Russian State

The Russian National State (Российская Народная государство - Rossiyskaya Narodnaya Gosudarstvo), sometimes called the Russian State or simply Russia, is an autocratic, nationalist and populist republic that spans from the Baltic to the Pacific.

History
With the assassination of Viktor Chernov in 1936, the last major obstacle to Boris Savinkov's vision of a renewed Russia was eliminated. Savinkov consolidated power and formed the Russian State, which quickly got to work making up for the decades of decay suffered under the old republic. While it would be impossible to catch up to the Reichspakt in both military and industrial power in just a few short years, the first Four Year Plan and the establishment of institutions such as the GOSKOM and Labour Army made great progress. This progress was at a price, and prices must be paid. To uphold order against any who would dissent against this new regime, the State Political Administration (GPU) was established to monitor the nation. Those deemed to be traitors were often dealt with by the newly nationalized combat squads, now called the Natsgvardia, or National Guard.

Following the first few years of reform and modernization, the Russian military finally got its first opportunity to bare its fangs. In the latter-half of 1938, The Revolutionary Army of the Russian State launched a full-scale invasion of Central Asia. While the swift invasion and brutal subsequent occupation was met with condemnation globally, more pressing issues allowed this exercise in wide-front operations to go unpunished. The practice was vital for the Revolutionary Army, as a much larger war loomed on the horizon.

The Great Patriotic War
June 1940 saw the beginning of the 2nd Weltkrieg on the Western Front, and the start of preparations in Russia. Military supplies were stockpiled, soldiers were drilled daily, and factories were run around the clock. The time to strike drew near. March 1941 saw the Russian annexation of the Don-Cossack Union, with nothing more than a diplomatic protest from the besieged Germany. This bit of brinkmanship by Moscow was all they needed to test Berlin, and Berlin blinked. Russian soldiers flooded Southern Russia and the border with the Reichspakt. Nothing could stop the inevitable. At the end of May, the Russian State sent their demands to Berlin: the immediate annexation of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, and Karelia. Berlin was quick to reject these demands. War on the Ostfront was now inevitable.

On June 1st, the Russian State launched a full scale invasion of the Caucuses, with Azerbaijan and Georgia falling within the week. The Revolutionary Army then turned their attention to the west, conducting offensives into the Reichspakt’s Oststaaten: Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic Duchy, and Finland. The Russians would see early successes in the war, capturing Estonia, Belarus, Crimea, and the eastern half of Ukraine. Kyiv in particular would remain a battleground for almost the entirety of the war. By the end of the year, the Revolutionary Army had broken into Southern Ukraine, and besieged Odessa. However, these massive offensives were costly, and the Revolutionary Army had begun to suffer from material shortages. These setbacks would evolve into a crisis as the Danubian Federation entered the war in 1942, bringing much needed manpower and equipment to the Reichspakt. The siege of Odessa would be broken by Autumn of 1942 with major losses for the Russians.

But fortune would favor the Revolutionary Army in the North. Summer of 1942 saw the collapse of the Riga-Vilnius Line, allowing Russian forces to break into Courland and Lithuania. By 1943, there would be Russian boots on German and Polish soil, with heavy fighting in Memel and Western Poland. These propaganda victories would be used to direct attention away from the faltering Southern Front, where in 1944, a joint German-Danubian-Ukrainian offensive would rout the Revolutionary Army back across the Dnieper. Only after a transfer of units from the fighting in Kyiv would the Revolutionary Army be able to force the Reichspakt alliance back over the river. Forces in the North would similarly be bogged down in heavy fighting in Poland and Eastern Prussia. It wouldn’t be until October of that year that their battered forces finally reached Konigsberg and Warsaw. But the urban fighting would only further weaken the Revolutionary Army, calling off the offensive as both sides began to look for opportunities elsewhere along the front.

But fortune would not favor the Russians, as news of France’s surrender in December 1945 spelled doom for the Revolutionary Army. Now, millions of German soldiers raced across Europe, to meet the Russian foe with renewed fury. April 1946 saw the commencement of Fall Augustus, slowly starting to push the Revolutionary Army out of Eastern Prussia and Poland. The Russians would make Germany and her allies bleed for every inch they recaptured, but total victory had slipped from the Vozhd's grasp. After a disastrous encirclement in Courland, German Marines landing in Crimea, and the atomic bombing of Britain, the Russians and Germans agreed on a ceasefire.

The war in the east was over, for now.

Post-War
The Vozhd's time has begun to run out. The fate of Russia hangs in the balance, as no one knows what direction Russia would take following his inevitable fate.