting the Soviet Union off from transpacific Lend-Lease shipments, the USSR was facing overwhelming odds. Constant bombing by the Luftwaffe directed against the Ural factories, the terrifying winter, and eventually loss of popular supported culminated in the Soviet Union's defeat and capitulation in December 1946, following a desperate month-long campaign to retake the ruins of Moscow and subsequent last stand at Izhevsk By 1947, the USSR had completely disintegrated, with Stalin M.I.A. and the last resistance pockets retreating in Siberia.

The former Soviet Union was swiftly colonized by the Nazis dubbed the **Russian Territories**, and Deathshead in particular would use the Ural mountains and Siberia as training grounds for his personal army. These training camps would be described as some of the toughest in the world and would serve as the training camps for Deathshead's elite commandos.  The rest of the the former USSR was divided into Reichskommissariats to make easier to control the territories and for German Settlement, but after the New Colossus they were dissolved as the Nazis lost against resistance using their own weapons against them for revenge for the poor treatment on non germans.

In 1971, the Russian Territories were subjected to nuclear bombardment by the Nazis, turning it into a nuclear wasteland where human life cannot survive. Officially portrayed by Nazi propaganda as mere "nuclear detonations", this act of ecocide created the perfect simulation of extraterrestrial environments. In 1980, the Berlin Institute of Science decided to establish several research stations along the Volga River to study the affects that long-term radiation has on the environment. It also became one of the least desirable permanent postings in the Reich, though also an object of perverse curiosity for some of the Nazis.

Russian refugees dispersed across the world, with many winding up imprisoned in ghettos together with other "undesirables". Despite the ruination of their homeland, they commonly believed that Russia would survive within the hearts of their people. The red camo pattern dubbed the Saboteur also became an enduring symbol of Russian resistance, originally developed in 1917 and by 1980 becoming a symbol, representing the blood of the martyrs in the war against the Nazis.

## Behind the scenes

In MachineGames' Wolfenstein chronology, the Soviet Union lost the war against Nazi Germany. It is not possible to establish whether the initial Nazi operations were somehow a success since the beginning or if Nazi Germany was losing ground and then turned the tide against fate. However it's implied that around the mid-1940s the Nazis took an unstoppable initiative that slowly wore down the Red Army war machine, thanks to more technologically advanced forces resulted from the efforts of General Major Wilhelm Strasse's military research based on Da'at Yichud technology.

## References

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1. ↑ Nazis Constructing Super Weapons
2. ↑ Stockholm, March 16, 1945: *Moscow In Flames*
3. ↑ Normandy Defense Museum To Open Next Week
4. ↑ America Loses Naval Supremacy
5. ↑  Moscow, December 12, 1946: *The Soviet Union Surrenders*
6. ↑  Moscow, October 12, 1960: *Inside The Siberian Training Grounds*
7. ↑ Berlin, April 9, 1980: *Russian Wasteland To Be Studied*
8. ↑ Floppy disks (Youngblood), Re: Updated elevator door code
9. ↑ Oleg's letter
10. ↑ Wolfenstein: Youngblood skins
11. ↑ A delayed victory at Stalingrad in 1945, possibly gives credit to this second hypothesis. Presumably, if Nazis were initially successful, Stalingrad would have fallen way before 1945.