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I think it's a reference to the meme "All your base are belongs to us"
Guys I am sorry I have not updated I have been busy and can't find the time but I thanksgiving break coming so I will find time then.
The civil war was one of the darkest times in Russian history the empire of old collapased as new nations arose out of its ashes. The Volunteer Army was the one hope of the people to try and save Mother Russia. One of the Volunteer Army's founders General Alekseyev died for illness early on and General Kornilov very nearly avoided death an artillery shell hitting his headquarters shortly after he left it. The White movement was gaining more help though the new Ataman of the Cossacks General Petr Krasnov helped the Volunteers although he would betray Russia later on. The other White leader was in Siberia, Admiral Alexsandr Kolchak who would also turn hos back on Russia one day.
Ataman Krasnov, Admiral Kolchak
However even with all this support the Whites could not win divided, so they called a meeting of the all the white factions in Omsk in Spring 1919, the representative for the Southern Whites was future Marshal of Russia Pytor Wrangel. At the so called "Congress of Omsk" the generals agreed to subordinate them selves to Kerensky who was made the 1st President of the Russian Republic. Even though united under one banner the Whites could still not over run the Reds, however that all changed in 1921 with the Weltkrieg over the German Empire. With the help of the Kasier and there commander General Wilhelm Groener the armies of the Russian Republic overran Moscow and defeated the Red Army.
Pytor Wrangel, Wilhelm Groener
The war was over the tales of the intervention from the German view were told by an Austrian Corporal named Adolf Hitler in his book "Mien Kampf" he died in the field of he battle manning an MG-08 while a massive human wave of Bolsheviks charged his postion.
Adolf Hitler
With the White victory Kerensky moved the government back to Petrograd and set up the process for rebuliding the broken nation. But there was treason in the air in 1922 after a fallout with Kerensky and General Kornilov, Ataman Petr Krasnov and the Cossaks succeded creating the Republic of the Don-Kuban with him self as Ataman and Prime Minister. In 1926 Admiral Kolchak tried to convince General Wrangel to support a coup against Kerensky however the plot was found out by General Denkin, Kolchak soon fled and set up a state in Primorsk with Japanese help. Kerensky stayed in power through electorial manpulation while the Duma would change in elections, Kerensky bribed the senate to keep him in power with funds from the treasury. And so know as January 1st 1936 begins the future of Russia looks dark it will take a miracle to save Russia.
Chapter One-The Dark year of 1936
January 1st 1936
Things where not going well for the Russian Republic in as the new year of 1936 was begining, President Alexsandr Kerensky and his government are unpopular, the nation is divided, and the military is backwards and lacking in men. However an event was about to happen in that would forever change the Russian nation forever
The Government of President Kerensky
On January 4th 1936 the unthinkable happened while leaving the Winter Palace to head home, President Kerensky was killed by a lone gunman of unknown political origin. Soon after the President of the Senate Vladimir Purishkevich called for an election of a new President as most of the Senators had not left the Winter Palace yet it was easy to get them togther to elect the new President. After much deleberation the Aristocratic faction led by Purishkevich managed to get enough votes for Grand Duke Dmitri Romanov in the fifth round of the voting.
Now that Dmitri had become the 2nd President of the Russian Republic he knew that he faced many challanges, the nation was divided and some even spoke of a 2nd Bolsheivk Revolution but President Romanov was confident that he could bring the nation togther and restore Russia to glory. Although it was Purishkevich who had made Dmitri the President, Purishkevich knew that he as hardline Reactionary would be unpopular with the people should Dmitri appoint him as the Prime Minister, Purishkevich thus advised Dmitri to appoint Kerensky's old PM, Pavel Milyukov who was a moderate and would give the new government crediblity.
The new President and Prime Minister of the Russian Republic at the end of January 1936
Yes I have returned and now will hopefully get this AAR going and lead Russia to Glory
As President, Dmitri had great plans for Russia however when the Berlin Stock Exchange crashed in early Febuary the world was thrown into panic with the German Empire being the worlds most powerful nation and econmy in the world, nearly the entire world other then Syndicalist nations where affected by the crash. The crash only made the delicate situation in Russia even worse as now German owned factories where closing and unemployment started to rise rapidly.
Dmitri knew that if his government was to survive he had to start making reforms as soon as possible. Prime Minister Milyukov advised Dmitri to begin with reforms to the government instatutions of power to gain more control of the nation and to calm the people down. As the Duma met to discuss the reforms there where 3 options that where debated by the Duma and the Senate, the first was to restore the old Tsarist form of local government bodys run the elite known as the Zemstvo system which was favoured by the Prime Minister and the moderate members of the Duma, the second propsal was to create a new centralized bureaucracy to run the nation this was favoured by the military and other nationalist right wing leaders, the final and most radical propsal was drawn up the President of the Senate Vladimir Purishkevich and was to enact legislation to slowly rensurf the the pesantry and was favoured of the most radical of the reactionary forces in the Duma and Senate. After much delberation the Duma voted for the restoration of the Zemstvo system and had the support of PM Milyukov, and was signed into law by Dmitri who believed it was the smartest and most sensable of the propsals and would bring stablity to the nation the quickest.
