Post-Russia
Post-Russia was a short-lived post-leftist state in western Russia that tried to overthrow the rationalist provisional government of the Union of Russia.
| Post-Leftist State of Russia | |||||
| Постлевое государство Россия | |||||
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| Motto If we want to end suffering in Russia we might as well end Russia itself! | |||||
| Capital | Penza | ||||
| Languages | Russian, Erzian | ||||
| Official languages | None | ||||
| Ethnic groups | Eastern Slavs, Erzyans | ||||
| Religion | Atheism | ||||
| Government | Post-Leftist Authoritarian Dictatorship | ||||
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| Population | |||||
| - | 823 000 | ||||
Personality
Post-Russia is indifferent, pessemistic and detatched. Scholars from the first half of the century would undoubtedly had described him as an "edgy emo doomer". This is further noticable in his quote upon declaring independence "Insurrection. Yay..." whilst looking incredibly unenthusiastic about it, - a statement that is most likely meant as post-ironical.
Goals
After seeing the failures of the policies of the Union of Russia, he, along with the Russian Commune had enough. Unlike the Russian Commune however, Post-Russia did not attempt to rectify the Union's mistakes, but instead embraced the hopelessness of the perpetual suffering for the average UR civilian. Instead of fighting the oppression, they thought it better to just give up.
"There is no way we can salvage this situation for our people. If we want to end suffering in Russia we might as well end Russia itself!" - Leader of Post-Russia, off-screen 2085.
Ideological Significance
Post-Russia's post-leftism can be traced back to old schools of anarcho-nihilism that arose from Russia's Nihilist movement in the 1860s. Scholars often label its ideological and phillosophical reasoning as "proto-annihilism" due to its similarities to other similar movements in Spain and Finland and due to the role it played of developing annihilism as an ideology.
History
Background
See more: 3rd Russian Revolution
Yevlogiy Pyotr, who was the current leader of the Union of Russia, was shot in a riot by a starving peasant in February 2085. With his only successour Ignat Pyotr deemed too young to rule, the rationalists and the conservative socialists declared a coaltion government which had already fallen apart by March. Following this, the Russian Army mutinied and many break-away nations started arising and amidst this chaos so did Post-Russia.
Insurgency
On the 18th of May, 2085, Post-Russia declared his insurrection, but his morale was very low from the start, due to his ideological presumpositions. On the 2nd of June his territories had been consolidated as the rationalist anocratic government had completely lost control over the region, only maintaining a foothold in Sarov to the north. On the first of June his armies managed to capture the Polish occupied city of Penza, declaring it his capital. He also sent out a small force in hopes to capture the Erzyan capital Kuznetsk, though by this point he had already past his peak.
Downfall
The Republic of Russia who had joined the war back in May had by now mobilized an army to cross the radiated wastelands along the Volga to the east. The army met up with a Polish one who had just encricled two Post-Russian battallions in the south, and following this the Republican forces broke through the Post-Russian lines, the Russian Army captured and Penza and on the 30th of June Post-Russia capitulated. Historians often argue wether a higher morale, as in, more akin to that of aggressive annihilism could have saved the state, however, considering the overwhelming number advantage held by the Republicans, this is thought to be unlikely, especially if the republic would choose to put in the effort.