Rogue Generals: A Different Post-EDSA Uno Philippines TL

[TheRomanSlayer]

Feb 3, 2021 12:40:09 GMT stevep said:

  TheRomanSlayer ,

  With the Featherstone quote its just that people like that get my goat as they will do anything to protect their sacred cow [in this case what's now the ECA] and throw any amount of crap at everybody else to do it.  Unfortunately there are far too many people like that fouling up things in Europe and the increasing smaller nationalism [i.e. for places like Hungary, Poland, Greece etc] that often has a darker tone as well are strengthened by such people because their stance is so extreme.  As you may have guessed or seen from my comments elsewhere a personal bugbear of mine.

  Steve

True, and what we could see in the future ITTL would have been either a much wider chasm between Europhiles and Euroskeptics, or a closer gap. You might also see Eastern Europe being less gung ho on the whole centralized Europe thing, having escaped one giant monster that was the Soviet Union. I wouldn’t exactly say that TTL’s British Euroskepticism would not exist, but you might have a bigger tendency among the British public to be more vocal about TTL’s ECA. Another thing here too is that I might have butterflied away Turkey’s aspirations for alt-EU membership since the stricter criteria would make them disqualified from entering. However, this is where the Turkish position becomes interesting, as they can position themselves as basically the Japan of continental Eurasia in terms of economics and political clout.

One other thing that I will discuss in the side update will be events in Africa, from the situation with Samuel Doe of Liberia to what is essentially the potential Yugoslav-like scenario happening in South Africa.

[stevep]

Feb 4, 2021 1:27:10 GMT TheRomanSlayer said:

Feb 3, 2021 12:40:09 GMT stevep said:

  TheRomanSlayer ,

  With the Featherstone quote its just that people like that get my goat as they will do anything to protect their sacred cow [in this case what's now the ECA] and throw any amount of crap at everybody else to do it.  Unfortunately there are far too many people like that fouling up things in Europe and the increasing smaller nationalism [i.e. for places like Hungary, Poland, Greece etc] that often has a darker tone as well are strengthened by such people because their stance is so extreme.  As you may have guessed or seen from my comments elsewhere a personal bugbear of mine.

  Steve

True, and what we could see in the future ITTL would have been either a much wider chasm between Europhiles and Euroskeptics, or a closer gap. You might also see Eastern Europe being less gung ho on the whole centralized Europe thing, having escaped one giant monster that was the Soviet Union. I wouldn’t exactly say that TTL’s British Euroskepticism would not exist, but you might have a bigger tendency among the British public to be more vocal about TTL’s ECA. Another thing here too is that I might have butterflied away Turkey’s aspirations for alt-EU membership since the stricter criteria would make them disqualified from entering. However, this is where the Turkish position becomes interesting, as they can position themselves as basically the Japan of continental Eurasia in terms of economics and political clout.

One other thing that I will discuss in the side update will be events in Africa, from the situation with Samuel Doe of Liberia to what is essentially the potential Yugoslav-like scenario happening in South Africa.

  Not related to your TL but that's one thing I've considered where the UK never joins the EEC, which probably means that Ireland does and possibly also Denmark as they had very close trade links with us.  As such the EFTA stays a much more viable competitor and alternative.  Especially if without Britain the EEC centralises further and faster then by the time the Soviet bloc collapses its centalised government and entry demands for membership could well make a number of eastern European states prefer another option.  Anyway that's a divergence but I can't see euro-skepticism disappearing completely in Britain because we have a different social and cultural background to the continent and a long, long history as an independent power as well as much deeper links to the wider world.  Unfortunately however any independence move is going to be divisive and the longer it takes the weaker the resultant Britain is even if somehow you avoid the hostility of the EU to such a move.

  Would be very interested to see what you have happening in Africa.  Hopefully it can avoid some of the OTL disasters but, south of the Sahara anyway what happens with Rhodesia and S Africa.  The former went through hell with Mugabe but the latter has so far escaped relatively well from the end of minority rule.

[TheRomanSlayer]

That is true, and Continental Europe was a bit more orderly, if I can describe it. Hearing your verbal debates over the whole continental integration can be a bit jarring, to be honest. However. I might also experiment with some other ideas for future TLs, like my would-be TL where Stalin grows up as an orphan.

Not sure about how I will cover Zimbabwe, Liberia, Sierra Leone (the whole conflict in West Africa is an interesting topic of its own that I will need loads of help with), but South Africa would be the main focus of the side update right now, seeing as it has a massive potential for a Yugoslavia like scenario in terms of Balkanization. However, you might also see a larger version of one OTL scenario that not many people know: the exodus of Boers into places like Russia and Georgia. That might expand ITTL, to include possible scenarios like Boers in Ukraine, Belarus, and perhaps Western Siberia and parts of OTL Kazakhstan that Russia annexes ITTL.

[TheRomanSlayer]

OMAKE SEVEN: Of Chaos and Order



“People of Liberia, I am Hezekiah Bowen. I have come here, to Monrovia, with an armed force consisting of soldiers whose families have suffered economic hardships from the corruption of the previous regime of Samuel Doe. As I speak, my comrades have arrested most of the cabinet ministers still loyal to President Doe, and upon my authority, I have given the order for their incarceration. We are marching towards a new, democratic dawn in the only African nation that has managed to avoid European colonization, only because our ancestors were sent from the United States to reconnect with their ancient, African roots. Our ancestors were once taken from this very soil by the white slavers, and shipped to the New World, often without our consent. We were exploited, abused, and even tortured, before being dragged into the American Revolution that failed to give us the liberty that we were promised. However, a chance of building a new nation in Africa that consisted mostly of former slaves have been seized in the 19th century, but since then, we felt more like the abandoned stepchild of America. An abandoned stepchild that has been neglected and forced to come up with ways to survive on its own. Now that we have come to the present, we must take this chance to build a new Liberia, one on top of the old and inept. However, let me reiterate to you, my people, that I am not the bloodthirsty butcher who rules a country that is also treated like an abandoned stepchild of America. I am not Artemio Tadiar, who will resort to a civil war to purge his opponents. I am someone who will be even better than Tadiar, and all the other African leaders who resorted to autocracy. No, I am the antithesis of Tadiar. I shall be the guiding father of the new Liberia!” Hezekiah Bowen, while addressing his supporters after his army launched the December 19, 1989 Monrovia Coup that toppled the Presidency of Samuel Doe.

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In the Heart of the Russian Steppe: Recalling the Journey of a Former White South African Refugee in Russia
Courtesy of Time Magazine
March 24, 2016



When looking briefly on the Mulder family, one may mistake them for a Russian German family. However, after conversing with them, they revealed their Afrikaner heritage to any curious onlooker, but their journey from distant South Africa, to the tiny Russian town of Zhigulevsk, across from the city of Tatishchevsk, had been an unusual one. Like most White South Africans of Afrikaner descent, Mathias Mulder and his family had to flee from their home in Doringbos, in what was then the Western Cape. Unlike his fellow Afrikaners, Mulder was a former South African Army officer who took part in the Bush Wars. In 1990, fears of a potential civil war increased as the instability erupted within the South African Bantustan entity of Bophuthatswana. Lucas Mangope was facing opposition from his rule, and the African National Congress had increased much of their support among the poorer Bophuthatswanan people. Moreover, Nelson Mandela had been campaigning for the end of apartheid.

“I did not have any use for Mandela or any of his thugs, but my aunt and uncle were among the people who were killed by ANC terrorists back in the day,” Mulder commented after being asked about his opinion on the ANC that has now taken power in South Africa, though without their iconic leader, who was sadly killed in a car bomb planted by radical right-wing assassins connected to the infamous Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, or the AWB, in August 21, 1990, in Cape Town, while on a tour of the entire South African state. “I did not like the way the AWB had resorted to terrorism, because by doing so, we had sunk down to the same level as our ANC enemies.”

The notorious Cape Town Stadium assassination of Nelson Mandela was notorious for its brazen attack, even in daylight, as three AWB-aligned right-wingers had rigged one of the cars that Mandela had ridden on and blew it up. Mandela, his driver, and two of his personal guards, were killed instantly. When the ANC learned of Mandela’s assassination, they realized the consequences of the death of their leader.

“It was only a matter of time before things had gone worse. I recall seeing an AWB rally where Eugene Terreblanche had rallied some of his thugs, and when the police had arrived to break up the rally, Terreblanche shouted ‘no one shall dare gas you!’ and turned his head towards the police. At one point, I thought of joining the AWB, but since I was still an active officer in the SADF, I could not afford to appear extreme in front of the other officers,” Mulders recalled seeing a huge gaggle of far-right activists waving a weird variant of the Nazi flag, which was the official AWB flag. “It was also official news that some people like this David Duke guy were also present at the rally.”

The growing instability in South Africa as apartheid slowly came to an end had attracted the infamous Ku Klux Klan into the African continent. When the AWB learned of the KKK’s presence in South Africa, they initially hesitated to welcome them, as the KKK were mainly consisting of white Americans of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic stock, which made them technically the enemies of the Afrikaner-centric AWB, who were primarily of Dutch descent. However, Terreblanche had reached a pragmatic agreement with David Duke, where the KKK would train the AWB members on their rituals, while the AWB would train the KKK members in military tactics. Some of the former SADF officers and soldiers who deserted from the military after Nelson Mandela was released had joined the AWB.

“The deserters who joined those thugs have disgraced their uniform,” Mulder spat angrily. “Unlike them, I resigned from the army with the rank of Colonel, and I moved back to my farm in Doringbos. However, our farm was torched by extreme elements of the ANC, and that was when I realized that I could either stand and fight or flee.”

Mulder’s decision to form an unofficial paramilitary unit, consisting of other former SADF soldiers who resigned from the military, but did not join the AWB, had been popular with the residents of Doringbos, which gave the name the Afrikaner Volunteer Guard. Though he was initially appointed the commander, he was eventually succeeded by Joffel van der Westhuizen, who took over as commander of the AVG. Once the AVG was set up, they began retraining those recruits who were former SADF members, but gave a different training for the new recruits. While the hastily assembled AVG began to take shape, events outside their control spiralled further. On October 9, 1990, two of South Africa’s Bantustans, Bophuthatswana and Transkei, had declared their independence from the Republic of South Africa. Lucas Mangope and Bantu Holomisa had declared themselves Presidents of their respective republics, with Ciskei following suit. Both President Holomisa of Transkei and his Ciskei counterpart, Oupa Gqozo, had approached each other with a joint proposal to unite the two statelets into a single, unified, Xhosa-speaking nation that was to be called the United Xhosa Republic. Their dreams were ironically enough, supported by the AWB, which saw the formation of various Black South African ethnically pure states as a foundation for the eventual recognition of the Bantustans as actual, sovereign states.

“The AWB saw the potential for the puppetization of the former Bantustans that were to be independent. However, the South African government had grown nervous at the idea of losing more of their territories, especially when Namibia is set to become independent. All of us saw the dangers of those states becoming safe havens for various terrorist groups,” Mulder commented after meeting with a representative of the Bophuthatswanan people. “After Mandela’s death, we are seeing more of these guys become bold in their proposal.”

One of the main tasks of the AVG was to guard the border between South Africa proper and the Bantustans of which the various ethnic groups were to be established. From time to time, Mulder and his group would often shoot at the terrorists who came over from neighboring Swaziland and Namibia. However, their biggest problem remained the issue of weapons and other supplies.

“I suppose we had it better than the regime in the Philippines,” Mulder chuckled, recalling a time when the AVG and other active members of the SADF had to confiscate assault rifles taken from captured or dead enemy soldiers of the South African Bush Wars. “Unlike in the Philippines, we managed to acquire enough weapons and ammunition to arm an entire division.”

The AVG’s main challenge came in 1991, when they were deployed to the borders with both Transkei and Ciskei. At that time, the only strip of territory separating the Transkei from the Ciskei was the area in the Wild Coast region, but thanks to the machinations of the AWB and the assistance of the AVG, Kei Mouth was taken by surprise, with the armies of both the Transkei and Ciskei marching in, despite objections from local residents there. By February 27, the United Xhosa Republic was officially declared, with the capital of Umtata being established. Curiously enough, there was not much fighting going on in the Wild Coast, but in neighboring KaNgwane, the local militias there eyed the situation in their border with the independent kingdom of Swaziland, before they changed their name to Eswatini in 1999.

“I am not sure as to why Terreblanche was negotiating with the Swazi king on the transfer of the entirety of KaNgwane when our government failed to do so back in the 1980s,” said a fellow AVG and a friend of Mulder. Unlike Mulder, the fellow whom we called Billy had extensive experience in dealing with the Bantustans. “Then again, Terreblanche was taking advice from one of the top bosses of the American KKK.”

