Continuity Soviet Unionball

The  or grey Soviet Unionball will be the legitimate successor of the New Soviet Unionball founded after 2391 by the remnants of it.

He is strong like his predecessor, though still his power doesn't compare to even half of that his former self had. He was also the Sovietball that lived for more time.

Formation
In 2392, after the collapse of the great New Soviet Unionball, Russian leader Denis Patrushev with the support of the army and part of the orthodox church and the islamic clergy hold a conference with members of the communist parties of all former Soviet states in the city of Novosibirsk, a bastillion of Soviet supporters. The meeting was to address which of the old republics still had real conditions to maintain their old structures. Most of the Eastern European republics with the exception of Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova were considered to be lost.

On the other hand, all republics of Central Asia agreed to follow Patrushev's plan, the former North Caucasian republic leadership also agreed to join even though the region was a mess, in addition to it Abkhazia and Ossetia that split from Georgia were favorable to the idea as well.

In order to defend communism from the aggression of the newest Russian Salvationball, the Continuity Soviet Union was officially launched in October of 2392, starting the Long-Lasting Russian Civil War in which the Sovietists defeated the opposition and took control of Moscow and Leningrad in the Western front.

Still too weak compared to the former one, the constituent members of the Continuity Soviet Union were: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia, Ossetia, North Caucasus, Moldova, Iran, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

The Continuity Soviet Union was ideologically a copy of its predecessor, oriented toward a Stalinist view of Marxism-Leninism, with a planned economy that depending on the context a new NEP could be started. However, now more enphasis on nationalism and struggle of civilizations was given than before, with the idea of an Eurasian Soviet civilization and identity confroting the degenerate cycle of Western atlanticist capitalism coming back again and again.

War with Poland
After the split with the New Soviet Unionball, Poland became Greater Polandball trying to take (again) Belarusian and Lithuanian clay. This time however it ended up in a humiliating defeat to the Poles, giving space to an internal collapse.

The LGBTball LBGPball that had fought against the New Soviet Unionball now had official control over its lands. Poland then becomes the Polish Empireball following a small scale civil war. Angry with the LGBT LBGP militias, Poland invades their territories, later invading also Western Ukraine and Russia, the Polish took most of the Smolensk, Bryansk and Kursk oblasts in order to aid the Russian Salvationball. All these countries that Poland entered were in huge civil wars, and they ended up buying fights they couldn’t stand to.

By 2399, the Soviets has defeated most of the Russian Salvationball forces in the Russian territories that the Polish army had still not occupied. Poland tried to negotiate the creation of a zone controlled by the opposition but the Soviets refused and started a “war of national liberation” against the Polish army in 2401.

As officially Belarus and Ukraine were to be part of the Continuity Soviet Union as defined in Novosibrisk, with the opposition fleeing deeper into the West, the Soviets could finally assume full control of Belarus and Ukraine after defeating the Polish occupiers and the separatist factions. The Soviets took control of all Russian borders by 2405 when the Polish army announced they would withdraw their troops from Russian territory following huge casualties, they also stopped aiding the Russian Salvationball.

After another refusal of Polish proposals, in 2406 the Soviets invade Belarus and Ukraine in a wave of anti-Polish sentiment and Russian/Soviet nationalism. While in Belarus the Polish still had problems with the LGBTball LBGPball, in Ukraine it was an even worse mess. Poland first backed the ultranationalists that organized the coup against the government of the old Ukrainian SSR that had agreed to join the Continuity Soviet Union in 2392, creating a clandestine anti-communist government.

Then in 2393, internal resistance to the government was organized in Eastern Ukraine by Soviet loyalists, the Soviet army couldn't directly aid the resistance because they were busy fighting the Russian Salvationball in Moscow that were being aided by both Ukrainian and Polish nationalists. Then later, to make things worse to Poland, internal resistance to it became not exclusive to communists just, as they had no plans of leaving Ukraine, most right-wing nationalists started fighting against it as well.

