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Meppo's Electoral Molehill

A less-than-serious prediction for the results of the upcoming legislative elections in my country.

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Zhirinovsky will probably live far beyond 2021, but I digress
Communists of Russia vs. The Communist Party is only something that could happen in the Russian Federation. Also what’s the real difference between the two, mainly all I get is the Communists of Russia think the CPRF are too close to Putin.
 
Communists of Russia vs. The Communist Party is only something that could happen in the Russian Federation. Also what’s the real difference between the two, mainly all I get is the Communists of Russia think the CPRF are too close to Putin.

The Communists of Russia think that the CPRF are overtly religious revisionists who are government-funded and act as a spoiler party for them.

Funnily enough, the Communists of Russia refer to CPRF as "Zyuganovite Mensheviks", evidently believing themselves to be the Bolsheviks' ideological successor.
 
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Funnily enough, the Communists of Russia refer to CPRF as "Zyuganovite Mensheviks", evidently believing themselves to be the Bolsheviks' ideological successor.
They sound like fun folks, I guess there ideas are rather wonky at best.

In other questions, are there any decent Left Wing organisations in Russia who aren’t grifters or cranks?
 
They sound like fun folks, I guess there ideas are rather wonky at best.

In other questions, are there any decent Left Wing organisations in Russia who aren’t grifters or cranks?

I can't say for sure, to be honest. If you're talking about political parties specifically, the largest one is technically Yabloko.
 
A while back you did a Yakutia politics box - as an outsider and non-Russian speaker with very limited access to sources but more than a passing interest, do you have anything you could share about the region's politics?
 
A while back you did a Yakutia politics box - as an outsider and non-Russian speaker with very limited access to sources but more than a passing interest, do you have anything you could share about the region's politics?

That was a while ago, before I realized that A Just Russia is a schizophrenic Surkov project and is less likely than any other party to survive the fall of Putinist politics, but I do find it to be a pretty neat box.

Put simply, in terms of politics the Sakha Republic has a strong left-wing undercurrent, with A Just Russia and CPRF having some of their biggest vote shares there (as seen on maps of 2016 legislative elections). Incidentally, Sakha was where Putin performed the worst in 2018 presidential elections, as well as the second region after the Nenets Autonomous Okrug where the vote against the proposed constitutional amendments was the largest; quite notably, the 2018 elections saw Yakutsk elect Sardana Avksentyeva, a member of the left-wing Party of Russia's Rebirth (which had some of its roots in Svyatoslav Fyodorov's Party of Workers' Self-Government).
 
So I was giving my computer a restart and my notes app had apparently saved every single thing I've written on it. This was one of them.

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I have no idea what I'm looking at. It seems copy-pasted and edited at specific points. I clearly didn't write this. Anyone recognise this?

I guess this gave me an idea for a list, sorry @Blackentheborg

2021-2024: Joe Biden (DE) / Kamala Harris (CA) (Democratic)
2020: def. Donald Trump (FL) / Mike Pence (IN) (Republican)
2024-2025: Kamala Harris (CA) / vacant (Democratic)
2025-2029: Kamala Harris (CA) / Roy Cooper (NC) (Democratic)

2024: def. Greg Gianforte (MT) / Nikki Haley (SC) (Republican)
2029-2033: Kamala Harris (CA) / Andy Beshear (KY) (Democratic)
2028: def. Justin Amash (MI) / Leslie Rutledge (AR) (Republican), Robert F. Kennedy (NY) / Tulsi Gabbard (HI) (Independent / People's), Michelle Malkin (CO) / Andrew Torba (PA) (Patriot)
2033-2035: Paul M. Nakasone (MN) / Daniel Zolnikov (MT) (Republican)
2032: def. Andy Beshear (KY) / Gina Ortiz Jones (TX) (Democratic), Chris Smalls (NJ) / Ajmal Alami (VA) (People's)
2035-2037: Daniel Zolnikov (MT) / vacant (Republican)
2037-2045: Bee Nguyen (GA) / Daniel Feehan (MN) (Democratic)

