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’Once upon a time
There lay a foolish man
From the lands of Ind he hailed
His ambitions were incomparable
But his follies were very little
And everything he did late
The end’
-Unknown, ‘The Ballad of the person of Ind’
In all seriousness, I think we should continue this. Here’s a basic Russia TL.

• 1919- Lev Bronstein is assassinated by an anti-Semitic reactionary in the midst of the Russian civil war
• 1920- ‘The Great Chaos’ begins as German troops invade Soviet-occupies Belarus in ‘Operation Hermann’, named after Prince-Bishop Hermann of the Teutonic Order, who was known for his failed invasion of Novgorod under Alexander Nevsky. This invasion is more successful, and causes a significant blow to the Soviet Union
  • Alexander Kolchak (the admiral and polar explorer, not the famous social media influencer @Admiral A. Kolchak ) begins to make further advances west
• 1922- Lenin, whose health is already deteriorating, dies in December. Kolchak, despite gaining further victories, is mortally wounded. Stalin escapes to Paris- there he founds a Communist group to ‘liberate Russia’, which is funded by the French government, although some politicians such as Léon Blum criticise this due to Stalin’s authoritarianism. His Georgian comrades including Beria travel there with him.
• 1924- Kolchak, despite his terrible health, is sworn in as the new President of Russia. He promises to uphold democracy (to quote Alexander Kolchak himself- ‘I love democracy. I love the republic.’) and bring security to Russia. Of course he wins the vote in the election.
• 1926- Anastasy Vonsyatsky forms the ‘All-Russian New White Organisation’. While ultra-nationalist and Orthodox, it is not anti-Semitic
• 1928- Although Kolchak’s health is getting even worse, he continues to stand in elections and (somewhat suspiciously) win them. Anastasy Vonsyatsky dies of unknown causes and is replaced by Konstantin Rodzaevsky, a 21-year old renegade.
• 1930- Rodzaevsky and his friend Lev Okhotin hold a public rally in Moscow; this rally eventually turns into a fight between a Rodzaevsky and Russian police, leading to Rodzaevsky being tried and convicted for a years’ sentence.
• 1932- Rodzaevsky decides to be stupid again and stages a coup in Volgograd; but a sympathetic judiciary and lax governance means that he basically suffers no consequences
• 1936- Alexander Kolchak is basically almost dead. Rodzaevsky, having a substantial amount of votes, is invited into government and acts as veep.
• 1938- Alexander Kolchak dies. Rodzaevsky takes power, and titles himself ‘Vozhd for life’. He bans elections, allows himself to veto all laws passes, and changes the constitution. Massive anti-Semitic pogroms are committed on an even larger scale that earlier.

And that’s all I have for Interwar Russia. I will continue to work on this TL btw, even if no one else is interested (I hope they are).