The growing alliance between the KKK and the AWB has resulted in the international community’s growing fear that South Africa would become a white supremacist’s laboratory for their fringe ideology. Their fears were confirmed when on November 21, 1991, three KKK members had tortured and murdered two ANC terrorists who were unlucky enough to fall into their hands. The nature of the ANC men’s deaths had shocked the South African nation, but another discovery would horrify the South African government to their core.

“We started finding out about various European and North American Neo-Nazis arriving in places like Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein. Unlike the KKK, these Neo-Nazis were armed. Some of them had recently arrived from fighting inside the Soviet Union,” Mulder replied when asked about the dangers of the Neo-Nazis in South Africa. “Luckily for us, there was one man who wanted to get out of his outfit. Said that he only went there to fight communists, and did not want to do any more killing.”

That one man who wanted to get out, was a man named Peter Jonsson, originally from Iceland. He traveled to the Soviet Union in order to fight the Soviet loyalist forces there, but was roped into fighting the Russian rebels in Estonia and Latvia.

“Fighting communists were one thing, but fighting non-communists who happen to be of a different ethnic group was something I did not want to do,” Jonsson confessed. “Even so, I still believed in a unified Europe for white Europeans.”

Jonsson and Mulder became friends after connecting through their missions together. The more Jonsson confessed to his main reason for joining the fringe right group, the more he was determined to get out of it. At one point, Jonsson even saw two Boers berating an Englishman for not knowing basic Afrikaans, resulting in his intervention. Eventually, Jonsoon was given a tour of the Bantustans by Mulder, and saw for himself the harsh reality of the Bantustan system.

“Honestly, it looked like crap,” Jonsson replied once Mulder asked him about the state of the Bantustan. “I am lucky to have lived in a clean environment like Iceland.”

When the South African Civil War erupted on December 29, 1991, it pitted the loyalist South African government against both the ANC and the AWB. It was there that the AVG soon found itself battling both factions, with predictably tragic results.

“In addition to my aunt and uncle who were killed, my mother-in-law was shot dead by the ANC radicals while shopping just outside Doringbos. When the ANC eventually consolidated their control around the other breakaway Bantustans, we realized that we had to carve out our own ethno-state,” Mulder told reporters after his unit was ambushed and barely survived the attack by the ANC in what became known as the Last Stand in Middlepos. “At this point, we wanted to relocate all the surviving Boers out of the other parts of South Africa, in order to concentrate on our stronghold in the western coast.”

Unfortunately, the presence of the far-right groups in South Africa had triggered a response from international left-wing organizations, which donated money to the ANC’s cause. Left-wing veterans of the Second Russian Civil War traveled to South Africa in order to help the ANC form their own paramilitary groups, which were often armed with equipment donated from the Soviet loyalist government (although the items in question were obsolete), or taken from executed AWB fighters. However, with the rise of Gwede Mantashe as Nelson Mandela’s successor as leader of the ANC, his anti-Afrikaner rhetoric increased the potential for inter-ethnic violence between whites and blacks within South Africa, a factor in the eventual expulsion of the white population after 1996.

“Demographics and fertility were not on our side. Even if we allowed immigration of the Brits and Portuguese from other parts of Africa that became independent from their mother countries, the blacks would have outbred us,” Mulder sadly commented. He recalls a time when his unit had encountered a poverty stricken village that held a house, containing a single mother with seven children. “It was the same in the Bantustans: lots of Black South Africans having children at an alarming rate.”

Unfortunately, the situation only worsened when Magnus Malan, a former South African Defense Minister, had began to openly train and arm the AWB and other far-right volunteers, prompting the ANC to do the same with the left-wing volunteers who showed up to fight them. In addition, another infamous incident had occurred that would force the international community to pay attention to the rise of the far-right in South Africa.

“The brutal torture and murder of Joe Slovo was something I cannot forget, since it was our unit that was responsible for his death. I was ordered to tie him up inside this empty room here.” Mulder showed journalists the room in which former South African Communist Party General Secretary Joe Slovo was killed. “We only played a minor role here, while the Neo-Nazis did the actual killing. Since Joe Slovo was also Jewish, that only made the Neo-Nazis more excited at the prospect of killing a ‘communist Jew’, in their own words.”

It was this incident in the town of Reneen, only a few miles away from Doringbos, that prompted the Israeli government to sever ties with South Africa, which was a shock, considering that it was the Israelis who were also responsible for South Africa’s nuclear program. However, the arrival of the Neo-Nazis and other white nationalists from North America, Australia, and New Zealand had forced the hand of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. On the other hand, the debate as to who ordered the murder of Joe Slovo had raged on, even to this day, as the more radical elements of the AWB insisted that they carried it out on their own initiative. The ANC on the other hand, believed that it was Magnus Malan who gave the order. Still, the bloody ethnic conflict that has erupted within South Africa’s Bantustans had started to resemble more of the Philippine Civil War of 1986-88 than the civil war in the former Soviet Union. The Filipino migrant workers who stayed in South Africa had arrived in the Australian and Canadian High Commissions after hearing of Magnus Malan’s decision to contact Artemio Tadiar for negotiations regarding the Filipinos in South Africa.

“Magnus Malan had this insane idea of sending the Filipino migrant workers back to Tadiar, to curry favor with him. He even offered the services of various South African veterans of the Bush Wars for assistance with the Tadiar regime’s fight against the communists. At first, we were kidding ourselves when we asked if we were going to be sent to the Philippines. However, we learned later that Malan was going to deport the Filipinos to Tadiar, which explained the sudden arrival of the Filipinos in front of the two High Commissions in May of 1992.” Mulder pointed at the Australian High Commission building and the spot where the Filipinos lined up.

Even as the civil war escalated, the AVG mainly stuck to fighting the ANC, alongside the AWB. It was not until July of 1992 that relations between whites and blacks in South Africa were permanently damaged. On July 15, 1992, in Jakkalsfontein, AWB paramilitaries and Neo-Nazi mercenaries had rounded up over 9,000 captured ANC guerrillas and proceeded to execute them, with their corpses buried in hidden mass graves that were later covered by newly planted trees. Some of the AVG personnel did participate, except for Mulder and Jonsson.

“We felt sickened by this kind of mass murder. Even a few of the KKK members that we talked to had become disillusioned by their experiences here. As much as they wanted to keep the whites and blacks separate, either in the United States, or in here, they did not really want to resort to such mass killings. All in all, I can say that five KKK members had left the organization, including that David Duke guy. While he can still recall his experiences with the KKK, his adventure here in South Africa had genuinely horrified him,” Mulder said. He showed the journalists the discarded uniforms that the five KKK defectors had discarded, though it appeared to have been burnt. “It reminded me of that book written by this Turtletaub guy about the AWB time travelers who went back to the time of the American Civil War and changed history, but their treatment of the blacks in the States had resulted in the Confederates turning against the AWB.”

Eventually, the South African Civil War had begun to turn in favor of the ANC, with supplies reaching them through newly independent Namibia, which had turned to the United States for support in its fight against South Africa in the aftermath of the Jakkalsfontein Massacre, and it was Great Britain, France, and the reunified German Republic that sent most of the military aid to the ANC. By then, Magnus Malan had only succeeded in carving out an independent Boer-majority state, called Kaapstad, which existed from 1991 (when the South African Civil War had started) to 1995, when the combined forces of the ANC, the Namibian Army, and left-wing volunteers, had stormed the border into Kaapstad and started to expel the white minority from what is left of Kaapstad. Tales of white families fleeing into the port city of Cape Town were sadly common, as Mulder and his family were among the fleeing families.

“The ANC and other leftists have started to confiscate the lands that we worked on for several generations. It was only because of the intervention by the US and Great Britain that we could stay in Cape Town, but only for a year while the embassies there will ask us if we want to go to the countries that offered us asylum. In the end, we chose to go to Russia, rather than Australia, as my wife originally wanted, but the Australian government had banned the entry of former South African military personnel from immigrating to Australia, due to the potential backlash from the Australian public,” Mulder explained while mentioning the former Bob Hawke administration’s policy regarding the South African refugees. “Unlike Australia, the Russians were eager to welcome anyone as long as they can help rebuild their country after the civil war there.”

It was not until 1996 that the Mulder family would be allowed to arrive in Russia, where they chose to settle in the town of Zhigulevsk, not far from Tatishchevsk, which was originally called Tolyatti, until 1995, when the official policy of ‘De-Bolshevization’ and ‘De-Communizaton’ had been passed by the Burbulis-led government. In Zhigulevsk, the Mulder family was granted a medium sized farm and some assistance from the Russian families that resided there. Moreover, Russia’s newly appointed Minister for Resettlement and Immigration, Eduard Rossel, had been a major factor in not only helping the Boers to settle in Russia, but also helping the repatriated prikhodniks coming home from abroad. Since settling in Russia, Mulder has become a famous family brand, associated with the production of dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and of course, milk.

“Mulder Farm Dairy has become a popular hit with the Russian public, and the fact that our family came from a line of ranchers has played a vital part in why we became famous.” Mulder offered some milk from his factory to three Russian guests. “It has become famous, even in Ukraine, Belarus, and Siberia as well.”

Since settling in Russia, the Boers have become experts in agricultural entrepreneurship, with names like Mulder, Mostert, Prinsloo, and De Bruyn, being associated with food brands. Of all the Boers that resettled in the Russian Federation, 49% had settled in Russia proper, 13% had settled in Belarus, and 38% had settled in Ukraine. The Boers who lived in Ukraine, had mostly settled in Zaporizhia Oblast, where their expertise in farming had helped their Ukrainian neighbors. It has reached a point where intermarriages between Ukrainians and Boers are common, as was the intermarriages between Boers and their Russian and Belarusian neighbors. Other Boer refugees have landed in the United States and Australia, where they were met with suspicion by the locals because of the Jakkalfontein Massacre.

“My son Henryk had written back to a close friend of his from our time in Doringbos about how the white Americans in the south did not talk to him much, while the blacks there had spat on him because of the Massacre. Thanks to the AWB in Jakkalfontein, the ANC and many other leftists have started their own anti-Boer songs, like ‘kill the Boer’,” Mulder recalled his son’s angry reaction to his best friend’s treatment. “But now, without the white minority in South Africa, it has become worse than Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe.”

Post-civil war South Africa under President Gwede Mantashe had reached out to Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe for diplomatic recognition, which the latter had accepted. However, the economic situation in South Africa after the civil war has reached a point where the South African Rand had suffered from hyperinflation, with 1,000,000 rand being the equivalent of 1 US Dollar. In an unexpected twist, both Zimbabwe and South Africa would turn, not to Russia or the US for help, but China. After 1997, when China became an international pariah because of their reckless bombing campaign against Vietnam and the Philippines that resulted in much of their agricultural farmland being torched mercilessly, over 420,000 Vietnamese and 500,000 Filipinos have starved to death. Even with international aid, the famines continued until 2001, when both Indonesia and Japan offered to help rebuild the agricultural productivity of the Philippines and Vietnam. Zimbabwe and South Africa on the other hand, became staunch Chinese allies, even defending China’s campaign against Vietnam and the Philippines on the grounds that Vietnam was not accommodating China’s interest, and the Philippines was mired with colonial crab mentality.

“I suppose it does fit with the whole ‘pariahs stick together’. Yet at the same time, China is getting a bit richer, through its meager investment with Zimbabwe and South Africa, to the point where they have become de facto colonies of the communist regime in Beijing,” Mulder retorted. “The Chinese have introduced collective farms into those areas with a modern twist: the state would decide what kind of agricultural produce that will be made in those two states.”

A famine broke out in 2009 when it became clear that Zimbabweans and South Africans had struggled to grow enough crops to feed the entire country. Even when the famine happened, both governments did not turn to the international community, fearing that if they did so, they would have to admit that their policies have failed. This was on top of the horrendous economic disaster that Uzbekistan had suffered from implementing their Islamo-Maoist ideas on economic reforms. As for the Mulder family, they have never felt so happy being in Russia than when they lived in South Africa.

“I suppose Magnus Malan and Eugene Terreblanche should count themselves lucky that they only shot themselves in the head when they heard the news of Kaapstad’s fall to the ANC,” Mulder spat angrily. “They were the ones who are responsible for the exodus and expulsion of the Boers from South Africa. All of that history, gone down the drain.”

