GM Note: Shynka has chosen not to call elections, so send orders in knowledge of that fact.
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Shortly after the fall of the Kornilov regime
The commander of the Republican Guard watched his men stand at attention, staring up at the sky for a few moments he shook his head. Carpenters, farmers, men who had seen too many winters or too few. His ragtag band had gained some experience during the conflict but it was mostly in offering up some near negligible resistance against the Finnish forces and removing elements of NaResPa here in Vologda, the time had come to make a decision.
"Soldiers, while the war has ended its resistance has not. The new so called 'rulers' will now consolidate and strengthen themselves but their control will be far from absolute. We cannot defeat them now, but in the future we can. This is not the regular army, every man present can come and go as he pleases..."
Their faces were weathered, beaten and scarred. Talanov could see the look of defeat upon their stoic faces, his fellow countrymen.
"The rest of you, we will move into the countryside and make our way back to Karelia. The area is chaotic, with luck we will lick our wounds there and gather our strength in resisting our enemies. As I said, the war may be over but the resistance continues."
With that the men marched out single file, somewhat thinner than before but no less determined.
(New character incoming)
The commander of the Republican Guard watched his men stand at attention, staring up at the sky for a few moments he shook his head. Carpenters, farmers, men who had seen too many winters or too few. His ragtag band had gained some experience during the conflict but it was mostly in offering up some near negligible resistance against the Finnish forces and removing elements of NaResPa here in Vologda, the time had come to make a decision.
"Soldiers, while the war has ended its resistance has not. The new so called 'rulers' will now consolidate and strengthen themselves but their control will be far from absolute. We cannot defeat them now, but in the future we can. This is not the regular army, every man present can come and go as he pleases..."
Their faces were weathered, beaten and scarred. Talanov could see the look of defeat upon their stoic faces, his fellow countrymen.
"The rest of you, we will move into the countryside and make our way back to Karelia. The area is chaotic, with luck we will lick our wounds there and gather our strength in resisting our enemies. As I said, the war may be over but the resistance continues."
With that the men marched out single file, somewhat thinner than before but no less determined.
(New character incoming)
Name: Yevgeny Frinovsky
Birth Place: Petrograd
Birth Date: January 1904
Party: Unaligned Socialist
Birth Place: Petrograd
Birth Date: January 1904
Party: Unaligned Socialist
Bio: A mere child when the first civil war broke out, Frinovsky was no stranger to conflict. Born from generational peasants working the Motherland's farms Yevgeny was an only child, but not from lack of trying. He would of had an older brother but the poor soul died two years prior due to the family's poverty and a harsh winter resulting in a fever that ultimately claimed the young life. During the Weltkrieg and the country's own chaos his parents lost what little they had, displaced from the horrendous violence. Settling near Moscow the boy would grow up to detest the country's Tsarist sympathizers and other reactionaries seeing them as the root of the country's ills initially identifying himself as a Social Democrat. He would earn a meager living toiling away in a factory trying to save up enough money to depart the country and leave it behind forever after his parents died. However, his plans changed in 1936. With political and economic deadlock pushing the country into open war, Yevgeny was unable to escape his old nightmares.
Forced to fight he moved further left on the political spectrum seeking to avenge both himself and his family for the crimes committed by the so-called elites of the Russian Republic. With the end of the Kornilov government 7 months after the fighting began he marched alongside the victorious forces into Petrograd learning of the various atrocities committed by the undemocratic reactionaries. He would not return to a civilian life, instead keeping his arms, naming them even and walking forth into a new tomorrow. His aged pistol was named "Sasha" while his equally aged though well-kept rifle was named "настойчивость" or "perseverance".
(Sorry for double posting.)
Formation of the Karelia-Workers Combat Brigades
Today the Mezhraiontsy Party proudly announces the formation of the first Karelia-Workers Combat Brigades in the Finnish occupied zone. We call upon all sons and daughters of the Motherland to take up arms with us, sell your possessions or donate them and come join the Revolution that is ongoing in Karelia! Together we will fight the Finnish imperialists back across their own borders! We shall bring the spirit of international brotherhood to Helsinki and unleash the proletariat upon them! Remind yourselves, sons and daughters of the working class that no man is truly free while even a single man is a slave. Tales of the atrocities carried out by the Barbaric Finns reach me daily. Entire villages of peasants, executed in cold blood and buried in mass graves for no other crime than being members of the working class! These Atrocities cannot go unanswered! The Klazov government has dithered while Russians suffered in Karelia. Do not follow their example. Push for the change you want to see in this country!
