Comrade! Congratulations for your electoral success and welcome to the Politburo! Being on the Political Bureau is no easy task however. For you see Comrade, our glorious Soviet Union has entered dire times. General Secretary Gorbachev's policies of Glastnost and Perestroika have tore the entire system asunder and rumors of a 'collapse' fill the smokey air of Red Army High Command and the Central Committee. As per your new position, your duty shall be to serve the Union and her people! Show the entire Politburo that your home SSR is the finest in wealth, prestige, culture, and power! Perhaps you are the type who's hands are not so clean? Perhaps you'd be willing to work with your fellow Politburo members and take the General Secretariat's seat right from under old Gorby? Or perhaps you are a noble and just politician, if there ever was one. Regardless of what you wish to do with your new position, just know Comrade. There is a Crisis in the Kremlin!

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Welcome to Crisis in the Kremlin! Based upon the 1991 PC strategy game of the same name, you shall be taking the role as a member of the highest political organ of the Soviet Union. Your place in the Politburo is entirely yours to make, where you hail from and how noble or corrupt you are is entirely up to you! However, there shall always be a crisis! In these turbulent final(?) years of the USSR the actions and policies you and your fellow Politburo members take are crucial in saving both your seats, but also your nation. The RP will largely be played from the background, with PMs and discussion being encouraged! In addition to whatever player created events take place, there will be consistent GM events involving events outside the USSR, often causing 'crisis' and furthering the plot of our little political thriller.

I am not a rule-heavy GM, in fact I find having too many rules is worse than too few in many cases. However, there will be a few basic ones.

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Please post your character sheet in the OOC for approval before transferring the sheet to the Characters tab. Also do note that yes, your character may very well die in this! Thus, a 'Date of Death' tab has been added. But fear not! For a new character is free of charge in our glorious Worker's Paradise!

Damn. Uh.. Nevermind. Er. One sec.

YOU JUST WON YOURSELF GULAG TIME COMRADE

Still gotta do some research, but expect a character application posted by this Wednesday night.

Is the RP actually set in the year 1991?

Is the RP actually set in the year 1991?

Takes place in 1989. If we set it in '91 we'd basically just be playing the Russian Federation. So I think setting it a year or two before the historical fall of the USSR gives us some time to develop characters and prepare for such major events or even prevent them entirely.

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Takes place in 1989. If we set it in '91 we'd basically just be playing the Russian Federation. So I think setting it a year or two before the historical fall of the USSR gives us some time to develop characters and prepare for such major events or even prevent them entirely.

Okay, that's good info. So, the end of the Soviet Union isn't set in stone yet. Are we looking at January 1st, or some time later? Has the Berlin Wall gone down yet? (I know its demolition doesn't really get into gear until 1990, but still.)

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Okay, that's good info. So, the end of the Soviet Union isn't set in stone yet. Are we looking at January 1st, or some time later? Has the Berlin Wall gone down yet? (I know its demolition doesn't really get into gear until 1990, but still.)

January 1st.

As of current none of the events that directly brought the end of the USSR are in effect. However perestroika and glasnost are ongoing programs. This includes the fall of the Pact satellite states.

Gonna begin my app. Should I post directly in Char. tab or wait for approval?

NAME: Permyakov, Gavriil

AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: 53, April 27th, 1935

DATE & CAUSE OF DEATH: –

GENDER: Male

BIRTHPLACE (SSR included): Balkash, Kazakh

REPRESENTING SSR: Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic

POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Expansionist, Hardliner

OBJECTIVE: Claim as much land as physically possible for the Motherland.

