West Russian War

The West Russian War, also known as the Second Trial by the Siberian Black League, was a conflict fought in European Russia, between the Greater Germanic Reich and Russian collaborators, and the West Russian Revolutionary Front and partisans.

Background

During World War II, Germany invaded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This invasion coupled with the Second Russian Civil War led to its total collapse and the occupation of Russia up to the Arkhangelsk-Astrakhan line. However, the Union yet lives; loyal Soviet generals under the leadership of Alexander Yegorov formed the West Russian Revolutionary Front to force the Germans out of Russia, with the support of the Marxist-Leninist civilian government in Tyumen. Meanwhile, with the great Bolshevik threat defeated, the various Russian groups who collaborated with the Reich could no longer reconcile their differences and started sporadic fights with each other.

As the Front prepared to strike, the leadership of the Russian Liberation Army and the Russian All-Military Union came to an agreement: The German was their enemy just as much as the Bolshevik, and the attack by the Bolshevik forces would be the perfect opportunity to save themselves from the bleak fate under the Reich's eagle.

Course of the war

West Russian advance

The war began with a massive partisan offensive that caught the German forces totally by surprise, easily forcing the garrison stationed in Reichskommissariat Moskowien into a retreat. Confusion ran rampant through the Wehrmacht as the Russian forces advanced westwards. Germania, not wanting a total collapse in the east, scrambled to send reinforcements to prevent this. The war began to take its toll on the already struggling German economy, causing further strife.

The Front used the momentum from these early victories to great effect, and their army swelled in size as Russians in the liberated territory joined the war against the Germans. Arkhangelsk, Yaroslavl and Vladimir were all seized by the advancing Russian forces.

German response

Although caught off-guard, due to the aforementioned accord between the ROA and the ROVS, the infighting between collaborators ceased prematurely, in less than a year, and the Reich's forces struck back. While German forces were bolstered by Swedish and Finnish aid, the failure of the second Five-Year Plan led to sudden stagnation and industry in Tyumen, and aid to the Front proved insufficient; the war turned against the WRRF in 1957. Andrey Vlasov led the charge of the pro-German forces towards the East, an endeavour that the Germans perceived as an old collaborator seeking to prove his usefulness.

West Russian collapse

In 1958, the Vlasovites closed on Samara, the fortified capital of the WRRF. After months of bitter and brutal fighting, Samara fell and became the new bastion of anti-communism in West Russia. With the loss of the Front's capital and many soldiers and Tyumen's support running dry, Yegorov had no choice but to retreat, marking the end of the Front's participation in the war—but it did not mark the last shots fired.

As Germany rotated hardened veterans to the reserve for their well-deserved recuperation, garrison troops marched eastward to secure the A-A line once more, expecting the collaborators to be loyal. Thousands of unprepared German troops marched into an ambush, as ROA and ROVS soldiers savoured a final victory over the Germans, and were forced to retreat. The eastern regions of RK Moskowien fell into the Russian anarchy, fulfilling Yegorov's vision in a twisted way. The ROA and ROVS seized the cities of Samara and Vyatka as their fiefdoms respectively.

Aftermath

Neither the Russian nor the German was the winner in the West Russian War. The Reich lost many good men and equipment, as well as the easternmost fringe of its empire. The WRRF was unable to liberate most Russians in occupied territories from bondage and captivity. The rebelling collaborators gained the most from it all—their lives, their freedom, and a chance to rebuild Russia in their vision.