Workers of the World Unite!
Workers of the World Unite!
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The Klazov Government has done well in the past few months to bring an end to the violence and anarchy that plagued the nation. However now they take worrying steps. Ramming a constitution through a gutted legislature without so much as a rubber stamp vote! Creating a new set of emergency laws divesting true legal power into the hands of a single party! These actions are clearly designed to increase the personal power of a single party, a single man and do little to heal the wounds that have only just begun to scar. The very reason we fought this war was to preserve the democratic system under which we all had a say. Despite this now, the very men who claimed to be the greatest defenders of democracy are showing themselves to be in fact be some of its greatest opponents. However it is not too late for the UPF to change direction. I beg you Chairman, Comrade Klazov to set a date for new elections! Confirm your mandate as Chairman and the UPF's majority in the People's Council and Congress of Soviets. Do not become the same kind of man whom countless numbers of our people just spilt their blood fighting against.
History will remember you one of two ways Comrade Klazov, as the man who saved Russia and the Revolution at its darkest hour or as a man who betrayed the Motherland and her people for personal gain and personal glory.
History will remember you one of two ways Comrade Klazov, as the man who saved Russia and the Revolution at its darkest hour or as a man who betrayed the Motherland and her people for personal gain and personal glory.
Letter from Chairman Klazov to A. Vasilevsky, Commander of the Northern Front
'...furthermore we have at our offices identified a list of junior Officers who hold beliefs that are concurrent with the beliefs of the current government, and could help in your efforts to destroy all local reactionary support. I attach below a list of potential candidates for promotion to the rank of Senior Lieutenant, Captain or Higher. Please review and action as soon as possible, the Central Bureau is keen to recognize and reward talent.'
The lists attached contains roughly thirty names, among them;
'...I. A. Peryukov
S. Popevich
D. Karahanov
Y. Frinovsky
I. Y. Blastich...'
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Letter from Chairman Klazov to M. Pronichev, Commander of the Internal Police
'The Moscow Times seems to be slipping in quality control, accepting letters from the dissatisfied bourgeois or perhaps foreign agents. I am sure it was only a mistake on part of the editors; pay them a friendly visit, previous files indicate daughter attends Moscow's 4th Gymnasium, make sure to ask how she's getting along, we must be proud of our educational facilities.'
'...furthermore we have at our offices identified a list of junior Officers who hold beliefs that are concurrent with the beliefs of the current government, and could help in your efforts to destroy all local reactionary support. I attach below a list of potential candidates for promotion to the rank of Senior Lieutenant, Captain or Higher. Please review and action as soon as possible, the Central Bureau is keen to recognize and reward talent.'
The lists attached contains roughly thirty names, among them;
'...I. A. Peryukov
S. Popevich
D. Karahanov
Y. Frinovsky
I. Y. Blastich...'
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Letter from Chairman Klazov to M. Pronichev, Commander of the Internal Police
'The Moscow Times seems to be slipping in quality control, accepting letters from the dissatisfied bourgeois or perhaps foreign agents. I am sure it was only a mistake on part of the editors; pay them a friendly visit, previous files indicate daughter attends Moscow's 4th Gymnasium, make sure to ask how she's getting along, we must be proud of our educational facilities.'
Name: Vazgen 'Artsakh' Ter-Petrosian
Date of Birth: 7th of October 1900
Birthplace: Baku
Political Party: UPF
Bio: An ethnic Russian according to his official biography and disregarding his heavy Armenian accent, he is said to have fought for the Caucasian revolutionaries until 1927 before surrendering with full honors to the local authorities and returning to Russia. Some jealous critics claim he was a German agent paid to infiltrate and root out Armenian nationalists and left-wingers in Armenia and the Caucasus until he was forced to flee by the ones he had betrayed. But these rumours are baseless. He has joined the UPF and is quite the sycophant, braising its great leader Klazov.
Ter-Petrosian had announced a press conference the previous day and the few journalists who attended the event did so because information from the UPF was scarce. They weren't too sure if Vazgen Ter-Petrosian had any authority to hold a press conference (or who he was, really) and in whose name he was supposed to speak as the dust had yet to settle, but bad intel was better than none, or so they thought.