[TheRomanSlayer]

Chapter Thirty-Four: The Second Russian Civil War Part Nine



“Once upon a time, being sent to Siberia is a life sentence. It was true, from the Tsarist period to the Soviet period. Now, being sent to Siberia is literally a one-way ticket to freedom. How was it possible for us to change the view of Siberia from the perspective of the peoples of the former Soviet Union? Simple: it was in Siberia, where Russian democracy was born. It was in Siberia, that Russians have rediscovered the spirit of freedom, democracy, and have learned a bit about the rule of law, although that took decades to master. How was it that we chose Siberia as the place where Soviet power would be broken? Because it was in the city of Sverdlovsk, now renamed to Isetgrad, that Alexander Lebed had summoned his moral compass to defy the Soviet government and refused to kill innocent civilians. Although he only resorted to bloodshed as a last resort, it was mainly motivated by a personal trauma when he nearly died in Novocherkassk as a child. Should anyone say that childhood trauma should be used as an excuse to refuse an order from a superior officer, even if that order ran contrary to your moral fiber? The excuse of ‘we were following orders’ became hollow after the Great Patriotic War had ended with the defeat of the German fascist monster. It is not enough to just resort to that excuse when you had to try and justify the atrocities committed under a tyrant’s command. Now, as I give this speech in front of you, future military, and political leaders, think of this one question that should constantly stick to your mind: should I go through with a morally questionable order, for fear of being killed due to refusal to carry it out? Or should I take a stand, even if it kills me? That is how you are able to summon the moral courage that is needed to prevent your souls from being condemned when God himself will judge us all on the Day of Judgment.” General Viktor Chechevatov, addressing the Russian officer cadets during a new term in the renamed Kutuzov Military Academy, formerly the Frunze Military Academy, September 2011.

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KEMEROVO FALLS TO NATIONAL REDEMPTION ARMY AS SOVIET LOYALISTS IN SIBERIA’S FAR NORTH SURRENDER IN DROVES DUE TO SUPPLY ISSUES
Sydney Herald
October 14, 1992



Kemerovo, RUSSIAN SFSR – In a major offensive that was bolstered by the new recruits into Rosgvardiya of former gulag inmates, the city of Kemerovo fell to the National Redemption Army. The NRA forces, led by Leonid Khabarov, had launched a multi-pincer attack on the nearby towns guarding the city, in a deadly, blitzkrieg-like raid. Unlike the NRA, the Soviet loyalist forces in Kemerovo and other parts of Siberia are facing constant guerrilla attacks from the unintegrated Justice Brigades paramilitary personnel, as well as various other paramilitaries unconnected to the Russian Provisional Government. The fall of Kemerovo had also resulted in various Soviet loyalist forces surrendering to the NRA due to the shortages of food and ammunition, especially since there were also civilians to feed as well. Finally, the Khakassian Provisional Autonomous Government had reached a power sharing deal with the Russian Provisional Government, encouraging Tannu Tuva to do the same with the Tuvan Provisional Autonomous Government’s power sharing deal with the Russian Provisional government. With the addition of five ethnic republics within the Russian Provisional Government, virtually the entirety of Eastern Siberia is now under the control of the Russian Provisional Government.

“Our government now controls half of what used to be the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and with the help of our sons and daughters who now join our cause, we shall liberate the other half of Russia, until communism is purged from Russian soil forever,” Gennady Burbulis said as he addressed the public in Krasnoyarsk. “However, the fight to liberate all of Russia from Soviet tyranny is not yet finished, as we still have to capture the entirety of the Caucasus and the Volga-Ural region.”

It is expected that Khabarov would split his forces into two, each with a clear set of objectives. The first army, under the command of former Soviet Red Army defector Anatoly Kvashnin (who surrendered and defected to the National Redemption Army in the fall of Kemerovo), would strike into the two Autonomous Okrugs: Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansiysk, where loyalist resistance is at its smallest. The second army, commanded by Khabarov himself, would continue into Novosibirsk and the Russian border with the Kazakh SSR, or rather, the breakaway Priirtyshye Free State that recently broke away from the Kazakh SSR. Unfortunately, Khabarov’s push towards Novosibirsk is offset by the recent Soviet loyalist push into the rebel-held city of Orenburg, with Pavel Grachev’s forces besieging it, although many of the Red Army troops besieging it were members of the 203rd Rifle Division from the Kazakh SSR. The ferocity of the Kazakh-dominated 203rd Rifle Division during the opening stages of the Siege of Orenburg was matched with a rebel push from Astrakhan, in the Russian SFSR, into the region of Western Kazakhstan, where they recently created the Priuralye Free State and proceeded to purge the area of suspected Soviet loyalists, many of whom were Kazakhs, and resettling ethnic Russians that were displaced from Central Asia and the Baltic States into the region.

“The brutal methods employed by National Redemption Army-aligned paramilitaries in the occupied territories of both West Kazakhstan and Atyrau Oblysy (the Kazakh word for oblast) is an indication that the so-called National Redemption Army is a reincarnation of the infamous Vlasovite Russian Liberation Army, and that the Red Army is committed to defeating this new Vlasovite threat before it spreads,” pro-loyalist Kazakh general Saken Zhasuzakov said after being asked by Soviet media officials on rumors of a possible act of ethnic cleansing in the occupied portions of West Kazakhstan and Atyrau under pro-Russian rebel control. “However, the fact that half of the Russian SFSR is under rebel control means that it will be up to the Central Asian republics to liberate their fraternal Russian brothers and sisters from the grip of the neo-reactionary Lebedites.”

The attempt by the 203rd Rifle Division to capture Orenburg would be a tough challenge, given that it is primarily defended by the 34th Motor Rifle Division, led by Captain Sergei Surovikin, who had to make do with whatever troops he had left, despite possessing more arms and ammunition than the loyalist-aligned 203rd Rifle Division. Like Sverdlovsk, the battle for Orenburg would be a tough challenge for both sides, mainly because possession of Orenburg by the loyalists could easily allow the Red Army to send extra troops to capture Sverdlovsk. Conversely, a successful rebel defense of Orenburg could allow General Lebed to push deep into western Kazakhstan, in conjunction with Leonid Khabarov’s forces coming from the east. Moreover, if the rebels are successful in keeping control of both sides of the Ural River, they could easily move their troops towards the Kazakh city of Atyrau, possibly cutting off western Kazakhstan from the rest of the Kazakh SSR, even securing the western side of the Ural River as the future natural border between a rump Russia and an independent Kazakhstan.

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KHANTY-MANSIYSK AND YAMALO-NENETS AUTONOMOUS OKRUGS VOTE IN FAVOR OF MERGER INTO A UNITED OSTYAK-SAMOYED REPUBLIC
Moscow Times
May 12, 2009



Surgut, OSTYAK-SAMOYED REPUBLIC – In a referendum supervised by Finland, Estonia, and Hungary, the two regions of Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs have voted in favor of a merger into a unified Ostyak-Samoyed Republic. The merger was proposed by former activist turned politician, Anna Nerkagi, who led the pro-merger political party, Ust-Samoyed, who saw it as an attempt to preserve the indigenous cultures of Russia’s Samoyedic peoples, as well as other ethnic Uralic minorities as part of former Russian President Gennady Burbulis’s policy of power-sharing with ethnic minorities that was later continued by his successors, former President Nikolai Azarov (or Mykola Azarov in Ukrainian) and incumbent President Semyon Domash (or Siamion Domash in Belarusian). The referendum passed with 97% in favor of the merger, and even ethnic Russian residents of the two okrugs had supported the merger as a way of making amends to the Samoyedic peoples for past colonial crimes.

“The formation of the Ostyak-Samoyed Republic is the first step in the revitalization of Siberia’s indigenous cultures and traditions that have been destroyed by previous regimes. Now, the Ostyak-Samoyed Republic will represent the best that Siberia has to offer to the world,” Nerkagi said in front of pro-merger supporters. After the Ostyak-Samoyed Republic is officially recognized as the 25th republic within Russia (as Ukraine and Belarus were admitted as the 22nd and 23rd republics respectively, though with special status, as they merged under the former Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, and the Greater Ural Republic was created as a 24th republic in 2003 under former President Azarov), Nerkagi is expected to be sworn in as the first President of the Ostyak-Samoyed Republic.

The Ostyak-Samoyed Republic was conceived as an idea by Nerkagi herself, who spent her early political career with the Russian Provisional Government. Nerkagi was the real founder of the power-sharing agreement that former President Gennady Burbulis had adopted for the deal that saw much of the ethnic republics within Russia proper retain their autonomy. In addition, she also oversaw the decommissioning of former gulags that housed various Soviet dissidents, who were freed by the National Redemption Army. These days, the gulags that were built in the territory of the Ostyak-Samoyed Republic served as a museum to educate the public about Soviet atrocities, though protests from pro-Soviet loyalists who remained in Russia were frequent. In addition, Nizhnevartovsk is the center of the new autonomous republic’s booming oil sector, as much of Western Siberia’s oil is produced here, though it is primarily used for domestic consumption, as well as exports to Mongolia, Korea, and Japan. To help build the city, much of Nizhnevartovsk’s population were ethnic Russians that have returned home from decades in exile abroad, or indigenous minorities that were seeking employment in the oil industry, who were employed by the city itself to construct residential and commercial buildings. In addition, several TobAZ manufacturing plants have been built to mass produce enough vehicles for domestic consumption, although acting on an agreement with the European Continental Association, 22% of TobAZ’s cars would be exported to Central and Eastern Europe.

“After the collapse of communism in Russia, we were surprised to see a bunch of Russian-made cars being driven in the streets of Turku and Helsinki,” comments Finnish car owner of a 2004 TobAZ Kedr (Cedar) Akseli Kyllonen after showing the steering wheel of his vehicle. “The Russians have learned a lot about car making from Japan and Germany, but it was Boris Yeltsin who invited the Japanese and Germans to teach the Russians how to build better cars.”

Since its rise to prominence, TobAZ has become a popular brand of vehicles in Russia, describing it by both locals and foreign owners as the ‘Kalashnikovs of automobiles’, although TobAZ vehicles would be the civilian equivalent of old Soviet tanks. The fact that TobAZ’s newest production facility in Nizhnevartovsk is projected to surpass the Vladivostok plant by its sheer size means that much of Ostyak-Samoyed Republic’s workforce would be drawn mostly from indigenous minorities, with Russian residents taking up the remaining positions, though they are making sure that ethnic Samoyedic groups like Nenets, Khanty, Mansi, and Ostyaks would be trained for senior leadership roles, through business schools built in both Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk.

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MAJOR CHANGES IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST AS KHABAROVSK OBLAST IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PIECES, WITH NORTHERN HALF BECOMING OKHOTSK OBLAST, AND SOUTHERN HALF IS MERGED WITH PRIMORSKY KRAI AND AMUR OBLAST TO FORM PRIAMURYE KRAI
Vladivostok Times
July 29, 2009



Vladivostok, PRIAMURYE KRAI – Buoyed by the recent administrational reforms that saw the merger of the former Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrugs into the newly created Ostyak-Samoyed Republic as the 24th ethnic republic within the Russian Federation, Khabarovsk Krai has officially been split into two, with the northern half becoming Okhotsk Oblast and the southern half of it would merge with Primorsky Krai and Amur Oblast to form the Priamurye Krai. Already, there was a proposal for the newly established Okhotsk Oblast to become the Even Republic, named for the Tungusic-speaking Even peoples (not to be confused with Evenks, an ethnic group related to the Evens), though support for such project fell apart when logistical difficulties made it impossible to populate Okhotsk Oblast with enough people. In addition, Okhotsk and Ayano-Mayskiy were two strongholds that were controlled by the Soviet loyalist forces during the Second Russian Civil War that quickly surrendered to the National Redemption Army when their supplies quickly ran out, allowing the NRA to secure the entirety of the Russian Far East.

