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USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (CCCP)
Timeline: 1983: Doomsday
Preceded by 30th December 1922 - 26th September 1983
Russian Empire
Flag Coat of Arms
Flag Coat of Arms
Capital
(and largest city)
Moscow
Language
  official
 
Russian,
  others Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Belarusian, Estonian, Romanian, Georgian, Armenian, Azeri, Kazakh, Turkmen, Uzbek, Tajik, Kyrgz and others.
Government Federal Marxist–Leninist one-party directorial parliamentary socialist republic

History of the USSR[]

USSR map

Map of the USSR

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - USSR, Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик - СССР, informally known as the Soviet Union or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1983.

The Soviet Union had a single-party political system dominated by the Communist Party. Although the USSR was nominally a union of Soviet republics (of which there were 15 after 1956) with the capital in Moscow, it was in actuality a highly centralized state with a planned economy. Much of Soviet society was overseen by national security agencies such as the KGB (which was active from 1954).

The Soviet Union was founded in December 1922 when the Russian SFSR, which formed during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and emerged victorious in the ensuing Russian Civil War, unified with the Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Belorussian SSRs. After the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first Soviet leader, power was eventually consolidated by Joseph Stalin, who led the country through a large-scale industrialization with command economy and political repression. During World War II, in June 1941, the Soviet Union was attacked by Germany, a country with whom it had signed a non-aggression pact. After four years of warfare, the Soviet Union emerged as one of the world's two superpowers, extending its influence into much of Eastern Europe and beyond.

The Soviet Union and its satellites from the Eastern Bloc were one of two participating factions in the Cold War, a global ideological and political struggle against the United States and its allies; which culminated with the accidental deployment of nuclear weapons on the 26th September 1983, otherwise known as Doomsday.

Soviet Union on Doomsday[]

Earth Doomsday

Doomsday from Space

As reports of incoming American ICBM flooded Soviet airwaves senior officials, political leaders, and high ranking military commanders were rushed to command bunkers throughout the Soviet Union. Though the people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia usually did not have time to escape the missiles launched from Western Europe, the officials in Siberia had extra time to reach these fortified areas. Better yet was that many of these bunkers were well hidden from western intelligence, and virtually unknown to the Chinese. All aircraft and warships stationed in Siberia were ordered to leave over the Pacific and Arctic Oceans partially on missions to destroy American targets but mostly to avoid getting destroyed at home.

The civilians living in Siberian cities, however, had less warning, having received evacuation orders only moments before the nukes hit. Most military bases and all major cities were hit. Most notably hit was the port city of Vladivostok, and the biggest of the Siberian cities - Novosibirsk - where as many as 4 million people alone died. Compared to the rest of the Soviet Union however, Siberia had handled this disaster much better. All in all it had been hit by less than 14 nuclear devices. Given that almost all of these went off in the south or along the southern Pacific coast and that most of the small towns in the north were unaffected, Siberia, north-east Kazakhstan and the Russian Far East had a legitimate chance of survival. In the meantime, however, the surviving Soviet government had to deal with the thousands of military men and women coming back to destroyed ports and bases, and hundreds of thousands of people trying to escape the demolished cities.

During the time between the first and last nuclear detonations many of the largest cities and major military bases across the Union were hit with 1 MT detonations, and the remaining cities were hit with nuclear yields ranging from 500 KT to 100 KT, small tactical blasts occurred on many smaller military bases, including missile silos across the nation.

It is estimated that of the USSR's population in 1983 of approximately 270 million, less than forty million survived to the end of the year.

WCRB Report of the former USSR[]

With renewed contact with several nations within former USSR, a picture can be painted of what the former Soviet political landscape looks like today. This map will be updated as new states are discovered.

1983DDwesternSUmap

The map shows us the location of known states within the former Soviet Union; many more small and very localized ones are expected to be discovered as WCRB and Siberian teams move into unexplored parts of the region. While there are many tiny city-states, nomadic bands, and unorganized villages, these states reportedly are powerful enough to influence the allegiance of the smaller villages and cities, or are able to assert a measure of control over an area further from their center of power. These states are:

Countries[]

After Doomsday most of the USSR collapsed, except in East Kazakhstan and Asiatic Russia. Many new states arose from the chaos. These are all of the known states that have arisen, including the surviving remnants of the Union, known most often as Socialist Siberia.

Also, the former regions of Moldovia and Budjak are today under the control of the Romanian successor state of Transylvania, though are currently uninhabited due to radiated soils preventing the growth of crops. Crimea frequently patrols areas of the southern coastline of the Ukraine as well.
Nation Capital Language(s) Organisation Notes Article Status
Bandera de Khiva 1917-1920 Aralia Aral Uzbek, Kazakh, Arabic and Russian Protectorate of the USSR, CSTO member Siberian client state since January 2010 Canon
Flag of the Democratic Republic of ArmeniaArmenia Abovyan Armenian Canon
Flag of AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Agsu Azerbaijani Canon
Belarus10344Belarus Babruysk Belorussian, Russian Canon
Flag of the Emirate of BukharaBukhara Bukhara Uzbek Just fought a Civil War in which the Royalists regained control Canon
1983ddchechnyaflagChechnya Gudermes Russian, Chechen Canon
Flag of Courland (state)Courland Ventspils Latvian Nordic Union, BA Canon
File:800px-Flag of Crimea svg.pngCrimea Yalta Russian, Ukrainian URC, BSA Canon
Flag of DagestanDagestan Derbent Many, mainly Russian Canon
Flag of Don CossacksDon Proletarsk Russian BSA Canon
Flag of Estonia proposed in 1919Estonia Kuressaare Estonian Nordic Union Canon
Galicia flag Galicia Perehinske Ukrainian URC Canon
Flag of Georgia (1990-2004)Georgia Kuitasi Georgian Canon
KarelianNationalFlagKarelia Vyborg Finnish, Karelian, Russian Nordic Union Canon
Kalmykia flag V1Kalmykia Elista Kalmyk Buddhist country in Europe Canon
Kazakh KhanateKazakh Khanate Türkistan Kazakh Canon, Stub
Bandera de Khiva abans 1917Khiva Khiva Uzbek, Turkmeni Canon
Flag of KokandKokand Kokand Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Russian CSTO Canon
Flag of Kuban People's RepublicKuban Krasnodar Russian BSA Canon
Flag of LatgaleLatgalia Rēzekne Latvian, Latgalian Stub
Flag of LithuaniaLithuania Telšiai Lithuanian Nordic Union, BA Canon
MLA FLAGMuslim Liberation Army Merv Persian, Arab, Uzbek, Turkmen Canon
Flag of NakhichevanNakchivan Nakchivan City Azerbaijani Part of Azerbaijan in name only Canon, Stub
Baltic coat of armsNew Livonian Order Cēsis Latvian Canon
Flag of Veliky Novgorod (1994)Novgorod Novgorod Russian Nordic Union Canon
Flag of South OssetiaOssetia Vladikavkhaz Ossetian, Russian Canon
Kamjantec-Podilsky flagPodolia Haisyn Ukrainian, Russian URC Canon
PolesiaflagPolesia Fastiv Ukrainian, Russian URC Canon
Russian Confederacy flagRussian Confederacy Tratyakgrad (Rossosh) Russian Canon
Flag of the Soviet UnionSocialist Siberia Krasnoyarsk Russian, Chinese, Mongolian, Kazhak, many others CSTO Successor State of the USSR Canon
Volyn flagVolhynia Kuznetsovsk Ukrainian URC Canon
File:Naval Ensign of Russia (Russian America).svgMangystau Fort-Shevchenko Russian Canon
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