He entered the room, greeted a few friends (bodyguards?) in a language they couldn't understand, took the time to kiss them on the cheeks, spoke and heard a few words, had a loud laugh and they finally seemed to realize what he was doing. He walked up to the desk that had been arranged for him, sat down, let out a long sigh, smoothed his moustache and then said:
'Greetings dear comrades, it is a tremendous pleasure to have you all coming here on this good day. I have come to answer on behalf of our beloved comrade Klazov whose genius has saved the Motherland some questions that have been raised by reactionary elements who no doubt are on the Germans' payroll. They want new elections but they should know that asking for election is denying the legitimacy of the Duma and of Comrade Klazov and as such can only be called treason. However our magnanimous Chairman has seen fit to meet some of these treatorous demands and elections for the empty seats will be held in a month. The ones who fled the Duma to lick Kornilov's German boots will be ineligible as well as a list of traitors that is currently being drafted and will soon be made available.
A general election will be held next year, if the situation allows for it. First the traitors and bandits who plague the land must be brought to justice and our territorial integrity must be restored.
That will be all, there will be no questions but I hear there's appetizers waiting for us so you'll have to excuse me'.
At the time no one but him and his entourage moved. Probably because they couldn't understand a word of what he had just said (was it really Russian?). A transcript was then provided to them and the breaking news spread quickly to their redactions.
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Name: Arkady Sergeyevich Deripaska
Date of Birth: 4 September, 1914
Birthplace: Belotsarsk, Uriankhai Krai, Russian Empire
Political Party: Independent
Bio: Deripaska was born to a well-to-do Russian family in the recently-founded capital of the Russian protectorate of Tannu Tuva. The family fled when the Krai was seized by the 'Mad Baron' von Sternberg in the aftermath of the Weltkrieg. They lived in penury in Moscow as refugees, sheltered only by charity. From these inauspicious beginnings, Deripaska began his rise up the republican hierarchy. The situation of the family gradually stabilised as the post-war economy began to improve and both his mother and father found employment. Deripaska was privately schooled at great expensive, and soon after he entered the civil service. Bereft of the insider access of those graduates of the elite institutions, he instead relied on patronage, manipulation and guile to work his way up the ladder. He was greatly aided by the systematic purges of the civil service which accompanied the ascensions of the Kornilov and Klazov regimes. With the old guard detained or executed, young blood could rise to the top. By 1937, having found that loyalty to the power of the day was the better part of valour, Deripaska was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Children of Russia !! —
Klazov works to BETRAY YOU.
Where was he when Russia screamed for prosperity and wealth? Now he sits as the MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE COUNTRY — AN AUTOCRAT OF THE ELITES.
Where was he when Russia screamed for food and water, that they might go hungry fewer times in a month? Now he enjoys the TOIL OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE — AND EATS FREELY OF THEIR LABOR.
Where was he when Russia screamed for security, a strong military to defend her people from foreign invasion? Now he works only to INVADE AND DESTROY THE RUSSIAN SPIRIT — AND INSTALL HIS OWN FANTASIES IN THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN.
Fight for the liberation of Russia from the terrible grip of Klazov.
Fight for the freedom of our children from the perverse corruption of the elitist traitors in the government.
Fight for a new Russia, enjoining by blood God and the People!
ONE NATION
ONE PEOPLE
ONE VOZHD
Klazov works to BETRAY YOU.
Where was he when Russia screamed for prosperity and wealth? Now he sits as the MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE COUNTRY — AN AUTOCRAT OF THE ELITES.
Where was he when Russia screamed for food and water, that they might go hungry fewer times in a month? Now he enjoys the TOIL OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE — AND EATS FREELY OF THEIR LABOR.
Where was he when Russia screamed for security, a strong military to defend her people from foreign invasion? Now he works only to INVADE AND DESTROY THE RUSSIAN SPIRIT — AND INSTALL HIS OWN FANTASIES IN THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN.
Fight for the liberation of Russia from the terrible grip of Klazov.
Fight for the freedom of our children from the perverse corruption of the elitist traitors in the government.
Fight for a new Russia, enjoining by blood God and the People!
ONE NATION
ONE PEOPLE
ONE VOZHD
My most dear Artsakh,
I have received a letter today, by some omission I suppose, from some teenager asking to be foreign minister. I am not sure if he is very brave, very stupid or very connected but apparently he already works at the ministry.
His name was Antoni Deripaska, or something like that, please inform him that sadly the chairman is too busy but that the office has already been filled and then have him investigated by someone or something as he is either deranged or some sort of agent.
All the best,
Your Klazov
I have received a letter today, by some omission I suppose, from some teenager asking to be foreign minister. I am not sure if he is very brave, very stupid or very connected but apparently he already works at the ministry.
His name was Antoni Deripaska, or something like that, please inform him that sadly the chairman is too busy but that the office has already been filled and then have him investigated by someone or something as he is either deranged or some sort of agent.