Priamurye Krai on the other hand, is expected to have 4,119,980 people residing in it, making it the seventh most populated oblast within the Russian Federation, although it would only be the 7th if it were within Russia proper. If the demographics were to include the republics of Belarus and Ukraine, it would have been slightly lower. However, Belarus and Ukraine have their own oblasts within its territories, making the demographical research in those areas a bit trickier. In addition, Priamurye Krai is also expected to become the economic powerhouse of the Russian Far East, just ahead of the Republic of Yakutia. In addition, most of the manufacturing base in the entirety of the Russian Far East is in the newly established Priamurye Krai, including the well-known TobAZ automobile giant, and the telecommunications giant Taiga, which produces cell phones, computers, and fiber optic equipment for high-speed internet. Yet the rise of these corporate giants was recent, as they first came to prominence during the Second Russian Civil War, when one of Boris Yeltsin’s allies in the business world, Boris Titov, had acquired an old factory that once produced heavy machinery for the collective farms, and turned it into a radio equipment factory that produced radio equipment for the National Redemption Army. After the Second Russian Civil War ended, the factory that built the radio equipment diversified its production facilities to produce telephones for civilian use, before the factory was eventually incorporated into a new company that would later become Taiga. Many other entrepreneurs who established themselves in Siberia and the Far East had their start in the second civil war that destroyed communism in the former Soviet Union, and eventually became wealthy businessmen in their own right. Most prominent of them is Anatoly Sobchak, who founded the computer giant, Aurora, which produced various kinds of computers, both for civilian and military use. Vladimir Vinogradov, who founded the banking giant, VostokBank, became a legend in the Russian financial sector, until the unilateral abolition of the Central Bank of Russia and its reorganization into the National Sovereign Bank of the Russian Federation and its ownership by the Russian government itself had forced Vinogradov into the role as a de facto CEO of the NSBRF, before stepping down and recommending that the Russian government itself act as the official CEO, with the Minister of Finance acting as its chief representative. Vinogradov himself would eventually dominate the private banking sector, with VostokBank competing for the dominant position as Russia’s premier private bank with four other banks: VTB Bank under Anton Siluanov, Sberbank, Vladimir Potanin’s UralBank (which mainly serves the Volga-Ural region), and OschadBank from Ukraine.

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SAPARMURAT NIYAZOV PLACED UNDER ARREST BY SOVIET LOYALIST FORCES FOR ATTEMPTED REBELLION AGAINST SOVIET GOVERNMENT
Edmonton Journal
December 12, 1992



Ashgabat, TURKMEN SSR – In one of the most bizarre moments in the Central Asian theater of the Second Russian Civil War, a pro-Turkmen independence activist by the name of Saparmurat Niyazov, had been arrested by the KGB, on charges of pro-nationalist agitation and subversion. Niyazov, who openly confessed to calling for Turkmenistan’s independence from the Soviet Union, was revealed to have invited Azeri and Turkish intelligence officers into Turkmenistan to gain the help they need to break free from Soviet rule, but Turkmen loyalists within the Soviet government had alerted Moscow to the attempts at Turkmenistan’s secession. In the process, several pro-independence paramilitary fighters had risen in revolt against the Soviet loyalist-aligned government and so far, they have taken control of the city of Balkanabat, in the Balkan Province of the Turkmen SSR. Soviet loyalist troops of Turkmen ethnicity have also staged a mutiny against their predominantly Slavic officers, arresting them and replacing the detained Slavic officers with junior officers of Turkmen ethnicity.

“Our brothers and sisters in the faith have been oppressed for so long, and we have come here to Balkanabat to help our Turkmen brothers gain their independence from the Soviet Union,” comments Azeri volunteer Murat Ismetov after arriving at Balkanabat from his recent conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. “The Soviet Union is dying, and it is our job to finish it off.”

The Turkmen pro-independence movement has so far, rejected an offer by Al-Qaeda to establish bases in its territory, to avoid turning Turkmenistan into an expanded base for the Islamist terror organization, which had so far established its presence in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. However, Soviet loyalist troops have kept control of the rest of Turkmenistan and had even played a role in stopping an Al-Qaeda attempt to take control of southern Turkmenistan, though ironically, this was also done with the help of the Soviet loyalists’ pro-independence foes. The presence of Turkish and Azeri volunteers had been controversial, with the Soviet government in Moscow expelling the Turkish ambassador over what it saw as an ‘interference in the domestic affairs of the Turkmen SSR’ by a foreign power.

As for Niyazov himself, under Soviet law, he will be charged under Article 58 of the Soviet constitution, which would include conducting anti-Soviet activities and nationalist agitation. If he receives the death sentence, he will become an instant martyr for the pro-independence forces. On the other hand, if he were imprisoned, he would become the Turkmen version of South Africa’s late Nelson Mandela, just before his assassination at the hands of South African right-wing mercenaries.

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THE ENTIRETY OF CENTRAL ASIA AS THE ENTIRE USSR: A WEIRD HISTORY
By: WeirdHistory from VidLive*



“The fall of the USSR was heralded as the end of communism in Eastern Europe, but did you know that the entirety of Central Asia was the entire USSR from the relocation of the Soviet government from Moscow to Shymkent, Kazakhstan, starting on April 9, 1994? Not many people know about it, but it all started with the Russian National Redemption Army’s greatest victory over the Soviet loyalist forces in the famous Battle of Chernobyl on February 14, 1993, and had ended on March 14, 1993, with the rebels’ decisive victory. The Liberation of Moscow would not take place until February 14, 1994, in what is now known as the Saint Tryphon Offensive, named after Saint Tryphon of Kampsade (hence it was also known as Operation: Campsada in Western media). The fall of Moscow, along with the capture of the Volga-Ural region by Leonid Khabarov’s forces arriving from Siberia, had forced the Soviet loyalist government to relocate to Samara, and then into Shymkent. While resettling in Shymkent, the Soviet loyalist government had transformed Shymkent into a substitute capital city that would resemble the Moscow of old Soviet times but has only succeeded in further alienation of the Central Asian Turkic peoples towards the Slavic refugees fleeing from rebel retribution. By then, the rump Central Asian Soviet Union had virtually become a Chinese puppet state, thanks to the intervention of the People’s Liberation Army into Central Asia, on the pretext of destroying Uyghur training camps established in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The Islamist uprising in Central Asia had also corroded the loyalists’ ability to keep the USSR alive, and by January 7, 1995, the Soviet Union voted itself out of existence, with the Taraz Agreement, where each five Central Asian republics within the rump Soviet Union would essentially become separate socialist republics.

While Central Asia acted as the legal entity of the USSR, it also retained the Communist Party apparatus, although with the mass resignation of the Russian members of the CPSU, Central Asians gradually took over most of the roles, essentially becoming the dominant force within the CPSU. However, the ethnic instability within Central Asia would result in Al-Qaeda’s war against Russia, leading to the eventual Russian military intervention in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to root out Al-Qaeda. Unfortunately, Operation: Batyr would become a tragic chapter in the fall of the Soviet Union, as ethnic Russians remaining in the rest of Central Asia would be expelled from their homes and relocating to either the Pritobolye Free State, or the Priirtyshye Free State, in what is now Russian-occupied Northern Kazakhstan. Russia’s retaliation to Operation: Batyr was to exchange the Kazakh population of the Russian occupied territories of Northern and Western Kazakhstan with the Russian population of the rest of Central Asia, a deal that was ultimately accepted. Since the fall of the USSR, both the Neo-Maoists and Islamists have fought each other for control over the vast region, until 2007, when Uzbekistan voted in an Islamo-Maoist party called the Revolutionary Brotherhood Party, in what is seen as the first successful election of a communist party since the fall of the Soviet Union. However, Uzbekistan’s failed Islamo-Maoist policies had turned it into the Zimbabwe of Central Asia, with runaway inflation just as bad as Zimbabwe’s. It was this economic disaster that led to its ouster and the rise of Birdamlik, or the People’s Democratic Party, which steered Uzbekistan on the path of economic recovery."
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COUP FOILED IN KYRGYZSTAN! BORIS YUGAI FLEES TO RUSSIA WHILE GENERAL ABDYGUL CHOTBAEV TAKES OVER KYRGYZ 8th GUARDS RIFLE DIVISION
Philippine Daily Inquirer
December 25, 1992



Bishkek, KYRGYZ SSR – An attempted coup in the Kyrgyz SSR’s capital of Bishkek had been foiled by elements of the 8th Guards Rifle Division, when a loyalist soldier had shot an intruder who was revealed to have been a former Red Army soldier of Kyrgyz ethnicity who attempted to desert from his unit and make his way into Russia, where he planned to serve in the National Redemption Army. The soldier in question, had been loyal to a pro-Lebed Kyrgyz military unit under the command of Colonel Boris Yugai. The Colonel had fled to Russia through Kazakhstan, disguised as a corpse of a man who recently died of a heart attack, but had to be buried back in Russia. Though the disguise was successful, only a last-minute detection by a loyalist border guard had resulted in the exposure of the disguise, leading to Colonel Yugai’s spectacular shootout with the border guards and was only rescued by a wandering Rosgvardiya soldier in the border town of Veseloyarsk.

Additional information was revealed that Boris Yugai was not inspired by Alexander Lebed’s decision to rebel against the Soviet forces due to moral reasons but had recently looked up to notorious mastermind of the EDSA Massacre, Artemio Tadiar, as a model for what a future, staunchly anti-communist Kyrgyzstan should be. Moreover, Colonel Yugai’s disillusionment with the Soviet Union had started precisely because of the botched coup that resulted in the accidental murder of former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, and that as early as January of 1990, he had met with Kyrgyz nationalist activists and began to support the idea of Kyrgyzstan’s secession from the Soviet Union. Moreover, he also began to clamor for justice on behalf of the USSR’s Korean minority, or the Koryo-saram (descendants of Korean settlers who arrived in the Soviet Far East from then-Japanese Korea), who were deported to Central Asia on orders of Joseph Stalin. His agitation for more rights for the Koryo-saram when nationalist sentiment within the USSR increased had resulted in the occasional visits by the KGB, accusing him of inciting nationalist sentiment within the Union itself.

“The crimes that Stalin had committed against the Koryo-saram have been tragic. Many of us, the descendants of the deportees, could not afford to go back to either one of the two Koreas, as we were already assimilated into the Soviet system. However, I wish to negotiate with the leader of the Russian Provisional Government, Gennady Burbulis, on the establishment of a Korean Autonomous Oblast, for the Koryo-Saram that resided within the territories of the USSR itself,” Boris Yugai said after arriving in the city of Veseloyarsk. “We do not mind going back to the Russian Far East, for that is where we lived before the deportations began.”

Yugai’s proposal of a Korean Autonomous Oblast within the Russian SFSR had met with mixed feelings, especially from other Koryo-sarams that lived in Central Asia. To them, the idea of relocating back to their original adopted homes in the Russian Far East would be something that could allow them to receive the justice they deserved. On the other hand, its proximity to the two Koreas might make them afraid of ostracization from the other Koreans that moved from either the DPRK or the ROK. Still, Yugai’s proposal was met with a positive reaction from the Russian Provisional Government. In addition, Yugai’s defiance of the Soviet state meant that many Koryo-saram had began to join or form their own ‘Justice Brigades’ paramilitary group, often with the help of sympathetic Rosgvardiya troops. In fact, upon arrival in Russia, Boris Yugai was appointed the commander of one of the most famous Koryo-saram dominated divisions, known as the Karatal Division, named after the Karatal Valley in which most of the Koryo-saram had been deported to in 1937. At the same time, other Koryo-sarams had also formed their own paramilitary divisions fighting on the side of pro-independence factions within Central Asia, and at one point they had defended the town of Kyzyl-orda from an attempted Soviet loyalist reconquest.

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DESCENDANTS OF KORYO-SARAM DEPORTEES TO BE COMPENSATED BY EAST SLAVIC FEDERATION GOVERNMENT FOR PAST TREATMENT UNDER FORMER SOVIET REGIME
Vladivostok Times
June 18, 2007



Khabarovsk, PRIAMURYE KRAI – East Slavic Federation President Semyon Domash announced today that on the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Koryo-saram from the former Soviet Far East to Central Asia, all descendants of the deportees would be granted a one-time payment of 450 billion rubles, or 6,030,000 US dollars, as compensation for their past sufferings. The payment would go to the descendants of the deportees per surviving family members, and that a proposal for the establishment of the Korean Autonomous Oblast, as originally proposed by former Red Army officer who defected to the Russian Provisional Government Boris Yugai (who now serves in the Russian Armed Forces as its Commander of the Far Eastern Military District), would be examined after years of constant shelving and inaction. Yugai himself, a descendant of the deportees, is qualified for the compensation, although he insists that some of the compensation would be better off reserved for the creation of special Korean language schools in the Priamurye Krai that can be used to teach the endangered Koryo-mal dialect of the Korean language. The support for the Koryo-saram is also found from an unlikely source: former North Korean leader Kim Pyong-il, who instigated the civil war in the former DPRK after a botched mission by the Korean People’s Navy to provoke the former South Korean Navy into attacking them, had backfired with the former South Korean Navy firing on them first, before a major KPA artillery strike had landed in Soreumdo had resulted in the first major conflict in the Korean peninsula since the Korean War of 1950-53. The second conflict in the Korean peninsula drew in US troops that were currently stationed in the former South Korea, against ex-North Korean troops, which were backed by Chinese volunteers, who saw the DPRK as a useful buffer. Although the East Slavic Federation was neutral in the 2002-2004 Second Korean War, or in the reunified Korea, the Continuation War, it provided the ex-North Korean refugees a way out of the DPRK and into Priamurye Krai. Like the defense treaty between the former South Korea and the United States, which automatically drew in American troops into the Korean Peninsula, a military defense treaty was signed between the DPRK and China back in 2002, in anticipation of another conflict in the area.