In 2410 and 2411, the Soviets had incredible victories against Poland as well as against the anti-communist groups that were also against Poland like the LGBTball LBGPball and the Ukrainian ultranationalists. The Soviets then managed to occupy Minsk and take most of Ukraine, in face of it, the Poles decided to move all their troops to Lithuania, where the Soviets had few support. Finally in 2411 a peace treaty was signed between the two, in exchange of the Soviets not attacking Lithuania, Poland recognized the Soviet control over Belarus, Ukraine and the Kaliningrad, that they had started a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Russians.

The Soviet victory against Poland was celebrated as the end of the humiliation that Russia was suffering at the hands of Poland, as well as rebirth of national pride. Relations with between the Soviet Union and Poland continued terrible as the Polish continued arming rebels in Western Ukraine as part of the Long-Lasting Russian Civil War, in which some Ukrainian nationalist groups would ally with the Russian Salvation.

War with Finland
After the split with the New Soviet Unionball, Finland just like Poland was another country that attempted to become "greater" in a wave of anti-communist neo-nationalism. Greater Finlandball took proveit of the weak position of Moscow in 2392 to take the Murmansk oblast, as well as removing Karelian autonomy, which caused riots within the Russian population. Remembering that the Soviets gave Karelia to Finland in 2280 as a sign of goodwill. Finland had also interfered in Estonia and installed a puppet government in there and Latvia, the Baltic Unionball.

With the army organized, in 2411 the Soviets went to take revenge on Finland, that was supporting the Russian Salvationball efforts against the government by even allowing them to use Estonia and Karelia as base to attack Russia after their defeat in most of the Western Russian front.

Soviet troops entered in Karelia and Murmansk with the support of the local Russian population and kicked the Finnish troops out. The Finnish then fearing they could take Helsinki decided to launch an offensive from Estonia.

The War ended with the Riga Agreement, in which both Finnish, Soviets and Polish agreed: to leave the Baltic Unionball alone and not move troops there anymore, militias of the Russian Salvation would receive asylum there if they stopped fighting in those countries, the Russian population in the Baltics would have their integrity respected and could normally relate with the Soviets, plus the Soviets would be staying with Karelia and the Murmansk following referendums.

North Caucasus Conflict
After 2410, the Soviets started to move their atention to the Caucasus. In 2392 an insurgency had started in the North Caucasian SFSR and quickly escalated to a balkanization of the republic. Many were angry with the Chechen Tashayev family, that had been maintaining a strong tradition of leadership in the local communist party and was considered by some as a "communist dynasty".

The Tashayevs had always been loyal to Moscow, giving key support to Patrushev during the last years of the New Soviet Unionball. They claimed to rule by fair and meritocratic ways, being always committed to the values of Marxism-Leninism and having no patrimony other than that of the Soviet state. It was under the administration of members of the family that the region saw a lot of prosperity, with the construction of industries, universities and research centers. The North Caucasian SFSR was seen as the most prosperous republic of the region with a quality of life superior to its neighbors.

However with the fall of the old union, the continuity state couldn't financially support the SFSR governments at the same way as before. Therefore economic problems together with ethnic nationalism and religious fundamentalism saw a rise in opposition to the Tashayevs that were secular muslims. Dissident nationalism and islamic fundamentalism had already appeared in the last days of the old union but became a common occurency with the period of transition till the 2400s.

With the SFSR destabilized and sunk in a series of insurgencies, Moscow didn't want to lose their allies there, but also if it started a massive war, the other ethnic groups would think they were prioritizing the Chechens and in the middle of those tensions that would be a fatal blow to a new government in search of stability and popularity. So, they decided to abolish the North Caucasian SSR and declared that the republics would become again ASSRs of Russia in an attempt to decentralize the local power structure but save their regional allies.

In a meeting at the Kazakh city of Almaty, they all agreed at it and the necessity of crushing islamism, new regional governments were founded together with a renewal at the local branches of the party that were taken by corrupts. Soviet troops were sent to all the ASSRs in order to crush the insurgencies as it was much easier to do so after the agreement. Criticism existed however as many accused the new Soviet allies of being incompetent and corrupt.

Armenian Civil Wars
Next to it, in Armenia, anti-communist nationalists had in a very similar way of Finland and Poland founded again their "greater" republic, in that case Greater Armeniaball that had in past been a former enemy of the Soviets. However, many Armenians refused to accept the government and a civil war started.