All the best,
Your Klazov
Mikhail Sazonov, after realizing that St. Petersburg was doomed, fled the city. First he arrived in Riga, before traveling to Vienna where he settled, continuing to write on the evil of the Russian Totalists and their continued betrayal of the people.
Date of Birth: 21 May, 1913
Birthplace: Petrozavodsk, Russian Empire
Political Party: Independent/Anarchist
Bio:
Anna was born born to a factory worker and seamstress in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, just before the onset of the Weltkrieg. She was the youngest of four children and began attending school almost as soon as she could speak. Her father, having been conscripted, died near the end of the war, leaving the family destitute, forcing Anna to help her mother with her sewing and laundry work. She left school at fifteen, her schoolmistress recommending that she go to college but her mother was unable to afford it, and became a housemaid to one of the wealthy elites in Petrozavodsk.
It was during this time that she became involved in revolutionary politics, disheartened by the ineffectual Kerensky regime and his alliance with the liberals. She spent her nights reading the works of Marx, then Kropotkin, and finally Makhno, sending her down the path of radical anarchism. During this time she penned several anonymous letters to newspapers in St. Petersburg, attacking Kerensky, writing more during the early months of 1936 when Kanin came to power. All the while, the anarchist organization that she was a part of continued to grow as discontent with the government increased.
When Kulmala declared an independent Republic of Karelia and the Finns soon triesd to establish their own control in the region, Anna's group sprang into action, organizing protests, riots, and attacks against enemies of the people. Anna played an important rule through all of this, elected to lead the so-called Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Karelia (named after Mahnko's army) which, while lacking in local support aside from a core few, had been bolstered by anarchists who had flocked north to take part in the struggle and escape the Black Terror. It was around this time that White forces fell to the south, though Anna, initially pleased with the red's success, soon realized that they too proved a disappointment with their establishment of a hierarchical authority.
Anna Bebnev engaging Finnish forces as a part of the RIAK's guerrilla campaign
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Name: Anna Konstantinovna Bebnev
Date of Birth: 21 May, 1913
Birthplace: Petrozavodsk, Russian Empire
Political Party: Independent/Anarchist
Bio:
Anna was born born to a factory worker and seamstress in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, just before the onset of the Weltkrieg. She was the youngest of four children and began attending school almost as soon as she could speak. Her father, having been conscripted, died near the end of the war, leaving the family destitute, forcing Anna to help her mother with her sewing and laundry work. She left school at fifteen, her schoolmistress recommending that she go to college but her mother was unable to afford it, and became a housemaid to one of the wealthy elites in Petrozavodsk.
It was during this time that she became involved in revolutionary politics, disheartened by the ineffectual Kerensky regime and his alliance with the liberals. She spent her nights reading the works of Marx, then Kropotkin, and finally Makhno, sending her down the path of radical anarchism. During this time she penned several anonymous letters to newspapers in St. Petersburg, attacking Kerensky, writing more during the early months of 1936 when Kanin came to power. All the while, the anarchist organization that she was a part of continued to grow as discontent with the government increased.
When Kulmala declared an independent Republic of Karelia and the Finns soon triesd to establish their own control in the region, Anna's group sprang into action, organizing protests, riots, and attacks against enemies of the people. Anna played an important rule through all of this, elected to lead the so-called Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Karelia (named after Mahnko's army) which, while lacking in local support aside from a core few, had been bolstered by anarchists who had flocked north to take part in the struggle and escape the Black Terror. It was around this time that White forces fell to the south, though Anna, initially pleased with the red's success, soon realized that they too proved a disappointment with their establishment of a hierarchical authority.
Anna Bebnev engaging Finnish forces as a part of the RIAK's guerrilla campaign
Volga-Ural Autonomy
Урало-Волжский Автономия
Uralo-Volzhskiy Avtonomiya
Идел-Урал Aвтономиясе
Idel-Ural Avtonomiyasi
Kazan, June 1st 1937
To the Chairman of the Russian People’s Republic, I. I. Klazov
I am afraid that I found your recent reply rather confusing, Mr. Chairman. After all the constitution you presented just a few days ago included the article on ‘federal subjects’. Our autonomy is not looking for a new special status, Mr. Chairman, but simply for position as an autonomous republic, as a federal subject of Russian People’s Republic. Surely something that you have already included in your constitution wouldn’t undermine Russian position towards what you describe as occupied regions. Of course not, as the lands of Volga-Ural would remain a part of sovereign Russia, united and indivisible.