2036: def. Daniel Zolnikov (MT) / Carlos Trujillo (FL) ("Official" Republican), Rogan O'Handley (CA) / Hannah Griff (OR) ("Right" Republican), Greg Casar (TX) / Ajmal Alami (VA) (People's)
2040: def. Haraz Ghanbari (OH) / Jez Olson (TX) (Republican), Ammon Bundy (NV) / Simone Day (VA) (Young America), David Oks (NY) / Steve Marchand (NH) (People's / Forward)
2045-2046: Keith Reed (CA) / Stephen Hadley (OH) (Opposition)
2044: def. Jason Kander (MO) / Athena Salman (AZ) (Democratic), scattered / Stephen Hadley (OH) (unpledged Republican electors)
2046-2049: Keith Reed (CA) / Stephen Hadley (OH) (Independent / Republican)
2049-present: Felix Montague Silver (VA) / Andres London Ortega (TX) (Independent / Popular Front)
2048: def. Keith Reed (CA) / Calvin Sununu (NH) (Republican), Daniel Feehan (MN) / Jace Plummer (TX) (Democratic), Simone Day (VA) / Morgan Crafts (UT) (Covenant)
The Frigid Forties, despite the name, are a sweltering and glum decade: climate change, particularly along the East Coast and in the Southwest, reared its ugly head more than ever, and American loss in the Venezuela Crisis rang of sorrow years after the end of the war. It is during these years that the Fifth Great Awakening picked up pace, far-right LARPers and suburban liberals alike plunged into esoteric American nationalism, and political candidates more than ever became reliant on amenable machines and youth militias for hire. It is these years that see the blossoming of new literary and cultural movements rejecting a myriad of real and perceived American sins - identity focuses, partisanship, commercialization of self, incrementalism, irreligion, et cetera.
 
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I distinctly recall finding a Twitter thread about a potential Soviet-American alliance based entirely on melanin count in a test thread on the other side, but I couldn't find it again 😭

1964-1974: Leonid Brezhnev (CPSU)
1974-1983: Nikolai Podgorny (CPSU)
1983-1984: Konstantin Chernenko (CPSU)
1984-1989: Sergei Semanov (CPSU)
1989-1991: Pyotr Demichev (CPSU)
1990: def. "No" vote
1990 "New Union" referendum: 70.2% for, 29.8% against

1991: Valentin Varennikov (CPSU [Emergency Committee])

1991-1996: Anatoly Sobchak (Independent)
1991: def. Ilya Glazunov (Congress for National Rebirth), Nikolai Ryzhkov (Communist), Aman Tuleyev (Independent)
1996-2006: Yury Boldyrev (Union of Sovereign Democrats)
1996: def. Yegor Ligachyov (Communist), Anatoly Sobchak (Independent)
2001: def. Yury Nozhikov (Fatherland), Yegor Ligachyov (Communist), Viktor Anpilov (Labor Russia)

2006-2011: Mikhail Prusak (Fatherland)
2006: def. Nikolai Kondratenko (Union of Sovereign Democrats [Christian]), Vladimir Bukovsky (Union of Sovereign Democrats [Liberal]), Albert Makashov (Independent), various Communist candidacies
2011-2021: Dmitry Rogozin (Union of Sovereign Democrats)
2011: def. Mikhail Prusak (Fatherland), Yury Dzagania (Communist), Vladimir Bukovsky (Independent), Mikhail Markelov (Antifascist Action), Nikolai Azarov (Independent), Vladimir Bushin (Soviet Rebirth)
2016: def. Alexei Etmanov (Popular Front), Nikita Belykh (Fatherland), Maksim Suraykin (Soviet Rebirth)


1965-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson (TX) / Hubert Humphrey (MN) (Democratic)
1964: def. Barry Goldwater (AZ) / William Miller (NY) (Republican)
1969-1974: Hubert Humphrey (MN) / Daniel Inouye (HI) (Democratic)
1968: def. Richard Nixon (NY) / Spiro Agnew (MD) (Republican), George Wallace (AL) / Curtis LeMay (CA) (American Independent)
1972: def. Raymond Shafer (PA) / George Bush (TX) (Republican), George Wallace (AL) / William Dyke (WI) (American Independent)

1974: Daniel Inouye (HI) / vacant (Democratic)
1974-1977: Daniel Inouye (HI) / Jack Brooks (TX) (Democratic)
1977-1982: Spiro Agnew (MD) / George Shultz (NY) (Republican)
1976: def. Daniel Inouye (HI) / Jack Brooks (TX) (Democratic), Jack Brooks (TX) / Adlai Stevenson III (IL) (Democratic [write-in])
1980: def. Ted Kennedy (MA) / Lindy Boggs (LA) (Democratic)

