Russia had an alliance with Germany around this time, and they invade Poland together, throwing the world into WWII, however, in 1941 Russia is betrayed and Germany invades. Once more, Russia relies on the scorched earth policy, and it’s with remarkably similar instances that Napoleon faced that Russia is able to drive out Germany. It is not without casualty however, millions were killed and it left Russia weak and thirsty for revenge.
Which she got.
Pushing the Germans out of her heartlands meant that they had nowhere but towards Germany to go and Russia kept pressing them backwards, capturing and holding the lands between them for the Union. Russia was vicious in her pursuit, and she does eventually manage to catch up with Germany. With the end of WWII Russia rises to the position of a superpower, and this also kicks off the Cold War. Insert nuclear threats, arms races, space races and just all out tension between Russia and America for the next half a century and you get the picture. There’s a lot more detail I could go into this because it was obviously a big deal between not only Russia and America, but the rest of the world who basically had to wait on pins and needles to see if the two superpowers would unleash nuclear annihilation on each other and the world.
By the time of Khrushchev’s reign, Russia was a little better at holding herself together and controlling the little slips of mania she occasionally had. This goes hand in hand with the thaw in the Cold War, though the Cuban Missile Crisis and the end of the thaw does not help much. When the battles pick up in Korea and Vietnam, Russia simply packs up, picks up her gun and heads out to fight once more. Unfortunately for her, she also had to deal with the incredibly disheartening treatment of women soldiers from her own people. Given her strength and sheer force of will, Russia proved herself quite easily, but it is still something I thought to be worth mentioning. It means much to her because it strengthened her belief that she must hold herself up and expect no help. Her already tenuous ability to trust fades further and she pulls away from people. In a sense, she never shows her true self, because she’s been taught and forced into shoving her emotions and reactions down so nobody can get to them and hurt her. Russia is incredibly guarded, and she doesn’t trust easily. This is offset by her dream to live happily with everyone in a warm place filled with sunflowers. But again, it makes perfect sense because one of Russia’s biggest fears is being left all alone. During her time as the Soviet Union, she tried to combat this by “hoarding” other nations, in a sense. For a while it worked and her house was full of others, but they didn’t truly want to be there and fought to get away. Eventually they succeeded, and one by one everyone left Russia behind as they once more gained independence. Shee fought this fiercely, and sometimes in an over the top manner, but it didn’t matter because her government was crashing and she could not keep everyone together.
So they left, and she fell.
In December of 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia’s economy was down in the dumps. Mobsters took over and she found the corruption inescapable. It does not help when in 1998 the stock market crashes and Russia’s economy once more takes a swan dive into the deep end. But Russia has been slowly working herself up and as of modern day she’s doing relatively okay. Relatively being the key word. That said, some things have definitely not changed.
{ [FANDOM OC] Russia/Anya Braginskaya || Axis Powers Hetalia || reserve || 3 of 5 }
Russia had an alliance with Germany around this time, and they invade Poland together, throwing the world into WWII, however, in 1941 Russia is betrayed and Germany invades. Once more, Russia relies on the scorched earth policy, and it’s with remarkably similar instances that Napoleon faced that Russia is able to drive out Germany. It is not without casualty however, millions were killed and it left Russia weak and thirsty for revenge.
Which she got.
Pushing the Germans out of her heartlands meant that they had nowhere but towards Germany to go and Russia kept pressing them backwards, capturing and holding the lands between them for the Union. Russia was vicious in her pursuit, and she does eventually manage to catch up with Germany. With the end of WWII Russia rises to the position of a superpower, and this also kicks off the Cold War. Insert nuclear threats, arms races, space races and just all out tension between Russia and America for the next half a century and you get the picture. There’s a lot more detail I could go into this because it was obviously a big deal between not only Russia and America, but the rest of the world who basically had to wait on pins and needles to see if the two superpowers would unleash nuclear annihilation on each other and the world.
By the time of Khrushchev’s reign, Russia was a little better at holding herself together and controlling the little slips of mania she occasionally had. This goes hand in hand with the thaw in the Cold War, though the Cuban Missile Crisis and the end of the thaw does not help much. When the battles pick up in Korea and Vietnam, Russia simply packs up, picks up her gun and heads out to fight once more. Unfortunately for her, she also had to deal with the incredibly disheartening treatment of women soldiers from her own people. Given her strength and sheer force of will, Russia proved herself quite easily, but it is still something I thought to be worth mentioning. It means much to her because it strengthened her belief that she must hold herself up and expect no help. Her already tenuous ability to trust fades further and she pulls away from people. In a sense, she never shows her true self, because she’s been taught and forced into shoving her emotions and reactions down so nobody can get to them and hurt her. Russia is incredibly guarded, and she doesn’t trust easily. This is offset by her dream to live happily with everyone in a warm place filled with sunflowers. But again, it makes perfect sense because one of Russia’s biggest fears is being left all alone. During her time as the Soviet Union, she tried to combat this by “hoarding” other nations, in a sense. For a while it worked and her house was full of others, but they didn’t truly want to be there and fought to get away. Eventually they succeeded, and one by one everyone left Russia behind as they once more gained independence. Shee fought this fiercely, and sometimes in an over the top manner, but it didn’t matter because her government was crashing and she could not keep everyone together.
So they left, and she fell.
In December of 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia’s economy was down in the dumps. Mobsters took over and she found the corruption inescapable. It does not help when in 1998 the stock market crashes and Russia’s economy once more takes a swan dive into the deep end. But Russia has been slowly working herself up and as of modern day she’s doing relatively okay. Relatively being the key word. That said, some things have definitely not changed.