You might recall that in my last letter I mentioned the possibility of creating numerous ethnic republics instead of one. In the plenary meeting of the Volga-Ural Assembly yesterday, it was decided that such attempts will not be pursued, and that the Volga-Ural Autonomy will apply for status as one federal subject, the Volga-Ural Autonomous Republic, with its capital at Kazan. Thus the Volga-Ural Autonomy’s Assembly would form the nucleus for the republic’s soviet, and the current committee headed by myself would become the republic’s government. All other organs of the Volga-Ural Autonomy would be turned over to the Volga-Ural Autonomous Republic.
Now, last you presented doubt, no anxiety regarding my personal loyalty to Russia, to the ideology we all defended in the 2nd civil war and to you personally. I can assure that there is nothing to worry about; my loyalty to Russia is undying, as professed by my dedication to preventing my beloved home region from falling to the jaws of war, and by preventing the access of NaResPa and other reactionaries to this area. While I don’t think we ever had the chance to enjoy each other’s’ company for an extended time at the Duma before the war, I can assure you Mr. Klazov, that you are a true friend of mine and a true friend of the peoples of Volga and Ural. Of course, if you so wish, I can publicly declare my loyalty to you and Moscow, but does it really matter? I am one of those men who believe that actions preside over words, just like you. In any case, I hope that the creation of the Volga-Ural Autonomous Republic can move forward with good haste.
Lastly I wish to congratulate you and your United Patriotic Front once more for defending Russian democracy and setting our country on the path to a prosperous and harmonious future.
G. S. Mirzayanov, Chairman of Volga-Ural Assembly of Nations
After being surrounded by Red forces, General Iosif Vasilievich Dyatlov was shot and wounded by a Red sniper before being captured. Without being treated by doctors, the White general was unceremoniously executed under the orders of a People's Commissar. One of the soldiers near the execution recalls the late General's last words to be, "To hell with you, you godless Red jackal. Judgement day will come for you all soon enough." His remains would be disposed of in an undisclosed ditch near Novgorod.
Name: Pavel Semyonovich Kanalin
Birth Place: Suwalki Governorate
Birth Date: July 15th, 1904 (32)
Party: NaResPa
Biography: Born to a family of ethnic Russians in the primarily Lithuanian and Polish region of Suwałki, Pavel Kanalin was a mere ten years old when war broke out between Russia and the Central Powers. Pavel's father was conscripted into the Russian Army and subsequently killed in the Battle of Tannenburg. Pavel, his second eldest sister, and his mother would be displaced in 1916 after the German occupation of the area a year earlier, with Pavel's oldest sister being raped and killed by a rogue group of German soldiers. The greatly distraught family would find refuge in the city of St. Petersburg only to be caught up in the Civil War a year later. Despite being only 13, Pavel, more out of anger towards the government rather than political motivation, would participate in the October Revolution. Fighting in a militia against the Tsarist government, Pavel began to develop his political beliefs, which were largely similar to his socialist allies, albeit with a nationalist tint. In 1920, he would be captured by White forces, and, upon discovering his age, was pardoned by a White officer after the ending of hostilities.
Pavel largely had to fend for himself since his mother was heavily traumatized by the events of the war. Initially, Pavel would try working in the factories to support his family, but he quickly found gang-related activities to be a good supplement to the family's almost non-existent income. Over time, he became known for his ruthlessness, efficiency, and cunning, slowly rising up the chain-of-command until he became the second-in-command of a St. Petersburg gang. After a crackdown by the socialist government in the early 1930's, Pavel was found and imprisoned; using his connections, he was released a few years later in 1935. As the foundations of Russian society began to break apart following Kerensky's assassination, Pavel, then in his early 30's, chose to join NaResPa as a member of the party's Combat Brigades. With his old gang connections, Pavel provided a reliable source of information to the party in the chaos that followed the President's assassination. After the White downfall in late 1936, Pavel fled St. Petersburg, joining the other NaResPa refugees that had escaped the grasp of the Reds. Now, he plays a key role in intelligence activities for the Vozhd, using his urban connections to plot against the Reds.
