| Great Russian War Part of: Interwar Period & World War II |
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The Great Russian War (Russian: Великая русская война) was fought between 1936 to 1941 between the Russian Empire and its many ethnic enclaves.
It began in 1936 when Joseph Stalin was proclaimed the King of Georgia, and decided to overthrow Russian rule over Georgia. This influenced a string of armed revolts against Russia, namely Stepan Bandera proclaiming himself the King of Ukraine, and leading the Ukrainian war of independence against the Tsar.
History[]
In the Russian Empire, many ethnic minorities of the various governorates were getting dissatisfied of the treatment by the Russian elite.
In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin, an unknown ethnic Georgian and supporter of the communists, abandoned his communist ideals, and grew dissatisfied of ethnic Russian elite mistreatment of the native Georgian population.
Similar sentiments were occurring in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Ingushetia and Central Asia. In 1936, Joseph Stalin waged the Georgian Revolution in the governorate, overthrowing and killing Governor-General Eduard Vorontsov, and storming the Governor's Palace in Tbilisi.
Other rebels siezed the opportunity to win their independence from Russia by force. In Belarus, Vasil Zacharka led the Partisan rebellion, in Poland, Mohammad Bagadurov in Central Asia and etc. Eventually, the rebel leaders met in Kiev, and would form the Independence Coalition, led by a main Commander, with the goal of disbanding once independence from Russia was achieved.
However, Stalin is still Stalin, suffers paranoia and eventually, siezes control of the Independence Coalition via corrupt ways. This allowed Imperial Russian forces to capitalized on the deteriorating situation with the Independence Coalition, and Russian forces began their advance west.
So there's "some similarity" with the Eastern Front of our OT.
Although successful at first, the revolutionary states would face a second and even greater enemy: the coming Imperatorluk Turkey, headed by King Abdulmejid II.
Outcome and Aftermath[]
Afterwards, any influences from the Catholic papacy was banned from Russia, as Prime Minister Nikolai Volkov, as well as Tsar Peter and Patriarch Tikhon agreed that the Vatican funded the rebels.
However, Prime Minister Volkov did agree that ethnic enclaves needed greater autonomy over their governates and Grand Duchies, and failing to do so would only result in another rebellion, one that he knew, Russia would not emerge victorious from.
Therefore, Prime Minister Volkov hosted the Moscow Conference of 1941.