The Story

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*I've used two days
*It's just the first version of it.
also note that,
*It's a mixture of fact and fiction

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The Beginning
The Soviet Union was getting weaker during the ‘70s. While the rest of the world was out partying and getting laid; Russian scientists were buggering with faults in their nuclear weapons. They were sure that their current stash of seven thousand nuclear devices would provide an excellent way of gaining more power. If they worked that is.
For they actually didn’t. During a nuclear test in 1965, the Russians had discovered that their outdated nukes were malfunctioning and in some cases exploded uncalled.

Therefore the heads of the Soviet assigned several hundred scientists to develop new, more dangerous weapons.
(Assigned is a varied term, but in this case it corresponds to forced labor.) As the scientists worked hard on, and eventually discovering, new ways of creating bombs and using uranium more efficiently; the opposing political parties, such as the Ultra Nationalists, gained significant power. But minorities such as the League of Workers also started to grow, yet slowly.

On the 26th of April, 1986 the Chernobyl Disaster struck the Soviet Union. This, though not externally visible, weakened the Union massively. Partly because of the disaster itself and partly because of the amount of Uranium lost. This forced the Union to speed up the development and production of nukes, and as a result they had roughly fourteen thousand by the end of the eighties.

In the few years prior to the coup in ’91, the Soviets had trouble keeping rebels off the street. As a result, the Ultra Nationalists and the growing League of Workers tried to seize power within Russia. It wasn’t until 1991 that the Ultra Nationalists succeeded and the League of Workers was basically forgotten. Head of Government was occupied by the Ultra Nationalist Vasiliy Petrov, whose reputation wasn’t exactly something to boast about. His enemies and opponents laid mainly within the League of Workers and several, minority opposition groups. On a stormy night, only months after the coup, Petrov was involved in a shady car accident that involved numerous Workers and acquaintances thereof. It’s commonly accepted that it was a well-planned and well-executed assassination. After the death of their leader, the Ultra Nationalists virtually broke up. A few stuck together and formed a miniature, non-functional government while the rest (believing it was the West that assassinated Petrov) divided up to form small rebellious factions.

In early 1992, the League of Workers seized power through storming a meeting held by the remaining Ultra Nationalists. The men were all executed on the spot, and a TV broadcasting confirmed that a “communist empire ruled by a benevolent dictator” was to rise. This caused great controversy all over the world.

Opposition

While the League of Workers sought to bring their own warped Leninism to the Soviet Union, the general population did not want dictatorship or communism, and especially not both. They wanted a democratic capitalistic society, and within a fog of confusion and anger, the Workers launched a meaningless purge within Russia. Killing thousands of innocent citizens. The United States and UN were quick to claim that such genocide was not to be launched within the UN (whom Russia had recently joined). But to the surprise of many, the Workers simply denounced all treaties that they or prior Governments had ever signed or agreed to, and literally demolished every single alliance they had. They went as far as burning the flags of the UN in Moscow on live television.
These acts angered and negatively shocked most of the world. China was not among the shocked, for some reason.

Heat

The UN eventually turned out to be less powerful than anticipated by all parties, seeing as diplomacy failed (to that extent that Russia was deemed ‘in-human’ on TV) threats failed, and even assassination attempts failed miserably, causing much thought over the stability and morality of the UN. The US then entered the fray with nuclear threats, yet with little to no effect. The US could not, in fact, launch a nuclear attack on the Russians seeing as they had no bombs which could reach that far. The League of Workers kept on their merciless slaughtering in their own country, while the remaining Ultra Nationalists stormed several nuclear storages and underwater facilities in the attempt to arm the many nukes.

The United States somehow discovered this and proceeded to mobilize their forces. While the Ultra Nationalists suddenly disappeared, their conquest presumed failed, the League of Workers kept on getting followers and supporters outside Russia. People held demonstrations all over Europe, and even in America. To a certain degree. As the League of Nations suddenly threatened everyone with nuclear war, America stepped in and during secret operations all over the world they managed to hold the psychotic Russians at bay. Rumors of black cargo ships and mysterious landings flew all over the news and in the newspapers, all the while society as a whole was crumbling apart.

