A Bear's Last Stand: A story of the second Russian Civil War

A BEAR'S LAST STAND,
A STORY OF THE SOVIET CIVIL WAR
On August 21st, 1991, Soviet Hardliners attempted a coup to take power from Gorbachev and his government. By sheer luck, they succeed. After ousting Gorbachev, they reassert their control over the SSR's. This would spark the bloodiest conflict in Russian History and profoundly change the world.


3 When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come and see.” 4 "Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
Revelation chapter 6, 3-4 (NKJV)


This timeline starts on 8/21/91, and goes on until 3/18/95

Parts of this reboot were initially written by other users. I give them full credit.
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August 22nd, 1991: In Yerevan, Armenia, 200 protestors are killed by Soviet military forces, prompting an armed revolt,
Armenians begin to rise up against the Soviet government.

August 24th, 1991: The Soviet government agrees to not utilize nuclear missiles out of concern of sparking global nuclear war. However, the generals agree to use chemical weapons on revolting populations.


August 25th, 1991: Czechoslovak President and noted Anti-communist dissident Vaclav Havel visits Ukraine. Not only does Havel's visit, centered around the historically Austro-Hungarian Western Ukraine, where Anti-Russian sentiment runs high, manage to keep the - eventually sucessful - Ukrainian independence movement afloat despite opposition from Moscow, it also increases his stature at home and ensures his eventual victory in the coming 1992 presidential elections, thus averting a potential dissolution of the Central European Country.

August 27th, 1991; Armenian nationalists seize Yerevan, and use it as a base to sieze the rest of the country. NATO, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Brazil declare their recognition of Armenia. Kazakh and Uzbek nationalists rise up against the Soviets, as do the Latvians and Estonians. The Soviet Civil war begins.



September 1st, 1991-September 7th, 1991: Georgians rise up against the Soviets, The Soviet Union bombs Tibilsi with Nerve gas, killing 50,000 people. The international community is appalled by the blatant ethnic cleansing and imposes a complete trade embargo on the Soviet Union, effectively strangling it's economy.

September 7th, 1991: In reaction to the ethnic cleansing taking place in the USSR, all of the Warsaw Pact's "old" members - All of them excluding the USSR itself- switch sides to NATO almost instantly.

September 10th, 1991: Armenia secures its indepencence. It is the first former SSR to become fully independent.

September 12th, 1991: Battle of Riga- Latvian rebels and Lithuanian volunteers fight the Soviet army for control of the Latvian capital.

September 15th, 1991: Ukraine and the Baltic States fall into full out civil war, pro-Independence forces lashing out at the Soviet government. Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian SFSR exclave surrounded by Poland and Lithuania, declares independence.

September 30th, 1991: China declares support for the rebels, but will only provide arms and humanitarian aid.

October 1st, 1991: NATO declares support for the rebels, but will follow the same policy as China, and will not directly intervene.

October 10th, 1991: NATO decrees that they will accept all refugees from the Soviet Union trying to flee from the war.


October 15th, 1991: The Moldovan campaign commences - the small soviet Republic's majority Romanian population, eager to unite with Romania, declare their own independence from the USSR, to the detirment of Gagauzia and Transnistria, both Regions staying loyal to Moscow, which respond with Armed insurrection.

October 24th, 1991: Latvia and Estonia become independent.

November 1st, 1991: In Georgia, a double offensive commences - Soviet Forces gradually assume control of Abkhazia, Adjara, Zugdidi and Poti, thus both landlocking Georgia - cutting it off, for the time being, from vital supplies. Three SSRs - Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, all already de facto independent, formally secede from the USSR, thus completing the Eastward recession of the USSR's western frontier.

November 5th, 1991; China begins accepting refugees from the failing USSR.

November 15th, 1991: Armenia and Ukraine begins accepting refugees from Georgia. The international community declares a crisis in Georgia, fearing a genocide might be Happening.

November 30th, 1991: It is confirmed that The USSR is carrying out a genocide against the Georgian population. Upon this being leaked, The USSR goes into a period of severe civil unrest due to the population being appalled, Azerbaijan secedes, and it along with Armenia invade and liberate Georgia. Six concentration camps meant for killing Georgians are discovered. The Soviet Civil war has claimed 10.5 million lives at this point. China cuts all ties with the Soviet Union.

December 1991: The genocide of the Georgians causes many minorities in all areas of the USSR to panic, and massive protests start throughout the USSR, stretching from the far east to the Caucasus.
 
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BigBlueBox

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August 27th, 199nationalists seize Yerevan, and use it as a base to sieze the rest of the country. NATO, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Brazil declare their recognition of Armenia. Kazakh and Uzbek nationalists rise up against the Soviets, as do the Latvians and Estonians. The Soviet Civil war begins.

August 31st, 1991: Fearing that Armenia's nationalist leaders would try to take its Eastern Territories, Turkey officially withdraws from NATO in protest of the other members' recognition of the new Administration in Yerevan.


September 1st, 1991-September 7th, 1991: Georgians rise up against the Soviets, The Soviet Union bombs Tibilsi with Nerve gas, killing 50,000 people. The international community is appalled by the blatant ethnic cleansing. The Soviet Union,unwilling to accept criticism, leaves the UN and theUN security Council. Japan takes its place.

This is complete nonsense. The Soviet Union isn’t leaving the UNSC under any conditions, and Turkey isn’t going to leave NATO over a temper tantrum. Despite everything going on in the modern day they still haven’t left NATO because of American support for SDF.

September 15th, 1991: NATO forces are formally deployed in Ukraine and the Baltic States, intervening on Behalf of the pro-Independence forces. Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian SFSR exclave surrounded by Poland and Lithuania, falls under full NATO control.

September 30th, 1991: China declares support for NATO.

October 1st, 1991: NATO declares war on the Soviet Union.
This will immediately result in global thermonuclear war. No ifs, ands, or buts. You really need to rethink this timeline.
 
This is complete nonsense. The Soviet Union isn’t leaving the UNSC under any conditions, and Turkey isn’t going to leave NATO over a temper tantrum. Despite everything going on in the modern day they still haven’t left NATO because of American support for SDF.


This will immediately result in global thermonuclear war. No ifs, ands, or buts. You really need to rethink this timeline.
I'm open to suggestions. Do you have any in mind?
 

BigBlueBox

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I've read your criticisms and edited my Post accordingly.

Thoughts?
Kaliningrad Oblast in the Soviet era is one big military base. Secession is highly unlikely. Belarusian secession is also unlikely. Azerbaijan will most likely stay loyal to the Soviets for protection against Armenia, but if it secedes it will immediately fighting alone against the Armenians, not alongside them. They were already at war before your PoD. It's also unlikely that the Soviet Union would use concentration camps instead of its classic method of mass deportation and relocation.
 
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Kazakh and Uzbek nationalists rise up against the Soviets, as do the Latvians and Estonians. The Soviet Civil war begins.
I doubt you would get Kazakh or Uzbek independence movement especially this early

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The Soviet Union bombs Tibilsi with Nerve gas, killing 50,000 people.
Why the hell would the Soviets use chemical weapon so quickly.

China declares support for the rebels, but will only provide arms and humanitarian aid.
China supported the 1991 coup

Three SSRs - Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, all already de facto independent, formally secede from the USSR,
Ukraine and Belarus supported retaining the Soviet Union
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The Soviet Civil war has claimed 10.5 million lives at this point.
Way too high unless the cities are being nuked and your moving too fast with successfully secessionists

The genocide of the Georgians causes many minorities in all areas of the USSR to panic,
Why would unrelated groups care.
 
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