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Character Name: Russia | Ivan Braginski
Canon: Axis Powers Hetalia
Housing Change:
Russia will stay in the same house; 1444 Mitchell Road
Reason for Canon Update:
Russia's been in Mayfield for over a year, and it's time for something a little different. But not that much different. Russia never changes.
Updated Background:
1957 - 1969
Despite Khrushchev's few successes - the launch of Sputnik, the Thaw, deStalinization and fairly radical liberalization of the Soviet Union - his final few years were marked by a series of dramatic failures. First the famous "Shoe-Slap" incident, which was basically just trolling the U.N. by specifically bringing a shoe and slapping it on the table when he wanted to interrupt somebody. Next the spectacular failure that was the Virgin Lands, wherin native Russian farmers were shipped off to the Eastern Soviet Republics, such as Kazakstan and Tajikistan, to create new farmland. Unfortunately, this ended in making only giant dust bowls, not blossoming grain provinces.
Khruschev's popularity faded immensely with the construction of the Berlin Wall, culminating with the Berlin Crisis, and the tank-standoff between the US and Soviet Forces at Checkpoint Charlie - but the final nail in his coffin came with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963. As American nuclear weaponry began to overtake the Soviets in leaps and bounds, they began stationing them all over Europe: including Jupiter ballistic missiles in Turkey, which could potentially take out Moscow with about 15 minutes of warning. Khrushchev, being upset that this could destroy his summer home and also millions of people, then starts shipping his own missiles to Cuba. The Americans promptly flip the fuck out, because seriously, shit is whack. After some extremely tense discussion, the Soviets pull their missiles out of Cuba in exchange for the US pulling out of Turkey: the catch being that Khrushchev can't tell anyone the missiles are gone from Turkey. To the rest of the government and the people of the USSR, it looks like Khrushchev just ran away whimpering which just isn't right.
In 1964, Khrushchev is unanimously voted out of office while he's on vacation, and a man named Brezhnev takes over. There are also two others, but they clearly aren't important because i can't remember their names and Brezhnev has them kicked out anyway. He spends alot of time slamming on Khrushchev and even trying to bring back some of Stalin's good favor, which had been constantly slammed in the past 10 years. Some of Brezhnev's main changes was to move back to a "Collective Leadership" - basically an oligarchy, and to reintroduce the full power of the KGB (then led by Andropov, who takes over after Brezhnev's death in the 80s): which leads to a return of the repression of Stalinist Eras. While the Gulags don't return, just about everything else does - including severe limitation of the press, literary and artistic circles - basically undoing everything the Khrushchev Thaw did. (That said, this mostly showed up in effect as Spy Drama, not so much the Secret Police Coming In the Night to Drag you Away to Be Shot sort of thing).
During this time, America is getting wrapped up in Vietnam - the Soviets all too happy to watch them poor money and effort into it. The USSR ships off buttloads of weaponry, tanks, and especially aircraft and in general trolls from afar and calls America stupid names behind his back.
Brezhnev was, in short, ineffective. He failed to keep up in the Space Race, resulting in the dramatic (and explosive!) failure of the Soyuz project and the N1 Rocket, leaving the way open for the Americans to launch their Apollo and finally make their Moon Landing in 1969. During this time, several Satellite States starting making noise about being unhappy, and the Soviets just don't put up with that kinda whining - this all culminated in the Prague Spring, after Czechoslovakia had a brief uprising and attempted governmental coup, the Soviets did what they did best: sent in tanks to solve the problem. This also leads to the Brezhnev Doctrine, which is basically a weak excuse to enforce the Warsaw Pact. Though his economic policies until the early 70s were actually effective, as during the late 60s and until the Stagnation starting in 73, they were a huge industrial producer. In short: they made a shitload of tractors until they couldn't sell the tractors russia don't you learn anything from history
...I THINK THAT'S THE BASICS.
Updated Personality:
Russia's personality doesn't change significantly - or at least the front he shows to those around him. He's really much the same combination of stubborn, controlling and over-bearing motherland he has been, though the 60s have changed the face of the Soviet Union. Following Khrushchev series of diplomatic blunders - the Virgin Lands Campaign, the Berlin Wall and finally the Cuban Missile Crisis - his successor, Brezhnev installed far more regressive social campaigns and actively fought the (slight) liberalization that had taken place in the 50s. Censorship and the arrest and prosecution of dissidents is back in full force, though not with the violence of the Stalin-Era. Russia's (official) opinions will be more critical of behavior and thoughts he finds anti-Soviet, as well as being even more repressed than he was before if that is even possible oh russia you socially awkward failure.
