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--- offtopic:russia [2013/07/28 08:11] – Petike
+++ offtopic:russia [2022/10/12 11:24] (current) – [AH.commers] petike
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 ====== Russia ======
-Often confused with the Soviet Union. In AH, often the place for an evil Communist regime, an evil fascist regime (typically in "CPs win WW1" scenarios), an evil czarist regime or an evil theocratic regime. Very often it also gets balkanised. Only very rarely it has a better fate, as some often lament.
+Often confused with the now-defunct Soviet Union.
 [[offtopic:running jokes|As we all know]] from [[offtopic:HurganPL]], [[offtopic:Molobo]] and other [[offtopic:Polish trolls]], Russia and [[offtopic:Germany]] will invade [[offtopic:Poland]] anytime now.
-Also noted for its cool space stuff and magical floating ekranoplanes.
+Also noted for its cool space stuff and magical floating ekranoplans.
-In 2008 Russia intervened in a Georgian land dispute - with the result that Tennessee retained its 1818 claim on the southern bank of the Tennessee River.
+In 2008 Russia intervened in a Georgian land dispute - with the result that [[Tennessee]] retained its 1818 claim on the southern bank of the Tennessee River.
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 ==== Vladimir Putin ====
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 At the Georgian command posts the sentires will hear but a rustling in the night and the next morning they'll find all their senior officers dead in their beds- not even from violence but from pure, unadulterated fear, for they have seen the thing which goes bump in the night and they know that it is Putin...//
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 ==== AH.commers ====
-A number of AH.commers come from Ukraine or Russia, although oddly enough most of them now appear to live in Canada or other western countries (USA, Germany)...
+A number of AH.commers come from Ukraine or Russia. In the early days of the board, most of them appeared to live in Canada or other western countries (USA, Germany)... The number of native Russian members has since then grown.
+  * [[offtopic:987987]]
   * [[offtopic:Aley]]
   * [[offtopic:das]]
+  * [[offtopic:CielKuroChan]]
+  * [[offtopic:Enmergal]]
   * [[offtopic:Grand Prince Paul II.]]
   * [[offtopic:Imperator]]
+  * [[offtopic:Infernomole]]
   * [[offtopic:January First-of-May]]
+  * [[offtopic:Kammada]]
+  * [[offtopic:Kovalenko]]
   * [[offtopic:Midgard]] (technically [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]], but ethnically Russian)
   * [[offtopic:NFR]]
   * [[offtopic:Rat Catcher]]
+  * [[offtopic:Russian]]
   * [[offtopic:Soyuz]]
   * [[offtopic:Tuhachevskey]]
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 ==== Alternate history clichés concerning this country ====
+In AH, Russia often becomes a place for an evil communist regime, an evil fascist regime (typically in "CPs win WWI" scenarios), an evil czarist regime or an evil theocratic regime. Very often it also gets balkanised. Only very rarely it has a better fate, as some often lament.
+One particularly evergreen cliché is that [[alternate history:The Russians Want Alaska]].
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 ==== See Also ====
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 **[[resources:Russia|Useful Resources about Russia]]**
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