“It is about time that our emotional and psychological wounds have healed from the trauma that Stalin had imposed on us,” comments Oleg Choi, one of the surviving deportees who could come back to the Russian Far East and had chosen to settle in Sakhalin Island. “My family was deported from Komsomolsk-na-Amur in September of 1937 and had to settle in Uzbekistan. President Domash’s personal decree has allowed us to regain our property in Komsomolsk-na-Amur, but my family preferred Sakhalin Island instead.”

Some of the Koryo-saram had decided to immigrate to the newly reunited Korean Federal Republic, a successor state to the two Korean states that had been at war with each other since 1953, although their Koryo-mal dialect could only be understood by the speakers of the northern dialect in what had been once the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. A majority of the Koryo-saram who moved back to Korea had opted to settle in cities like Chongjin, Wonsan, and even Kaesong, close to the former DMZ. A very few Koryo-saram had opted to move to places like the Autonomous Republic of Ukraine, where their familiarity with the Russian language is more appropriate, although the Koryo-saram who moved to Ukraine had opted to learn the Ukrainian language as well. Only 5% of the Koryo-saram had decided to move to SE Asia, with the Philippines being their preferred destination, despite it being the main destination of other Koreans who moved there, mainly from the southern regions of Korea, or Zainichi Koreans wanting to escape from Japanese discrimination.

“It is rather interesting to see different kinds of Koreans living here in Sakhalin,” comments Jeong Myung-hoon, a Korean from Seoul who moved to the city of Vladivostok in Priamurye Krai. “My new neighbors are former North Korean refugees who worked in the TobAZ plant, just across from the Vladivostok Bridge, while my landlord is a Koryo-saram whose family moved here after the Japanese annexed Korea in 1910, and my wife is a Zainichi Korean whose family lived in Kobe until 1997, when they moved here to avoid being chased by Japanese mobs due to the earthquake. She told me that her grandfather was beaten by the Japanese when he lived in Tokyo after the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake.”

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INDONESIA BECOMES 9TH COUNTRY TO RECOGNIZE THE RUSSIAN PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, SEVERS TIES WITH SOVIET UNION
Jakarta Post
January 7, 1993



Jakarta, SPECIAL CAPITAL REGION – Indonesia became the first SE Asian nation to recognize the legitimacy of the Russian Provisional Government, and the 9th country in the world to do so, after Iraq, Syria, South Korea, India, Mongolia, Finland, Chile, and Japan. President Prabowo Subianto, in his speech in front of the Indonesian People’s Representative Council, has declared his support for the Russian Provisional Government in their fight against the Soviet Union, although the Russian Provisional Government was not the first rebel government that Indonesia recognized as an entity separate from the official Soviet government. The first rebel government Indonesia recognized was that of Azerbaijan’s National Transitional Council, which also resulted in Azerbaijan’s approval for Indonesian peacekeepers to join the United Nations Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Prevention Mission in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh and has taken the Azeri position on the disputed region.

“I congratulate the leader of the Russian Provisional Government for securing half of the former USSR as their territory in their fight against Soviet communism. At the same time, I am announcing to the world that Indonesia is ready to take in refugees fleeing from the fighting in the Soviet Union,” Subianto announced as Indonesia’s top politicians clapped in approval. “Our diplomatic staff in Moscow and Ankara will also coordinate with the acceptance of refugees from other parts of the USSR as well.”

The Turkish government under Turgut Özal has also announced that it is willing to take in refugees fleeing from the fighting in the Soviet Union, although the most likely kind of refugees that will arrive in Turkey are ethnic Azeris. Still, Indonesia’s offer of refuge for the peoples of the Soviet Union to come and relocate to Indonesia is a gigantic step in Indonesia’s attempts to become more proactive in the world stage, as its pro-Azeri stance in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has won support from the Turkish and Azeri public. Turkish nationalists and Ottoman nostalgists have declared Indonesia as the ‘Third Brother’ in the Turkish-Azeri brotherhood, even though the Indonesians are not Turkic, but rather, Austronesian. In addition, Indonesia’s desperation for Muslim migrants from the former Soviet Union is seen as an attempt to replenish its numbers after the infamous anti-Chinese riots that broke out in 1986 that led to the unexpected downfall of former President Suharto. Subianto’s move to invite Turks, Azeris, and other Central Asian Muslims affected by the conflict is seen as opportunistic, although his invitation was also extended to Uyghurs who are fighting the Chinese communist government, a move that is sure to provoke Beijing.

“Right now, the plight of the Uyghurs is more important than the feelings of the Chinese communist state. While we both agree that the treatment of the Chinese Indonesians by the former Suharto regime is disgraceful, we disagree with many other things, especially China’s treatment of the Uyghurs,” Subianto commented on the topic of the Uyghurs who fled to Soviet Central Asia in order to build their training camps to help train and arm Uyghur militants seeking to destabilize Xinjiang in order to put more pressure on the Chinese government to restrain themselves from their SE Asian adventures.

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*VidLive is TTL's version of YouTube, founded by different people, obviously. Think of VidLive as YouTube in its early stage, though with the large options found in BitChute.

[gillan1220]

I pay attention to the close details of the butterflies that even it won't be a carbon copy of OTL. So sites like Facebook or Instagram would have a different name or layout here.

[stevep]

   TheRomanSlayer ,

   A lot more details on the Russian civil war and associated events. 

  I think there's a typo in the para

“Our government now controls half of what used to be the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and with the help of our sons and daughters who now join our cause, we shall liberate the other half of Siberia, until communism is purged from Russian soil forever,” Gennady Burbulis said as he addressed the public in Krasnoyarsk. “However, the fight to liberate all of Russia from Soviet tyranny is not yet finished, as we still have to capture the entirety of the Caucasus and the Volga-Ural region.”

  I suspect this should be Russia rather than Siberia?

  Steve

[TheRomanSlayer]

Feb 7, 2021 13:19:02 GMT gillan1220 said:

I pay attention to the close details of the butterflies that even it won't be a carbon copy of OTL. So sites like Facebook or Instagram would have a different name or layout here.

True, and TTL's Facebook is called VossCode, which is basically an alternate Facebook if it was invented by the Winkelvoss twins. Not sure if Instagram might even exist at this point, though an alternate counterpart might arise. TikTok would definitely not exist, as TTL's China wouldn't have the necessary funds to create and develop it due to much of their national budget being invested in the military, and infrastructure.

Thanks for catching the typo, although originally I was going to say western Siberia, but yeah.

[kyuzoaoi]

What would be replacements for TikTok?

[TheRomanSlayer]

Feb 7, 2021 21:38:19 GMT kyuzoaoi said:

What would be replacements for TikTok?

Not sure yet, although you may have a different nation doing something like this. Or the whole gratification thing is butterflied due to a bit more conservative mindset.

[kyuzoaoi]

Like a European country.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Before I publish the next main update on the Second Russian Civil War, there is one OMAKE that I have to publish before that: the 1992 US Presidential Elections (yes, this is the election that Jesse Jackson eventually wins, though who would be his challenger remains to be seen).

[TheRomanSlayer]

OMAKE EIGHT: The 1992 US Presidential Election



BOB DOLE SECURES NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENCY ON REPUBLICAN TICKET, JESSE JACKSON SECURES NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENCY ON DEMOCRAT TICKET, LAROUCHE SECURES NOMINATION ON BEHALF OF BREAKAWAY PARTY SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES
Washington Post
September 22, 1992



Washington, DC – While the United States can breathe easy that Ross Perot chose not to run for the 1992 US Presidential Election and choosing instead to prepare for the 1996 US Presidential Election, with a planned political party he is forming for such purpose, America’s political patricians are shocked by the growing popularity of an obscure activist turned politician by the name of Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche, as one may recall, had broken away from the Democrat Party back in 1989 over the growing complacency with the issue of workers’ rights and the lack of efforts in combating the natural disasters that were the Loma Prieta Earthquake and Hurricane Andrew. His complaint was that the Democrats spent more time arguing with each other than setting politics aside to help with the disaster relief efforts. In contrast, LaRouche became an outspoken critic of Philippine military dictator Artemio Tadiar, and his increasing tendency for autocratic rule. However, he also had harsh words regarding the communist dictatorships that still lingered.

“Tadiar is a byproduct of the late Reagan administration’s tendency to see things through the Cold War lens, but the autocracies of the Soviet Union, China, and the rest of the socialist blocs are no less good in this regard,” LaRouche said in front of his supporters during the launching of the Social Progressive Party, modeled after both the old American Progressive Party (1948), as well as the Canadian New Democratic Party and the British Labour Party. The Social Progressive Party had also absorbed the smaller Citizens Party into its fold, with rumors of Democrat Representative Bernie Sanders possibly defecting to the SPP.

LaRouche’s main political platform for his presidency is mostly focused on a more vigorous economic and social reforms that would be related to natural disaster relief, and a much more efficient transportation system that will rely less on the usage of fossil fuels, and a greater reliance on rail transport, though with an additional emphasis on MagLev trains. His foreign policy is somewhat like that of Democrat nominee Jesse Jackson, in their aim of weakening the Tadiar regime, long enough to justify regime change through a peaceful revolution (difficult, given Tadiar’s tendency to mercilessly kill protesters, as demonstrated during the EDSA Revolution that toppled former President and dictator, Ferdinand Marcos), or a military coup against Tadiar (also difficult, given the presence of Pinochet junta officers in the Philippines).

In the Republican camp, incumbent President Bob Dole is facing a harder challenge from a resurgent and determined foe in Democrat nominee Jesse Jackson, who has apparently learned the lessons from his failed 1988 Presidential campaign that saw his Republican rival elected to the Presidency. Although Republican voters have approved his handling of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, and that of Hurricane Andrew, it was the selection of candidates for his administration that garnered some mild criticism from ordinary American citizens. Most importantly, Secretary of Education Dan Quayle’s basic spelling error when he visited an elementary school one time and misspelled the word potato with an e on the end. The controversial incident resulted in Quayle becoming the butt of many jokes, and his mistake is something that Democrats had quickly pounced on.

“Do we need someone who forgets to spell a simple word correctly as Secretary of Education?” one Democrat voter snickered after hearing about the controversy. “If Dan Quayle can make one simple mistake about that, imagine what he could do if he ran for President, and forgets to write a proper sentence that does not involve grammatical errors.”

In the Democrat camp, Jesse Jackson’s strong emphasis on his emerging Rainbow Coalition (consisting of the LGBT community, farmers, blue collar workers, visible minorities, people with physical and mental disabilities, and other progressives) as his backbone of support has matured over the four years that he has worked on since his electoral defeat at the hands of Bob Dole. Moreover, the growing support from the Filipino American community is the crucial element, due to his promise of tougher stance towards the Tadiar regime. However, the more outspoken left-leaning Filipino Americans are gravitating towards LaRouche’s movement, potentially causing a split within the anti-Dole alliance. Still, both LaRouche and Jackson did not display any hostility towards each other, only smiles and laughter as they continued their campaign.


An ad promoting Jesse Jackson's candidacy for the President of the United States. 

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Portions from the 1992 US Presidential Debate
ABC Live, October 4, 1992



DOLE: While we continue to work towards reforming America’s economic and social policies to reflect a growing, diverse community, we have also worked towards the lessening of the geopolitical tensions that have gone out of control since the fall of the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. However, it took a civil war for the Philippines to go back to normal, only to fall once more, this time to Artemio Tadiar. While we certainly need to strong arm the Tadiar regime into moderating its stance and allowing democratic elections once more, we cannot forget that the Philippines is on the front lines of the Cold War against international communism.

MODERATOR: Mr. Jackson, do you have any rebuttals or other comments on President Dole’s explanation? You have two minutes.

JACKSON: (nods) Thank you, sir. (Turns to DOLE) While it is true that our national security lies on a stable SE Asia, we cannot make the same mistake that the Nixon administration had made with letting a fascist junta rule over a nation like Chile. No offense to former President Reagan, but his Nixon-esque move in allowing Tadiar to take over the Philippines is the main reason why SE Asia is seeing an increase in Chinese military activity. While we often remember that the Philippines is our major ally in the Asia-Pacific region, on par with that of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, the incumbent administration is turning a blind eye to the human rights abuses committed by the Tadiar regime.

MODERATOR: Any objections or rebuttals, Mr. President? (looks at DOLE)

DOLE: We are aware of the human rights abuses committed by the Tadiar regime, and we have worked with the Chinese government in the UN Security Council on imposing a total arms embargo on the Philippines, but economic sanctions would be a step too far, and it will only lead to further destabilization.

