Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR. Russian initials CCCP) or Soviet Union, was a nation between 1917 and 1991, with which Indiana Jones was involved several times in his life. With a strong Communist government, it was made up of 15 Soviet republics, made out of much of the same territory as the Russian Empire that it had replaced, covering much of eastern Europe and northern and central Asia.
Jones witnessed the birth of the new nation while working for the French Secret Service in Petrograd during the Russian Revolution; this conflict ended the rule of the Romanov dynasty over Russia, and replaced it with a communist government led by Vladimir Lenin, who was eventually replaced by Joseph Stalin.
From it's birth onwards, the communist (Bolshevik) revolution was unwelcome to the western powers, who regarded the existence of a socialist state as a threat to the social order within their own territory. Great Britain, and France in particular perpetrated a number of military aggressions against the new socialist state throughout the civil war which opposed the newly formed government and other factions from 1917 to 1921. When the Red faction had won the civil war, western powers remained diplomatically aggressive to the new Soviet state.
Nevertheless, the Soviet Union remained a somewhat insular power during its early years, more concerned with consolidating the new system of government at home than with events abroad. The rise of Nazi Germany and their threat of invasion lead the Soviet government to take diplomatic action to ensure peace. However, no European power agreed to sign any treaty of mutual support in the case of a new World War led by Adolf Hitler. This state of affairs pushed Joseph Stalin to take action with Hitler himself, which lead to the signing of the treaty of non-agression in 24 August 1939. Hitler betrayed that treaty on 22 june 1941 by invading the Soviet Union in the most destructive act of war in history:plan Barbarossa. An alliance between the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and United States followed by many others took place in an effort to put an end to the Nazi aggression. World War II effectively ended after the successful storming of Berlin by the Red army in april 1945 (the surrender of Germany being signed on 8 May 1945 in Berlin), followed by the Japanese Instrument of Surrender signed on 2 September 1945 in the Tokyo bay by all of the Allied and Jpanese representatives.
The end of the war left the Nazis defeated, and the Soviets became America's newest enemy; Indy and George McHale, while members of the OSS and MI6, were sent on several missions to spy on them before retiring from the intelligence business. Meanwhile, Stalin, always looking for new ways to increase Soviet power, put his protege Irina Spalko in charge of psychic research programs, in the hopes of developing a new form of weapon to use against the West. It was as part of this program that Spalko enlisted Dr. Jones and Dr. Harold Oxley's help in locating the lost Crystal Skull of Akator in 1957, which she believed was the key to the new Soviet weapon. However, she was killed by the skull and the weapon was never developed.
The Soviet Union finally dissolved in 1991, following the liberal reforms of Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, and was replaced by a number of smaller nations, the most powerful of which was the Russian Federation.
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[edit] Notable Soviets
- Vladimir Lenin
- Joseph Stalin
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Irina Spalko
- Antonin Dovchenko
- Vladimir Radichenko
- Gennadi Volodnikov
