Eine Veränderte Welt: A Changed World

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The Government in exile of the All-Russian Republic was the main opposition group to the Soviet Union that had the credibility to be an alternative government to the Soviet Union. The government in exile promoted the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the return to democracy and the formation of a republic in Russia. The government in exile would return to Russia to essentially lead most or all of its claimed territories, first in 2007 and second in 2022.

Following the fall of the remnant White forces in Siberia and the Russian Far East, many remaining White leaders fled to China and other Russian diaspora groups around the world, including Canada and the United States. Many other low ranking officials of the White remnants that fled would reorganize into the government-in-exile promoting the end of the Soviet government and the reformation of the Russian Republic. Although not gaining official support from the West they would often secretly supply monetary and administrative assistance to the exiled government.

Leadership changes and the death of the Old Whites in the 1970s meant that more democratic elements in the exiled government supported the total return of democracy to Russia instead of simply the end of the Soviets and the possible return of an authoritarian dictatorship under any returned exiled government.

During their first return to Russia in 2007 the exiled government would work with the self-proclaimed Second Russian Republic under the leadership of democratic opposition leaders and radical reformers in the CPSU. After their front fell the exiled government once again fled Russia, with most of their resources exhausted attempting to support the second republic. Working again with elements in the Soviet Union the exiled government would again return in 2022 following the 2022 Soviet coup d'état.

 

[PanadaPun7]

The Blue Revolution was a series of public protests and demonstrations against the Soviet government over economic recession, fall in the quality of living, and rise in government repression. The goal of the revolutionaries was the restatement of democracy after the failed Second Russian Republic. The revolution would culminate in the 2022 Soviet coup d'état and the dissolution of the Soviet Union into the All-Russian Provisional Government.

Following the defeat of the Second Russian Republic in the Second Russian Civil War, many in the democratic opposition leadership fled with the exiled government. But the reinforcement of the national socialists and the hardliners resulted in harsh crackdowns on any public dissent.

After the failed 2020 Soviet coup d'état attempt, government authority began to deteriorate and the country returned to recession and economic instability. The failure of the reformers to unite caused the public to lose confidence in them to promote change in the government. After housing, energy, wifi, food, water, and a myriad of other living conditions problems of the years the number of protests and civil disobedience against the Soviet government would be the result of the Blue Revolution. So named after the flag that nominally represented the protests, the former Russian Republic flag with the red line removed, a symbol of blood and sacrifice.

The revolution would culminate in the 2022 Soviet coup d'état on 19 August 2022, formally ending the Soviet and the establishment of a new Russian government.

 

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Hope all of you enjoyed this massive dump... of lore... Soviet Union Lore.

There is a bit more to come concerning the Soviet presidential elections over the week, but that's about it. Have a nice day!

 

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The 2000 Soviet presidential election was the 1st quadrennial presidential election, held on Wednesday, 15 March 2000. This was the first Soviet presidential election following the adoption of the 1999 Constitution. Premier Alexander Yakovlev won the election in a landslide without any organized opposition. His reformist faction of the CPSU created the new constitution and pushed to implement further reforms during his first term.

Propelled by his nationwide popularity the other factions in the CPSU didn’t believe in challenging Yakovlev in the presidential election, thus no opposing candidate appeared on the ballot. Prior to the election both the Hardliners and the Moderates began to lose confidence in his leadership; they were unable to nominate a member of their own to challenge him.

Although there was only one candidate on the ballot this election would have the highest CPSU voter turnout in any of the presidential elections, largely attributed to the excitement of people to vote in the first open elections in the Soviet Union.
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Spoiler: Map

 

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View attachment 768221The 2000 Soviet presidential election was the 1st quadrennial presidential election, held on Wednesday, 15 March 2000. This was the first Soviet presidential election following the adoption of the 1999 Constitution. Premier Alexander Yakovlev won the election in a landslide without any organized opposition. His reformist faction of the CPSU created the new constitution and pushed to implement further reforms during his first term.

