Images of The Death of Russia

This is thread about the photos/ images of Death of Russia or simply TLDR for short

If you want to know about or catch up on TLDR then here's the link for it

Remember this TL is finished

But the rest of you who want to post here you can freely do so lads

Enjoy 🤠
 
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One of the last known photos of the Moscow Kremlin. Alongside Saint Basil’s Cathedral and the Bolshoi Theatre it is considered as the worse cultural loss of the Second Russian Civil War.

From the game Axis and Allies clip “The Collapse of Russia”.
 
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Ruins of Kremlin in 1993 just at end of Constitutional Crisis which ended to Yeltsin's death and formation of NSF government. But this was just beginning for much worse.
 
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One of last photos of Lenin's Mausoleum before it was destroyed during Battle of Moscow. It was long time believed that Lenin's mummy was destroyed when the building was destroyed but when researched invented ruins after Second Russian Civil War any fragments or marks about Lenin's remnants weren't found. It is still mystery what did happen to the body. Most historians believe that Nashi regime destroyed the body soon after fall of NSF government. Some other believe that it was transferred to secret place by communists. But at least there is not any evidence that it would had been at Stalingrad any point since all survivors of Second Battle of Stalingrad implied that them have not any knowledge about Lenin's mummy. There is too even some ridicolous theories that Lenin's body or part/s of that would had sold to someone rich collector's extremely private collection. But this is deemed pretty unlikely.
 
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Overhead view of the crowd gathered for the "End of the (Fucking) World" concert
The "End of the Fucking World" concert (later shortened to just "End of the World") was a was a music festival held during August 25-27th 1995 in the small town of Rome, New York. While Michael Lang, one of the original co-founders of Woodstock, intended for the EoFW concert to simply be a gathering to help concertgoers forget the global troubles caused by the Second Russian Civil War, Lang and other organizers vastly underestimated how widespread the fear and uncertainty was after over two years of living with economic collapse and the threat of nuclear war had spread and the toll it had taken on the average person.

What was intended to be a "peace benefit" had turned into a den of debauchery and anarchy within hours as by nightfall, the crowd had begun to turn against the concert thanks to a combination of difficult environmental conditions (the concert taking place at the former Griffiss Air Force Base with little in the way of shelter barring massive aircraft hangers), overpriced food and water ($5 USD for a bottle of water), and poor sanitation (namely insufficient number of port-a-potties that quickly became full). Broadcasted live on MTV, the EoFW concert began to live up to its name with small acts of vandalism (with Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha telling attendees to go "beat those motherfuckers" in charge of the vendor stalls after hearing how high food prices were at the concert after the band's finished performing "Killing in the Name"), which escalated into acts of looting and spontaneous riots that began after several acts decided to cancel at the last minute. In fact, by Saturday night following the Red Hot Chili Peppers performance (where the crowd were given candles by members of the "Russian Charity Center" intending for a candlelight vigil to be held in remembrance of the victims of the Second Russian Civil War during the performance of "Under the Bridge") were instead used to light bonfires, with overflowing garbage and the now destroyed vendor stalls being used as tinder.

With security overwhelmed (with many being underpaid much like the sanitation staff and walking out of the job) and local police being unable to restore order, it fell to the New York National Guard, already on a heightened state of readiness due to tensions with Russia, to restore order after the concert had turned into a localized riot within Rome on the 26th. By the time the concert had ended, ten people were confirmed dead through various causes (ranging from stabbings, gunshots and accidents) with an undetermined amount of rapes and thousands of dollars in damages. Rumors of cannibalism and the Heaven's Gate cult proselytizing at the concert remain unfounded. Micheal Lang and other organizers would later be met with wrongful death and "pain and suffering" lawsuits, with many being settled out of court or resolved after most would be forced to declare bankruptcy.

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"BURN, MOTHERFUCKER!! WHOO!!". Concertgoers start a bonfire with water bottles and the vending stalls that sold them. de la Rocha would later be disproportionately blamed for starting the "End of the World riot", despite the crowd already being volatile before the concert even began.

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Rome Police Department officers, in cooperation with the Oneida County Sheriff's Department and the New York National Guard, disperse the crowd at the Griffiss AFB. By this time in 1995, riots and violent clashes involving police and National Guardsmen were only starting to become more common within major cities, with the images coming from EotFW would only serve as a precursor to similar riots that would occur throughout 1996.

