Unity Party

Unity Party
Abbreviation	Yedinstvo
Leader	Miletiy Zykov
Founded	1960s
Split from	Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
Headquarters	Samara
Ideology	Anocracy Russian nationalism Republicanism Anti-communism
Political position(s)	Right-wing

Yedinstvo (Единство, Russian for Unity), or the Unity Party, is the name of a political party that Samara leader Miletiy Zykov founds at the regional stage to replace the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, which he disbands. Professing the same values of Russian nationalism and anti-communism as its predecessor, Yedinstvo differs from it in that it is a legitimate political party pariticipating in parliamentary elections and run by civil officials, rather than a militarised organisation.

However, despite moving away from the Military Junta of Andrey Vlasov, Yedinstvo does not usher in complete democracy upon unifying Russia, choosing instead to heavily limit political and civil freedoms, allegedly to prevent "radicalism". Opposition is restrained, and Zykov is eventually declared president for life. As such, Yedinstvo's in-game subideology is Anocracy.

Trivia

• 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 more radical Bolsheviks like Lenin and Trotsky, 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 1. 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 center-right political bloc formed by Russian politician Sergei Shoigu (then Minister of Emergency Situations, currently Minister of Defense) 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. On one hand, the authoritarianism of Zykov's party, including the controlled opposition, the heavy-handed suppression of perceived extremists, and Zykov's lifetime presidency, seem to be evocative of the 1999 Yedinstvo, and more broadly of Vladimir Putin's presidency in general. However, given some left-wing policies that Zykov implements like state-run trade unions, and the fact that OTL Zykov considered himself a socialist even in service to the Nazis, one may draw parallels between him and the social democratic, but nationalistic 1914 Yedinstvo as well.