Alaskan ASSRball

Alaskan ASSRball is a countryball part of the Russian Greater SFSRball of the New Soviet Unionball. He is the only Sovietball located in North America.

History
Alaska started the new century in a very bad way, under the command of Nazi Alaskaball, that was an autonomous part of Nazi USAball. During the Anti-Nazi War in America, the Alaskan opposition massively turned to the New Soviet Unionball for help, as the Red Americaball had a small presence there, they formed independent socialist militias backed by the Soviets to combat the nazis. The Nazis then burned cities and killed most of the farmers after they refused to work, a lot of Alaskan Natives fled to Russia to escape the war, while most Americans fled to Canada.

Canadian Empireball occuppied Alaska following the collapse of Nazi Americaball, but a socialist insurgency started on it just after it claimed the region. Then Federal Socialist States of Cascadiaball, a Soviet ally went to war against Canada together with OFNAball, but they almost lost. New Soviet Union however helped its allies and the Cascadian troops took Alaska after months of anarchy under Canadian rule.

The Federal Socialist States of Cascadiaball who had no claims to the region decided to give Alaska as a gift to the New Soviet Union, thanking them for all their support in the war. The Soviets inaugurated two bridges, first the Bering bridge, that connected Alaska to the Russian mainland, and the Soviet-Cascadian bridge of friendship that connected the two countries on the day that Alaska officially returned to Mother Russia.

By that time Alaska had a very small population as a result of the war, being almost exclusively composed by Alaskan Natives that had returned from Russia, as the Americans in majority fled. Alaska then was made an ASSR of Russian Greater SFSRball.

After rebuilding the main cities, the Russian leader Vladimir Khodakovsky that had became leader of all Soviet Union announced his intentions of improving Alaskan economy by starting to industrialize it and mechanizing the agriculture. A lot of Russians migrated to Alaska in order to work and the Natives that used to just operate agrarian communes started to go to the cities and form an influent urban population that worked in factories. In 2380, 60% of the population were natives, while 40% were mostly Russians but also other Soviet nationalities.

Alaska lived a peaceful life with the rest of Russia until 2379, the year the New Soviet Union collapsed. The Continuity Soviet Unionball initially kept Alaska as part of the Russian territory, but then American Federationball invaded Alaska in 2406 after defeating the Federal Socialist States of Cascadiaball and the Socialist State of Texasball.

Those were difficult times, the Civil War in Russia following the dissolution of the old Soviet Union made the Soviet Army unnable to defend Alaska since Moscow was under siege. The leader Patrushev initially said the people united could resist American imperialism, but after the Americans broke the Soviet defense lines, Patrushev ordered all archieves and military bases to be dismantled, evacuated and burned. The Bering bridges (both highway and railway) were also destroyed, which was a very difficult thing for the Soviets to do as it was something they were very proud of.

The American invasion culminated in more than 300,000 Russians leaving the region. Around 20,000 stayed in order to defend their Soviet motherland together with the Natives, 6.000 died and the region was at the end brutally annexed by American Federationball. Following negotiations in the next months, the majority of the surviving Russians as well as some Natives were evacuated to mainland Russia.

American Federationball destroyed the old Soviet Alaskan society, a lot of industries were closed and Americans were encouraged to move to the region to fill the vacuum left by the withdrawn of the Russian population, as the Natives were bad seen because of their support to the Soviets.