Propelled by his nationwide popularity the other factions in the CPSU didn’t believe in challenging Yakovlev in the presidential election, thus no opposing candidate appeared on the ballot. Prior to the election both the Hardliners and the Moderates began to lose confidence in his leadership; they were unable to nominate a member of their own to challenge him.

Although there was only one candidate on the ballot this election would have the highest CPSU voter turnout in any of the presidential elections, largely attributed to the excitement of people to vote in the first open elections in the Soviet Union.
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Spoiler: Map

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You made a fantastic job with this new Soviet Lore! I'm genuinely impressed by how much work you have put into making this stuff.

Thank you very much, it was pretty fun making it!

 

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The 2004 Soviet presidential election was the 2nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Wednesday, 10 March 2004. Incumbent Reformist Alexander Yakovlev, still nominally popular among the public, defeated Hardliner opponent Grigory Rapota in the first contested election in the Soviet Union.

The hardliners managed to support Rapota to challenge Yakovlev in the presidential election, gaining support from some moderates. The election was closer than expected, but this is attributed mainly to decreased turnout and populist support for Rapota.
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Spoiler: Map

 

[PanadaPun7]

The 2005 Soviet contingent presidential election was held between 1–2 December 2005. After the death of president Alexander Yakovlev, the premier of the Soviet of the Republics, Sergei Stepashin, became acting president until the same chamber elected a permanent president. A close friend, a political ally, and advisor to Yakovlev, Mikhail Gorbachev, was elected by the Republics Soviet to fill the remainder of Yakovlev’s term.

Most of the non-Russian majority or plurality republics had reformist deputies, thus Gorbachev received support from most of these republics. With divided opposition between the hardliners and the moderates, the challenge against Gorbachev in the first round wasn't challenging. Once Zyuganov advanced to the second round most moderates put their support behind Gorbachev over greater fear of hardliner policy than the reformist policy that would gravely impact the Soviet Union.

 

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The 2008 Soviet presidential election was the 3rd quadrennial presidential election, held between 12–14 March 2008. The election was held during the Second Russian Civil War, there was an immense debate on holding the election, but all factions agreed that holding the election would be a show of continued stability and authority over the country. Gorbachev, the incumbent Reformist president, has been pressured into not running for a full term as he oversaw the start of the civil war and was blamed for not doing enough to suppress dissent, thus being seen as harmful to the Reformist cause. Reformist Galina Starovoytova would go on to win the election via a contingent election.

The civil war caused many Soviets to support the hardliners as they pushed for a more militaristic and reuniting response to the seceding republics. With the low turnout and with many reformists no longer voting the Reformists seemed likely to lose the election. But with the Moderates once again supporting the Reformists in the contingent election would maintain the Reformists' control over the presidency.
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[a] Given the nature of the civil war many governments of the republics were unable to send actual commissars to Moscow for the vote, so the head of each delegation of their republic announced how many votes each candidate won instead of individuals submitting their votes.
b] Many deputies sided with other factions in the civil war or were unable to be in Moscow for the contingent election.
[c] In a deal with the Reformists the Moderate deputies agreed to vote for Starovoytova in exchange for policy concessions during her term.

Spoiler: Map

 

[PanadaPun7]

The 2012 Soviet presidential election was the 4th quadrennial presidential election, held on 14 March 2012. Incumbent Reformist Galina Starovoytova lost re-election to the newly formed National Socialist faction under their candidate Vladimir Putin.

The Second Russian Civil War had ended but the country was still dealing with various rebellions throughout more remote republics (Mountain, Central Asia, and the Far East). The new National Socialist faction was founded during the war to promote the idea of Russian nationalism as the cornerstone of the Soviet Union due to Russian being the majority language and ethnicity, especially after the loss of non-Russian lands. The fall of the Reformists movements after their failed changes was blamed for the near collapse of the Soviet Union, and the nationalist and populist policies of the National Socialists resulted in Putin being elected president.
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[PanadaPun7]

The 2016 Soviet presidential election was the 4th quadrennial presidential election, held on 9 March 2016. Incumbent National Socialist Vladimir Putin was re-elected by a wide margin, defeating Moderate Igor Vasilyev, his closest opponent.