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Kurt Cobain diving into the crowd to stop a rape right in the middle of Nirvana's performance. The woman would be rescued but Cobain's nose would be broken during the scuffle, with Cobain openly declaring he "was fucking done with music after that bullshit". This event is believed to have played a role in Cobain's eventual suicide weeks later.

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The band R.E.M. was the concert's final act before the event truly spun out of control, in fact the band did not abandon the concert or even leave the stage, instead choosing to play It's the End of the World as We Know It while Griffiss AFB burned to the ground. While later documentaries such as Vice's Death of History and Netflix's End of the F*cking World would dramatize their performance such as showing them playing while the National Guard stepped in, in reality R.E.M. had fled to safer ground long before the National Guard arrived.
 
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A Siberian T-62 tank driving through a village to engage Tuvan Forces, circa 1995.
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A Nashist soldier lighting his cigarette in the ruins of Moscow, date unknown.
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An FEK Militiaman with an improvised submachine-gun during the Battle of Vladivostok, circa 1995.
 
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Overhead view of the crowd gathered for the "End of the (Fucking) World" concert
The "End of the Fucking World" concert (later shortened to just "End of the World") was a was a music festival held during August 25-27th 1995 in the small town of Rome, New York. While Michael Lang, one of the original co-founders of Woodstock, intended for the EoFW concert to simply be a gathering to help concertgoers forget the global troubles caused by the Second Russian Civil War, Lang and other organizers vastly underestimated how widespread the fear and uncertainty was after over two years of living with economic collapse and the threat of nuclear war had spread and the toll it had taken on the average person.

What was intended to be a "peace benefit" had turned into a den of debauchery and anarchy within hours as by nightfall, the crowd had begun to turn against the concert thanks to a combination of difficult environmental conditions (the concert taking place at the former Griffiss Air Force Base with little in the way of shelter barring massive aircraft hangers), overpriced food and water ($5 USD for a bottle of water), and poor sanitation (namely insufficient number of port-a-potties that quickly became full). Broadcasted live on MTV, the EoFW concert began to live up to its name with small acts of vandalism (with Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha telling attendees to go "beat those motherfuckers" in charge of the vendor stalls after hearing how high food prices were at the concert after the band's finished performing "Killing in the Name"), which escalated into acts of looting and spontaneous riots that began after several acts decided to cancel at the last minute. In fact, by Saturday night following the Red Hot Chili Peppers performance (where the crowd were given candles by members of the "Russian Charity Center" intending for a candlelight vigil to be held in remembrance of the victims of the Second Russian Civil War during the performance of "Under the Bridge") were instead used to light bonfires, with overflowing garbage and the now destroyed vendor stalls being used as tinder.

With security overwhelmed (with many being underpaid much like the sanitation staff and walking out of the job) and local police being unable to restore order, it fell to the New York National Guard, already on a heightened state of readiness due to tensions with Russia, to restore order after the concert had turned into a localized riot within Rome on the 26th. By the time the concert had ended, ten people were confirmed dead through various causes (ranging from stabbings, gunshots and accidents) with an undetermined amount of rapes and thousands of dollars in damages. Rumors of cannibalism and the Heaven's Gate cult proselytizing at the concert remain unfounded. Micheal Lang and other organizers would later be met with wrongful death and "pain and suffering" lawsuits, with many being settled out of court or resolved after most would be forced to declare bankruptcy.

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"BURN, MOTHERFUCKER!! WHOO!!". Concertgoers start a bonfire with water bottles and the vending stalls that sold them. de la Rocha would later be disproportionately blamed for starting the "End of the World riot", despite the crowd already being volatile before the concert even began.

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Rome Police Department officers, in cooperation with the Oneida County Sheriff's Department and the New York National Guard, disperse the crowd at the Griffiss AFB. By this time in 1995, riots and violent clashes involving police and National Guardsmen were only starting to become more common within major cities, with the images coming from EotFW would only serve as a precursor to similar riots that would occur throughout 1996.

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Kurt Cobain diving into the crowd to stop a rape right in the middle of Nirvana's performance. The woman would be rescued but Cobain's nose would be broken during the scuffle, with Cobain openly declaring he "was fucking done with music after that bullshit". This event is believed to have played a role in Cobain's eventual suicide weeks later.

