I've been thinking about the partitioning of Russia while working on the techs. Generally, we've established that Russia should be carved up in order to weaken it, but not to the point where it's too weak to withstand a Soviet assault.
1 -
Free City of St. Petersburg. Ithron suggested this one as a German puppet to control the sea trade and traffic in the vicinity of hostile Communist Finland.
2 -
German Volga Republic (Wolgadeutsche Republik). Germany would want that part of Russia to be autonomous and run by ethnic Germans. It will be in the Axis core (along with Germany, Russia, Scandinavia, and depending on how the Baltic will be freed, Estonia, Latvia or Ostland).
3 - Territory that I'm thinking will be assigned to Ukraine if it's liberated. It would count as compensation for Romania owning Transnistria and Germany owning Galicia.
4 - Some independent state, I don't know which. I really don't want it to be a Cossacks Federation or a Kuban/Don Federation, as these have been done in other mods. If anyone has any idea what state could be added here, post away.
So, what do you think?