A landslide election for president Putin due to increased voter suppression and support for Putin with his populist messaging. Worked with the hardliners to enforce CPSU control over the country. Putin would over his second term attempt to consolidate political power under him, angering the hardliners and they would remove their support of him.
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[PanadaPun7]

The 2020 Soviet presidential election was the 5th quadrennial presidential election, held on 11 March 2020. Incumbent National Socialist Vladimir Putin lost re-election, ultimately losing to Veronika Skvortsova via a contingent election.

Putin's attempts to consolidate power resulted in the hardliners challenging him in the presidential election, fearing a total takeover by the National Socialists. The Reformists would fall as a political force by this time, failing to support a single candidate. Most supporting Moderate Skvortsova in both the general and contingent election. The divide between the National Socialists and the Hardliners resulted in the moderates being seen as a compromise candidate by the time of the contingent election by the general public. But the bitter rivalry between Putin and the Hardliners by the time he lost in the first round resulted in many of his supportive deputies electing Skvortsova in retaliation.

On the day he was to transfer power, 7 May 2020, Putin launched a failed coup with his political and military supporters. He would be captured and found guilty of treason, being executed the next year.
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[a] 12 deputies abstained in the 2nd round.
2 deputies abstained in the 3rd round.

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[PanadaPun7]

[a] Resigned as party leader following a federal election, served as interim party leader and remained as leader of the opposition.

 

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Hey, everyone!

I've created a Test Thread where I'll post some things that don't really fit here because it's not EVW related. Hope you guys like it, there's already one post.

 

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The 1982 Cascadian federal elections were held on Tuesday, 7 September 1982 for the first round and Tuesday, 21 September 1982 for the second round. Independent candidate Mary Maxwell Gates would win the election for governor-general, defeating Republican Slade Gorton. While in the Senate and House elections a coalition would form between the Conservatives and Labor to gain control in both chambers as the Republicans won a plurality of seats in both. Two national referendums were held concerning Commonwealth admission and Constitution ratification, both with majority approval.

Throughout the election campaign, the main question was over the British Royal Commonwealth and whether or not the newly independent Cascadia should join it. At the time the Commonwealth only consisted of nations that recognized the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, as their official head of state. There existed non-commonwealth realms in which these nations did not have Elizabeth II as their official head of state (for example India), but they were not members of the Commonwealth Open Market, a trade bloc of commonwealth realms that lowered trade barriers and made trade relatively easier.

The Democrats had managed to nominally support the join campaign, seeing it as the fiscally valuable option for the weak and unstable economy that Cascadia was surviving. While the Conservatives and Labor had a neutral opinion, most of the leadership saw joining as the best option to solve the economic crisis. The Republicans on their part objected to joining, believing that after fighting for independence from the Pacific States they were about to give up their sovereignty to join an even more foreign power.

In both houses the Conservatives and Labor would form a coalition to form a government, this would mark the first period of multi-partisanship in the country. Due to the necessity of a government for the country given the results of the federal election.
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[a] Following the election the Conservatives and Labor entered a coalition to form a government, with the Conservatives as the senior partner.

 

[PanadaPun7]

In the 1982 Cascadian governor-general election it was believed that the Republican, Slade Gorton, would win after the second round. He, along with Labor candidate Goldschmidt, was the only candidate that was unsupportive of Cascadia joining the British Royal Commonwealth, while Conservative Pritchard was indifferent and Democrat Schroeder supported joining on the basis of enabling Cascadia to enter the vast markets that Commonwealth members enjoyed.

The four-way race among the major parties would be upended with the entrance of Mary Maxwell Gates, who with the push of King County politicians, local school boards, and PTAs was convinced to run on a basis of moderation between the left (represented by Labor and their perceived socialist leanings) and the right (by both Gorton and Pritchard). While moderates thought Schroeder was their candidate, she was thought as unable to gain support throughout Cascadia that Gates could, who was more widely known and could gain the support of voters in King County (the most populous county) away from Goldschmidt. Her moderate stance made Gates appeal to both conservatives and liberals, being able to gain the second most votes in the first round. Gorton appealed to most conservatives, while Gates’ moderate stance while also supporting many public welfare programs proved vital to gaining the support of Labor and Democratic voters.

