The Curious Case of Russia

Stockholm Syndrome, in its simplest form, is where a victim begins to feel or sympathize with their victimizer. There have been dozens of cases throughout time of people speaking in defense of their kidnappers, rapists or abusers. Despite its relative commonality we still know very little of exactly why it happens. Is it a desperate attempt for the brain to find some sense in what is happening to it with some twisted justification? Is it just another twisted form of genuine love? We may never know. We do however have ample examples in the confusing monstrosity that is the Russian Reich or, as they insist on being called, the Russiky Reykh. In the Anarchy there were many warlords each with their own idea as to what went wrong and how to fix it. Some, like the Black League, made vengeance their sole goal. Others however seemingly came to the complete opposite conclusion.

Around the city of Perm, now called Permhaym, a group of Russian soldiers dissolutioned with the repeated failures of Communism instead turned to Nazism. Russia had its fair share of Fascists in its wastes like in KONR or the right wing of Komi's political sphere but true, actual Nazis were unheard of. It makes sense as to why. The Nazi's categorize the Russians among an expansive group of sub humans who deserve nothing more than to be slaves or die. Not only that but it was the Nazis who shattered Russia twice in twenty years. However, in Perm this 'Aryan Brotherhood' as they called themselves, saw it different. They destroyed Russia twice in as many decades! They conquered Europe, humbled nations many thought unbeatable! And they still do! To the Brotherhood this served as proof of Aryan supremacy to the Slav. Under their leader Alexey Alexandrovich Dobrovolsky or as he insists on calling himself, Fyuer Gutrum Vagner, the Aryan Brotherhood came to the conclusion that Russia was weak on a biological scale. However they also decided that not all Russians are weak and that some are in fact Aryans themselves! The Brotherhood is made up of these so called "Russo-Aryans" and they lord over the rest in such savage manner that its bewildering they got as far as they did.

To expand the Brotherhood they hold semi-regular 'Ascension Ceremonies' where Brotherhood members will fan out across their lands and find Aryans to induct in their ranks. This is more or less entirely arbitrary despite Vagner's Aryan Code claiming defining what made a Russian Aryan. What constitutes an Aryan to one soldier may instead indicate a mongrel to another. When the new initiates return to the Brotherhood's central hall they undergo a secret but allegedly cultish induction ceremony where they undergo a test and if they pass they become Aryans. Just like that. All others are shut out of the organization and reduced to proles watched over by ever vigilant guards with itchy trigger fingers. its said that 98% of Russia's population is slaves now. That is an astonishingly high number. By all previously thought laws of national function this monstrosity should've collapsed in on itself ages ago; and yet it hasnt. Its Army is led by Aryan Comissars who oversee legions of slave troops given the bare minimum. Their army stomped over Russia while also drowning the land in its own blood. The national economy is run on a slave system that is unimaginably cruel, even moreso than Germany by some accusations. Men, women and children are worked to the bone in 20 hour shifts, eat hardtack and drink dirty water in one 10 minuet break, then work another three before slumping to bed for sleep. Those who fail to meet extremely high work quotas are executed infront of all the other slaves who then are forced to work the rest of the shift still chained to the corpse.

Such horrid conditions by such an overwhelming majority would, in any sane world, lead to an inevitable revolt. Despite this the Brotherhood has maintained its iron grip with seemingly no major interruption for the past three decades. Some ask why despite the answer being just as horrid as the cause. What violence does erupt is carefully orchestrated by the Brotherhood to play one ethnicity off another. The violence is left to burn hot and bright for as long as the State deems necessary, then snuffed out just as quickly as it erupted. This serves two functions. The first and most important function is to keep the slaves focused on eachother as enemies rather than their minority masters. With them to preoccupied with enflamed ethnic tensions the threat of revolution seems less than certain. The second is population control. The staged riots are bloody to an extreme. Seven of the 10 most deadly riots in modern history have been in Russia precisely for this reason. Every dead rioter is another grudge which can be further used. What attempts to organize a popular rebellion has found this a particularly hard speedbump to overcome. Nobody wants to work with the enemy, not even slaves it seems. The near infinite legions of slaves are constantly rejuvenated by the Night Riders, a special force within their Gestapo whose sole goal is to terrorize the population. They simply wander the countryside until they find a village, plunder it until not a single stone is left on top of another, then march off those they didnt kill in chains. This absolute barbarity boggles the mind in its scale. At any given point its estimated that about 1000 squads of Riders are on patrol. These squads range from 10 to nearly 400 and have been known to attack cities of populations in the thousands. If it happened in America, that would be like if SWAT teams regularly destroyed any neighborhood they wandered into.

The culture of the Reykh is also a confusing amalgam of different systems. The fetishization of Germany and its people have saturated the Brotherhood itself predictably. New members take almost German names, dress in surplus or recreation German uniforms, idolize the Reich and spout the superiority of anything German. This is much to the confusion of everybody including the Germans themselves who see the Reykh as a bastardization of everything Hitler stood for. Within Russia all Russian culture has been meticulously stripped away and replaced with Deytsch, a ugly hybrid of German and Russian. Russian language is banned and anybody caught speaking it is killed or, if they are lucky, have their tongues ripped out of their skulls. Children, both slave and 'Aryan' are taught Deytsch in school and taught about German history rather than Russian. All cultural buildings have been bulldozed and replaced with sterile, lifeless 'Cultural Centers' which unsurprisingly champion German culture over Russian. This destruction of Russian culture has not been entirely effective. Of course people still speak Russian, celebrate Russian heroes and remember their Russian heritage. Now they do it in hiding or in one of their few precious moments of privacy. Meanwhile Russian emigres across the world continue to run dozens of routes out of the Reykh, some into Germany.

So, what is to be gathered from this 'Reykh' and its mad tyrant. Nothing. Its a state devoid of purpose. It wants nothing but friendship from a sphere that wants nothing to do with it. A true Russian might aspire to reunite Moskowien but not the Reykh for the Germans know best and to try and supplant their rule would be tantamount to race treachery. A true Russian might want to build the state into something great, but not the Reykh. If they improve Russia it could inspire decadence and hope in their innumerable proles. A true Russian might want peace, but not the Reykh because their Fyuer demands that the natural state of Aryaness is war. So this regime simply treads water in an ocean of blood. Isolated and cut off, constantly begging for affection from a Father who wants nothing of them. They will continue to do so for some time as well. Vagner is approaching 70 and is in good health by all reports. He has already outlived the average Russian and based on the worlds average has another decade or so before he passes that. its not hard to see Vagner living into his 80s at least, throwing ever more men, women and little children into shallow graves while slowly losing his mind. I cannot tell you what the future holds for Russia, only that it certainly will be worse than the present.

The Curious Case of Russia, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Harvard University's Academy of European Studies, 2000

*Author: u/JosefVStalin*