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Name: Pavel Semyonovich Kanalin
Birth Place: Suwalki Governorate
Birth Date: July 15th, 1904 (32)
Party: NaResPa
Biography: Born to a family of ethnic Russians in the primarily Lithuanian and Polish region of Suwałki, Pavel Kanalin was a mere ten years old when war broke out between Russia and the Central Powers. Pavel's father was conscripted into the Russian Army and subsequently killed in the Battle of Tannenburg. Pavel, his second eldest sister, and his mother would be displaced in 1916 after the German occupation of the area a year earlier, with Pavel's oldest sister being raped and killed by a rogue group of German soldiers. The greatly distraught family would find refuge in the city of St. Petersburg only to be caught up in the Civil War a year later. Despite being only 13, Pavel, more out of anger towards the government rather than political motivation, would participate in the October Revolution. Fighting in a militia against the Tsarist government, Pavel began to develop his political beliefs, which were largely similar to his socialist allies, albeit with a nationalist tint. In 1920, he would be captured by White forces, and, upon discovering his age, was pardoned by a White officer after the ending of hostilities.
Pavel largely had to fend for himself since his mother was heavily traumatized by the events of the war. Initially, Pavel would try working in the factories to support his family, but he quickly found gang-related activities to be a good supplement to the family's almost non-existent income. Over time, he became known for his ruthlessness, efficiency, and cunning, slowly rising up the chain-of-command until he became the second-in-command of a St. Petersburg gang. After a crackdown by the socialist government in the early 1930's, Pavel was found and imprisoned; using his connections, he was released a few years later in 1935. As the foundations of Russian society began to break apart following Kerensky's assassination, Pavel, then in his early 30's, chose to join NaResPa as a member of the party's Combat Brigades. With his old gang connections, Pavel provided a reliable source of information to the party in the chaos that followed the President's assassination. After the White downfall in late 1936, Pavel fled St. Petersburg, joining the other NaResPa refugees that had escaped the grasp of the Reds. Now, he plays a key role in intelligence activities for the Vozhd, using his urban connections to plot against the Reds.
GM Note: New rule - one cannot rejoin after dying as the same, exact ideology. Feel free to switch to a variant though (i.e Trudovik -> Totalist).
Reminder orders due by tomorrow.
Reminder orders due by tomorrow.
Heralding in the Russian People's Republic, the Constitution - known informally as either the Klazov Constitution, the Kurakin Constitution, or even the Red Constitution - promised the maintenance and rejuvanation of Russian democracy, albeit with the trappings of socialist ideals invested in certain bodies. The Supreme Council of the Republic would serve as the national legislature, comprised of the People's Council and the Congress of Soviets, the latter of which was meant to represent the segments of Russian society - from the Workers, to the Farmers, to the constituent Federal Subjects. Incidentally, the Congress promised ten seats for the Orthodox Church, but likewise held the restriction that only members of the Workers, Farmers, or Trade Unionists could have a seat, thus shutting out Church officials.
Many of the moderate wings, both on the right and left, sighed a breath of relief, fully confident that this document would establish true balance in Russia, a far-cry from the exploitative tenure of Kerensky. While certain elements could be open to abuse by a cunning Chairman, a seemingly independent judiciary, a revised system of federalism, and an empowered democracy quieted most dissent. Ivan Zhilkin, leader of the Trudoviks, would notably write an editorial lamenting his decision to not back the Klazov Government sooner, offering his resignation for his failures, though his party would decline to accept his leave.
However, what served to dishearten this early outcry of support was the decision made to quietly ignore the calling of elections, coupled with the rapid reformation of national politics. Chief among these detractors were members of the Internationalists, a rising faction who questioned the necessity of emergency measures. Likewise contributing was the widespread return of anarchism in public discourse. Having given way to the more mainstream and inclusive variants of thought during the Second Civil War, it returned full-scale with its emphasis on personal action, its membership joining the struggles against the Finnish in Karelia, the Blacks in Central Russia, and Whites in the Far East.
Anxiety rose in a mostly peaceful fashion until June 2nd. Organized from among the United Patriotic Front, a celebration was held in Moscow, emergent capital of the reform state, to honor the fallen of the resistance against Kornilov. Chairman Klazov appeared before the jubilant crowds alongside Ter-Petrosian, a strange man who had emerged somehow as one of Klazov's confidants. Despite the public discourse turning away from mirth, Moscow itself was without doubt one of the most loyal to Klazov, greeting him with cheers and calls of praise.
But the mood of Moscow would dampen when news leaked forth later that night of intense illness following a private dinner among the ruling clique. Throughout that night and into the following day, Moscow and the nation as a whole would see Chairman Klazov quickly decline, with Sofiya Spalkov announcing his hospitalization on June 3rd. The following day, rumors of frequent seizures would precede a most grim announcement - Chairman Klazov had died.