Gates supported joining the Commonwealth while Gorton under the Republicans opposed such a measure. In the end, her appeal as a moderate and willingness to work with conservatives made Gates win over Gorton in the second round, making her the first governor-general of Cascadia.
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Spoiler: First round

Spoiler: Second round

 

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The 1982 Cascadian Senate elections were not as focussed on as the gubernatorial or the House elections. The division between the anti-republican parties resulted in the Republicans gaining a plurality of seats in the Senate, but not a majority. The Republicans had broad support from throughout the country, both from liberals in the urban areas and from conservatives in the rural areas. With this, they were expected to at least make it to the second round in most, if not all, of the races. Labor on the other hand was mainly concentrated in Washington, specifically King county and the surrounding Puget Sound, and the Portland metropolitan area. The Conservatives were able to attract rural voters and fiscally conservative voters in urban areas. While the Democrats also had broad support, not concentrated in a particular region or state, they weren’t as popular as the other parties and so weren’t able to advance to the second round except in two races.

No party was able to achieve a majority, but the Republicans were able to win a plurality and so sought to gain a coalition with one of the other parties. Labor seemed like the most likely candidate given the nominal division within the party as many supported a republic, but the Labor senate leader Henry M. Jackson saw the Republicans as more of a broad right-wing party. They may share the goal of a republic, but their policies largely differed from that. The Conservatives won the second most seats and were more center-right and moderate, especially under their senate leader, Robert F. Smith. So as negotiations between the Republicans and Labor fell apart the idea of a Conservative and Labor coalition emerged. The Conservatives were willing to support modest social welfare programs in exchange to a lower tax rate to increase foreign business incentives to the entire country, something Labor was willing to budge on. Along with other deals, the Conservative-Labor coalition emerged in the Senate around the time it emerged in the House.

Smith, as leader of the largest party in the coalition, would be elected the President of the Senate, the first person to hold the office. And unlike the House, the coalition would hold a majority in the Senate.
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[a] Out of the Voting Age Population (VAP), blank and null ballots not included. Total of the votes from the first seat during this election as the highest turnout occurred in this seat.

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[PanadaPun7]

The 1982 Cascadian House of Representative elections saw the opposition against the Republicans divided among the other three parties. The leaders of the Conservatives, Labor, and the Democrats supported Cascadia's entrance into the Commonwealth, while the Republicans did not.

The Republicans were able to gain support throughout the country but were largely divided on other issues not related to the republican movement, with the party being mainly big-tent with center-right-leaning leaders. This perceived lack of government policy caused many voters to support the other major parties. The Conservatives, the center-right to moderate party, were seen as the second most popular party due to their advocacy of fiscal conservatism during the economic crisis, accusing Labor of possible out-of-control spending and the Republicans having no unified plan at all. Labor pushed for an expansion of the social welfare programs that the provisional government instituted since independence as a means of providing for the most vulnerable, paying for such programs with increased taxes and loans. The Democrats sought to be seen as an actual moderate party, willing to address both options and find a compromise in the hope of becoming a king-maker in any government formation.

In the end, the Republicans won a plurality of 36 seats in the House, but not a majority. Both Labor and the Conservatives would win the same amount of seats, 18, with Labor winning more votes due to their support in urban areas. As in the Senate, Labor and the Conservatives would form a coalition government on the basis that the Republicans lacked any real plan for if they were to enter the office. Although both won the same amount of seats, Labor wanted the position of prime minister given that they won more of the popular vote. But even in a coalition, they lacked a majority, 36 in the coalition of 38 seat majority in the House, the Democrats’ 3 seats would provide a supply and confidence agreement on the basis that the Conservatives would be the senior coalition partner. Therefore Conservative leader Daniel J. Evans became prime minister, with Labor leader Mike Lowry serving as secretary of state. Both were the first to hold those positions.
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[a] Out of the Voting Age Population (VAP).

Spoiler: First round

Spoiler: Second round