1982-1983: George Shultz (NY) / vacant (Republican)
1983-1985: George Shultz (NY) / Kit Bond (MO) (Republican)
1985-1993: Gore Vidal (CA) / Farrell Faubus (AR) (Democratic)
1984: def. Kit Bond (MO) / George Bush (TX) (Republican), Larry McDonald (GA) / Bill France II (FL) (American Independent)
1988: def. Jack Kemp (NY) / Pete Domenici (NM) (Republican)

1993-1997: Farrell Faubus (AR) / Michael Dukakis (MA) (Democratic)
1992: def. Robert Martinez (FL) / Helen Chenoweth-Hage (ID) (Republican)
1997-2005: Bay Buchanan (VA) / Jim Bunning (KY) (Republican)
1996: def. Michael Dukakis (MA) / Skip Humphrey (MN) (Democratic)
2000: def. Rick Perry (TX) / Ron Sims (WA) (Democratic)

2005-2013: Tipper Gore (TN) / Andrew Cuomo (NY) (Democratic)
2004: def. Jim Bunning (KY) / Susan Molinari (NY) (Republican)
2008: def. Mike DeWine (OH) / Chip Pickering (MS) (Republican), Larry Flynt (KY) / Paul Wellstone (MN) (Independent)

2013-2021: Dana Rohrabacher (CA) / Tim Pawlenty (MN) (Republican)
2012: def. Andrew Cuomo (NY) / Kathleen Falk (WI) (Democratic), Howard Schultz (WA) / John Norquist (WI) (Independent)
2016: def. Angel Taveras (PA) / Jason Chaffetz (AZ) (Democratic), Tulsi Gabbard (HI) / Lincoln Chafee (RI) (Americans for Peace)


It is 2020, and the Russian-American alliance, an unlikely front of two former superpowers that first began to grow with the 1987 Dublin summit, stands solid against the insidious menaces of the Oriental billion-man economic juggernauts, the imperialist European Community, and terrorist radicals (typically islamic and left-wing ones). It was not always like this, of course, what's with the Soviet-Afghan War and the Panama conundrum that nearly turned the Agnew-Podgorny confrontation towards a second Cuban Missile Crisis, but as heat abated and President Vidal and General Secretary Semanov shook hands in Dublin, something new was born. In the aftermath of Afghanistan, both men were committed to a mutual understanding: former newspaper editor and head of the KGB Sergei Semanov promised necessary economic and political reforms at home (downplaying his commitment to Russification of Soviet government, of course), while public intellectual and freshman Senator Gore Vidal was elected on "perpetual peace" after eight acrimonious years of the Agnew administration.

There was a period of unpleasantness, of course - the Soviet Union was not able to withstand rising food deficits, ethnic tensions and party infighting no matter how much support Vidal tried to provide - but the Russian-American alliance survived. In hindsight, it was unsurprising: as many as 35% of Russian citizens perceived the late Semanov as a martyr, and many post-Soviet countries, particularly the Baltics and Chornovil's Ukraine, were uncomfortably eager to jump into the outstretched arms of Berlin and Paris. By 1996, New York Times was writing feverish reports on Chinese companies 'on the rise' and discriminating against the American automotive industry, French was increasingly replacing Japanese in cyber-dialup dystopia movies, and Boldyrev was phoning Buchanan to congratulate her on the election and stating his hope for mutually beneficial, constructive cooperation. It seemed that, despite his lambasting of Sobchak's vices and alleged kowtowing to the rotting West, Boldyrev was just as amenable to Yankee help as his predecessor.

The 2004 attacks on the Ostankino tower, allegedly carried out by the anarchist organization New Revolutionary Alternative, caused a wide, if brief, red scare throughout Russia, weakening the Communists; however, the labour code and the surveillance laws proposed by the Boldyrev government proved controversial, further exacerbated by a split in the 2005 Sovereignist primaries. Novgorod Oblast Governor Mikhail Prusak won the 2006 presidential election against a divided field and made his mark on Russia by implementing bills giving more power to the governors; however, an economic recession would ultimately bring down the Prusak administration, returning the Sovereignists, led by Dmitry Rogozin, into the Kremlin Senate, in what was deemed by many pundits a return of the Semanov years. Similar developments would affect the United States, with Tipper Gore earning much ire for the PATRIOT Act, penalties for media "obscenity" and economic malaise before being succeeded by Rohrabacher, who has been described as a reactionary populist.

