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

Other Russian survivor states: Chechnya

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.

Most of the Chechen–Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic has fell to a nationalistic goverment since their independence...

The ASSR recorded a single strike on Doomsday, on the city of Grozny. This eliminated the regional government, along with most of the Soviet military in the region.

With the complete absence of central authority, the local communists - always few in number - did not stand much chance. While the details have never been conformed, it is believed that by the beginning of 1984, all were dead - and never in a pleasant manner.

Soon, the other authority figures in the region began to be killed off. Local Islamic dissenters from the former regime, along with those who were just chaotic by nature, were largely responsible for these and other related actions.

By 1985, the largest remaining city, Gudermes, had been deprived of most of its government. In fact, the highest-ranking official left was one of the senior traffic police, Sultan Geliskhanov. Seizing control of the government from the few civil bureaucrats left, he met with the dissenters, revealing himself sympathetic to their plans. The leader of the local groups, Salman Raduyev, allied his forces to Sultan's police and militia, and the two combined to seize the entire city, and nearby areas of the countryside as well, by the end of 1985.

September 26th, 1983. Grozny, Chechen–Ingush  ASSR.

The night was almost perfect. Kyura was sleeping on his bed, when a noise made him wake up. After rumours of an attack, he left the room and fleed to the countryside. Minutes after that, he saw how Grozny was destroyed, by an American nuclear strike there...

November 19th, 1985. Gudermes, former Chechen–Ingush ASSR.

 Kyura, as being lucky enought, managed to leave the ruined city of Grozny, targeted by the americans as it was the capital of the ASSR. After some days of walking, he reached the city of Gudermes, where the remnants of any autority fleed after the chaos

On January 9th, 1986, Sultan declared himself Emir of Chechnya, and Salman became the Premier of his government. Almost immediately, they began to encourage radical Islamic activities, and to expand their domains. Largely, this consisted of either allying themselves with other groups they ran across, or destroying them, depending on their beliefs and strength. The strongest of these was led by Ruslan Gelayev, current head of the Chechen military, near Urus-Martan, who only joined when offered his current position.

By 1992, they had taken control over most of Chechnya, and were taking over eastern Ingushetia as well. Here they encountered forces from Ossetia in 1993, preventing any further expansion on that front. At about the same time, forces from Dagestan were encountered in the east.

This set off a bit of a crisis in the Chechen Emirate. While the Emir and the Premier were content to just be independent, there were others who were not happy with the situation. Chechens were greatly disadvantaged in their homeland even after being allowed to return, and with the goverment destroyed along chaos, anarchy began to rise.

In 1995, some nationalistic groups launched a coup. Within hours of its start on  November 30, 1995, the same day when the Chechen Autonomous Oblast was formed in 1920..

Ichkeria nationalists had killed both Sultan and Salman, and their entire families. The military under Ruslan began to intervene, but he instead made a deal with the two heads of the coup, that he would let them live and join them, in exchange for more power. With the alternative being his forces crushing them, they had to agree. The group was a  Caucasian nationalist movement, named Kavkaz. Chechen national movements were established a year later, notably including the Vainakh Democratic Party, who was a faction that opposed the coup

The spark for the forming of Kavkaz, however, was not nationalist, but rather environmentalist concerns: the nuclear destruction of Grozny. Chechen culture had always revered nature, and political environmentalism blossomed in this period, but became a component of Chechen nationalism. Kavkaz soon became a nationalist movement with saving nature only as a side goal to be pursued once the Chechen nation had achieved an independent state.

In 1998, after getting almost all the territory back, the nationalists proclaimed the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, the 15th of January of 1998, 54 years after the unification of Ingush and Chechen autonomous oblasts. 

January 15th, 1996. Gudermes, Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

 Kyura was wearing an old Soviet Army coat, to prevent the cold outside the Municipal Administration Building, where the surviving leaders and nationalistic groups had a meeting and later proclaimed the Chechen Republic.

After years of war...would Kyura mantain peace soon?

Chechnya largely gets by on basic agriculture, along having one of the best routes for oil from the Dagestan region to get to the ocean, and from there market, while oil and gas production in the area has been ramped up, supplying the nation with what it needs. Past that, it is exported southwards, through the Georgian borders, and from there to the world.