Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4843137-20140519231050/@comment-32681117-20180621211108

Comrade Bunny wrote: How stable is Siberia? They'd probably start having serious internal issues as soon the immediate "how do we not die" problems are solved. Not only do they have the OTL Soviet Union's economic problems and political infighting, they've also lost European Russia (1/3 of Russia, but includes Russia's most prosperous areas and their main "breadbasket"), have almost no viable trading links with the outside world (no, Vladivostok doesn't count because its frozen for half of the year-the old Russian problem of getting a warm water port has returned)... well okay, the Manchurian Territory might help a bit... oh yeah they're also occupying a large heavily populated area filled with angry Manchus AND Chinese that will get help from the PRC/Gansu remnants. Speaking of Manchuria, they're already quite overextended if I assume they were roughly equally affected as the United States. Honestly I'm surprised they've done so well in 1983: Doomsday in the first place.

Krasnoyarsk is an industrial city.

Ulan-Ude is a major transport hub and an industrial city.

Russians, Mongols, Urger, Tuvans and Buryats would be a major ethic group in the nation.

Manchuria may have had some bandit and warlord territory that Siberia needed to conquer early on.