Nuclear Winter

At exactly 15:06:56 on the 15th of December 1992, American forces stormed a Soviet stronghold in Yakutsk in a desperate attempt to disarm the largest recorded nuclear device in history. Albeit the invading force was only 50 men, they managed to penetrate the bunker; fighting off suicide bombers and other fanatics. Even though the Americans managed to disarm the bomb and cheer, it was only a brief victory.

Followed by certain death.

The launch of the nuke in that very base was stopped, but seventy five percent of all other Russian nukes all over the world were mysteriously armed, or already had been. Theories claim that it was the Russians luring the Americans and Europeans into a trap, but it was never proven right or wrong. Nobody knew anything, it seemed, and in a matter of a second the northern hemisphere was briefly enlightened by a bright flash. It lasted only a second, but from outer space there was only complete devastation within eyesight afterwards. There was silence, but suddenly it happened again. This time it was in America: No explosion was present, only a single, massive, mushroom cloud in the very middle of North America.. Then the cloud ignited, massive flames, and silence was once again present.

But the whole world was quiet for nothing more than ten seconds as a rattling thunder and a massive roar raged across the planet, lasting several minutes: TV reporters screwed up their eyes on television, TV shows turned into nothing but non-moving bodies on the floor and whatever may once have been radio broadcasting was reduced to mere screams and gasps, plus the occasional man pledging for his life. Those unharmed sat in their living rooms, shocked and afraid. Not knowing where to go or what to do.

Roughly one day later, a single broadcasting on TV was made. It was a man sitting in what looked like a CNN studio, but the broken walls and bodies on the floor made for a terrifying sight. The man held a speech he seemed to have written himself. It was almost incomprehensible due to the bad quality of the camera and the man’s own voice. The speech involved the disaster and his own presumed percentage of death, seventy percent of the world population, while it all culminated to the death of the man himself.

The world had virtually ended for many.

The world had ended for most.

The World: Aftermath

It was a horrific sight as the population of the world looked out of their windows to see their neighborhood almost deserted and massive mushroom clouds vaporizing, slowly disappearing in the distance. Then, afterwards, people thought of the post-nuclear effects. A world-wide phobia for anyone or anything that seemed ill or otherwise abnormal spread just as fast as the oxygen. Some underestimated the effects, and went on with their lives eventually becoming so irradiated that their skin would start bobbling.

In the Soviet Union there was nothing. 96% of the former o-so-great nation was nuclear wasteland, and no contact could be made. The stronghold in Yakutsk was still intact, but the invaders were presumed dead by the massive wave of radiation. The Ultra-Nationalists, The League of Workers, the citizens, the tourists and all the animals were either dead or dying. Only in the very top of Russia, nearing the Bering Strait, there was a possible chance for survival.

Asia was devastated as well, because they had several Soviet warheads underneath critical cities such as Shanghai and all over the Himalaya mountains. The beautiful culture of China had been crushed and never to be re-built. The magnificence of Japan was underneath the earth’s surface, as several parts of the island were sinking. What could once have been India was now a southern version of Russia: Wasteland. Though these areas had chances for survivors within them they were small. The only part in Asia which was only partly irradiated was Indonesia and Australia. Both of these used what would later be called the “Pocket System”.

Europe was divided, almost amazingly, in a straight line. It went diagonal from the top of France (France being the only “pocket” due to a single nuke) to the bottom of Greece, cutting through everything. All the things above it were inhospitable and radiated, while the things below it was barely radiated. No pockets at least.

America. The asshole of the world, and was even more of an asshole after the war. A large crater was present on the border between Canada and the US. It measured roughly 100km to all sides from the center of it. This was, seemingly, the only nuclear explosion in America but it had laid Canada as a wasteland and the east coast impossible to live in. From the middle, excluding the Crater, all the way to west coast was filled to the brim with pockets of radioactivity. There were only very few areas with chances of survival, and one of these was San Andreas...


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