LAROUCHE: (raises his hand up) Can I offer my rebuttal to President Dole, sir?

MODERATOR: (looks at LAROUCHE) You have two minutes, Mr. Larouche.

LAROUCHE: Thank you. (looks at DOLE and JACKSON) Mr. President. Mr. Jackson. (pauses) How is it that economic sanctions are a bit ‘too far’ for your administration to consider when regimes just as bad as Tadiar’s, like say, Chile, are not sanctioned by the UN for their human rights abuses, but when it comes to America’s major ally, you are hesitating. Why are you not tough enough on America’s former colony when it comes to human rights and democratic values when you have given a free pass to banana republics in Latin America?

JACKSON: Objection!

MODERATOR: Mr. Jackson, try not to interrupt.

JACKSON: Sorry, sir. (turns to LAROUCHE) This is something I have wondered myself, and I suspect that many of our national security personnel are either pretending to obey the official orders from the President, or are working in the shadows, apart from the official government administration that they are sworn to serve and protect. It is one thing for us to ask our allies to respect the basic rules of democracy and human rights, but I believe that we, as Americans, must do the same thing that we preach to our allies. I often ask the farmers what their concerns are, and they gave me a single answer: not enough farm hands to help them harvest their crops. I often ask the blue-collar workers what their concerns are, and they gave me a single answer: worker safety. We have focused so much on foreign policy that we often forget to turn our attention to matters at home, and the two natural disasters have taught us the necessity of looking after our own people.

MODERATOR: Mr. President. Mr. LaRouche. Do you gentlemen have any rebuttals or objections to Mr. Jackson’s comments?

DOLE: Not one, but I would like to say something with regards to what Mr. Jackson is saying. You are insinuating that there is some sort of a secret group that is pulling behind the strings in my administration. Does that sound crazy, even to you?

MODERATOR: You are out of order, Mr. President.

DOLE: Sorry, I do not mean it in an accusatory voice.

LAROUCHE: While I may agree with the two gentlemen around here, if I may?

MODERATOR: You do not have the floor yet, Mr. LaRouche. We are still with President Dole.

DOLE: The fact is, you would have gotten more credibility asking former Vice President Bush the same question you have asked me, earlier. While I do not deny that there was a Halloween Massacre in which some of the CIA agents had been reassigned to desk duties, it is quite frankly wrong to assume that a bunch of rogue agents are controlling the United States government.

MODERATOR: Do you have anything to add, Mr. LaRouche? Now it is your turn to speak.

LAROUCHE: Thank you, sir. (turns to DOLE) While it does sound crazy to suggest that there is some sort of conspiracy, President Dole’s own admission of the existence of rogue national security agents is frankly, horrifying. I would not be surprised if they are the ones who managed to smuggle weapons to the Tadiar regime, despite the arms embargo. If that is the case, then we need to clean out the rulebreakers and corrupt renegades from our national security apparatus, before they have a chance to get rid of us all.

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“I am a bit disappointed with Bill’s shocking defeat at the hands of Jesse Jackson in the 1992 Democratic Primaries, but I have to admit that Mr. Jackson has been running a campaign on a strong support from his Rainbow Coalition, and Filipino Americans happen to be the strongest supporter of Mr. Jackson, although some left-leaning Filipino Americans and other Latin Americans who escaped from their homelands that are under right-wing dictatorships are leaning towards Mr. LaRouche. I do not know enough about Lyndon LaRouche, but I honestly hope to God that LaRouche does not end up becoming the mirror image of Joseph McCarthy, with his witch hunts targeting conservatives. If that was the case, then you would see a bigger, right-leaning backlash. I also must admire how Mr. Jackson managed to use the long-neglected rail transport for his campaigns, since the last time an American Presidential candidate had used such a transport was probably President Franklin D. Roosevelt. You can see how ordinary Americans have been drawn to him, simply from seeing him ride on coach class. That is something not any Presidential candidate is able to do.” Hillary Rodham Clinton, on the sudden rise of Jesse Jackson, November 1, 1992.

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NAILBITER FINISH! JESSE JACKSON STUNS POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT BY DEFEATING BOB DOLE IN 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!
Washington Post
November 5, 1992



Washington, DC – With just over 275 electoral votes to 259 plus 4 that went to Lyndon LaRouche, who is running in his home state of New Hampshire, Jesse Jackson has defeated outgoing President Bob Dole to become the 42nd President of the United States. In a rare milestone, Jesse Jackson is also the first African American President, something that is endearing to much of America’s African American minority. Speaking in front of his supporters, Jesse Jackson had led a prayer for a hard-earned victory over President Dole. With this win, Jesse Jackson is set to become the next president. However, his task of carrying out his campaign promises will be difficult, given the ongoing civil war in the Soviet Union, the military adventures of the Chinese PLA, and the increasingly autocratic dictatorship in the Philippines.

“We thank the Lord for His help in securing the Presidency in the hands of one of his most trusted servants. I promise to fulfill my campaign pledges and to bring America into a brighter future that will be prosperous for all,” Jackson said as he led the prayer. Although most Democrat supporters were uncomfortable with Jackson’s open display of piety, they have not forgotten that Jackson used to be a preacher in a church, so they allowed him to lead the prayer.

In the Republican camp, Bob Dole thanked his supporters for much of their hard work and conceded defeat when it became apparent that Jesse Jackson’s 270 electoral vote requirement has passed to 275.

“I offer my congratulations to President-elect Jackson for a hard-earned victory in this election, and I would also like to congratulate Mr. LaRouche for his hard-fought campaign for the presidency. I know that this may be the last time I will address the public, as after my term ends, I will formally retire from politics and become a professor at an undisclosed university of my choosing,” Bob Dole said, much to the tears of Republican supporters. “But, as we close the page on one book and open up a new chapter, the time for healing and unity comes now.”

Despite the massive defeat that Lyndon LaRouche had suffered, he was confident in the fact that he managed to break the two-party domination of the American government, and has so far, decided to push for a bold new project: the two-round system for an attempted American electoral reform, that will allow the promotion of smaller parties to create a unique challenge to Democrats and Republicans alike. With only a few seats in the House of Representatives being won by the Social Progressive Party, LaRouche is glad to have put up a challenge.

“Our defeat may be discouraging, but it is the building block for a greater path of American progress that will allow us to learn from our mistakes. Just as President-elect Jackson learned from the failures of his 1988 campaign, we too, shall learn from our mistakes that we made in this election campaign. Progress cannot be stopped; it can only go forward! Just ask Bob Hawke!” LaRouche said to his supporters, mostly union workers who joined the SPP.

[TheRomanSlayer]

Chapter Thirty-Five: The Second Russian Civil War Part Ten



Portions from the Interview with Former Russian President Semyon Domash/Siaimon Domash
Vesti News
June 17, 2016


Discussing the Civil War in Belarus and its Factor in the Decisive Rebel Victory in the Western Theater


Interviewer: How was it that the moderate Belarusian nationalists managed to win their conflict inside the former Belarusian SSR, while simultaneously fighting other Soviet loyalists from Russia and Ukraine?

Domash: Well, it was mostly the Ukrainians who helped us with the war inside Belarus. I remember seeing the Zaporizhian Cossack paramilitary forces arriving in Gomel from Chernihiv and seeing as how they recently fought against the loyalists there and won, they were naturally better armed, and battle hardened.

Interviewer: By this point, much of Ukraine had declared itself sovereign within the USSR, but they have not declared independence yet. However, Mykola Azarov had openly declared that Ukrainian rebel forces would help their Russian and Belarusian brethren if they would also recognize Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union. Yet a few years later, Azarov becomes president of what was then the East Slavic Federation, before changing the name back to Russia, in addition to his role as the President of the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus. How did this come to happen?

Domash: Only a few months before the civil war in the former Soviet Union had ended, Azarov had declared the formation of the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus. I was among the people who supported the project, and I also stood in as the opposing candidate who was going to win the Presidency. Unfortunately, I only got 43% of the votes to Azarov’s 57%.

Interviewer: Were you nervous at the idea of Ukraine dominating the Union?

Domash: I was at first, but it was preferable to being absorbed by Russia wholesale, even though after 2000, we eventually merged with Russia, so it was pointless to fear being absorbed by Russia when we did the absorbing in the first place.

Interviewer: Most Ukrainian nationalists have denounced Azarov for ‘selling out’ to Russia, but you seem to have the opposite view from most Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists. What did you mean by what you said about not selling out to Russia?

Domash: We knew that we would not survive without the help of the Russians, and the Russians knew that they would no longer count themselves as a European power without possession of Ukraine and Belarus. It was mutually beneficial, plus now that there is a strong Ukrainian Lobby in the Kremlin, we can pry out some concessions out of the Russian government. The communist nostalgists have denounced the Russian government for kowtowing to the Ukrainians, and even protested the Russian recognition of the Holodomor.

Interviewer: It is a bit disgraceful that there are some who still believe that the Holodomor was not a genocide, but an honest mistake that Stalin had made. Did you feel angry at the remark?

Domash: Of course. Many of our families had suffered under Stalin, but there were also a bunch of people who benefited from the Stalinist dictatorship after all.

Interviewer: How did the Battle of Chernobyl become the most defining moment of the Second Russian Civil War? It seems that it was more than just a repeat of the Great Patriotic War’s Battle of Kursk.

Domash: The Battle of Chernobyl was more than just a defining moment. To some anti-communists, it was akin to the medieval Battle of Kulikovo, or the Great Stand at the Ugra, where the Soviets were depicted in a similar vein to the Mongols of the Golden Horde, something that upset some Tatar minorities, but basically one could also say that it was the reverse of the 1613 Liberation of Moscow from Polish occupation. Most importantly, the presence of the Grey Legion, and the former Warsaw Pact member states’ volunteers had been a welcome sight, as well as our Serbian, Romanian, and Bulgarian brethren who also showed up.

Interviewer: Do you also think the pan-European movement and the far-right extremists have positive views of the Battle of Chernobyl?

Domash: That, I can also say that they had a positive view on it. In fact, it is also celebrated in white nationalist and neo-fascist circles as the final victory over international communism. The most controversial part of the Chernobyl battle was the rebel bombing campaign against the loyalist positions within Russia itself. However, it was a massive bombing campaign a few days after Chernobyl was successfully defended by the National Redemption Army that ultimately killed the coup leaders who took over the Soviet Union from the late Premier Gorbachev, though leaving Dmitry Yazov alive as the sole survivor who would be pivotal in the relocation of the Soviet government to Shymkent, in the Kazakh SSR.

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MOLDOVA BECOMES SECOND SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC TO SECEDE FROM SOVIET UNION, REQUESTS REUNIFICATION WITH ROMANIA
Vancouver Sun
January 20, 1993



Chisinau, REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA – The government of the Moldovan SSR has announced the country’s secession from the USSR, in an unprecedented move that would electrify the anti-Soviet elements within the Soviet Union and give more discomfort to the Soviet government itself. The Moldovan pro-reunification movement, led by Gheorghe Ghimpu, had called on the Romanian government to not only recognize the legal existence of Moldova, but to call in the Romanian military to march into Moldova to restore order, with the Moldovan Army marching into Romania to symbolize the two nations’ reunification. In response, Romania’s first post-communist President, Ion Iliescu, had supported the plan, but could not officially endorse the plan without significant backlash from the Soviet Union. However, as the Soviet government is mired in a civil war, the Romanian government decided to sever its diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union and recognized the Russian Provisional Government as the de facto legal successor to the USSR. Even more astounding is that the de facto breakaway Ukrainian Republic has also recognized the independence of Moldova and is negotiating with Moldova on the territorial adjustments between the two nations. According to the Bender Agreement, recently established by both the Moldovan and Ukrainian governments, Ukraine would annex the predominantly Slavic majority region of Transnistria, in exchange for Moldova acquiring the region of Budjak, giving it access to the Black Sea.

“We congratulate President Ghimpu on his successful journey to Moldova’s independence from the Soviet Union,” says Romania’s second president and Iliescu’s successor, Emil Constantinescu after hearing about Moldova’s independence referendum that resulted in over 98% of Moldova’s population voting in favor of independence, and only 2% opposed. “As Romanian volunteers are busy defending Moldova from Soviet loyalist forces, we are unable to contribute more to the fight against the Soviet Union alongside the Russian Provisional Government.”