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The band R.E.M. was the concert's final act before the event truly spun out of control, in fact the band did not abandon the concert or even leave the stage, instead choosing to play It's the End of the World as We Know It while Griffiss AFB burned to the ground. While later documentaries such as Vice's Death of History and Netflix's End of the F*cking World would dramatize their performance such as showing them playing while the National Guard stepped in, in reality R.E.M. had fled to safer ground long before the National Guard arrived.
So.......just Woodstock 99? I really wonder why "Woodstock" wasn't used for the name this time around then.

EDIT: It's literally just the Player Two Start Woodstock 99 mixed with an overly convergent version of the OTL festival it seems with a few other touches
 
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So.......just Woodstock 99? I really wonder why "Woodstock" wasn't used for the name this time around then.

Pretty much and did indeed take inspiration from the event, its just more of a Woodstock: While Rome Burns edition. Basically, I imagined what people would be doing after about 2 years of the threat of nuclear war and economic meltdown and this was just something that sprung to mind after remembering Woodstock '99.

The name Woodstock is more associated with the peace & love stuff, which TTL's 90s is clearly lacking. End of the (Fucking) World was a more appropriate name not just for the state of TTL's 1995 but also for the anti-authority attitude and edgy undercurrent of the 90s. Also because I just didn't want to use Woodstock.
 
EDIT: It's literally just the Player Two Start Woodstock 99 mixed with an overly convergent version of the OTL festival it seems with a few other touches

Hate to double post, just noticing this bit. The Cobain bit was meant to be just a fun Shout Out to Player Two Start, nothing more, and other than the dates, the death toll, and more riot control needed to restore order, I admit you do have a point that it's a little too convergent (the mention of R.E.M. was just to include End of the World as We Know it closing out the show just in general for the state of the world by 1995). It was mostly the inkling of an idea I wanted to get out.
 
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I admit you do have a point that it's a little too convergent (the mention of R.E.M. was just to include End of the World as We Know it closing out the show just in general for the state of the world by 1995).
An idea would be to swap RCHP and Limp Bizkit (assuming LB still performs at Woodstock 99*) - having RCHP be Saturday evening (and probably a lot less chaotic) and Limp Bizkit having a much much worse "Break Stuff" violence swarm just turn into a full on riot before R.E.M.

EDIT: Oh I just read "1995". Alright so no Limp Bizkit or Korn then. Also explains why no "Woodstock" name - there was a Woodstock the year before.
 
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Viktor Anpilov was Russian stalinist communist. He participated to anti-Yeltsin faction during Constitutional Crisis in 1993. After defeat and death of Yeltsin him became minister of industry on NSF government. He anyway break up with right wing faction and eventually took power with communists. Him became premier and led Red faction from Volgograd which was re-named as Stalingrad.

Anpilov was even more paranoid and brutal than Stalin and purged communist party in such degree that there barely was any capable official left couple years later. He too purged effectively army and it became very similar as Stalin's Red Army. Due Anpilov's paranoia some of his ministers survived only few hours after their appointment.

Anpilov was killed when al-Qaeda detonated nuclear bomb in Stalingrad at end of Second Battle of Stalingrad. Due massive purges Anpilov hadn't any suitable successor and commissars didn't know what to do since they didn't get orders from Stalingrad anymore. Some tried do something but it was in vain and such Anpilov's Soviet state collapsed quickly.

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Tanks of nashis nearby of Stalingrad, just before the battle which would prove about as brutal and massive as First Battle of Stalingrad during WW2.

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Nuclear bomb detonated by al-Qaeda in Stalingrad on April 10, 1996. It was first nuclear bomb detonated during warfare since end of WW2 and unfortunately it wasn't last one. It killed whole leadership of Russian Soviet Republic and lot of political commisars and military commanders. Nashi and Red armies were greatly reduced. Civilian casualties were too massive. No one really know how many people were killed during nuking of Stalingrad but it is estimated that it was between 80,000 and 200,000. It left the city horribly ruined and it wasn't yet by 2022 recovered.
 
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Albert Makashov (1938-1994), considered by many historians to be the last Chairman of the Russian Federation from the 1993 Elections until his death in 1994 in a plane crash historians have argued was brought about by a bomb planted by Barkashov and his RNU. Having become Chairman owing to his combination of communism and radical ultranationalism (including being a fierce anti-Semite), his time in office would be something marked by the suppression of Russia's short-lived democracy and military adventurism in Ukraine and the Baltic States before the disasters in Chechnya and the Idel-Ural region would lead to the collapse of the National Salvation Front and the civil war between Nashist and Stalinist forces.
 
