Belarus (Central Victory)

Role in the First World War
Belarus was part of the Russian Empire until 1917. Then a year later the German attempt to install a monarchy a make it another Puppet State failed. The people renounced the German Kaiser as sovereign. They built up their own militia and were prepared to fight, but Germany let them be and allowed Belarus full independence.

Interwar Years
Belarus was a presidential republic when it first achieved independence. Both Germany and Russia tried to sway them to join their side, but both failed and Belarus joined the crippled Allied Powers.

Stalin, sent spies into Belarus as he did in Ukraine to fuel revolution and turn Belarus into another communist state. And a brief civil war broke out in 1935. The war lasted a year with the communist emerging victorious. Belarus left the allies and joined the Red Powers.

The latter joined the Soviet Union as a satellite nation and made Joseph Stalin head of the country.