As of today, Romania has officially become the 10th nation in the world to recognize the legitimacy of the Russian Provisional Government, and the 2nd former communist nation to do so. However, it has the distinguishment of being the 1st former Warsaw Pact member to officially recognize the legitimacy of the Russian Provisional Government, with Bulgaria and Hungary expected to follow suit, though Bulgaria is amid a crisis involving its Turkish minority. In addition, Romania also recognizes the de facto independence of Ukraine, even though the Ukrainians have not yet declared its independence from the Soviet Union. However, the first Soviet republic to have formally seceded from the USSR was actually the Azeri SSR, when it declared its independence back on June 12, 1992, with Indonesia being the 1st nation to recognize its independence, followed by the Philippines (both nations recognized it on the same day, and since Azerbaijan declared independence on the same day as Philippine Independence Day, the Philippines and Azerbaijan have the distinct honor of celebrating their statehood together).

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GIRLS UND PANZER DER FOLGE UNDER INTENSE CONTROVERSY OVER ONE OF THE SCHOOLS’ DISPLAY OF SYMBOL SIMILAR TO FAR-RIGHT MLADOROSSI POLITICAL MOVEMENT
AnimeVice
June 12, 2013



(Tokyo) – As if China had already banned the popular tank enthusiast Japanese anime show ‘Girls Und Panzer der Folge’ was not enough, the Russian audience had raised a minor complaint about one of the schools featured in the anime show. Although Pravda High was the school with a Soviet Bolshevik theme, a rival school in Japan with another Russian theme, this time of the White movement, has called itself ‘Voskresenniya Academy’, with a symbol that resembled that of the unknown Mladorossi movement. Furthermore, the marching song of Voskresenniya High was originally called ‘We Go on the Wild Fields’, until Russian fans had written a letter to the creators of Girls Und Panzer, requesting them to change the song to a more, politically neutral song. Their main reasoning was that ‘We Go on the Wild Fields’ was the popular but notorious song of the WWII collaborationist Russian Liberation Army, led by Andrey Vlasov. Fearing a potential backlash from Russian fans if the request was not honored, the creators changed it to ‘Farewell of Slavianka’, a more popular song from the First Russian Civil War era.

“I do not know what went through the minds of these creators, but had they done a bit more research on what the Russian Liberation Army did during the Great Patriotic War, they would not have made this mistake,” comments Russian GuP fan Dmitry Lyapunov while being asked about the popularity of Girls Und Panzer in Russia. “I also think that this was also a reference to how the National Redemption Army was originally going to be called the Russian National Liberation Army, until the comparison with the Vlasovites became too obvious.”

Since the late 1990s and into the 2000s, Japanese anime has been broadcasted in all Russian TV channels, with Russian animators being forced to adapt to the changing environment to compete with Japanese, Western, and Chinese animators. While Russian media moguls have also helped set up studios where the anime shows were to be dubbed in Russian, as well as the languages of Russia’s ethnic republics, Russian voice actors are also facing competition from Western voice actors on how to home in their talent. In 2009, a joint Russo-Japanese collaboration was launched with the release of the controversial anime ‘Khalkhin Gol’, retelling from an anime perspective of the 1938 Soviet-Japanese border war that garnered public outcry in Japan over some of the inaccurate portrayal of some Japanese officers who chose to retreat. The same collaboration between Russia’s Molot Entertainment and Japanese animators would eventually lead to the release of the first Gundam anime since 1999’s final Gundam show made by original creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, Turn A Gundam. Both Molot Entertainment and Sunrise would eventually create ‘Mobile Suit Gundam 00’, being the first Gundam show to depict a timeskip, with its spiritual successor, ‘Mobile Suit Gundam XN’ (pronounced as ‘sun’), being released in 2012, with the additional collaboration between Seiji Mizushima and Susumu Nishizawa being the dominant feature of the project.

Girls Und Panzer der Folge is the sequel to the original Girls und Panzer series, this time focusing more on the sudden rise of Voskresenniya Academy, which had started to take the world of Tankery by storm by their weird experimentations with Soviet, German, British, and Japanese tanks by melding different turrets and chasses together. Their Frankenstein tanks had shocked the tankery world, as they would defeat Chi-Ha-Tan academy first in their practice match, before entering the Nemuro Tournament, where they would face off against the top tier schools, mainly Saunders, Pravda, Kuromorimine, and the surprise guest, Ooarai Girls Academy. However, the rivalry between Voskresenniya and Pravda in the semifinals is the main highlight of the sequel, as it explains in greater detail as to the origins of both Voskresenniya and Pravda. The references to both Russian Civil Wars are present, most especially with Voskresenniya’s students making references to certain battles in the Second Russian Civil War, with one of the students even wearing a uniform like the 106th Guards Airborne Division. The leader of Voskresenniya’s Tankery team, Kseniya, was expelled from Pravda for getting into a fight with Katyusha, referring her as a midget. She, along with the other former Pravda students, had later transferred to Voskresenniya Academy, where they joined their Tankery team. Ksenia’s philosophy regarding her own style of tankery is like that of Pravda’s but tends to adopt the tactics of her rivals, mostly Saunders, Chi-Ha-Tan, Kuromorimine, and Ooarai. Moreover, her penchant for tank experimentation has resulted in the creation of variants of Soviet, German, British, and Japanese tanks. One of the Frankenstein tanks featured by Voskresenniya is a tank with the Type 4 Chi-To’s turret mounted on an experimental A-32 prototype tanks, while the tank personally commanded by Ksenia is, ironically, an unexperimented IS-3 heavy tank.



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BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL (February 14, 1993 – March 14, 1993):



Before February 14, 1993: Northern Group of Forces, now under the command of Sergei Ivanov, had gathered just outside the towns of Strakholissya in the south, Dytyatky in the center, and Pry’pryat in the north. Southern Group of Forces, under the command of Viktor Shilov, arrives at the city of Kyiv, alongside the Eastern European volunteers. Western Group of Forces, under the command of Matvey Burlakov, arrive at the Belarusian town of Chermerisy, with the Grey Legion. Finally, the Central Group of Forces arrive in the town of Kirovo, close to the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. General Mieczyslaw Debicki, commander of the Eastern European volunteers sent to fight the Soviet loyalists, orders their deployment at the town of Karpylivka. The Balkan Volunteer Legion, a unit comprised of the Serbian, Romanian, and Bulgarian volunteers, led by disgraced former Yugoslav Army officer Blagoje Adzic, who was sacked by Kadijevic for warning Zeljko Raznatovic about an arrest warrant being served for both him and Vuk Draskovic, is deployed in the town of Kosachivka.

February 14, 1993: Soviet loyalist air force bombers launch a bombing campaign on Chernobyl, Kyiv, and Strakholissya. Rebel forces respond by deploying their anti-air units to shoot down the aircraft. Meanwhile, Ukrainian, and Belarusian paramilitaries lay low, waiting for an opportunity to ambush the loyalist forces.

February 15-17, 1993: Soviet loyalist ground troops begin to push into the city of Chernobyl, from their front-line base in Hdzyen’, Belarus. Hdzyen’ is the last sole remaining town in Belarus under Soviet loyalist control, as the rest of Belarus had fallen under rebel control. Meanwhile, a joint NRA-Zaporozhian Cossack-Don Cossack-Kuban Cossack coalition force attacks the loyalist-controlled city of Belgorod, from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The offensive into Belgorod is meant to serve as a distraction for the rebel forces just outside Chernobyl to creep closer.

February 18-22, 1993: A four-day battle in the vicinity of the Hostrytstya River basin results in a brutal stalemate, with both rebels and loyalists suffered massive losses. Meanwhile, General Debicki’s volunteers march towards the remaining loyalist-held Ukrainian town of Prokhoriv, to ambush the loyalist forces. This ambush fails, as the loyalist forces encircle the rebel volunteers in a pincer movement. However, the rebel volunteers do not surrender, knowing that execution is the likely response should they surrender. The Battle of Mizhrichynskyi Forest becomes another stalemate.

February 23-26, 1993: The rebel advance into Chernobyl from Pry’p’yat’ proceeds, although loyalist air force bombers from northwestern Russian SFSR continue to pound them. The advance is slowed down but stops outside Chernobyl.

February 27-March 1, 1993: Soviet loyalist forces defeat the rebel troops and push them back from the Hostrytstya River, but little did they know, they are being lured into Chernobyl. Meanwhile, Belgorod falls to rebel troops, who proceed to move towards Kursk. At the same time, General Khabarov, hearing of Alexander Lebed’s advance into the Russian city of Voronezh (it was revealed that after Lebed’s defeat in Aktobe, his forces managed to sneak past the loyalist forces into the city of Saratov, and then managed to relieve the rebel forces fighting the loyalists in Volgograd, making its conquest official by March 1)

March 2-6, 1993: Lebed’s push westwards takes the loyalists by surprise, as his army makes their way into his hometown of Novocherkassk. Meanwhile, the Balkan Volunteer Legion makes a mad dash across the Dnieper River crossing and launches a riverside attack on the loyalist forces when sailing into the Staryk River. Zeljko Raznatovic’s Serbian Volunteer Legion and Gelu Voican Voiculescu’s Romanian Volunteer Legion capture over 3,100 Red Army troops and sent them to POW camps in the Ukrainian town of Chyhyryn.

March 7, 1993: Soviet loyalist forces enter the city suburbs of Chernobyl to take up positions as the rebels are nowhere to be seen. While it may seem to them that they have taken the city, they are in fact, caught in a trap sprung by the rebels. Rebel artilleries begin to pound loyalist positions inside Chernobyl.

March 8, 1993: Leonid Khabarov’s forces arrive at Sverdlovsk to relieve Aleksey Lebed’s besieged forces as they encircle and trap the loyalist forces besieging Svverdlovsk. The attackers are forced to surrender after an entire day of fighting in which the rejuvenated rebel force break out of Sverdlovsk to attack the loyalist position.

March 9-11, 1993: Prokhoriv falls to General Debicki’s forces, at the same time as the Balkan Volunteer Legion’s rapid capture of Nizhnie Zary, in Belarus. P35 Highway is then secured by rebel forces to prevent loyalist reinforcements from arriving in Chernobyl.

March 12, 1993: Alexander Lebed’s replenished forces make their way towards Chernobyl, stopping by Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast to capture the two oblasts to force the remaining loyalists in Ukraine to surrender and join his forces instead. Meanwhile, Matvey Burlakov’s Southern Group of Forces block the loyalist advance into the rest of Chernobyl, as the rest of the rebel forces begin to encircle them.

March 13, 1993: Lebed splits his army into three: one by Igor Rodionov, to advance along the Ukrainian coast to link up with Ukrainian troops fighting on the same side as the NRA, another by Vladimir Kvachkov, to secure Crimea for the NRA and Ukrainian paramilitaries as well, and the third by Lebed himself, who will go for Zaporizhia. Zaporizhia International Airport and Melitopol Airfield falls to Lebed’s forces, who use the airfields to airlift the 106th Guards Airborne Division for a behind enemy lines style landing. Inside Chernobyl, the loyalist forces find themselves surrounded by advancing rebel troops, as urban warfare now dominate the city. Rosgvardiya troops, Justice Brigade paramilitaries, and foreign volunteers now engage in guerrilla warfare against remaining Soviet loyalist forces.

March 14, 1993: Pavel Grachev is wounded by a rebel airstrike while giving orders to the loyalist forces in the Russian city of Bryansk, but survives (he eventually dies in 1998, by Islamists). Additional heavy bombing of Chernobyl continues, though they are careful not to hit the V.I.Lenin nuclear plant (already closed due to safety concerns) Lebed’s VDV forces finally land in the vicinity of Chernobyl as their entrance into the city had demoralized the badly weakened Soviet loyalist forces. The surviving troops of the Soviet loyalist forces now surrender to rebel forces, crippling the fighting strength of the Soviet Red Army.

