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

Other Russian survivor states: Kuban People's Republic

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.

Near the Caucasus, the Kubans would get their second People's Republic, but allied with Siberia...

THE STORY OF THE KUBAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC (SEVA SHAPOVALOV)

Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR. September 26th 1983.

First...three explosions...And a missile attack in HIS CAPITAL!!

"DAMN AMERICANS!" -Seva shouted after the explosion and the recovering of the damage.

It was the dusk of an autumn night, when everything changed. From his aparment, he could see the Milítsiya closing the affected areas, while the firefighters and medics arrived to the explosion over the Oktiabrski District. From the distance, he could see the nuclear blast over Taganrog and Tuapse, that would later create a small tsunami on the region...

On Doomsday a nuclear missile exploded on the Black Sea just outside of the city of Taganrog, destroying the city and causing a small tsunami along the coast in the area, which effectively destroyed the coastal resorts on the Sea of Azov. Tuapse, a city that has an oil terminal and a depot, Sochi due to its port facilities and the likelihood of eliminating members of the countries leadership, along with Novorossiysk due to its port and naval base, were all nuked. A non-nuclear cruise missile also damaged the industrial district of Krasnodar, causing few deaths and little damage to the city as a whole. These nukes brought a massive wave of refugees from different ethnic groups in the direction of Krasnodar and Maykop. Most would be sent onward to Maykop because it was believed by the local leaders of the Kuban Cossacks that it would end up less radiated, as well as it being undamaged.

Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai, former Russian SFSR. 1985.

Seva Shapovalov was helping as much as he could in the hospitals, along trying to avoid the famine that affected the krai.

The radiation and epidemics were the main problems for the surviving inhabitants of the territory, but Seva was still believing of some kind of help to make his people alive as far as he could...

"...If people still doesn't eats and suffers from those diseases...I could dissapear... But I must do all I can for them! They need to survive, and rebuild the territory" After he finished his work, he began to try to contact any area that could had survived... anyone!!

Winds from the west brought radioactive dust in contact with rain clouds over the Black Sea, which then rained on and polluted the rivers with radiation for a couple days in mid-October. This had the effect of both radiating the fish in the river, as well as some crops there, rendering them inedible for the short term, as well as radiating the people, causing sickness in those who had been out in it too much, but not harming all too badly. An epidemic of influenza swept through the region late in 1983 and caused many deaths as well. Many domestic animals would be killed and burned because it was believed that it would be a bad idea to eat them, just like with the fish.In the long-term, this would result in increased risk of cancer for the inhabitants, as well as the death of most of the fish in the rivers and a series of severe famines that would last until 1988, when it became easily possible again to communicate with and get aid from the Don Republic to the north, with which contact had been made shortly after the events of Doomsday.

Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai, former Russian SFSR. 1988

"Are you sure?" -asked Seva after thinking of the veracity of it-

-"Yes! There are rumours of cossacks declaring their independence!", told the courier

"I'll try to confirm that with the Krasnodar CPSU, the Krai Soviet and the Krai Excutive Committee...so wait until they make a decision...

On May 21 1988 the Cossacks of the Don Republic formally seceded from the USSR, which caused the surviving people in Kuban to speak of doing the same. Things would come to head on April 13, 1989, when the Kuban Cossacks declared their succession from the Soviet Union as the Kuban People's Republic, named after the old state that had been declared during the Russian Civil War. However, they remain much more agreeable to the concept of socialism even today, and it shows (even if the first Kuban People's Republic was against the USSR)

Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai. April 13, 1989

"We declare the independence of the (Second) Kuban People's Republic from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic! After years of not hearing for them, we had found this as the only way to mantain order in the Krai." The first secretary of the Krasnodar CPSU Committee (who in reality had the greatest authority), the chairman of the Krai Soviet (legislative power), and the chairman of the Krai Executive Committee (executive power), pronounced that words as an oath, and as they saw that as the best option for the country.

Nikolai Kondratenko was appointed as the leader of the country between 1989 and his death in 2013.

The country is still recovering today from the aftermath of Doomsday, but is in little danger of collapsing due to the support of the nearby Don Republic and its economy.

It is considered to be more willing to help the Soviet Union than its neighbor, however, and considers itself an ally. It does, however, want to keep its independence and will fight to keep it.

Seva only wants to get healthier, and maybe rebuilt his destroyed cities in the future...