In any case, both countries have displayed alarming and strikingly similar tendencies: amidst a fever pandemic, Russia is seeing a concerted effort by the Sovereignist establishment to put high-ranking monarchist donor Konstantin Malofeyev in the Kremlin, while the United States' Republican Party lists Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Senator Kris Kobach, two outspoken hardliners on immigration and cultural issues, as its top two frontrunners.
 
SUMMER IN SONORA

1853: Franklin Pierce (NH) / William R. King (AL) (Democratic)
1852: def. Winfield Scott (NJ) / William A. Graham (NC) (Whig), John Hale (NH) / Joshua Giddings (OH) (Free Soil)
1853-1857: Franklin Pierce (NH) / vacant (Democratic)
1857-1861: Franklin Pierce (NH) / Aaron V. Brown (TN) (Democratic)

1856: def. Millard Fillmore (NY) / Thomas Corwin (OH) (Whig), Samuel Morse (NY) / Henry B. Anthony (RI) (Native American), John C. Fremont (CA) / Horace Mann (MA) (Free Soil)
1861-1864: James Buchanan (PA) / John A. Quitman (MS) (Democratic)
1860: def. John P. Kennedy (MD) / John van Buren (NY) (National), Henry S. Foote (CA) / William G. Brownlow (TN) (Native American)
1864-1865: John A. Quitman (MS) / vacant (Democratic)
1865-1873: Nathaniel P. Banks (MA) / Schuyler Colfax (IN) (National)

1864: def. John A. Quitman (MS) / Fernando Wood (NY) (Southern "Fire-Eater" Democratic), John A. McClernand (IL) / Lazarus W. Powell (KY) (Northern "Terrapin" Democratic), Richard Taylor (CU) / Washington Hunt (NY) (Native American)
1868: def. Millard Fillmore (NY) / Samuel P. Lee (VA) (Constitutional Coalition), Austin Blair (MI) / Ben F. Butler (MA) (Radical)
1873-1877: Schuyler Colfax (IN) / Lovell Rousseau (KY) (National)
1872: def. Felix Zollicoffer (TN) / John T. Hoffman (NY) (Democratic)

