Eastern Europe 1990s
The once quiet Eastern Bloc would explode into violence inspired by Soviet failings in it's initial invasion of Poland with the expectation of Romania under the rule of Nicolae Ceausescu and Bulgaria. The closed borders of Eastern Europe was now opened to western arms and supplies.The Soviet Union both economically and military would come under extreme strain of both the occupation of Eastern Europe and Western sanctions.By late 1991 and early 1992 the Soviet Union and it's communist collaborators would control the major cities while the countryside would be a mess of of rival insurgent groups ranging from Democratic socialist to Fascists.These groups would fight the each other just as much as they did with the communists if not more so.The fighting in the Eastern Bloc would end following the end of the communism in the Soviet Union in 1994.
The worsting economic conditions, the introduction of rationing in the Soviet Union, and the increasing body count from the fighting in Eastern Bloc would see large scale protests and riots in various cities through out the Soviet Union in early June 1994 encouraged by the [1]death of Viktor Grishin on 25 May 1994. Attempts to crush the protesters would see the military refuse to fire or even join them.Mid-June would see a military coup encouraged by the worsting internal conditions of the Soviet Union. The coup would see a number of KGB,military, and more moderate members of the communist party join. Facing little Resistance, the coup would see a military junta take control of the Soviet Union.The junta would be lead by Alexander Lebed,the popular commanding officer of 14th Soviet army. The new government would negotiate the withdraw of the Soviet troops from the Warsaw pact in exchange for end to Western Sanctions and access to western credit.The peace agreements ending the wars in the former Warsaw pact would see the communist parties automatically receive anywhere from 1/4 to a 1/3 of seats in the various national governments and for the new governments to be permanently neutral with the governments of Poland,Hungary,and Czechoslovakia being prevented from joining both the European Union and NATO. East Germany would be put under a transnational government until it recovered from the conflict, after-which it would join West Germany.
The new military government in the Soviet Union would oversee the end of communism in the country with the ruling communist party being renamed and transformed into the Union Party,A socially conservative and economically interventionist party.The nation would renamed into Union State.The country would see economic troubles as it started a slow transition to a capitalist economy aided by Western loans and with large arms sales to various nations. The nation would see it's economy reach 1989 levels by the year 2000.The country would cut off it's foreign aid and free or reduced weapons delivery to it's various former clients around the world, seeing many either fall or adapt. The exceptions to this would the nation of Afghanistan and Romania which the Union State sought to maintain friendly governments on it's border and various factions in the former Yugoslavia. The Union state would improve it's relations with China by settling it's many year long border dispute.
The violence in the other nations in the Warsaw Pact would discourage protests or any uprisings in Romania. The government under Nicolae Ceausescu would begin to start market reforms hoping to prevent any unrest.The country would see gradual economic reforms in part inspired by China begin in 1990. The reforms would be aided by generous Western and Soviet loans as the two sought to either keep Romania within the Soviet sphere or take it out. By 1995 the country would transition to a mixed-economy with the country reaching it's economy 1989 levels with high growth in the rest of the decade fueled by western European investments and a trade deals with Western Europe,the United States, and the Union State.
1.POD: dies two years later