Samara

Samara
Official name	Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
Common name	Samara
Language(s)	Russian
Capital	Samara
Government/party	Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR)
Ideology	Military Junta
Head of state	General Andrey Vlasov
Currency	Ruble
Population	3,360,000
Established	Sometime in the 1950s

Samara, officially the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, is a Russian warlord state comprising of the Russian city of Samara and a medium-sized chunk of territory outside it. It is led by Andrey Vlasov, a former soviet general and leader of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, an organization wanting to unite Russia under an anti-Bolshevik government. It borders Tatarstan to the north, Gorky to the north-west, Vyatka to the north-east, Kazakhstan to the south, Bashkiria and Orenburg to the east; and Reichskommissariat Moskowien to the west.

History

In the bloodiest days of the West Russian War, when it seemed like the Reich's hold on Russia was on the verge of slipping forever, the German high command turned to desperate means to stave off the collapse of their front line. Drawn from a range of auxiliary colonial militias of Russian conscripts that were meant to police German held Russia, the Russian Liberation Army or ROA was created. In propaganda, the ROA was depicted as a proud Russian army, fighting the bolshevik menace of the West Russian Revolutionary Front. In desperation, the Germans even allowed the creation of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, or KONR, the embryo of a free Russian Republic that would rule over areas liberated by the German counter offensive.

Reality was much less flattering to the ROA. Its leader, Andrey Vlasov, was nothing more than a puppet of the Wehrmacht's high command. The ROA was seen and used as cannon fodder by the Germans to help turn the tide of the war. Instead of being welcomed as liberators by their fellow russians, the ROA was greeted more often with rocks and insults as they moved further inland.

Soon the ROA found itself beyond the German lines, freed from their former taskmaters, With the war winding down and the WRRF in retreat, the Germans wrote off their cannon fodder as mutinous Slav Untermensch. The new headquaters of the ROA in Samara was not spared any of the terror bombing campaigns that followed.

Military

Army

The officers area disjointed mix of Red Army POWs who chose to join during the West Russian War rather than be sent to a POW camp, and white emigres who joined on a great crusade against bolshevism. The common soldiers forced to join, originally being drafted at gunpoint by the Germans.

They fought with desperation and managed to help turn the tide of the West Russian War in the sector around around Samara. Today they are feared across Russia as an army of veterans with Iron discipline forged in the fires of the war.

Air force

Samara is one of the few Russian warlord factions to have an air force at their disposal, consisting of soviet fighters dating back to WW2.

Foreign relations

Samara is hated by the rest of the Russian Warlords, seen as nothing more than German collaborators, but are also feared due to their superior military.

They have a poor relationship with the Germans, who have labeled them as mutineers and now have made it impossible for them to ever return west.

Trivia

• The Samara game files show that there are two unused leader portraits, one of Viktor Maltzev and one of Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt.
• Mikhail Oktan's localization files show that a lot of his focuses were originally named after Maltzev, suggesting that he was an original candidate for fascist Samara path, before being replaced with Oktan.