  • No Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  • The Black Warrior affair leads to USA acquiring Cuba, most likely through a short war with Spain; without the Kansas-Nebraska Act holding up them, Pierce and the overwhelmingly Democratic 33rd Congress approve a quick suspension of the neutrality act to do so, while going along with Kansas being organized as a free state.
  • Without Bleeding Kansas there's no incentive for a strong northern anti-slavery party to form (at least not in 1854). The Whigs drag on, although with only a dozen seats in Senate they remain largely impotent.
  • With the acquisition of Cuba and without Kansas-Nebraska to poison the idea of Manifest Destiny, the filibuster movement is strengthened; thousands of freebooters from below the Mason-Dixon Line and beyond enlist to wreak havoc in Central America. Nicaragua becomes an American Territory.
  • Stephen Douglas succumbs to cholera following a visit to Chicago in 1856.
  • With Pierce's popularity at an all-time high and anti-Democratic opposition wholly divided, the 1856 presidential election is widely predicted to result in a Democratic landslide. Early into the campaign, Millard Fillmore attempts to court the Know Nothing movement in order to bolster his presidential campaign and the Whig party apparatus; however, a group of Know Nothing leaders dissatisfied with the 13th President's muddy relationship with immigration reject him, nominating Samuel Morse for President instead.
  • As the Reform War's gears begin rolling, Pierce and Secretary of State Buchanan look towards Mexico to "extend a helping hand to the legitimate government" and end disturbances along the southern border - starting with a "temporary" military protectorate over Sonora and Chihuahua, which Congress authorizes in a surprisingly narrow fashion.
  • The 1860 Democratic convention is contentious: Senator John "Ace of Havana" Quitman of Mississippi and Senator Sam Houston of Texas all emerge as the primary frontrunners, but Secretary of State James Buchanan, as the principal Northern candidate in the race, clinches the nomination. There are some rumblings regarding the Sonoran War as several northern delegations nominate former Sen. Henry Dodge of Wisconsin, but they are ultimately shut out of the nomination process.
  • Unlike the Cuban War, the Sonoran War is rather more disastrous for the United States of America and its freebooters; with Maximilian I successfully uniting liberals and conservatives behind him against the slavedriving occupiers, American soldiers in Sonora find their position tenuous. Benito Juarez is Chancellor of the Second Mexican Empire, and is somewhat uncomfortable about it.
  • Colorado (the one without the Denver) becomes a state.
  • By 1862, an emerging view of the Sonoran War among the American public is that Maximilian I is commanded directly by the Pope and "agents of the global Catholic Church" to vanquish American liberty, leading to several riots and rising anti-Catholic sentiment - particularly among Democrats.
  • As Imperial troops retake Guaymas, Buchanan finds himself in the unenviable position of having to choose between pulling out of Mexico (and thus pissing off his immensely ambitious Vice President, the Knights of the Golden Circle that permeate his administration, veteran freebooters and general supporters of the Monroe Doctrine) and remaining (and thus pissing off the increasingly disaffected North and, more importantly, London and Paris). "At least we kept Nicaragua," Harriet Lane would quote him.
  • The 1864 presidential election is a polarized affair; however, the Nationals present an united front, while allegations surrounding President Buchanan's abrupt (supposedly stress-induced) death, talks of secession in Quitman's camp, rumored plans by members of the Buchanan admin to kidnap Banks in case he wins, and an "anti-Sonora, anti-nullificationist" walkout led by Senator McClernand serve to weaken Quitman's candidacy. With Banks accused of being a supporter of Kennedy's seven-year emancipation plan and Fire-Eaters fuming at their candidate's defeat, secession is all but inevitable.
  • Governed by John Netherland at the time of the secessions, Tennessee stays in the Union.
  • The War of Southern Secession (1865-1871) dominates Banks's presidency, with alternating results for the Union and the Southern Confederacy; however, beset by incompetent, dictatorial and continually changing leadership, by 1870 the Confederacy is limited to a few holdouts scattered across the Deep South as well as Cuba and Nicaragua. In January of 1871, certain of their inevitable loss and hounded by General Garcia's forces, President Wigfall and the rest of the remaining Confederate elite make a decision to flee for the "State of Walker", establish a remote planter's paradise and appeal to London for protection, in a bold plan intercepted by Captain Robert Smalls.
 
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1920-1932: Karl I (Habsburg-Lorraine)
1932-: Vasyl I "the Embroidered" (Habsburg-Lorraine)

1920-1925: Vyacheslav Lypynsky (National Hromada)
1920 (majority): Andriy Nikovsky (Federalist Socialist), Filip Pilipchuk (National Republican), Isaak Mazepa (Labor)
1924 (majority): Andriy Nikovsky (Democratic Union), Filip Pilipchuk (National Republican), Fyodor Krizhanivsky (Labor), Samiylo Pidhirsky (Zagrava)
1925: Dmytro Doroshenko (National Hromada, backed by Democratic Union)
1925: Ivan Poltavets-Ostryanitsa (National Hromada, backed by Free Cossacks)
1925-1933: Serhiy Shelukhyn (National Hromada)
1926 (majority): Pavlo Zaitsev (Democratic Union), Pavlo Khrystiuk (Labor)
1930 (coalition): Serhiy Yefremov (Democratic Union ~ Left), Mykola Galagan (Labor), Pavlo Zaitsev (Democratic Union ~ Right), collective leadership (Independent Labor), Boris Butenko (Union of Free Cossacks)
1932-: Mykhaylo Bilynsky (Labor)
1932 (majority): Adam Montrezor (National Hromada), Kostiantyn Matsievich (Democratic), Pavlo Zaitsev (Union of April 7), collective leadership (Left Labor), Boris Butenko (Union of Free Cossacks)
*only major parliamentary groups named

On August 30, 1918, at the Hammer and Sickle arms factory, a Socialist-Revolutionary named Fanny Kaplan shot Vladimir Lenin with a Browning pistol. From there, the Red movement unraveled, wedged between Trotsky and Tukhachevsky's Red Army and constantly rotating triumvirates in charge of the Soviets, and the Russian Civil War continued well into the twenties, even as the Great War had ended - with German soldiers in Paris - and the Kansas Epidemic had abated. As Whites and Reds fought over Petrograd and Tula, nations along the periphery chose to secede, settle things their own way. It just so happened that many of them had German arms backing them.

