Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
The Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Russian: Комитет освобождения народов России) is the ruling political authority of the Russian Liberation Army, a Russian warlord state consisting of former collaborators with Germany led by former Soviet general Andrey Vlasov. Their goal, as described in the Smolensk Manifesto, is to eliminate communism and forge a new anti-communist Russia. While the goals of how a post-communist system of governance should be set up are different, leading to a split of factions, they all agree in their zeal that it must be eradicated and to put Russia first and foremost.
Background
Origins
During World War II, at the height of conflict between Nikolai Bukharin's Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler's Greater Germanic Reich, many Russians were held captive as prisoners of war, and many lost faith in the communist ideology in the process. Seeing it as a waste of potential in prisons, German military high command decided to create a special anti-communist battalions made out of Russian POWs, including Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army.
After the Great Patriotic War ended in victory for Germany, the ROA was formally established as a collaborator organisation to bolster the newly-formed Reichskommissariat Moskowien. However, with the great Bolshevik threat convulsing and tearing at itself, rival collaborationist groups could no longer reconcile their differences, and the ROA was not a favourite of the Reich.
West Russian War
When the West Russian Revolutionary Front struck in 1956, in what would be known as the West Russian War, Vlasov established the KONR as the political authority of the ROA, the embryo of a future anti-communist Russian Republic. After seizing the city of Samara from the Front, the ROA turned on their former masters and seized Samara as their own fiefdom, from which they would try to unify Russia under their vision.
Involvement
By 1962, the KONR serves as the political authority of the ROA's military junta.
If the KONR manages to unify West Russia under either Sergei Bunyachenko or Vladimir Artsezo, it remains the sole legal party of a republic under Bunyachenko or a Nazi-inspired fascist state under Artsezo. If Miletiy Zykov succeeds Vlasov instead, it is disbanded and reformed into the Unity Party (Russian: Единство), which participates in parliamentary elections and claims to restore democracy, while continuing to heavily limit political and civil freedoms and restricting opposition, eventually leading to Zykov being declared president for life. Regardless of the KONR's choices, the future Russian state under it will inevitably go to war with Germany.
History
In real life, Yedinstvo was the name of two Russian political parties:
- The first Yedinstvo was a Menshevik faction within the Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party formed by the revolutionary Georgi Plekhanov in 1914. Unlike the Bolsheviks, Yedinstvo favoured a more moderate approach (believing Russia was not yet ready for socialism), and was also more nationalistic, being supportive of the Russian Empire's war effort in World War I. It was dismantled shortly after Plekhanov's death in 1918 as the Bolsheviks became the dominant force in the Social Democratic Worker's Party, ushering in its transformation into the Communist Party.
- The second Yedinstvo a centre-right political bloc formed by Russian politician Sergei Shoigu (then Minister of Emergency Situations) in 1999 to support the policies of Prime Minister (and eventually President) Vladimir Putin. It would then be one of the several political movements that merged to form United Russia, a right-wing political party headed by Putin that would dominate Russian politics ever since.
The TNO Yedinstvo seems to be inspired by both of its real-life namesakes: the 1999 Yedinstvo's controlled opposition and presidency for life, and the 1914 Yedinstvo's social chauvinist policies, like the state-run trade unions implemented by Zykov, who considered himself a socialist even when collaborating with Nazis.