THE YEARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Pubblicato il 8/4/2026

In 1945, the Yalta agreements rewrote destiny—the world was split in half, East against West. The USSR raised the Iron Curtain, and the US responded with an iron fist.

This sparked the Cold War, a boxing ring where the superpowers sized each other up, never fighting directly.

In 1985 Gorbachev took the reins of the USSR and launched Perestroika to revive a stagnant economy. There was talk of disarmament and democracy, but it was short-lived. 1986 was the year that would never be forgotten—fragments of Eridu fell from the sky, and Chernobyl was just the beginning. Tensions with the US skyrocketed, but the USSR changed its game.

Aleksandr Anatoly Konovalov rose from the ashes of the crisis, steering the USSR toward a new phase of strengthening. Eridite, whether an alien gift or a curse, flipped the global economy on its head with cutting-edge atomic energy, but at a steep price.

The USSR extended its grip over Europe, and won in Afghanistan by exploiting eridite.

Still, every coin has its flip side—eridite unleashed mutations, and spawned monsters and destruction.

Now, the Soviet world finds itself navigating uncharted waters, but toward what fate?

THE NEW SUPERPOWER: THE SOVIET UNION

The “Soviet Dream” dawns—the USSR imposes itself as a global colossus, bending Europe to its will, challenging the US. Eridite-powered nuclear plants change the economic game. The Soviet ruble strengthens, communism solidifies. The atomic energy agency, the Krae, is so powerful that local Soviets are nothing but puppets.

Nuclear energy funnels money to the USSR, but mutants and LEAP drain resources like black holes.

The Soviet economy plays solo, cutting imports, pushing for domestic production, but it leaves store shelves half-empty and black markets filled to the brim with Western goods.

Prosperity grows, but the middle class is just a mirage, as many families are on the threshold of poverty.

Wages rise, yet comfortable living remains a dream. Men and women are ostensibly equal, but freedom is a luxury for the few.
Education is the beacon for progress—the war against illiteracy was won, and veneration of science and math has taken root. Public healthcare has improved, but many services, including prisons, are dens of corruption and wastefulness.

Propaganda is the daily bread, while the Militsiya and the KGB are the regime’s eyes and ears, stifling any dissenting whisper.

In this turbulent sea of global tensions and internal challenges, the USSR tries to hold course amid mutants, LEAP, and a precarious political-economic balance.

The obsession with nuclear energy and eridite paints a bleak future, where dreams of technological advancement and prosperity clash with the suffocating reality of a regime that leaves no room for autonomy or personal freedom.