In not but a span of days, the nation witnessed the death of a giant in Russia, the revolutionary architect taken away before his state could even blossom. As could be expected, rumors flooded the media, reporting conspiracy in its many varieties. Without a doubt, NaResPa earned the majority of accusations, but other suspects included anarchists, vengeful Whites, and even the ghost of Kerensky according to one interesting publication. An official report would originate from within the government laying official suspicion on the 'Black Vozhd' - Anton Sokolov - and his underlings.
Once again without direction, the Russian state seemed to be cursed, every leader rising only to fall prey to scandal, conspiracy, or outright death. The apparatus of the Klazov Government was quick to act, with a transitional council formed from among the top officers of the state - from Spalkov, to Kurakin, to Pronichev, to even Ter-Petrosian. Now tasked with picking up the pieces, expectations of a call for early elections rose while within this Council, it was expected that a chairman (or dare they suggest a chairwoman?) would rise to temporarily helm the state in some capacity.
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GM Note: RIP Klazov. This new council includes all the major national PC leaders that worked in the Klazov Government. It is up to them to decide on who's in charge - or if its an equal democracy - and also the decision to call or not call elections is important.
If they decide to call elections, I'll push back order deadline and allow a special ELECTION ORDER.
Soon after the death of the Chairman Ivan Klazov, the State Council of Russia elects Alexei Kurakin to succeed Ivan Klazov as Chairman of the Russian People's Republic. After delivering a (soon-to-be posted) eulogy of the late Chairman, Alexei announces the Transitional State Council of the People, in order to govern Russia until he calls elections.
Chairman of the People's Republic: Alexei Kurakin ((Korona))
Deputy Chairman of the People's Republic: Ikreli Tserenteli
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Secretary General of the Supreme People's Presidium: Viktor Chernov
Secretary for Finance and the Budget: Sofiya Spaklov ((Haresus))
Secretary for Foreign Affairs: Boris Zheleznogi ((Sealy))
Secretary for Justice: Ikrali Tserenteli
Secretary for Forestry and Mines: Boris Kamkov
Secretary for Food and Agriculture: Fyodor Dan
Secretary for Trade and Industry: Ivan Zhzhyonov ((Naxhi))
Secretary for the People's Army: Vladimir Triandafillov
Secretary for the People's Navy: Nikolai Kuznetsov
Secretary for Infrastructure: Julius Martov
Secretary for Education: Nikolai Rusanov
Secretary for Health: Sofiya Spalkov ((Haresus))
The Transitional State Council of the People
As dictated by the People of Russia
Chairman of the People's Republic: Alexei Kurakin ((Korona))
Deputy Chairman of the People's Republic: Ikreli Tserenteli
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Secretary General of the Supreme People's Presidium: Viktor Chernov
Secretary for Finance and the Budget: Sofiya Spaklov ((Haresus))
Secretary for Foreign Affairs: Boris Zheleznogi ((Sealy))
Secretary Plenipotentiary to the Bharitya Commune: Arkady Deripaska ((Syriana))
Secretary for the Affairs of the People: Mikhail Pronichev((RobespierreReborn))Secretary for Justice: Ikrali Tserenteli
Secretary for Forestry and Mines: Boris Kamkov
Secretary for Food and Agriculture: Fyodor Dan
Secretary for Trade and Industry: Ivan Zhzhyonov ((Naxhi))
Secretary for the People's Army: Vladimir Triandafillov
Secretary for the People's Navy: Nikolai Kuznetsov
Secretary for Infrastructure: Julius Martov
Secretary for Education: Nikolai Rusanov
Secretary for Health: Sofiya Spalkov ((Haresus))
Children of Russia !! —
The Bolsheviks LIE TO YOU.
See how they eat each other whole!—the Combat Brigades of the People's Republican Party are innocent of this grisly murder!
See how they attack those fighting for the liberation and greatness of the Motherland!— the Reds have killed their own in the pursuit of power and to the detriment of all Russians!
See how they seek to turn you against us!— the Klazov Government has fallen, and a new Judeo-Bolshevik autocracy has arisen in its place!
Will the trail of blood and tears in the wake of the Bolshevik crimes ever come to an end? NO!
Will the Bolsheviks ever once consider the plight of the common man and not themselves? NO!
Will the tyrants and traitors in the government satiate their bloodlust with the murder of Klazov? NO!
Will their reign of terror and injustice come to an end? YES!
Will they meet their fate at the hands of God and the hands of the people's courts? YES!
Will Russia once again be great, and made strong in body, mind, and soul? YES!
The National Republican Party needs you!
Russia needs you!
The Bolsheviks LIE TO YOU.
See how they eat each other whole!—the Combat Brigades of the People's Republican Party are innocent of this grisly murder!
