The Union of Soviet Stalinist Republics

"Lenin is always alive, Lenin is always with you - In grief, in hope and joy. Lenin in your spring, In every happy day, Lenin is in you and in me!"
 * - 'Lenin is Always With You', A popular rallying song amongst the desperate Soviet soldiers

A thick layer of snow mixed with ash settles on the ghostly, haunted city of Kuybyshev; the last refuge of the government of Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union. Moscow burns under an endless onslaught of Nazi artillery fire, while the accursed demons of Hitler's pact have dragged Leningrad down into an orgy of blood, death, and utter annihilation. The Nazi forces march deeper into Mother Russia, and the end looks nigh as the snow falls heavier and the skies darken. And yet, that is not all the last remaining vestiges of Communism have to face - out in the Far East, the treacherous Japanese, not content with their pillaging and sacking of the once grand cities of China, have wrenched Vladivostok out of the Union's hands, and are pushing ever deeper into the soft, undefended underbelly of Siberia. But not all threats are as clear as these two twisted, corrupting powers; the paranoia of the supreme Vozhd of the Union, the Man of Steel himself, knows this well enough. For once the Red Army pushes back, pushes the Nazis back to Berlin and when the Hammer and Sickle are raised over Edo, Stalin has work to do; the Reactionary Chinese, the Capitalist Americans and their Eldritch foes, and the Imperialistic dogs of Westminster will all have to be cleansed and brought to heel, if the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is ever going to survive...