Russian Confederacy (1983: Doomsday)

Early History
The events of Doomsday were catastrophic for the people of the western USSR, the vast majority of the USA's targets were in that region and much of it was turned into a nuclear wasteland. However not everything was destroyed and soon several distinct communities began to form in Russian Ukraine and the area south of Moscow. There were many threats to the new communities however most notabley the Soviet Army forces under the command of Colonel Andrey Tretyak, these consisted of the 6th Guards devision in Kursk and the 206th Motor Rifle Division in Tambov. He was intent on bringing the region back under the control of the USSR.

The various groups banded together to fight of Andrey's forces but they lacked any weapons or major equipment, thankfully luck was on their side though and when Andrey dispatched two brigades of the 206th to Millerovo the soldiers resented being forced to attack Russian and Ukrainian citizens and the majority of them defected to the citizens in Millerovo. Angry at this failiure Andrey dispatched the rest of the 206th's forces to crush the civilians and bring the region firmly under his control. However he again underestimated the soldiers wish not to attack Russians and again the majority of the attacking forces defected. Finaly grasping the idea that the forces under his command would not attack other Russians Andrey gave up and instead tried to form a country out of the various groups. Thus the foundations of the RDC were laid and it was formaly declared on the 26th September 1984, a full year following Doomsday.

In the following years the borders of the RDC were harshy patrolled by the 206th and 6th divisions with orders to shoot any refugees atempting to escape from the wasteland to the north or the ruins to the west. This continued for two years until a Ukrainian man called Vasyl Koltun was able to evade the guards and get into the RDC and told people about the horible treatment that Russians now faced under a Ukrainian dictatorship in far east Ukraine. Vasyl had hoped that stories of Russians being treated harshly would inspire the RDC to invade far east Ukraine and free his own people as well. This worked better than he could have imagined.