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Boris Nemtsov is a Russian physicist and politician who served as President of the exiled Russian Federation in Pushkingrad (formerly Kaliningrad) from 1995 to [redacted]. Initially a major opposition politician against the National Salvation Front, he was arrested in 1993 but was released to the Pushkingrad government in exchange for basic necessities, in one of many such exchanges between the Petrograd government and the Western world.
Nemtsov was arrested again in April 1995 by Yegor Gaidar's government, one of several event which is cited to have triggered the collapse of the Gaidar regime and the return of democracy to the exiled government. In that year's elections, Nemtsov would win the presidency in a landslide.

Nemtsov's ascension would coincide with the decline of the exiled Russian Federation's diplomatic pull abroad.
 
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Boris Yeltsin (02/01/1931 - 10/04/1993)

Yeltsin became first president of Russia only just some months before dissolution of Soviet Union. Soon after fall of USSR Yeltsin accomplished shock therapy which transferred socialist economy system to capitalism. It didn't go well and Russia fell to economic chaos and living standards of millions Russians fell rapidly. This too created new upper class who managed to get huge property suddenly. Yeltsin's authotarian and corrupt rule increased frustration and eventually led to constitution crisis in 1993. On October streets of Moscow saw lot of military act and already on 3rd October several Yeltsin's allies saw text on the wall and left him alone to Kremlin.

On next morning tanks begun fire and planes bomb Kremlin. No one really know surely who gave order but consueqences are known. Yeltsin was killed during bombing which eventually led just further chaos. Some too see this event as beginning of Second Russian Ciivl War.

Nowadays almost all historians agree that Yeltsin was major reason for that tragedy what faced Russia and keep him one of most incompetent leaders of Russia, some even more incompetent than tsar Nicholas II. Some too claim that Yeltsin's body was found vodka bottle on his hand. Because Yeltsin's blood was boiled and body partially roasted it was impossible to tell was Yeltsin drunken or not. But many who knew Yeltsin have told that him had serious problems with alcohol.

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Alexander Rutskoy (09/16/1947 - 11/14/1994)

Rutskoy became president of Russia after Yeltsin's death. Him anyway became just formal figurehead of the state and glue for NSF government which was formed by communists and ultra-nationalists. Already at beginning of his presidency Russia was falling apart. Some Yeltsinists led by Yegor Gaidar didn't accept his presidency and formed his own government in Kaliningrad. Even international recognition wasn't clear.

But bigger problems occured on Caucasus. Chechnya had strong nationalist movement and Chechens begun their own independence war. Russia too took parts of Estonia and Latvia which damaged relationships with the west. War on Caucasus worsened and later in 1994 Uralic republics too announced seceding from Russia. But even worse was increased division between factions of NSF government. On early November 1994 ultra-nationalists formed their own government to St. Petersburg which was re-named as Petrograd (same name what was used during WW1) and communists formed their own government to Volgograd which was re-named as Stalingrad what name was used during Stalin's years.

Rutskoy tried to restore unity but it was doomed to fail. On November 14 Rutskoy, Albert Makashov and Vladimir Konstantinov took plane on Moscow and them had meaning to fly to Tula for discussing future of Russia and creation of new federal system. But only two minutes after plane had gone from airport it explored on air. No one know surely who planted the bomb. Many anyway believe that it was planted by GRU. Some other belive that it was act of Chechen nationalists or Caucasian jihadists.

But whoever did that it had horrible consueqences and led to full blown civil war which was already actually on-going. But since there wasn't anymore president keeping things somehow unified, nationalists and communists were now on open war against each others.

Nowadays Rutskoy is seen as weak president who managed to pick worst possible options and couldn't keep democracy around comparable with some such Weimar era politicians like von Hindenburg and von Papen.

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Yegor Gaidar (03/19/1956 - 12/16/2009)

Gaidar was economist and minister of finance during Yeltsin's presidency. He was achieving shock therapy after fall of Soviet Union which made him pretty hated man. Later he acted briefly as prime minister of Russia. During constitution crisis of 1993 he was deputy prime minister. He was firstly loyal to Yeltsin but noticed quickly that Yeltsin's regime was collapsing and fled to Kaliningrad where he rapidly formed his own government and called himself as legitimate president of Russian Federation and called Rutskoy and NSF government as usurpers.