Despite enacting his frist major reform Dmitri still had to be careful his postion of power was precarious at best and he knew it. When a strike broke out in Moscow he ingored the propsals of the military and the reactionaries to use brute force to end the strike and agreed to the demands of the workers. This was done so because Dmitri wanted to gain support for his government and he knew the people would support him more if he did not shoot them.
Despite attempts to gain popular support for his government Dmitri knew the radicals such as the Bolsheviks were demanding revolution from the working class to topple the "corrupt, bourgeois" republic. To counter these threats the Duma drew up a propsal to restore the Tsarist secret police the 'Okhrana' to stop the dangerous groups trying to overthrow the government. When handed the legislation Dmitri signed it hoping that it would bring peace to the nation.
Members of the newly restored Okhranka pose for a picture
I find it interesting that in DH version of KR, you aren't getting penalized dissent wise for making those tough decisions...
I am but something is wrong with the dissent in the KR 1.3 beta i'm playing in where it won't show a gain or loss of dissent and just show it as 0 but I have played Russia so often I know which decisions increase and decrease dissent.
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You have probably mixed your kaiserreich versions somehow ( since in the current and previous version were no problem with dissent display )....
As the summer of 1936 draged on Dmitri had several other reforms in mind that he wanted to implement, one of the most important reforms was the status of the Orthodox Church, it's Patriarch Mikhail Pol'skii wanted new legislation passed that would basicly make the Orthodox Church the state church of Russia. This had the support of the right-wing and even some moderates who thought the Church would more unite the nation and with Russia being a very religious nation it made sense to support this. So after a fairly short debate in the Duma the legislation to make the Orthodox Church, Russia's state church was passed and signed into to law by President Romanov,this was welcomed by the people most of them being deeply religious peasants.
Despite his move to appease the peasants, many of them were upset with the government and mass peasant unrest was starting to appear in the Volga area around Tsaritsyn. Rather then shoot the peasants as had been done in the Tsarist era Dmitri agreed to there demands and they went home happy, knowing that at last they had government that cared about them. The previous day Dmitri, his government, and the Duma had a meeting to discuss where should Russia's capital be, it had been in St. Petersburg for more then 200 years and most wanted it to stay there but some thought Moscow was the better choice because it was in a safer postion (St. Petersburg being right on the border with Finland) and had a more central location. In the end the Duma voted for the captial to remain where it was in St. Petersburg.
Another Reform of lesser importance was that of the Russian Navy, the fleet being old, and having backwards doctrine and officer training, needed reform badly so Dmitri called all of the top naval officers to the Winter Palace to discuss reform. It was decided that despite the rise of aircraft carriers, most Russian officers saw battleships as the king of the sea and with the nearby German Empire having a very large if old battleship fleet Russia needed to do the same. Thus Dmitri selected Vice-Admiral Robert von Wirén to implement the new reforms and to turn Russian fleet into a true bluewater navy.
Vice-Admiral von Wirén
In November of 1936, Dmitri presented two of his most major reforms to the Duma these where designed to help Russia bounce back from the Berlin Crisis and to ensure properity for the future. The first was the so called "Five Year Plan" it was designed over the course of 5 years a mix of state and private development of Russia's industry and infastructure it passed the Duma barely and was met by disaproval from the peasantry. The next reform was a on the economic system of Russia, weither it would be full blown laissez-faire capitalism or a socialistic type of full state control of the economy. It was an extremly long debate in the Duma, Prime Minister Milyukov supported laissez-faire as that was the major platform of his party "the Kadets". Dmitri decided the best course was for the economy to be like his "Five Year Plan" a mix of the two systems. He introduced his policy in which only major industry's such as the defense industry, and natural resource industry's would be nationalized while everything else was to be private, it passed the Duma by a fairly large margin and was welcomed by the majority of the population.
And so President Romanov breathed a sigh of relief his government had made it a full year and had survived one of the darkest years in Russian history, when he first came to power many thought 1936 was going to be 1917 all over again but Dmitri proved them wrong, and while the future still did not look bright it looked better then it had a year before. And so as 1937 begins many questioned what was the future of Russia, would it rise again and show the world that the Bear is not dead but ready to regain it's place in the sun.
I guess Dmitri will become Tsar, interesting path if he is actually becoming Tsar. He has only 4-5 years to do whatever he wants for Russia