In this environment Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, a Grand Admiral of the Imperial and Royal War Navy, took an opportunity few could afford. Having previously staked a claim to the Polish throne (and deterred by the Germans), Karl Stefan took to Ukraine with his youngest son Wilhelm, engaging in humanitarian work and defense against Bolshevik forces. This made him an enemy of Hetman Skoropadskyi, who felt threatened by his status as well as his growing popularity with the Ukrainian populace at large. Historians continue to argue whether the Hetman would move against the Archduke or not, as Skoropadskyi's assassination by a Makhnovite anarchist interrupted his rule. The vast majority of his supporters, including various Polish and Russian landholders and officers, ultimately coalesced around the figure of Karl Stefan, who by 1920 was effectively slated to become King of Ukraine.

Vyacheslav Lypynsky, the chief ideologue of Ukrainian conservatism, was the obvious first choice for Prime Minister, presiding over limited democratic elections and a Rada dominated by the National Hromada, steered the country through the early Twenties, establishing Ukraine as Mitteleuropa's main breadbasket and suppressing anarchist and socialist unrest, the likes of which were observed in Mexico, Italy and Argentina among others; more than that, Russia, now consolidated under the Pepelyayev brothers and a tenuous "Government of All the Talents", was wary of Ukraine and its relationship with Black Sea Cossacks at best. Militarization was in order.
With news of Red Army soldiers and Bolshevik operatives roaming the world, Ukraine experienced a vast Red Scare, culminating in the political crisis of July 1925; when Lypynsky was found dead in his bedroom, allegedly poisoned by a socialist assassin, the Hromada government instituted a wide-ranging curfew and rollback of democratic institutions. Further exacerbating the crisis were the competing claims of foreign affairs minister Doroshenko and military affairs minister Poltavets-Ostryanitsa, who saw themselves each as the legitimate acting head of government; the issue was only resolved with the appointment of Serhiy Shelukhyn, who rolled back the curfew and presided over the arrest of multiple left-wing "agitators".

The late 1920s-early 1930s were a difficult time for the Weltsystem: the Börse Berlin Crash sent reverberations through the global economy, while the violent Turkish Civil War humiliated Berlin: with Enver Pasha massacring his way to the Caspian, even the most loyal members of Mitteleuropa were lukewarm on helping the Sickest Monarchy of Europe, and volunteers were flooding from every corner to help liberate their nation of choice. This was particularly true of Ukraine, as Crimean Tatar emigrants returned to the homeland of their ancestors while Cossacks helped establish the Second Republic of Armenia from Goris to Erzurum - no matter how much Shelukhyn and the National Hromada, conscious of German support, tried to discourage them. The Hromada paid for it, losing their majority in the Rada for the first time in Ukrainian history as Cossack organizations no longer lent them their full support (though their political views were too disparate to allow them to become more than a coalition appendage). Left-wing parties expanded their share of the vote substantially.

1932 was a year of great change. Karl I passed away peacefully in the Mariyinsky Palace; he was, as expected, succeeded by his son Wilhelm (better known as Vasyl Vyshyvani), a broadly popular figure among all classes and a hero of the nation. The Shelukhyn government was mildly fearful of him, as Vasyl, coronated at only 37 years old, was distinctly more left-leaning than his father (he wasn't called "the Red Prince" for nothing) and rather pushy about Galicia, particularly as the Austrian Empire was destabilized by the Great Depression and continued ethnic strife. Fears of unrest and military coup surrounded the 1932 elections, and - as former rear admiral Mikhaylo Bilynsky gave the Ukrainian Labor Party a landslide majority - rumors of a "business plot" became commonplace. However, Vasyl I gave his consent to the Bilynsky government, and Ukrainian democracy stood in place.

Two years into Prime Minister Bilynsky's tenure, Ukraine is on the upswing, being one of the more stable states in Europe while also rapidly unionizing and industrializing. However, relations with its neighbors - Poland and Russia primarily - are not so rosy, and the two issues posed by the Russian Civil War - the Galician Question and the Cossack Question - are yet to be solved.
 
