September 26th, 1983. Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
"A call from the Generalʹnyĭ Sekretar'!" told the major who ran from the Ministry of Defence to the building where Ariadna (Arisha) Vasilyeva lived.
"At this time? What happens?? It's almost 3:40 AM!" Arisha woke up from her bed, and took a coat while she closed the door and followed the military to an improvished helipad to follow the goverment into the fallout shelters located far from the capital.
"It's about some problems in Serpukhov-15...", answered in a low voice the major. "Andropov has been informed about an attack from the Americans!"
"That svolach' of Alfred...!! How can that idiot had started the end of the world???" shouted Arisha when the helicopter left them near the entry of the bunker.
The military knocked the door, and after a check from the interior, they were allowed to enter.
"Komandir, here's miss Vasilyeva..."
"Great...We must tell her what happened before..."
Arisha was sent to an operation room, and the Komandir explained the events that had happened that night.
"First of all...We have bad news... Generalʹnyĭ Sekretar' Andropov...Has died. And the reason of bringing you here, it's because reports of American ICBM had arrived; and we had managed to take you in time to save you from the destruction"
Few minutes later, at 3:40... The warheads reached Moscow, and other cities and military bases all over the USSR...
Arisha tried to survive...but she managed to flee the ruined complex...to never come back? Even if she has dissapeared as the USSR...her legacy is still alive...
As reports of incoming American ICBM's 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.
October 20th 1983. Storskog/Borisoglebsky, in the border between Norway and the USSR
On October 20th, in the confusion caused by the aftermath of Doomsday, the Soviet Army invaded the Northern Norway. It is still not known why the Soviet forces launched the invasion of Northern Norway, but military historians and the Norwegian Army speculates that it is likely that the local Soviet military commanders carried out their orders given in case war broke out between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. 20,000 troops, supported by the Soviet air force, crossed the Soviet-Norwegian border without facing any real resistance until October 24th, when they encountered Norwegian soldiers outside of Tana. In the only aerial bombardment of the war, Tupolev Tu-95s bombed Bodø and Tromsø on October 22nd, but after six of the bombers were shot down by Norwegian F-16s, aerial operations were cancelled for the duration of the war.
The Kåre Willoch government, who had ordered full mobilisation in the wake of the nuclear attacks on Doomsday, ordered all Norwegian forces in Northern Norway to Finnmark. All forces in Eastern Finnmark was to withdraw behind the designated defensive line running through Lakselv-Porsangmoen-Kárášjohka.
On November 15th, the Soviet forces launched a massive attack on the defensive line, but despite their attempts, they were unable to break through the Norwegian defences. On November 28th, elements of the Soviet managed to break through the defences at Lakselv, and were advancing quickly toward Alta, where the entire 6th division, including Army Chief of Staff Gen. had set up their headquarters. However, 36 km east of Lakselv the Soviet T-72 tanks were ambushed by Leopard 1A1N tanks and NM-142 tank hunters, while the motorized infantry were killed or taken prisoners.
With Norwegian ammunition and supplies running dangerously low, they prepared for a final Soviet attack on December 3rd. However, with the help of nightly raids by Norwegian ski troopers, the Home Guard and local Sami inhabitants, they managed to hamper the Soviet logistic forces behind the Russian front line. This proved vital to fight off the Soviet attack later that day.
On December 10th, the Norwegians launched a massive counter offensive against the Soviet forces, and surprisingly managed to push the Soviet forces back over 50 km eastward from the Alta-Porsangmoen-Kárášjohka line. With limited firepower and the majority of their heavy equipment destroyed, the Norwegian forces' use of winter combat tactics took the Russians by surprise. After ten days, the offensive was halted, and the front lines remained relatively calm for the rest of the war, except from artillery barrages and machine gunfire toward each other's positions.
On January 18th, 1984, Norwegian Foreign Minister Svenn Thorkild Stray and Boris Pankln, the Soviet ambassador in Sweden signed a peace treaty, according to which the Soviet military would retreat back to the Soviet side of the border in Finnmark. The ground war had resulted in 3520 Soviet soldiers killed, while the Norwegian losses were estimated to be around 1960 soldiers. The Norwegians had lost 89 tanks and 180 armoured personnel carriers, which amounted to around 70% of all military combat vehicles that had remained in their possession.
January 18th, 1984. Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden
Both diplomats had just arrived to the Axel Oxenstierna palace, the building where the Swedish goverment had placed the room for the peace treaty. There, both Norwegian Foreign Minister Svenn Thorkild Stray and Boris Pankln, the Soviet ambassador in Sweden, signed the peace treaty to stop the war between both countries, who made Finnmark almost depopulated... Both Lovise and Snezhana agreed to stop that war, as Jorgen became the mediator between both nations
However, the devastation of the conventional warfare in the region resulted in a mass emigration from Finnmark and parts of Troms counties to Nordland, Mo i Rana and Trøndelag, leaving only a few remaining populated areas (Narvik, Tromsø and Alta) as well as the Sami minority, who resided in the towns of Karasjok (Kárášjohka), Kautokeino (Guovdageaidnu) and living as nomads with their reindeer herds on Finnmarksvidda.
Тёмная ночь, только пули свистят по степи
Только ветер гудит в проводах, тускло звёзды мерцают
-Тёмная ночь/Dark Is the Night (Mark Naumovich Bernes)-
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Labor, Socialism, Revival (GotW x 1983: Doomsday)
Science FictionDoomsday destroyed almost all the USSR, but in Siberia, the country managed to recover...
