Socialist Siberia (1983: Doomsday)

Despite making up around half of the area Soviet Union during the Cold War, Siberia (Russian: Сиби́рь) 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 surrounding them allowed much of the population and government to escape the radioactive fallout. After the war the surviving population slowly 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 nuclear missiles  and destroyed most of known civilization in the northern hemisphere. When they tried to contact the Soviet Union west of the Ural Mountains they also discovered that most people here had been killed in the ensuing chaos. What little remained had fallen 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 discuss how to best handle the situation. A little after a year from doomsday on December, 23, 1984, Siberia and the Russian Far East declared themselves the Siberian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the successor state to the Soviet Union. Immediately after they began reconstruction of the cities along the shattered Trans-Siberia railway, with there new capitol to be the small surviving port town of Sovetskaya Gavan on the eastern terminus of the line.

Doomsday
As reports of incoming American ICBM flooded Soviet airwaves senor officials, political leaders, and high ranking military commanders were rushed to command bunkers throughout the Soviet Union. While these people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia usually did not have time to escape the missiles launched from Western Europe, the officials in Siberia had extra time to reach these fortified areas. Better yet was that much of these bunkers were well hidden from western intelligence, and virtually unknown to the Chinese. All aircraft and warships stationed in Siberia were ordered to leave over the Pacific and Arctic Oceans partially to destroy American targets over them and partially to avoid getting destroyed at home.

The civilians living in Siberian cities however had less warning and were given evacuation orders only moments before the nukes hit. Most military bases and all major cities were hit. Most notably hit was the port city of Vladivostok, and the biggest of Siberian cities Novosibirsk where up to 4 million people died alone. Compared to the rest of the Soviet Union however, Siberia had handled this disaster favorably better. All in all it had been hit by less than 14 nuclear devices. Given that almost all of these went off in the south or along the southern Pacific coast and that most of the small towns in the north were unaffected, Siberia and the Russian Far East had a legitimate chance of survival. In the mean time however the surviving Soviet government had to deal with the thousands of military men and women coming back to destroyed ports and bases, and hundreds of thousands of people trying to escape the blown up cities.

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1984 - 1993
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