2017 Siberian Coup

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>  | *People of Siberia, this is Colonel Artyom Arkady, leader of the Siberian People's Army. I bring grim news on this day. I...we have confirmed that President Nadia Aleksandra and her son Pyotr, along with most of her cabinet....are dead. They were in route to the capitol to give a speech when they were shot down. Our investigation shows the truth of the threat I have warned you of. Our president, the visionary who led us through the first revolution, who continued to inspire us as she was unjustly imprisoned, and helped lead us to true independence, was murdered...by the treasonous Siberian Union Party and the loathsome, vile terrorists known as the United Russian People's Voice, funded and sponsored by the Volodin dictatorship in Moscow! Already, machinations in the Kremlin are making plans to invade us, to subjugate us as they did in 1997! As I had warned you, Mikhail Volodin had proven no different than his brother! His men are on their way, commanded by the same war criminals that massacred our people and enslaved our lands. Make no mistake, their intentions are clear. They will burn our homes, rape our wives and daughters, slaughter our sons and husbands! Exploit our lands for natural resources, throw us in gulags! Just as they did in 1997! Just as they have always done! But fear not, Siberians. The traitors who slaughtered our beloved president are hanging from the gallows. Our soldiers are preparing to march across the border and topple the Russian Federation's corrupt regime once and for all! The time for passive defense is over! Moscow intends to wage war, so we shall give them one! Our forces outnumber them, our weapons are stronger, and most importantly, our convictions are firm! We will not allow Siberia to be enslaved again! This time, we strike back! I call on every Siberian to fight for their home! This is our land! Our home! And we will defend it! For Siberia! For Aleksandra!*
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## 2017 Siberian Coup

### Performers

Siberian Wolves Siberian People's Republic

### Location

Novosibirsk, Siberian People's Republic

**The 2017 Siberian Coup,** codenamed by the Siberian Wolves as **Operation Timberwolf**, was a silent military takeover of the Siberian People's Republic from sitting President Nadia Aleksandra. Shortly before, the Counterintelligence Force stole documents from the Russian FSB that incriminated several Russian oligarchs in plotting for war against the SPR, which the New American Empire used to terminate planned peace talks between the republic and Russia's Mikhail Volodin, by claiming that Volodin was plotting to invade Siberia.

Colonel Arkady, head of Siberia's elite special forces unit the Siberian Wolves, planned to overthrow President Aleksandra, as he believed she would not take military action to counter Russia's supposed invasion and the threat of the United Russian People's Voice, whom the SPR saw a terrorist organization that planned to destroy the SPR and allow Russia to occupy the country.

Using faked evidence, Arkady convinced the vast majority of people of Siberia that Aleksandra and her nine year old son had been murdered in a plot funded by Moscow and carried out by the URPV and the Siberian Union Party. He then silently raided a meeting between Nadia and her ministers, abducting her and moving her to a secret location far away from civilization where she could be safely held. Following a broadcast to the people, the SUP were declared terrorists, and the vast majority of their members were arrested and their leaders publicly executed, though Vladimir Fyodorov managed to escape with the aid of the URPV, which the new regime used as proof that he was guilty and was in league with known terrorists.

The people, outraged by the loss of their beloved icon, rallied to Colonel Arkady, and the roughly seven million strong Siberian People's Army quickly began an invasion of eastern Russia, codenamed Operation Red Terror, (referencing the purges of millions of political dissidents under Stalin), supported by an invasion from the west and north by Denmark and Finland, codenamed Operation Blizzard with the goal of overthrow Volodin and destroying the Soviet Union as revenge both for Nadia's murder and the centuries of atrocities carried out by the Russians on Siberia, especially in regards to the genocidal actions of the Russian military during the 1997 Siberian Revolution.