Eastern Confederation (Russia Never Expands East)

The Eastern Confederation, officially the Great Confederation of Socialist States was a Marxist-Leninist sovereign state in East, North and Central Asia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national socialist republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Beijing as its capital in its largest republic, the Chinese Administrative Federative Socialist State (Chinese AFSS). Other major urban centres were Shanghai, Fengtian, Almaty, Ulaanbaatar, Hanoi, Saigon and New Siberia. It spanned all the way from North Asia into Southeast Asia.

The Confederation had its roots in the 1917 October Revolution, when the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, failed to instigate an effective communist revolution in Russia, and therefore, fled to the Republic of China during World War I, gaining the support of local communists there, and along with Ma Ting-Lao, instigated the successful Chinese Revolution. In 1922, the Eastern Confederation was formed by a treaty which legalized the unification of the Chinese, Mongolian, Uyghur, Siberian and Kazakh republics that had occurred from 1918. Following Lenin's death in 1924 and a brief power struggle, Lin Jungtao came to power in the mid-1920s. Jungtao committed the state's ideology to Marxism–Leninism and constructed a command economy which led to a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization. During his rule, political paranoia fermented and the Great Purge removed Jungtao's opponents within and outside of the party via arbitrary arrests and persecutions of many people, resulting in at least 600,000 deaths. In 1933, a major famine struck the country, causing the deaths of 3 to 7 million people.

Before the start of World War II in 1939, the Confederation signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression agreement with Nazi Germany, after which the Confederation invaded Russia on in June 1941, however at the same time, was invaded by the Japanese Empire, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. Confederation war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad and Nanjing. The territories overtaken by the People's Liberation Army became satellite states of the Eastern Confederation. The post-war division of Asia into capitalist and communist halves would lead to increased tensions with the United States-led Western Bloc, known as the Cold War. Liang died in 1953 and was eventually succeeded by Ning Su, who in 1956 denounced Liang and began the de-Liangization. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during Su's rule, which was among the many factors that led to his downfall in 1964. In the early 1970s, there was a brief détente of relations with the United States, but tensions resumed with the Sino–Afghan War in 1979. In 1985, the last Eastern Confederation premier, Ming Tu-Si, sought to reform and liberalize the economy through his policies of openness and restructuring, which caused political instability. In 1989, Confederation satellite states in Asia overthrew their respective communist governments.

The Eastern Confederation was a powerhouse of many significant technological achievements and innovations of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite, the first humans in space and the first probe to land on another planet, Venus. The country had the world's second largest economy and the largest population and largest standing military in the world. The Eastern Confederation was recognized as one of the five nuclear weapons states and possessed the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. It was a founding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council as well as a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Asia (OSCA), the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and the leading member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and the Warsaw Pact.