It was said the Soviets didn't interfer in Armenia in the 2390s just so it could destroy itself more internally with the bloody civil war to later give a single blow. In 2405 the war became so bad that Armenia was known as "the Somalia of the Caucasus" due to its lack of law and order as there was no central government, just many militias controlling different parts of the country. This anarchical like situation made a lot of Armenians want to come back to the old Soviet days were they had stability and everything else.

Armanti-Turkeyball was heavily involved in the multi-sided war in Armenia, as well as the Armenian diaspora in the West, especifically in the American Federationball that had been lobbied against the Soviets. The result of their entire activity in Armenia was an anarchical destroyed country. After three years of more war, communists backed by the Soviets took most of the north of the country, while a former mafia gang that turned into a party managed to unite Yerevan and other nearby provinces, officially claiming itself as the government of all Armenia.

The new mafia government however proved to be another disgrace, after some months, they split in different factions due to problems with the church, this started a new civil war. The new civil war was worse because Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia started to occuppy Armenia and would have erased it from the map if not for the Soviets that had enough of the anarchy going there and sent their troops to it. For the first time ever the Soviets managed to use Armenian nationalism at its favor, lots of Armenians defected to the Soviet army, even the church after some agreements started to support the Soviets, with this Armenia was annexed back. The purge campaign in Armenia to end with the power of the diaspora lobbysts as well as with the mafia and the right-wing paramilitaries ended with more than 30.000 deaths.

The Great Civil War enters a new phase
Following the years, the Russian Salvationball was being completely annihilated as its leadership fled the country. The Soviet propaganda that portrayed it as an armed hand of the liberal and degenerate West against the Russian civilization had succeed, anti-Western sentiment was at the peak. Seeing this, the West had to change its approach toward its hybrid war against the Soviets, as supporting a liberal atlanticist movement like the Russian Salvationball was having no effect.

The Soviets had at the time a conservative society that was very patriotic and hated everything associated with the capitalist West, they had alliances with the orthodox church as well as with islamic clergies as was said before, it was what Patrushev called "an impenetrable socialist fortress", according to him the Soviet Union would live forever independent of economic difficulties as long as they were able to continue beating "cultural capitalism". The West decided to then organize something that could properly compete with the Soviet state propaganda, entering in contact with the anti-communist conservative factions that earlier due to its anti-atlanticist views didn't get much space in the Russian Salvationball, that was the origin of the New Russian Tsardomball.

The New Russian Tsardomball different from the Russian Salvationball used traditionalist rhetoric and didn't defend a society molded by Western values, rather an "Eurasian orthodox theocracy". Although initially founded by exiles in Western countries, the Tsardom proved to be difficult to be controlled by the Westerners that initially aided in its foundations as most of its leadership hold some sort of very strong anti-Western views. The West at that point just wanted to see Russia in chaos.

Different from the one used by the Russian Salvationball, the rhetoric used by the New Russian Tsardomball had effect on the average people who were unsatisfied with the Soviet government, as it was not liberal or pro-West, therefore, the two had to compete to see who was more patriotic, more traditionalist or more pro-Eurasia. Sects of the church stopped supporting the Soviets and turned on the Tsardom, causing again conflicts between the state and the religious organizations that didn't exist in a long time. This was the beginning of a new phase of the war, that started with an armed insurgency of so called "Neo-Tsarist" forces. The Soviet state propaganda then started to put more emphasis on its revolutionary origins than on the conservative rhetoric it used before against the liberal opposition, saying the Western strategy in backing the Neo-Tsarists was a desperate move, comparing it to their support to islamists against communists whenever it is convenient too.

Ideology

 * Communism
 * National Communism
 * Marxism Leninism
 * Neo Stalinism
 * Sovietism
 * Soviet Nationalism
 * Left Wing Nationalism
 * Left Wing Populism
 * Neo Eurasianism
 * Federalism
 * Anti-Capitalism
 * Anti-Americanism
 * Anti-Fascism
 * Anti-Revisionism
 * Anti-West