Russia is, if anything, perhaps a tad more dogmatic, but less violently reactive to the West. Following the Missile Crisis, outright tensions between the Soviet Union and the US decreased, instead working their way into other avenues, including proxy war and the Space Race. Russia has a healthier respect for the potential of Mutually Assured Destruction and more chooses to seethe at America from a distance as opposed to straight up threaten to nuke him to bits. Though he's potentially less violent, he's no less bitter - probably moreso, infact. Losing the Space Race and watching his economy slowly circle the drain isn't making him particularly fond of the West - though he hasn't quite reached the point of grain aid from the US. Which just wouldn't be pretty. His newest enemy, however, is a former ally. By the 70s, the Soviets and the Chinese are outright fighting in clashes at their border. This turn of events prompts Russia, who is basically that insane ex that insists that if he can't have you THEN NO ONE CAN, to make strides in détente to avoid a US-Sino Superteam - though this is a little bit beyond where Russia is coiming from in 69', the tremors of it are beginning at this point.
That isn't to say he's at all less . . . let's say domineering towards those whom he considers should be under the complete control of the Soviet Union. The Brezhnev Doctrine was one of the most obvious statements by the Soviet Union of its intentions, which was basically “We Own Your Ass, So Quit Bitching or We'll Invade: Now With Extra Tanks.” It states that any Socialist country attempting to turn to Capitalism is suddenly Russia's “business,” and his right to come in and fix. Often with tanks. Russia knows that he's losing his grip on several of his socialist buddies - especially following the Prague Spring - and feels the need to control them to the point of micromanagement.
On another note, his economy is beginning to start that sink into the mud trap that ends up in the Brezhnev Stagnation, so as a regain in the future, he'll start showing signs of this by getting a constant, if not particularly serious as of yet, sniffly cold.
In short; Russia is more repressed, more controlling and more bitter is that even proper grammar I don't know. Also he's just discovering the Beatles. And jeans.
Updated Abilities:
Nothing new.
Character Name: Russia | Ivan Braginski
Canon: Axis Powers Hetalia
Housing Change:
Russia will stay in the same house; 1444 Mitchell Road
Reason for Canon Update:
Russia's been in Mayfield for over a year, and it's time for something a little different. But not that much different. Russia never changes.
Updated Background:
1957 - 1969
Despite Khrushchev's few successes - the launch of Sputnik, the Thaw, deStalinization and fairly radical liberalization of the Soviet Union - his final few years were marked by a series of dramatic failures. First the famous "Shoe-Slap" incident, which was basically just trolling the U.N. by specifically bringing a shoe and slapping it on the table when he wanted to interrupt somebody. Next the spectacular failure that was the Virgin Lands, wherin native Russian farmers were shipped off to the Eastern Soviet Republics, such as Kazakstan and Tajikistan, to create new farmland. Unfortunately, this ended in making only giant dust bowls, not blossoming grain provinces.
Khruschev's popularity faded immensely with the construction of the Berlin Wall, culminating with the Berlin Crisis, and the tank-standoff between the US and Soviet Forces at Checkpoint Charlie - but the final nail in his coffin came with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963. As American nuclear weaponry began to overtake the Soviets in leaps and bounds, they began stationing them all over Europe: including Jupiter ballistic missiles in Turkey, which could potentially take out Moscow with about 15 minutes of warning. Khrushchev, being upset that this could destroy his summer home and also millions of people, then starts shipping his own missiles to Cuba. The Americans promptly flip the fuck out, because seriously, shit is whack. After some extremely tense discussion, the Soviets pull their missiles out of Cuba in exchange for the US pulling out of Turkey: the catch being that Khrushchev can't tell anyone the missiles are gone from Turkey. To the rest of the government and the people of the USSR, it looks like Khrushchev just ran away whimpering which just isn't right.