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I distinctly recall finding a Twitter thread about a potential Soviet-American alliance based entirely on melanin count in a test thread on the other side, but I couldn't find it again 😭

1964-1974: Leonid Brezhnev (CPSU)
1974-1983: Nikolai Podgorny (CPSU)
1983-1984: Konstantin Chernenko (CPSU)
1984-1989: Sergei Semanov (CPSU)
1989-1991: Pyotr Demichev (CPSU)
1990: def. "No" vote
1990 "New Union" referendum: 70.2% for, 29.8% against

1991: Valentin Varennikov (CPSU [Emergency Committee])

1991-1996: Anatoly Sobchak (Independent)
1991: def. Ilya Glazunov (Congress for National Rebirth), Nikolai Ryzhkov (Communist), Aman Tuleyev (Independent)
1996-2006: Yury Boldyrev (Union of Sovereign Democrats)
1996: def. Yegor Ligachyov (Communist), Anatoly Sobchak (Independent)
2001: def. Yury Nozhikov (Fatherland), Yegor Ligachyov (Communist), Viktor Anpilov (Labor Russia)

2006-2011: Mikhail Prusak (Fatherland)
2006: def. Nikolai Kondratenko (Union of Sovereign Democrats [Christian]), Vladimir Bukovsky (Union of Sovereign Democrats [Liberal]), Albert Makashov (Independent), various Communist candidacies
2011-2021: Dmitry Rogozin (Union of Sovereign Democrats)
2011: def. Mikhail Prusak (Fatherland), Yury Dzagania (Communist), Vladimir Bukovsky (Independent), Mikhail Markelov (Antifascist Action), Nikolai Azarov (Independent), Vladimir Bushin (Soviet Rebirth)
2016: def. Alexei Etmanov (Popular Front), Nikita Belykh (Fatherland), Maksim Suraykin (Soviet Rebirth)


1965-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson (TX) / Hubert Humphrey (MN) (Democratic)
1964: def. Barry Goldwater (AZ) / William Miller (NY) (Republican)
1969-1974: Hubert Humphrey (MN) / Daniel Inouye (HI) (Democratic)
1968: def. Richard Nixon (NY) / Spiro Agnew (MD) (Republican), George Wallace (AL) / Curtis LeMay (CA) (American Independent)
1972: def. Raymond Shafer (PA) / George Bush (TX) (Republican), George Wallace (AL) / William Dyke (WI) (American Independent)

1974: Daniel Inouye (HI) / vacant (Democratic)
1974-1977: Daniel Inouye (HI) / Jack Brooks (TX) (Democratic)
1977-1982: Spiro Agnew (MD) / George Shultz (NY) (Republican)
1976: def. Daniel Inouye (HI) / Jack Brooks (TX) (Democratic), Jack Brooks (TX) / Adlai Stevenson III (IL) (Democratic [write-in])
1980: def. Ted Kennedy (MA) / Lindy Boggs (LA) (Democratic)

1982-1983: George Shultz (NY) / vacant (Republican)
1983-1985: George Shultz (NY) / Kit Bond (MO) (Republican)
1985-1993: Gore Vidal (CA) / Farrell Faubus (AR) (Democratic)
1984: def. Kit Bond (MO) / George Bush (TX) (Republican), Larry McDonald (GA) / Bill France II (FL) (American Independent)
1988: def. Jack Kemp (NY) / Pete Domenici (NM) (Republican)

1993-1997: Farrell Faubus (AR) / Michael Dukakis (MA) (Democratic)
1992: def. Robert Martinez (FL) / Helen Chenoweth-Hage (ID) (Republican)
1997-2005: Bay Buchanan (VA) / Jim Bunning (KY) (Republican)
1996: def. Michael Dukakis (MA) / Skip Humphrey (MN) (Democratic)
2000: def. Rick Perry (TX) / Ron Sims (WA) (Democratic)

2005-2013: Tipper Gore (TN) / Andrew Cuomo (NY) (Democratic)
2004: def. Jim Bunning (KY) / Susan Molinari (NY) (Republican)
2008: def. Mike DeWine (OH) / Chip Pickering (MS) (Republican), Larry Flynt (KY) / Paul Wellstone (MN) (Independent)

2013-2021: Dana Rohrabacher (CA) / Tim Pawlenty (MN) (Republican)
2012: def. Andrew Cuomo (NY) / Kathleen Falk (WI) (Democratic), Howard Schultz (WA) / John Norquist (WI) (Independent)
2016: def. Angel Taveras (PA) / Jason Chaffetz (AZ) (Democratic), Tulsi Gabbard (HI) / Lincoln Chafee (RI) (Americans for Peace)