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“With the successful operation against the Soviet loyalist forces in Chernobyl, morale within the National Redemption Army had soared, as more nations had begun to sever ties with the Soviet Union and recognized the Russian Provisional Government as the legitimate governing body that represented all of the Russian SFSR. In addition, southern Russia would fall to the National Redemption Army, once it became clear that rebel troops control the river traffic between the Don and Volga Rivers. Once the supply lines between the Urals and the Caucasus became secure, representatives from the North Caucasian republics had flown to Krasnoyarsk to negotiate a power-sharing deal with the Russian Provisional Government, and Gennady Burbulis had made it clear that all the deported North Caucasian Muslims expelled under the Stalinist regime are to be given compensation for their ordeal, once the Russian economy booms once more. Chechnya, one of the most troubled republics within the North Caucasus, is given special attention, as the Chechen diaspora in Central Asia could return, and another deal involving Adyghe has been secured, though with promises of ceding some territory to the Adyghe Provisional Autonomous Government as compensation for the Circassian Genocide. With Tatarstan and Bashkortostan’s revolution against the Soviet government successful in expelling the local Communist Party apparatchiks from their territories, they too, received the same power sharing deal with the Russian Provisional Government. All over the Belarusian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Moldovan SSRs and the Russian SFSR, statues of Lenin and other communist figures were toppled, as properties controlled by the Communist Party were confiscated by the Provisional Governments of those respective SSRs, who now declared their sovereignty within the USSR, except for Moldova, which declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Although the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union would not happen until January 7, 1995, the secession of those SSRs that declared their sovereignty within the USSR would not happen, until the fall of Moscow to the National Redemption Army on February 14, 1994, after Operation: Campsade, or the St. Tryphon Offensive. As a result of the growing success of the rebel forces, the Russian Provisional Government also announced that it is taking over the seat on the UN Security Council held by the USSR, and that its Permanent Representative had officially ‘defected’ to the Russian Provisional Government.” From the Russian Documentary “The Second Russian Civil War and the Rise of Modern Russia”.

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Episode 1 of “Girls Und Panzer: Der Folge”

Title: Meet the New Challenger, Voskresenniya Academy!



Summary: The scene begins with Voskresenniya Academy’s scenery, especially the garage. Yaroslava and Ksenia arrive at the garage where the mechanics are busy installing the 6-pounder cannon on the turret of a T-26 tank. While Yaroslava asks about the current request she made for the installation of a 3-inch howitzer on the BT-7 tank she commands, Ksenia spots a nearby garage where modifications for the 122mm gun that is to be installed on the turret of the T-44 tank. Just then, Zhenya and Esenya arrive with a letter, detailing the academy’s invitation to the upcoming Nemuro Winter Wonderland Tournament, where they will try to dethrone first-time champions from the 63rd National High School Tankery Tournament, Ooarai Girls Academy. The scene moves towards the section of the garage where the completed and upgraded tanks are parked:

- 1 BT-8 tank with a 6 pounder cannon installed on its turret
- 1 A-32 tank with a 3-inch gun M1918
- 1 BT-ST tank with a Matilda II turret plus its main weapon
- 1 Type 98 Ke-Ni with a 47 mm anti-tank gun on its turret
- 1 Valiant tank with a modified Type 5 Ke-Ni light tank turret
- 1 Excelsior with a turret of a Tortoise Heavy Assault tank
- 1 AC1 Sentinel with a Type 3 Chi-Nu tank turret
- 1 Cromwell tank with a T-43 tank turret
- 1 Panzer IV with a QF-17 pounder gun (turret is unchanged)
- 1 KV-122 with an IS-2 turret and a 122mm M1931/37 (A-19) gun – (Ksenia’s personal tank)

Further discussions between Ksenia and Yaroslava reveal that while Voskresenniya Academy is not as financially challenged as Ooarai Girls’ Academy, their obsession with keeping their finances secure is the reason why they normally acquire old, useless tanks that other academies are no longer using, refurbishing it and combining it with other parts, in order to save money. However, Voskresenniya Academy employs non-modified T-26s and BT-7s for training new Tankery team members, as well as leftover old tanks, including an old Panzer III that was once owned by Ooarai before it was sold to them. Later on, an old church bell is ringing, indicating that it is time for mass. All the Voskresenniya Academy girls attend Mass at a chapel, and here we see one of the few male characters in the series, a middle aged man who is called Father Kirill, who presides over the mass. Icons are seen everywhere, as Voskresenniya Academy’s students wear head coverings as well. Two nuns are also there, to help the girls with their personal problems, while the monks help cook the meals for the entire academy. Father Kirill then gives a sermon, criticizing Pravda’s de facto dictatorship that is essentially running the entire school.

The scene then changes to Ooarai Academy where Momo Kawashima tells the Ooarai tankery team that the upcoming tournament will be the last one that many third year students will participate in, and that while she almost failed her university entrance exams, she had neglected her studies. Her chance to act as Squadron Commander is the only chance she would get to make up for her near-failed exams, and that she had to win the tournament. Miho Nishizumi would temporarily step down as Squadron Commander and become Vice-Commander, and at the same time, efforts at recruiting more students for Ooarai’s tankery team intensifies. In Pravda High, Katyusha and Nonna arrive at the school grounds to talk to Klara, who is revealed to have transferred from Novosibirsk, Russia, but she chose to attend Pravda, instead of Voskresenniya Academy because her parents were lifelong communists who were targeted by the pro-Lebedite rebels during the Second Russian Civil War. Nonna had no expression regarding Voskresenniya, but Katyusha angrily denounces the academy as the refuge of ‘traitors’ and ‘wreckers’ who were too scared to face their punishments for insulting her height, plus making references to kulaks and other so-called ‘enemies of the people’. Klara also reveals that while both Pravda and Voskresenniya were founded by ethnic Russians during the Tsarist period, the Bolshevik Revolution had pitted the two sides, and the students who belonged to the middle and upper class eventually left this unified school and became Voskresenniya Academy, while those students who were on the lower and working classes ended up forming Pravda High. The ideological rivalry between the two Russia-themed schools is also evident by the presence of an Orthodox chapel and the clergy that are housed inside the academy, as well as its more affluent status, as evident by its ability to purchase different sets of tanks. References to the Second Russian Civil war are also present, with most of the Voskresenniya Academy tankery teams being named after prominent generals of both Russian Civil Wars:

- Ksenia’s team: Team Lebed (after Alexander Lebed, the overall leader of the SRCW)
- Yaroslava’s team: Team Dubynin (after former Northern Group of Forces Viktor Dubynin)
- Irina’s team: Team Chechevatov
- Esenya’s team: Team Denikin
- Zhenya’s team: Team Petliura (after leader of the Ukrainian People’s Republic Symon Petliura)
- Lyudmila’s team: Team Kolchak
- Yuliya’s team: Team Kornilov
- Sofiya’s team: Team Skoropadsky (after Pavlo Skoropadsky, the erstwhile Hetman of Ukraine)
- Anastasia’s team: Team Budanov (after Yuri Budanov, one of Rosgvardiya’s founding officers)
- Svetlana’s team: Team Khabarov

The ending scene reveals the challengers that would participate in the Nemuro Winter Wonderland Tournament:

- Ooarai Girls’ Academy
- Kuromorimine Girls’ Academy
- Pravda High School
- Voskresenniya Girls’ Academy
- Saunders University High School
- St. Gloriana’s Girls College
- Chi-Ha-Tan Academy
- Koala Forest Academy
- Topkapi High School (TTL’s name for Kebab High School)
- Anzio Girls High School
- Jatkosota High School
- Blue Division High School
- Waffle Academy
- Yogurt Academy
- Count High School
- BC Freedom Academy

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PHILIPPINES RECOGNIZES RUSSIAN PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, FOREIGN MINISTER TOLENTINO TO TRAVEL TO KRASNOYARSK TO ATTEND THE FIRST POST-SOVIET SUMMIT AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PHILIPPINES
Philippine Daily Inquirer
March 19, 1993



Krasnoyarsk, (Breakaway) RUSSIAN SFSR – The Philippine government today announces its withdrawal of its ambassador from its embassy in Moscow in the midst the Tadiar regime’s decision to recognize the legitimacy of the Russian Provisional Government. By doing so, it has joined the ranks of Iraq, Syria, South Korea, India, Mongolia, Finland, Chile, Japan, Indonesia, Romania, Hungary (which recognized the RPG on February 17), and Bulgaria (which recognized it on February 21) as the 13th nation to recognize its legitimacy. However, the Philippine recognition has garnered controversy over its role in the UNAACP mission in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region when several of its peacekeeping personnel were revealed to have sold their weapons to both the Armenian and Azeri sides to supplement their meager income to send back home. Moreover, the Zangilan AWOLGate controversy had enraged the Soviet loyalist government because it appeared that the Philippines was actively sponsoring separatism in the Caucasus region when in fact it was participating in a peacekeeping mission sanctioned by the United Nations. Finally, while Indonesia did recognize the legitimacy of the Russian Provisional Government, it was the first nation to formally recognize Azerbaijan’s independence and secession from the Soviet Union.

“We are following the events in the Soviet Union with a keen eye and have consulted with our American friends on what to do in this situation at hand,” comments Foreign Minister Arturo Tolentino when asked about the Second Russian Civil War. “In addition, we have also negotiated with the representatives of the Russian Provisional Government on the acceptance of any refugee who wishes to leave the Soviet Union for the Philippines.”

Any chance of refugees coming from the Soviet Union to a Philippines that is ruled by a military junta led by Artemio Tadiar may be small, but the idea of Russians coming to the Philippines as a refuge is certainly not a new concept. Back in 1949, over 5,000 White Russian refugees fleeing from the communist takeover of China had landed in the Philippines upon the Philippine government’s offer to the International Refugee Organization to take them in. While they stayed, they formed bonds with the local Filipinos there and when the White Russians were eventually allowed to leave for Western Europe, North America and Australia, there was a tearful goodbye at the memories they made while staying in the Philippines. With Tolentino set to travel to Krasnoyarsk, he will eventually bring up the Philippine role in saving the White Russian refugees from certain incarceration and death.

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LEGARDA TRAVELS TO RUSSIA FOR A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BOHOMOLETS, WILL TAKE PART IN THE REDEMPTION DAY PARADE TO MARK THE ANNIVERSARY OF END OF SECOND CIVIL WAR
Manila Times
August 21, 2019



Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION – President Loren Legarda has arrived in Moscow for an upcoming meeting with her Russian counterpart, Olga Bogomolets (Ukrainian: Olha Bohomolets), on various diplomatic, economic, and military negotiations, as well as to attend the Redemption Day Parade in Red Square to commemorate the end of the Second Russian Civil War when on August 24, 1994, the victorious Russian Provisional Government and what is left of the Soviet loyalist government had signed an armistice in the city of Isetgrad (formerly known as Sverdlovsk and Yekaterinburg) that temporarily ceased all combat between the two sides, until the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union (reduced to just the Central Asian republics) on January 7, 1995. Participating nations in the Redemption Day Parade (not to be confused with the WWII Victory Day Parade that commemorates the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany) include: the Russian Federation plus its Autonomous Auxiliary Guards from the ethnic republics, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovakia, Finland, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, the Korean Federal Republic, and Japan, though Legarda is among the VIPs that will be present in the parade.

Main issues like the prevention of future juntas from forming, as well as economic trade, investment, tourism, and cultural exchange, will become the main feature of the negotiations between Presidents Legarda and Bogomolets, while at the same time the Philippine ambassador to the Russian Federation, Pedro Dalisay, will meet with President Legarda on the status of the repatriation process for the 8,000 Filipino residents living in Priamurye Krai who wishes to return back to the land of their birth after arriving there in 1998 as refugees fleeing from the disastrous war with China that saw much of its territory being subjected to heavy Chinese bombing, often merciless and without any hint of remorse for the deaths of its victims. Much of the Filipino émigré community in Russia have been assimilated and integrated, although most of them remained irreligious, as there are no Catholic churches present in the territory of the Russian Far East after the infamous 2001 Anti-Vatican Countermeasures Act passed by former President Mykola Azarov that targeted the Roman and Greek Catholic Churches present in what is now Russian territory after the merger between Russia and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus had been completed for official persecution. Much of the Catholic Churches throughout the Russian Federation were forced to close, and its adherents either ‘encouraged’ to convert back to Orthodoxy, or to leave the country. While Russian Catholics eventually converted back to Eastern Orthodoxy through the support of the more outspoken Orthodox clergymen, Ukrainian and Belarusian Catholics were given a tougher time, as they formed the backbone of various anti-government protests aimed at the Russian government, although they tried to frame it as a secular anti-government demonstration.

After completing her Russia tour, Legarda will travel to the Georgian Federal Republic for a similar meeting and negotiation with Georgian President Nino Burjanadze, while accompanying her back to Georgia after the Redemption Day Parade ends. Only in the case of President Legarda’s meeting with the Georgian President, she would try to use Georgia as a mediator in her attempt to repair the damaged relations between the Philippines and Armenia, which have been affected by the participation of the Filipino military in the UN-sanctioned peacekeeping mission in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, as well as Armenia’s open diplomatic support for China’s military aggression in the West Philippine Sea conflict. President Legarda’s final foreign trip will conclude with a visit to Azerbaijan where she will meet with Azerbaijani President Sabir Rustamkhanli for the same negotiations she will make with her Georgian counterpart.

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Girls und Panzer but with Vlasovists...

So Maginot does not exist and is rolled with BC Freedom?

Ksenia in my head would be voiced by Ryou Hirohashi.