Socialist Siberia (1983: Doomsday)

Despite making up around half of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Siberia and the Russian Far East handled World War III and the Doomsday that followed fairly well. Although all of the major cities and Russian bases stationed in the area were nuked, the isolated population lived mostly outside these areas, and the vast wilderness in the area allowed much of the population and some of the government to survive the radioactive fallout. After the war the surviving population began to come into contact with each other.

They soon learned about how a false alarm accidentally lead to the launch of all NATO and Warsaw pact nukes and destroyed most of known civilization in the northern hemisphere. When they tries to contact the Soviet Union west of the Ural Mountains they also descovered that most people here had been killed in the insewing caos. What little remained had falled into anarchism along with most of the rest of Europe.

Understanding this and knowing how important it was to have a strong socialist government to rebuild, the surviving leaders of Siberia came together to descuss how to best handle the situation. A little after a year from doomsday, Siberia and the Russian Far East declared themselves the Union of Soviet Socialist Siberia, and the successor state to the Soviet Union.