See how they attack those fighting for the liberation and greatness of the Motherland!— the Reds have killed their own in the pursuit of power and to the detriment of all Russians!
See how they seek to turn you against us!— the Klazov Government has fallen, and a new Judeo-Bolshevik autocracy has arisen in its place!
Will the trail of blood and tears in the wake of the Bolshevik crimes ever come to an end? NO!
Will the Bolsheviks ever once consider the plight of the common man and not themselves? NO!
Will the tyrants and traitors in the government satiate their bloodlust with the murder of Klazov? NO!
Will their reign of terror and injustice come to an end? YES!
Will they meet their fate at the hands of God and the hands of the people's courts? YES!
Will Russia once again be great, and made strong in body, mind, and soul? YES!
The National Republican Party needs you!
Russia needs you!
From the Office of the Chairman of the Russian People's Republic
I apologize for any delay that recent events could have caused in getting this response to you. After the untimely death of our Dear Chairman Klazov, the Supreme Government in Moscow has been wreaked with disarray and chaos. After going over the effects and letters of Our late Chairman is, I have deemed it prudent and wise to accept your Volga-Ural Autonomy, in it's current inception and size, into the Russian People's Republic as an autonomous republic. It is paramount that our country comes together in this age of chaos, and only united under the banner of Russia shall we ensure a democratic republic that serves all it's peoples, and defends them from the reactionary imperialists of the Black Vozhd. Chairman of All Russia
Alexei Kurakin
Elisa Mandelbaum with her husband, Alexander Bogdanovich Zarundy on their wedding day in 1933
Elisa took another drag on her cigarette as her eyes drifted down once more to the front page of Petrograd Worker, displaying the list of figures appointed to he Transitional State Council of the People. There were many prominent names from the vaunted ranks of the UPF - but not her's. She was clearly annoyed that she had been passed up for a Secretariat - after all her work for the party, her place as one of its Members of the Duma! She muttered darkly under her breath, finishing her cigarette and fishing out another from the carton, her fifth of that day - and it was still only 10am. Her husband Alexei looked up at her from his own newspaper, a different publication yet bearing the same list of names on its frontispiece. Wisely, he said nothing. His wife was evidently not in a mood to be disagreed with. Sipping from a cup of coffee, he avoided the question and brought up another topic.
'I still think you should be more concerned about the Anarchists. That piece by Bidnaliudina was nothing less than incitement to murder - you should report it.'
Elisa scoffed, puffing at her new cigarette.
'Report an Anarchist. Hmm, yes, that will go well. Bozhe Moi, Alexei - if the Anarchists wanted to shoot me, they would had done it already.'
Her blatant disregard for her own well-being was evident - but of course, Elisa Mandelbaum had already been through a Revolution and two Civil Wars. There were more important things to be worried about than the Anarchists' Sword of Damocles.
Name: Viktor Andrei Smerchin
Age: 36
Birthplace: Unknown
Political Party: Unaffiliated
Rank: Major
Biography:
Hailing from what he describes as a working background, Smerchin would first appear in the Socialist underworld in the early 1930’s. At the time a Sergeant, serving under a White General he despised, he would be pushed by his Bolshevik father to make contact with the remaining Totalists within Russia. He would soon become involved with the Moscow machine, becoming an agent within the Army. Reporting on his fellow officers and superiors he would help build enormous files on ‘Tsarist’ elements within the city, raising rapidly. In 1935 he would for the first time meet his future idol, the unscrupulously red Tukhachevsky.
Following the Red Election, upon Tukhachevsky’s (disastrous) appointment to the Bureau of Doctrinal Development, Smerching would receive a series of promotions, beginning the civil war as a Lieutenant. When Tukhachevsky was removed from the Bureau, Smerchin accepted his proposal to join the newly formed Wartime Political Oversight Commissars Bureau, attached to the 8th People’s Army dispatched to Yaroslavl. Overseeing the fighting in Rybinsk he would receive a personal commendation from the Chairman for disposing of Makarov.
Following the victory in the West, Smerchin was transferred into the newly formed Secret Police Organs and sent to the east, and in a twist of fate, his mission was to spy on Tukhachevsky. Immediately siding with his pre-war mentor, Smerchin would be promoted to Major, at a young age, entirely on the behest of Tukhachevsky, who was slowly surrounding himself with loyal men. Formally Transferring from the Republican Protection Organs to Tukahchevsky’s Rifle Corps two weeks before the death of the Chairman, he would be put in charge of Military Intelligence of the Unit, his duties involving the front lines less and burning villages a bit more.