German-Soviet War

The German-Soviet War was a major conflict between the Greater German Reich and their allies against the Soviet Union that took place from 1941 to 1946.

German Invasion
The war began in 1941 when German forces invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, seizing vast amounts of Soviet territory and destroying virtually any Red Army forces in their way. Kiev, Minsk, Sevastopol crumbled under the German might, meanwile the Soviets found themselves isolated, standing alone as the world turned their back on them.

Soon, Leningrad fell after a combined assault by the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, and Wehrmacht. As an all out assault threatened Moscow, Stalin was forced to relocate his troops away from Stalingrad, opening the door for German intrusion into the Caucasus oil fields. Stalingrad too fell after an encirclement bled the city dry. And finally, after millions of deaths on both sides, the German flag flew over Red Square.

Soviet Collapse
By 1945 the Soviet Union slowly began to collapse from within after years of exhausting war and suffering after defeat at the hands of the Germans. In central Asia, the Turkic people would unite, declaring the newly proclaimed Islamic State of Turkestan independent of the Soviet Union, while in the Caucasus the Georgian and Armenian SSRs would both secede individually. At the same time in the Far East many different warlords would rise to power in the power vacuum left by the loosening grip of Soviet Authority. after the defeat of Japan by the United States in the Pacific War, the United States would occupy Vladivostok and North Sakhalin, facing minimal resistance, with Red Army units surrendering en masse. The Americans re-established the Russian Republic, the first non-communist Russian government to exist since the end of the Russian Civil War.

By 1946 the war would peter out as the last substantial Soviet resistance melted away, leaving Germany with control of all terrtory West of the A-A line.

Aftermath
The war would prove to be far from the absolute victory the Germans had expected. Throughout the newly created Reichkommisariats, the Germans would find themselves fighting a never ending Guerrilla war against partisan groups.

The Soviet Union would find itself surrounded by territories it used to hold as they were forced to retreat to Perm. Lavrentiy Beria and the NKVD would seize power in a short power struggle after the disappearance of Joseph Stalin.