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I'm not sure what to say honestly, most of the stuff I use to write the story around it is genuine historical documents (Mostly a mix of Kotkin, Marxists.org, wikipedia, YouTube channels, and so on).
Personally I'm not really a communist but I'm not against it, yet at the same time, I know...
July 16, 1988
Vladivostok Government Office
Vladivostok, USSR
Gennady Semyonovich Pugo wasn't much of a smoker — strictly a social one, the kind who only lit up when someone else offered. Yet he'd already burned through an entire pack of Stalin cigarettes this morning and was starting on a...
In order to restore the vision of the great Lenin. The party, using the authority granted to it must take it upon themselves to use this years annual party Congress to depose comrade Yakov Stalin, and cast out the Stalin family from power. The revolution must cast off the shadow and stain of...
July 13, 1988
Port of Vladivostok
Vladivostok, USSR
"Start the truck," the general beside him said.
Vadim Sergeyovich Popov turned the key without a word and pulled out. He was at the head of the convoy, two dozen trucks behind him by his count, half of them loaded with sailors from the Far...
January 2, 1979
Lubyanka Building
Moscow, USSR
Sergei Ivanovich Steinberg stepped into the briefing room, it was compact, functional, a little over two dozen desks arranged in front of a larger one at the head. Behind that desk hung the portraits everyone had long since stopped noticing: Marx...
September 18, 1978
Moscow, USSR
Tatiana Smirnovna Pugacheva lifted the lid from the pot and breathed in. The borscht was almost ready, she could tell by the way the smell had deepened, the beets and beef melting into something rich and dark. Her son had asked for it specifically, and since his...
The Soviet team is a machine, there's no doubt about that. All of their players on average have higher physical fitness, ball coordination and cohesion, I do not take that from them and genuinely admire them. But what they make up for in athleticism and coordination they cannot make up in pure...
Wikipedia page on Operation Storm 333
Operation Storm-333
Operation Storm-333 (Russian: Шторм-333, Shtorm-333) was a Soviet military operation executed in Equatorial Guinea on May 1, 1975. Drawing on special forces and airborne troops, Soviet units stormed the heavily fortified presidential...
I should probably emphasize and state that I don't endorse anti semitism and if you unironically agree with this to please unfollow this story. Given the state of things these days I should have probably wrote a disclaimer at the start of the chapter.
And yes, he's not anti semitic, he's just...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on Operation Stalin
Operation Stalin (December 25, 1941 - January 4, 1942) was a Soviet strategic operation on the Eastern Front of World War II which led to the encirclement of Axis forces in the vicinity of Kiev.
March 25, 1923
Donskoy Monastery
Moscow, USSR...
July 7, 1989
Najin ward
Rason Free city
People's Soviet Republic of Korea
Jae-il woke to the sound of his alarm, dragged himself out of bed, and shuffled across the room to shut it off. He checked the time. 9 AM. He'd slept nearly twelve hours.
Yesterday had been a long day, fishing with...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia Page on the Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution (Farsi: انقلاب ۱۹۵۳) was a period of civil, police and military upheaval in Iran that culminated in the dissolution of the Iranian Monarchy in the 1953 following the Iranian Coup. It is generally considered to have...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia Page on the Internationalist Brigades
The Soviet Corps of Internationalist Volunteers (Russian: Советский корпус интернационалистических добровольцев, romanized: Sovetskiy korpus internatsionalisticheskikh dobrovoltsev), commonly referred to as the Internationalist...
Threadmarks: Side Story 9: The Bear and the Jaguar
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on the Soviet–Brazilian football rivalry
The Soviet–Brazilian football rivalry is a sporting rivalry between the national football teams of the Soviet Union and Brazil, along with their respective supporter bases, widely regarded as one of the most intense in the...
We would like to remind comrade Everett that Russia is one of twelve republics within the Soviet Union. Instead of Lets bomb Russia, we would appreciate if next time he said, "Let's bomb the Soviet Union", or "Let's bomb the Soviets", or "Lets bomb the USSR". Though of course we would not like...
Excerpt from George Orwell's 1945 novel, Animal Farm:
Napoleon and Bonaparte were two large Berkshire boars, litter-mates from the same sow, but so different in manner that many animals wondered how they had come from the same mother.
Napoleon was a pig of quiet disposition, rarely seen in...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on The Moscow Accords
The Moscow Accords, formally the Common Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), is a collective defense treaty signed in Moscow, Soviet Union, on 17 February 1940, shortly after the conclusion of the Winter War. The original signatories include...
Look up Randy Shilts, he was a real life reporter, the first gay reporter for a major American newspaper. He was born in 1951 so he'd be 34 in this article.
Unfortunately he died of AIDS in 1994
I try to use real life figures for my side stories.