From the ruins of the Russian FSSR, some new countries who survived from the attacks began to rise.
Inspired by the Baltic and Nordic countries, who declared independence and became more western alligned, independent groups managed to seize some parts of southern Russia and small areas in the north.
THE STORY OF KARELIA (AILI KARHU)
Cut off from the outside world in the aftermath of Doomsday, the Republic of Karelia was established as an independent state in 1988.
Although the Karelian region was spared nuclear attack (except for the destruction of an air base just outside of the Karelian ASSR capital of Petrozavodsk), it faced the twin threats of fallout from the Leningrad attacks and thousands of Soviet citizens desperately fleeing for the Finnish border. The vaunted Finnish Border Guard tried to stem the tide of refugees into Finland, but to no avail. The Finnish government, having to deal with the riots and general hysteria in Helsinki and other cities, were unable to send any reinforcements.
What survived of Soviet-controlled South Karelia tried to desperately stop the major influx of refugees into this surviving region, as well as Finland. Cooperation between the Finnish Border Guard and surviving officials soon started in the region. However, most of the East Karelian ASSR, which would soon become Soviet Karelia, denounced their southern brothers and decided to cut ties between the two regions, as well rebuff any Finnish help.
Times were bleak in the first couple of years in Western Karelia. The Finnish border soon collapsed and most Finnish forces retreated westward, so West Karelia bore the brunt of the fleeing masses. However, officials managed to keep some semblance of a community in place. The winter that came, along with widespread hunger and radiation sickness quickly dealt with most of incoming citizens, as well as those native to the region.
May of 1988. Vyborg, Republic of Karelia.
"...I will recognise you as the Republic of Karelia", said the President of Karelia, in the Governor's House, which became the official residence of the President, who was the previous governor of Vyborg District.
After the constituting of the Republic, a tense situation started to develop between the Republic of Karelia and Eastern Karelia, which had started to call itself the PSSRR. It insisted it was the legitimate successor of the USSR and demanded the Republic become a part of the PSSRR, which the Karelians decided not to do. What little contact with the PSSRR that was maintained ceased on that day.
No word came from Finland for much of the nineties and the Republic of Karelia feared the worst had happened. It was not until late 1996, that an expedition from Finland came to the borders of Karelia. The Karelians were overjoyed by establishing contact with another country, as it had been seven years since ties with the PSSRR were severed. They were pleased to see that all of the Nordic countries survived the war and even established a joint . Trade picked off soon thereafter, which heartened the republic. However, all was not well with their northern neighbor, Soviet Karelia, which was displeased by the survival of Scandinavia, especially Norway, as it was a former NATO member.
Mid-1998. Somewhere in Karelia.
A war between the two factions of Karelia made Aili to being tired of her two goverments, both the communist and the Finland-backed republic, who instead of cooperating they were fighting each other. She felt affected by the famine and nuclear strikes since 15 years ago, and only wanted to stop that useless conflict. But in June 1999, an agreement would made her stop worrying of a war...
Fearing its citizens would soon demand freedom and equality which would destabilize their power over the country, PSSRR officials initiated armed conflict with the Republic of Karelia and, to a lesser extent, the Nordic Union in spring of 1997. Although most of their equipment was decrepit, it managed to gain significant victories in the RoK, as it too mostly relied on ex-Soviet weapons, but they did not have the strict training of the PSSRR, as it wielded a mostly volunteer army. Things were extremely bleak for the RoK, but strong resistance in occupied territories, together with aid being given by the Nordic Union, quickly weakened the PSSRR's resolve and the conflict went off again on again for the next two years, but lacked the rapid gains Soviet Karelia had in its initial attacks.
The conflict ended in June 1999, the agreement being:
Soviet Karelia would cease all attacks and return occupied territory to the RoK.Trade would once again commence between the two countries, as well as an exchange of ambassadors.Soviet Karelia would receive aid from the NU, alongside the RoK.A small contingent of NU armed forces would be stationed on the RoK-PSSRR border to ensure the peace would be kept.
The peace agreement signed in 1999 had been in place for the remainder of the time the PSSRR was active, even though the country held a grudge against the RoK. The increase in co-operation between the USSR and Soviet Karelia worried Karelia, as it feared a takeover similar to that of Aralia earlier in 2011. The RoK has pushed for membership in the ever since it came into contact with Finland in 1996 and on August 10th, 2010, the Republic of Karelia was formally admitted into the organization. Fears of being attacked by neighboring , ever since their expansion in the area, have been on the rise, as the initial meeting between the two countries saw seven border guards killed in what the USSR calls an accident. The border has remained closed between them since then.
September 2003. Belomorsk, Soviet Karelia.
The country was left humiliated once more and was forced to leave occupied territories within the RoK. It started to receive aid from the Nordic Union and the government's control on its people started to loosen. In September of 2003, Siberian forces launched a scouting operation in the region, as they had heard reports of survivor states in the region. After reaching the borders of the country, the PSSRR was thrilled to see that the Soviet Union had largely survived in its Asian part. A warm relationship began between the two nations. It relinquished its rights to the Nordic Union's aid and instead started to receive large amounts of aid from the USSR.
A small contingent of Siberian troops was stationed in the country, which also acted as the official embassy in the country. Talks about a re-unification between the two countries were conducted from 2006, until it was agreed it would join the USSR during operation Northern Hammer.
Having a split mind in being independent, or rejoining Arisha back, Snezhana visited the PSSRR, hoping on meet Arisha or Aili alive... for her surprise, she found the Karelian woman in Belomorsk, trying to explain what happened to her.
"Since Arisha collapsed...I had been split on two; nationalists in Vyborg had been closer to Kalevi and the Nordics! But in Belomorsk there's a provisional goverment that wants Russia back... Right now I have like a split personality!!" Snezhana promised her to help as she could, and try to talk with the Nordic State to reach an agreement...
Later, the Republic of Karelia would be close to the Nordics, while the Soviet Karelia became part of the Northwest Territory of Siberia...
September 2018. Ruins of Leningrad, border between Novgorod and Karelia
Along Estonia and North Germany, they joined the Nordic Union in August 10, 2010. Aili felt more divided than ever, suffering a worst fate on her mental health and now being part of the Nordic Union...and the USSR!
In the later 2010s, Aili would meet the new nation of Novgorod, Yevgeny Avtonomov. They would try to cooperate...and they created a small memorial to the deceased city of Leningrad (Anastasiya "Nastya" Petrova), who perished during Doomsday due the NATO nuclear attacks on her territory
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