Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Central Victory)

Role in the First World War
Russia entered the war against Germany in 1914. The Tsar's army held the entire Eastern Front until 1916.

From then on Germany won victory after victory. And supplies were low and food was scarse. But remarkebly, Russia held the line.

But on the Home Front, basic life needs were even worse. strikes violently being crushed, jobs being lost, and little or no responce from the Tsar. Germany sent spies in to help force revolution in Russia. A big tipping point was when Germany gave Vladimir Lenin, passage from Zurich to Petrograd.

Lenin reestablished his Bolsheviks and begain recruiting people and more came to join every day. Until finally the Tsar ordered a protest be shot and the troops decided to shot their commanding officer and join the crowd.

The Tsar was dethroned by the Bolshevik revolution. The imperial family was executed in secrecy and the communist government surrendered to Germany.

Interwar Years
Upon the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin rose to power and brought great order and stability to Russia. However, his brutality and unspeakable crimes he committed against his own people would endure for all time.

He became a brutal dictator bent on “avenging the motherland, for her humiliation” at German hands.

The newly created Red Army became massive and equipped with the worlds best technologies in a matter of months. After intense negotiations, the Soviet Union managed to convince Germany to stop the demands of such rediculously high war reperations. But the Soviet Union