In 1964, Khrushchev is unanimously voted out of office while he's on vacation, and a man named Brezhnev takes over. There are also two others, but they clearly aren't important because i can't remember their names and Brezhnev has them kicked out anyway. He spends alot of time slamming on Khrushchev and even trying to bring back some of Stalin's good favor, which had been constantly slammed in the past 10 years. Some of Brezhnev's main changes was to move back to a "Collective Leadership" - basically an oligarchy, and to reintroduce the full power of the KGB (then led by Andropov, who takes over after Brezhnev's death in the 80s): which leads to a return of the repression of Stalinist Eras. While the Gulags don't return, just about everything else does - including severe limitation of the press, literary and artistic circles - basically undoing everything the Khrushchev Thaw did. (That said, this mostly showed up in effect as Spy Drama, not so much the Secret Police Coming In the Night to Drag you Away to Be Shot sort of thing).
During this time, America is getting wrapped up in Vietnam - the Soviets all too happy to watch them poor money and effort into it. The USSR ships off buttloads of weaponry, tanks, and especially aircraft and in general trolls from afar and calls America stupid names behind his back.
Brezhnev was, in short, ineffective. He failed to keep up in the Space Race, resulting in the dramatic (and explosive!) failure of the Soyuz project and the N1 Rocket, leaving the way open for the Americans to launch their Apollo and finally make their Moon Landing in 1969. During this time, several Satellite States starting making noise about being unhappy, and the Soviets just don't put up with that kinda whining - this all culminated in the Prague Spring, after Czechoslovakia had a brief uprising and attempted governmental coup, the Soviets did what they did best: sent in tanks to solve the problem. This also leads to the Brezhnev Doctrine, which is basically a weak excuse to enforce the Warsaw Pact. Though his economic policies until the early 70s were actually effective, as during the late 60s and until the Stagnation starting in 73, they were a huge industrial producer. In short: they made a shitload of tractors until they couldn't sell the tractors russia don't you learn anything from history
...I THINK THAT'S THE BASICS.
Updated Personality:
Russia's personality doesn't change significantly - or at least the front he shows to those around him. He's really much the same combination of stubborn, controlling and over-bearing motherland he has been, though the 60s have changed the face of the Soviet Union. Following Khrushchev series of diplomatic blunders - the Virgin Lands Campaign, the Berlin Wall and finally the Cuban Missile Crisis - his successor, Brezhnev installed far more regressive social campaigns and actively fought the (slight) liberalization that had taken place in the 50s. Censorship and the arrest and prosecution of dissidents is back in full force, though not with the violence of the Stalin-Era. Russia's (official) opinions will be more critical of behavior and thoughts he finds anti-Soviet, as well as being even more repressed than he was before if that is even possible oh russia you socially awkward failure.
Russia is, if anything, perhaps a tad more dogmatic, but less violently reactive to the West. Following the Missile Crisis, outright tensions between the Soviet Union and the US decreased, instead working their way into other avenues, including proxy war and the Space Race. Russia has a healthier respect for the potential of Mutually Assured Destruction and more chooses to seethe at America from a distance as opposed to straight up threaten to nuke him to bits. Though he's potentially less violent, he's no less bitter - probably moreso, infact. Losing the Space Race and watching his economy slowly circle the drain isn't making him particularly fond of the West - though he hasn't quite reached the point of grain aid from the US. Which just wouldn't be pretty. His newest enemy, however, is a former ally. By the 70s, the Soviets and the Chinese are outright fighting in clashes at their border. This turn of events prompts Russia, who is basically that insane ex that insists that if he can't have you THEN NO ONE CAN, to make strides in détente to avoid a US-Sino Superteam - though this is a little bit beyond where Russia is coiming from in 69', the tremors of it are beginning at this point.
That isn't to say he's at all less . . . let's say domineering towards those whom he considers should be under the complete control of the Soviet Union. The Brezhnev Doctrine was one of the most obvious statements by the Soviet Union of its intentions, which was basically “We Own Your Ass, So Quit Bitching or We'll Invade: Now With Extra Tanks.” It states that any Socialist country attempting to turn to Capitalism is suddenly Russia's “business,” and his right to come in and fix. Often with tanks. Russia knows that he's losing his grip on several of his socialist buddies - especially following the Prague Spring - and feels the need to control them to the point of micromanagement.
On another note, his economy is beginning to start that sink into the mud trap that ends up in the Brezhnev Stagnation, so as a regain in the future, he'll start showing signs of this by getting a constant, if not particularly serious as of yet, sniffly cold.
In short; Russia is more repressed, more controlling and more bitter is that even proper grammar I don't know. Also he's just discovering the Beatles. And jeans.
Updated Abilities:
Nothing new.