Far Eastern Military District (6.0)

Igor Rodionov (1983-Present)

Vladimir Kuroyedev (1991-Present)

### Ethnic Groups

Russians (91.2%)Ukrainians (4.7%) Byelorussians (1.3%) Uzbeks (0.5%) Tatars (0.4%) Koreans (0.2%)

## Traits

### Weak

Authoritarian, Collectivist

The **Far Eastern Military District** (Russian: Дальневосточный военный округ), also known as the Soviet Far East, is an island nation and pseudo warlord state founded in the former USSR's far eastern provinces of Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai. Founded as part of Soviet attempts to maintain hold over their vast possessions the district draws its legitimacy from the 1946 politburo act that united the Primorsky and Kharabvosk military districts and placed them under the control of the Red Armies Far East Command headquartered at Khabarovsk. In spite of its half century of defacto independent rule the District continues to assert that it is a temporary government, meant only to safeguard the Soviet Far East until the Soviet government is able to reassert it's authority. Though opinions on the truth of this vary widely within the ranks of district politics.

## History

### Pre War

In spite of the damage dealt to the country as part of America's trinity test and the subsequent flooding that began to occur August 9 remained the beginning day of what would officially be known as "The Manchurian strategic offensive operation

### Post War

As the Ussuri and Amur Rivers flooded their bounds and detached the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krai's greater amount of Red Army units within these provinces were replaced with fresh red navy rifle and marine detachments, both in preparation for the proposed invasion of Japan and to give the Soviet forces operating in the now island provinces sufficient amphibious vehicle support. These forces, combined with the general evacuation of much of the NKVD commissariat from created a situation where the red navy, often sidelined by the much larger red army was able to reach near parity with the larger service, granting new found confidence to the commander of the Soviet Pacific fleet, Admiral Kuznetsov. This was further boosted as on October 13th 1945 the STAVKA would offocially place both the Primorsky and Khabarovsk krai's under the military authority of the joint military district of the far east, enacting full martial law and empowering the heads of the district, that being Red Army General Alexander Vasilevsky and Admiral Nikolia Kuznetsov, to act semi indepdently of the STAVKA on military matters to ensure the far east remained in soviet hands.

In the years following links with Moscow and the constituent Soviet armies of the east generally collapsed, as desertion spread across the Union and much of it fell to disrepair. On October 24 1947 the loyal units of the Soviet armed forces of the east would receive their last communication from Moscow, a conciliatory goodbye from a Russia now inundated with water, but one that promised a return, and more importantly, transferred temporary autonomy to units in the far east until order had been reestablished. This new statues quo could not last, and just as soon as the last communication from Moscow ended a silent war for the territory began. It was no secret that the NKVD held no trust for Kuznetsov, and all the same Kuznetsov hated the NKVD, the admiral had seen to many of his officers sent before the show trials. The silent war raged for most of a year within the district, agents of the red navy and NKVD spying and sabotaging each other in a battle of espionage. But the NKVD had been weakened over the course of 1945 and 46, forces transferred into Manchuria and Korea. May day 1948 would reveal this weakness to the public, as the workers of Novi Vladivostok and Partizansk would awaken to the sound of gunshots. Trusted units of the Red Navy, operating under Kuznetsovs authority stormed NKVD safehouses and headquarters across the Krai's during the early morning hours of May 1st. Some fought against the purge, with intense fire fights breaking out between NKVD soldiers and Soviet marines. The Marines pushed forward all the same, and by the end of the day those officers identified on Kuznetsovs lists were captured or killed. Some of the captured officers were shot after identification, other brought before adhoc naval tribunals. The sentces passed down varied widely, and most were allowed to live upon certain conditions. By the end of the May Day purge the NKVD ceased to be an active entity within Far Eastern affairs.

The Army was caught of guard by the sudden outbreak of coordinated violence within the cities and towns of the district. Upon realization that the ongoing battles were being waged between ostensibly loyal forces of the Soviet Union Vasilevsky would order his own men to remain in their barracks, fearing his men would be forced into joining the "wrong" side of the engagement as he attempted to ascertain who struck first and why. By the dawn of the second the choice had been made for him. The NKVD having been left little more than a scattered collection of field operatives and informants with all HQ's and detention facilities under Kuznetsovs control.

## Politics

Politics within the District are entirely dominated by the often competing and conflicting interests of the Red army and Navy.