Rossiya Svechenaya Nasha Derzava
Rossiya Lubimaya Nasha Strana
Moguchaya Volya, Velikaya Slava
Tvoye Dostoyane Na Vse Vremena
Out of the ashes of the destroyed and ruined country came a light of hope. A completley unknown man, Mikhail Sergeyevich, a moderate communist and a distant relative of the Romanov family lived his life quitley until one day his life changed. The CPSU intended to have a symbol for people to rally around, and he was to be that symbol. And so, within a week of finding it out, in Moscow, the new Czar of Russia was crowned by the Patriarch, and the history of Russia took a drastic turn in a direction nobody who orchestrated this turn could imagine.
A few months later...
Kremlin was restored, building for building the way it was before the blasts. Now it stood tall and proud in the middle of the destroyed city of Moscow serving as a symbol of Russia's re-newed strength and power. And inside the Kremlin, the people who smelled the coming change in power tried to make sure they would not be left behind.
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko
The first was Alexey Gromyko. The minister of foreign affairs of the Soviet Union, and now of the CER, was a brilliant man. He was a skilled diplomat and politician, and as soon as Mikhail was crowned Czar started scouting the territory. He found out that Mikhail was not an ignorant nobody that the Communists thought him to be, and that the way things were going Mikhail could be a very useful friend to have. He used all his influence to stay in his position, and was now talking with Mikhail behind closed doors in the Kremlin.
Alexandr Nikolayevich Balkhovsky
The Second was Alexand Balkhovsky. Previously a nobody, but thanks to the reforms Mikhail took now he was one of the leading Aristocrats in Russia. He held a high position in the military and ran the whole oil and gas secotors of Russia's economy. Was never a member of the communist party, and felt no loyalty to anyone but Mikhail. Despised by the Communists and trusted by Mikhail and Gromyko. At the moment he was in the reception room, waiting to talk to Mikhail.
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov
The last one we will talk about to day was Yuri Andropov. Leader of the Partisan Movement during WWII and later one of the top man in the Communist Party. After the nuclear exchange he took the leadership of the CPSU and was now second guessing installing Mikhail. He did not exactly like the direction the country was heading in in the last few months. He has just walked into the Kremlin and demanded to speak to Mikhail.
It was August 3rd, 1966 and the weather in Moscow was cloudy, but warm. Inside the Kremlin, these 4 men were playing a game with the consequences greater than what any of them could have predicted...