Russia



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Russia is a transcontinental country located in northern Eurasia.

History
Russia is notable for the amount of military weapons and vehicles it produces. It was in Russia where the concepts of both the Sneaking Suit and Metal Gear first originated. It was also one of the three countries (alongside the United States and China) to be part of a power-hungry group called the the Philosophers. Together the three countries established a massive cache of funds, enough to fuel many world wars called the Philosophers&apos; Legacy. After World War II, Russia (as the Soviet Union) and the United States became involved in a decades-long political conflict: the Cold War, both due to a power struggle over the control of the Philosopher&apos;s Legacy, which was stolen by one of their accountants, and because of a grudge between the American Philosophers and the Russian Philosophers due to the latter giving the U.S. misinformation about one of their Manhattan Project scientists being a Nazi spy and nearly having him killed to sabotage efforts in creating a plutonium bomb.

Cold War
The Philosophers&apos; Legacy was supposedly one of the causes of the Cold War as the Soviet Union and the United States began to squabble over the fortune. While the countries engaged each other in a nuclear arms race, the Soviets launched their first satellite in space, sparking the space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. In addition, the Soviets also bluffed about the amount of missiles it had, leading to the Missile Gap. Similarly, the Chinese Philosophers ended up turning against the Soviets after they cut funding to the Chinese relating to their nuclear projects, causing the Chinese to not get ahead in it. Several Russians were also unhappy with Moscow&apos;s rule at the time, which America and The Boss, via a sleeper agent, exploited to sabotage various Soviet projects, although it later backfired after the CIA cut their agent&apos;s pay and resulted in the agent completely defecting over to the Soviet Union, also resulting in the Anti-Moscow movement either siding with Moscow or being wiped out outright.

In 1961, Nikita Khrushchev began development of a new weapon called the Shagohod, and after some problems with development (namely the ICBMs being far too large to actually fit onto the Shagohod), a rocket designer named Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov supplied the solution by stating they should use rocket technology to speed it up enough so the IRBM it has will have the same velocity as an ICBM. Eventually, Sokolov attempted to defect to the West after growing fearful of the Shagohod.

The Cold War nearly turned into nuclear armaggedon in 1962 when the U.S. military detected Soviet cargo ships carrying nuclear missiles into Soviet Cuba. Frantic, top-secret negotiations were conducted between U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev to avoid nuclear annihilation while the U.S. and Russian military were placed on high alert, in what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Finally the two superpowers reached a deal: Russia would pull its missiles out of Cuba in exchange for the U.S. handing over a Soviet rocket scientist who defected to the West. As the world breathed a sigh of relief, the Soviet Union continued the Shagohod project within OKB-754, as well as establishing a new missile base near Colombia for future use by aiding Colombia&apos;s biggest rebel faction, the FARC. Eventually, after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Khrushchev&apos;s power base started to crumble, and sent KGB agents from the ninth directorate to guard Sokolov until the test was completed, after rumors were spreading that a rogue faction of GRU led by Colonel Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin was planning to interrupt the tests, capture Sokolov, and hijack the Shagohod.

On August 24, 1964, CIA and FOX agent Naked Snake infiltrated Tselinoyarsk, Russia in order to rescue Sokolov, but lost Sokolov due to the interference of The Boss and GRU Colonel Volgin. Volgin later fired one of The Boss&apos;s gifts to prove her defection, a Davy Crockett, at the OKB-754 facility, sparking an international incident that nearly caused World War III to break out.

A week later on August 30, 1964, Naked Snake returned to Tselinoyarsk, Russia to destroy the Shagohod and execute Volgin and The Boss in order to "clear" the United States&apos;s name. However, in the process, they lost half of the Philosopher&apos;s Legacy due to America&apos;s actual reason for sending The Boss in the first place.

Post-Snake Eater
The Soviets ended up losing a lot of their capability to build new weapons in part due to the loss of their Legacy, as well as due to Detente, causing neither side to fight the Cold War like they used to during the 1960s. Because of this, Breshnev and Nixon participated in a series of talks to downsize various nuclear arsenals referred to as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Because of this, the Soviets cancelled the construction project for their missile base in Colombia&apos;s San Hieronymo Peninsula, as well as left the soldiers behind at the peninsula, cutting all supplies and communications to keep their attempting to build the base a secret as well as make it seem like it was created by out of control personnel.

On November 2, 1970, the San Hieronymo Peninsula&apos;s authority was taken over by the FOX unit, under the command of Gene. Gene also made negotiations with the Soviet government so they wouldn&apos;t interfere with his actual plan. Russia was believed to be FOX&apos;s target for the the first Metal Gear&apos;s nuclear playload due to orders from the DoD in order the Cold War active as well as to tarnish the CIA&apos;s reputation as an efficient intelligence group and cause its own influence to skyrocket. However, FOX commander Gene changed the target to Langey, Virginia as part of his true plan. However, this still would have had disasterous consequences for Russia, as, when word gets out that a Soviet weapon was launched from a Soviet missile base, the Eastern Bloc would collapse, and end up entering armed conflict with NATO. Gene&apos;s plan was stopped by Big Boss.

Post-San Hieronymo
During 1972, the Soviets and America signed the Anti Ballistic-Missle treaty. Meanwhile, the Soviets are attempting to get Nicaragua to overturn the Pro-American Regime so they could use it as a puppet state and eventually conquer the whole of the Americas to win the Cold War.

In 1974, Russia (through the KGB) and America (through the CIA) were in the middle of a "turf war" for Central America, so KGB intelligence officer Vladimir Zadornov was sent into Nicaragua and Costa Rica to turn the two countries into Russia&apos;s side, as well as to change the retaliation target of Peace Walker to Cuba. His intention was to frame the United States with attacking Cuba, Russia&apos;s greatest ally. This would cause the International Committee to be disgusted with this apparent action and allow Communism to run rampant in Central America.