RELIGION AND ETHNICITY: Orthodox, Russian

BACKGROUND: [REDACTED]

NAME: Igor Shilnikov

AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: 64, March 12th, 1926

DATE & CAUSE OF DEATH: TBA

GENDER: Male

BIRTHPLACE (SSR included): Riga, Latvia

REPRESENTING SSR: Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Reformer

OTHER: Igor Shilnikov's name is synonymous with the Russian Mafia. His brother, Pasha Shilnikov, is a famous bootlegger and smuggler who has worked for The Odessa Mafia from prison for fourty years, while his father in law is the current head of one of Armenia's largest criminal groups, the Uralmash gang. His most outspoken critic, Crimean artist and political activist Boris Timofeyev, famous for his series of paintings depicting famous mobsters wearing Igor's trademark thick-rimmed glasses, has been missing for four months.

I'm still working on my sheet, but I'm going to ask that I be allowed to represent the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

I'm still working on my sheet, but I'm going to ask that I be allowed to represent the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Knock yourself out. We can have representatives of the same SSR. I mean, the Politburo had MANY Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarussians.

Also @DeadBeatWalking is accepted!

@Gaebrael I assume you're still working since I'm not entirely sure I can accept [REDACTED] as a background. PM me if it's a secretive sort of deal. Otherwise accepted!

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Knock yourself out. We can have representatives of the same SSR. I mean, the Politburo had MANY Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarussians.

Also @DeadBeatWalking is accepted!

@Gaebrael I assume you're still working since I'm not entirely sure I can accept [REDACTED] as a background. PM me if it's a secretive sort of deal. Otherwise accepted!

Point taken. I'll participate as a Russian representative instead, then.

I've still got a few hours of class ahead of me (I start the drive home in 5 hours), but I should have time to make a post either tonight or after my class tomorrow (which ends at 9:30 a.m. Central - so I'll be home around 10:30 Central).

NAME: Kazimir Volkov

AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: 70, October 1, 1920

DATE & CAUSE OF DEATH: TBA

GENDER: Male

BIRTHPLACE (SSR included): Moscow, Russia

REPRESENTING SSR: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Expansionist

OBJECTIVE: Foster Communism abroad, thwart the United States wherever it goes, ally with or absorb states in South America, and protect the Motherland and her people at all costs.

RELIGION AND ETHNICITY: Atheist, Russian

OTHER: It is difficult to say who Volkov's parents were, or even to verify that he was born in Moscow. His father was reportedly a soldier who fought for the Red Army in the Bolshevik Revolution. He must have been from a poor family, and it's very possible that his father wasn't a soldier at all. Still, Volkov signed up eagerly to fight for Russia when World War II broke out.

Volkov fought in World War II as a common infantryman, but he rose through the ranks at a respectable pace. He saw the worst of the fighting personally and was among those soldiers that celebrated in Berlin after Nazi Germany were defeated. He returned home and stayed in the military and became thoroughly educated in military affairs. He did not, however, receive any other sort of education, and views the study of topics unrelated to war and foreign affairs a sordid waste of his time.

The salty old general left the military five years ago to join the Politburo. He does a good job of coming off as a lethargic old man, but in reality is very attentive and observant.

Volkov wants to see Communism spread to all the world. He doesn't necessarily want to march the Red Army across the globe - that would, after all, be a tremendous undertaking - but he does think it is feasible to help weaker nations realize their potential and embrace Russia's form of government. That, he thinks, would be better both for those foreign nations, for Russia, and for the citizens of the world.

@Shorticus and @Gaebrael are accepted! You can now move your sheets to the Character Tab!

For those still interested I do recommend working up at least a WIP in the next day or so. I'd like to avoid this dying from inactivity before we even start. Besides that we're looking good gents!

Out of curiosity, do you have any sources you'd recommend we read to prepare for the start of the RP?

Out of curiosity, do you have any sources you'd recommend we read to prepare for the start of the RP?

This is a decent video that explains the direct fall of the Soviet Union. However I also recommend reading just from Wikipedia. Of course due to rather blatant political beliefs I have a bias opinion personally on the fall of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, but I will however remain entirely neutral in the RP and leave it to the players to lead the Union.

May I hop in?

May I hop in?

Of course! We certainly need more players!