Gaidar got support from west but only because the west didn't dislike him as much as NSF government. But Gaidar's staunch and stubborn opposition towards independence of ethnic republics damaged his relationships with many countries speciality with Eastern European ones. Gaidar's corrupt and authotarian regime too caused frustration. Furthermore Gaidar was unable to solve massive refugee waves from mainland Russia.

During 1994 and 1995 Gaidar tried put opposition down and even jailed several notable opposition leaders. Eventually this caused lot of riots and finally in 1995 international and internal pressure enforced Gaidar to release opposiition leaders and resign from his position. He anyway was allowed to retire and he lived on his dacha just outskirts of Kaliningrad where he died from sudden heart attack in 2009.
 
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First President of the Chechen Federation of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev, with his chief of staff reviewing an Ichkerian military parade celebrating the tenth anniversary of the independence of the Chechen people and the establishment of the then Chechen Republic of Ichkeria on June 8, 2001 which is celebrated throughout the Caucasian nation as “Ichkeria Independence Day”. Ichkeria Independence Day is also known as “Chechen Freedom Day” by the two greatest allies of the Ichkerian nation, the USA and the State of Israel. April 10 is known as “National Mourning Day” in Ichkeria for obvious reasons.​

Dudayev would serve as President of Ichkeria from 1991 to 2013 when he would retire from the presidency after which the first democratic election in Ichkeria since independence that wouldn’t have Dudayev partake in and win (due to his overwhelming popularity he’d win the 1997, the 2003, and the 2009 presidential elections though critics of Dudayev say that all the presidential elections since 1997 have been rigged). His successor, vice president and current chairman of the still ruling All-National Congress of the Chechen People (NCChP), Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov, won the 2015 presidential election against Zelimkhan Abdulmuslimovich Yandarbiyev – the candidate of the Ichkerian Democratic Party (IDP, formerly the Vainakh Democratic Party).

Despite being president for six years now, under Maskhadov’s presidency and party chairmanship, the NCChP just lost its overwhelming majority of 90% in the unicameral Ichkerian Federal Senate down to 60% with the opposing IDP gaining 40% of the seats in the recent 2022 senatorial elections (held every five years in the Summer with the presidential elections the following year in the Spring).
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Then-vice president of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov at a state dinner in Washington D.C. in early 2001. To his left and out of the view of the camera lens is Ichkerian president Dudayev talking with U.S. President Al Gore about the need for more aid to Ichkeria and the role Ichkerian troops are to play in Dagestan while US forces are beginning their withdrawal from Ichkeria’s troubled neighbour next year (the American press is dubbing the predicted Ichkerian occupation of Dagestan as “Chechenisation”).​
 
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Warships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Forces (JMSDF) sailing north to the Kurile Islands in 1995. Following agreement with the FEK for economic and technical aid, Japan would reoccupy the islands and with it would gain access to untapped reserves of oil and gas as well as large quantities of the rare metal rhenium. Sale of the latter in particular would be of great benefit to Japan, and would help if come through the 1990s better than might otherwise have been the case.
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JASDF F-15J. With the collapse of Russia and increasing aggressive behaviour by China (as seen in their support of Mongolia), Japan’s defence budget would be doubled over the 1990s, with major expansion of naval and air forces in particular. At the same time, Japan would abandon restrictions on long-range missiles, though would continue to eschew nuclear weapon development for the moment.​
 
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An Chechen Militiaman carrying around several M44 Mosin Nagants, date unknown.
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A couple of photos taken by a Siberian soldier of crates of WWII weapons being opened, circa 1994. During the fighting across the former Russian Federation, all of the factions in a search for more weapons, would open up various arsenals and warehouses which contained millions of WWII weapons, notably German and Soviet weapons. In the hands of various soldiers and militia from Moscow to Vladivostok, these old and reliable weapons would be alongside the more modern Kalashnikov rifles on the battlefields of a dying Russia.
 
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Ruins of Kremlin in 1993 just at end of Constitutional Crisis which ended to Yeltsin's death and formation of NSF government. But this was just beginning for much worse.
That's not the Kremlin though. It's the Smolenskaya metro station, at the far end of the Arbat boulevard.

Come to think about it, maybe the whole TL is just a prequel to Metro 2033.
 
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