Labor, Socialism, Revival (GotW x 1983: Doomsday)

The Siberian and Asian remnants

Compared to their western Russia counterparts, the inhabitants 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 Siberian cities - Novosibirsk - where as many as four million people alone died. 

Just 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.

Somewhere between Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR

Barely escaping from the nuclear impact in the city of Novosibirsk, Snezhana Ermolenko had managed to avoid the fallout, she had just woke up and got news of what happened thanks to the last call she got from a nervous Arisha. She became nervous after she heard that the nation had become silent, thinking that Arisha could had died...

As the first refugees began arriving in the still functional Siberian cities, Soviet officials crowded them into shanty towns along the Trans-Siberian railway. Conditions were appalling as Soviet officials tried to organize the last part of the USSR with any form of stable government. Survivors came from all parts of the country, hoping to receive shelter. The Soviet officials quickly started organizing the rebuilding of parts of the Trans-Siberian railway still under their control. Military officers and surviving politicians bickered for months about who should be the legitimate successor to the Premier. As Yuri Andropov and his most likely succesor Mikhail Gorbachev died in the nuclear attack. Thus March of 1984, a surviving member of Andropov's inner circle arrived at the vague borders of the still functioning parts of Russia. This man was Geydar Aliyev.

December 23, 1984. Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR.

The House of the Soviets of Krasnoyarsk, now busy and under a new management, was expectant of the main speech of one of the few surviving members of the Moscow goverment.

Geydar Aliyev, an azeri member of the Politburo, who was the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Minister of the USSR, and responsible for transportation and social services, was appointed after he reached the western borders of territory still controlled by the USSR. Elected by the surviving politicals members in the city of Krasnoyarsk, he became the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the General Secretary of the Communist Party.

Before the speech of the Generalʹnyĭ Sekretarʹ, Snezhana talked a bit of the decision, and commented him about if he had seen a tall blonde woman with a red scarf...who he saw near the surviving goverment and joined them. She felt a bit better, but relief as she wanted to confirm that Arisha was alive...

"Comrades...with the fall of the western territories of Russia, the loss of our major cities by the Americans, and to help to survive in this new world... Me, Geydar Aliyev, as the Generalʹnyĭ Sekretarʹ, I proclaim the creation of the Union of Sovereign Socialist Republics. Under the Russian SFSR and the Kazakh SSR." 

Both Snezhana Ermolenko (as the surviving Siberian areas) and Arlan Omarov, who survived as part of the eastern Kazakh SSR was untouched by the war, promised to restore the USSR, and try to save as much republics as they can.

Kazakhstan was hit with numerous nuclear warheads and most of the Soviet Republic quickly descended into chaos. However, remaining Soviet officials in the center of the Republic, which was not hit as hard, quickly organized themselves and regained contact with surviving Soviet officials in the east. The only organized regions that were left were Karagandy, Akmola and Almaty.

The first years after Doomsday were the hardest. Finding homes for refugees was a nearly impossible task and the Provisional Republic was under martial law through much of this time. The 131st Motor Rifle Division of the 36th Army was the one that helped through these times and is still stationed in the Republic.

Aliyev enacted swift reforms and started concentrating most of the Siberian agriculture in Kazakhstan making it into the new breadbasket of the Union, as well as building a lot of roads and railways to make travel easier. The north eastern parts of Kazakhstan that were destroyed, Pavlodar, East and North Kazakhstan were designated as closed zones and except trains and government approved vehicles, no one was allowed to enter. Ten years after Doomsday, these parts of Kazakhstan were once again reopened to the public, as the increased number of people needed more land and the region was significantly less radiated by this time.

Kavalerovo, former Russian SFSR (1983-2010).

The Far Eastern Republic/Transbaikal, also known as Anatoly Nazarevich, suffered a worst fate than Siberia proper; being hit by missiles as it hosted the Soviet Pacific Fleet and military bases. He had lost Vladivostok, Nakhodka... along with Kozmino, Bolshoy Kamen, Ussuriysk and many others were bombed as well. He fell into anarchy, defending from marauder soldiers, and the irradiated zones, but after years of problems, Snezhana would help him...

During the 1990 decade, both Anatoly and Snezhana only knew about each others by rumours...but they won't got back until March 21, 2010, when the operation Spring Storm (Опера́ция «Бу́ря весна́ ») was launched, and recovered that lawless territory, to restore the soviet control in that area

Since 2010, when he returned as a new territory, Anatoly has been known as the Primorskaya Territory (Приморская территория), becoming the new base for the Pacific Fleet, and becoming a new entity, with his new capital set in Kavalerovo, Primorye.