It is 2020, and the Russian-American alliance, an unlikely front of two former superpowers that first began to grow with the 1987 Dublin summit, stands solid against the insidious menaces of the Oriental billion-man economic juggernauts, the imperialist European Community, and terrorist radicals (typically islamic and left-wing ones). It was not always like this, of course, what's with the Soviet-Afghan War and the Panama conundrum that nearly turned the Agnew-Podgorny confrontation towards a second Cuban Missile Crisis, but as heat abated and President Vidal and General Secretary Semanov shook hands in Dublin, something new was born. In the aftermath of Afghanistan, both men were committed to a mutual understanding: former newspaper editor and head of the KGB Sergei Semanov promised necessary economic and political reforms at home (downplaying his commitment to Russification of Soviet government, of course), while public intellectual and freshman Senator Gore Vidal was elected on "perpetual peace" after eight acrimonious years of the Agnew administration.

There was a period of unpleasantness, of course - the Soviet Union was not able to withstand rising food deficits, ethnic tensions and party infighting no matter how much support Vidal tried to provide - but the Russian-American alliance survived. In hindsight, it was unsurprising: as many as 35% of Russian citizens perceived the late Semanov as a martyr, and many post-Soviet countries, particularly the Baltics and Chornovil's Ukraine, were uncomfortably eager to jump into the outstretched arms of Berlin and Paris. By 1996, New York Times was writing feverish reports on Chinese companies 'on the rise' and discriminating against the American automotive industry, French was increasingly replacing Japanese in cyber-dialup dystopia movies, and Boldyrev was phoning Buchanan to congratulate her on the election and stating his hope for mutually beneficial, constructive cooperation. It seemed that, despite his lambasting of Sobchak's vices and alleged kowtowing to the rotting West, Boldyrev was just as amenable to Yankee help as his predecessor.

The 2004 attacks on the Ostankino tower, allegedly carried out by the anarchist organization New Revolutionary Alternative, caused a wide, if brief, red scare throughout Russia, weakening the Communists; however, the labour code and the surveillance laws proposed by the Boldyrev government proved controversial, further exacerbated by a split in the 2005 Sovereignist primaries. Novgorod Oblast Governor Mikhail Prusak won the 2006 presidential election against a divided field and made his mark on Russia by implementing bills giving more power to the governors; however, an economic recession would ultimately bring down the Prusak administration, returning the Sovereignists, led by Dmitry Rogozin, into the Kremlin Senate, in what was deemed by many pundits a return of the Semanov years. Similar developments would affect the United States, with Tipper Gore earning much ire for the PATRIOT Act, penalties for media "obscenity" and economic malaise before being succeeded by Rohrabacher, who has been described as a reactionary populist.

In any case, both countries have displayed alarming and strikingly similar tendencies: amidst a fever pandemic, Russia is seeing a concerted effort by the Sovereignist establishment to put high-ranking monarchist donor Konstantin Malofeyev in the Kremlin, while the United States' Republican Party lists Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Senator Kris Kobach, two outspoken hardliners on immigration and cultural issues, as its top two frontrunners.
Very well written
 
Just so you know, it's Abrams

2021-2023: Joseph R. Biden / Kamala Harris (Democratic)
2020: def. Donald Trump / Mike Pence (Republican)
2023-2024: Kamala Harris / vacant (Democratic)
2024-2029: Kamala Harris / Tom Wolf (Democratic)
2024: def. Mike Pompeo / Mike Garcia (Republican)
2029-present: Mike Pence / Vance Aloupis (Republican)
2028: def. Tom Wolf / Helena Moreno (Democratic), Jim Justice / Joe Rogan (Independent)
2032: def. Billie Sutton / Tiffany Zulkosky [replacing Tishaura Jones] (Democratic)


2028 Democratic presidential primaries:
  • Vice President THOMAS W. WOLF of Pennsylvania
  • Representative ROHIT KHANNA of California
  • Governor STACEY Y. ABRAMS of Georgia†
  • President KAMALA D. HARRIS of California
  • Governor BILLIE H. SUTTON of South Dakota
 
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Pleased to hear from you 🥰
d'you have any suggestions for a better Nixon/Agnew analogue?
Smh killing of Stacey Abrams

As for a better Nixon/Agnew analogue, I really like your Pence/Aloupis. I wouldn't change Aloupis at all, honestly because I love it but if you really wanted to change Pence out, you could do someone like Kris Kobach, who has endless potential for fraud
 
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