During this time, the Soviet government was planning to hold the SALT II talks in Vladivostok, Russia with Gerald Ford. This caused problems when most of the Executive branch was unavailable to deal with fake Soviet missile trajectory data being leaked by Hot Coldman&apos;s Peace Walker unit, forcing the DOD and the Joint Chiefs to decide whether or not to launch a retalitory strike against Russia.

Post-Peace Walker
The Soviets and the Americas, via the Soyuz 19 and the Apollo 18, dock together in 1975. Eventually, during the 1980s and starting in late 1979, the Soviets attempted to invade Afghanistan, with Ocelot participating in the attack. The Soviets, under Gorbachev&apos;s administration, start a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1986, and eventually renounces military control over Kabur. The Soviets also sign the INF treaty, and approve of START under the Detente-2 era. By the 1990s, the Soviet Union collapsed, turning into the Russian Federation, and Communism as a whole collapsed with it as well. The Russians ended up having several of its military force cut as a result, and the Russians nuclear stockpiles, that are suitcase-sized, are also being stolen by unknown parties. The Russian president also first suggested a START III, but the request was declined. Although it maintained a nuclear deterrence policy, alongside China and America, Russia also ended up having a lot of its nuclear technicians lose their jobs due to the end of the Cold War.

In late February 2005, Chernoton, Russia was originally to be the FOXHOUND&apos;s target of a nuclear attack via Metal Gear REX. However, Liquid Snake changed the target to Lop Nor, China, possibly out respect for Revolver Ocelot and Mr. Gurlukovich. But the main reason was so they can pit the United States against China, where the former will be forced to confess their secrets, resulting in Liquid selling it to the highest bidder. While Gurlukovich wanted to use the firepower of Metal Gear to revive Russia, Liquid had no interest at all for Mother Russia&apos;s revival.

At the time Russia and the United States were on the verge of signing the START-3 Accord, a treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons from 3000 to 3500 in each country&apos;s arsenals, specifically to gain Russia and China&apos;s favor in regards to an amendment in the ABM treaty to allow for the National Missile Defense program. And because of Russia&apos;s political instability during this time, any projects that would have been against the ABM treaty and the various START treaties (such as the development of both REX and a stealth nuclear missile) would have resulted in the situation going red.

On August 8, 2007, Sergei Gurlukovich and Olga Gurlukovich led the Gurlukovich Mercenaries into U.S. Marine&apos;s tanker that contained Metal Gear RAY when the tanker was going through Manhattan, New York. While Sergei and his mercenaries intended to use Metal Gear RAY for Mother Russia, Revolver Ocelot, a Patriot agent that was ordered to retrieve RAY for the Patriots, admitted that, as far as Ocelot was concerned, he thought Mother Russia could rot ever since the Cold War and showed it by betraying and gunning down his comrade, and then stole the Marines&apos; prototype.

In 2014, Russia was the base of operations for Otselotovaya Khvatka. In addition, TR was shown to be within the general vicinity of Siberian Russia.

Revengeance
In the year 2015, St. Petersburg was hit with a massacre. The massacre was suspected to have been a terror plot instigated by Russian domestic terrorist Andrey Dolzaev and a PMC group named Desperado, who would later instigate a similar terror attack on Georgia in 2017 via a bombing as well as a military coup in Abkhazia in 2018.

Vladivostok, Russia
Vladivostok is the largest Pacific sea port in Russia, as well as the home for the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the Russian Pacific Fleet. Soviet Union Premier Leonid Brezhnev, along with President Gerald Ford and his cabinet, congregated in Vladivostok to negotiate the terms of the SALT II treaty, which was signed on November 24th, 1974. Hot Coldman, the leader of the rogue CIA unit the Peace Sentinels as well as the CIA Station Chief of Central America, used this event to his advantage when planning the final test for Basilisk/Peace Walker, where he would launch a nuke at a falsified retaliation target (originally the Mother Base, although after Vladimir Zadornov betrayed him and changed the target to Cuba, he decided using Cuba afterwards), as well as transmitting falsified data relating to an imaginary Soviet nuclear strike to the United States homeland to NORAD, nearly causing an all out nuclear war.

Moscow, Russia
Moscow is the national capital of Russia. Originally the ruling place of the Czars until the 20th century, it was later used as the location of the Kremlin, the Russian government from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation. By 2014, Moscow was the headquarters of the Clawing Ocelot PMC.

OKB-1
OKB-1, also known as the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, or RKK Energiya, is the Soviets premier bureau for weapons research, as well as the largest Space industry research facility in the Soviet Union and present day Russia. It was where the Vostok rocket was developed, and was largely responsible for the Soviet's space age weapons development during the time of the Cold War.

During the late 1950s to early 1960s, The Boss, via the Philosophers' spy network, attempted to plant a sleeper agent into an anti-Moscow faction of the Russian Philosophers in order to sabotage the Soviets various space projects, also trying to find a way into the OKB-1 facility. Later, in 1961, she ended up infiltrating the OKB-1 facility herself to investigate what the latest Sputnik device actually was, after noticing suspicious entries within the blueprints that their sleeper agent leaked to NASA, namely what the pod inside was. She later learned it was a means of recovering the test subjects intact, and that the sleeper agent falsified the blueprints after completely defecting to the Soviet Union due to the CIA pocketing a large percentage of his fee.

Behind the scenes
In the non-canonical game Snake's Revenge, one of Metal Gear 2's launch targets was Moscow, Russia.