Sakhaliya
From Ipon
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| Motto: "Коммунизм вытерпит для вечности"
"Communism will endure for eternity"' | |||||||
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| Capital | Khabarovsk [Хабаровск]
(Buriyagrad [Бурияград]) | ||||||
| Largest city | Khabarovsk [Хабаровск] | ||||||
| Official language(s) | Russian / Sakhaliyan Dialect | ||||||
| Government Premier of the Sakhaliyan People
Commissar Prime Generalissimo of the Red Fist | Urist Utopian State Uri Petrolanskya Buriya Nikolai Demidov Savlovich Lev Evgeniy Nikitin | ||||||
| Recognised Communist State Independence | 1948 from USSR | ||||||
| Area • Total • Water (%) | 180,000 km² 8.2 | ||||||
| Population • 2007 est. • 2006 census • Density | 1,350,000 (148) 1,200,000 34/km² (140) | ||||||
| GDP (PPP) • Total • Per capita | $42.00billion USD $1150.00 | ||||||
| HDI | 0.730 | ||||||
| Currency | Srou [Cpoy] (CP)
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| Time zone • Summer (DST) | Vladivostok Time (UTC+10) +11 (UTC+1) | ||||||
| Internet TLD | .cp | ||||||
| Calling code | +71
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Peoples Republic of Sakhaliya [Russian - Сахалинcкая Народная Pеспублика] was formed in 1948 to end the disputing over who should claim ownership of the Area [Russia or China]. After a short 2 year occupation by Soviet and US forces it was decided that the Region should be free to Govern itself, leading the speedy birth of the nation. It is a small Country that occupies the far Easterly border of Russia and also lays claim to the Island of ‘Sakhalin’ wich the country derives its name from. The country has coasts with the Pacific Ocean, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea of Japan, the Sakhalin Straight and shares its borders with Russia to the East, China to the South East and the KSSR to the North East [wich, due to high Tensions between the Governments, Sakhaliya refuses to acknowledge the existence of].
Sakhaliya has a Council Seat in the Independent Pact of Nations [IPON], its main focus is the promotion of workers and Union rights amoungst the Pact members although it is occasionally critisized itself over the lack of Democratic establishment and poor Economic Development. Dispite this, it has well established Diplomatic relations with many nations, including the United States whom many still believe are trying to supress Communism from existance. Sakhaliya's two large Neighbours, Russia and China, both support Sakhaliya in many ways including Militarily and Finacially. This is seen as the main contributing factor to why the United States will not interfere with the developing Nation by any means.
The geography of Sakhaliya is made up of rugged hills and vast marsh lands wich are extremely hard to construct on. The largest of the marshlands is the Komsalomsk Area wich is widely though to have been the River Amur's pre-historic flood plain. Much of Sakhaliya sits roughly over half a km above sea level, and consequently suffers from high winds daily, the wind erosion has made Sakhaliya's soils very thin and useless for farming except in some of the sheltered valleys away from the sea.
Sakhaliya's main industries are Coal Mining and Machinery Building, although Garment Mills are on the rise as an increasing amount of Women are leaving the household to find work. In 2003, oil and natural gas deposits were found beneath Sakhalin Island and Sakhaliya's Territorial Waters. Once extraction begins in 2008 the oil revenues could profoundly affect Sakhaliya's economy
History
1945-1948 - Emergance of the Republic
The Peoples Republic of Sakhaliya was formed in 1948 to end a dispute between Russia and China over who claimed ownership of the area formerly occupied by the Japanese. The US put forward that it should become an Independent Nation, free from either's control (although it is widely believed that the US wanted an Ally in the Area incase it needed to take action against the USSR or the increasingly Communist China).
Although the USSR had forced the Japanese out of Sakhalin, they let Sakhalin self Govern, yet the Island itself was only populated by a few thousand Japanese farmers so the Soviets under US guidance also set up a what was supposed to be a temporary Government in the city of Khabarovsk. In 1947 The US argued that the new State would never be able to survive with the resources on Sakhalin Island and held talks with the USSR about a possible hand over of Khabarovsk and its surrounding Krai to the new nation. The USSR refused to the deal, they were only willing to do so on a single condition; Sakhalin was to to be Governed by whom ever the USSR saw fit. The US disagreed, they wanted to see full democratic elections take place to decide who Governed. In the end, they came to a compromise and held democratic elections with a choice of two candidates chosen by the Soviets.
Andrei Gorchenko was to be one of the candidates. The son of a Farmer, Andrei Lanskya Gorchenko was at the time one of Josef Stalin's top advisors. Stalin personally chose him to be a Candidate for the Sakhaliyan Governing seat, if elected he was to turn Sakhaliya into a Soviet style Republic keeping close ties with the USSR. After the first choice was announced, the US insisted that they chose a Candidate that was more democraticly minded next time or they would be forced to withdraw all previous offers and continue occupation of the area untill either China or the USSR backed down from claiming the area. Josef Stalin was furious at the US, he felt that since it was Soviet land it should be under some kind of loose Soviet Juristiction. He ordered a large company of Red Army soldiers to be sent to Sakhalin and Khabarovsk to occupy the Territory and keep the US from gaining a majority occupation foothold in the area and a stalemate ensued.
The Stalemate lasted a full 8 months from 24th April 1947 to 10th January 1948, there was no official fighting between the US and the USSR during the Statemate, it has thought to have been a major catalyst for the Cold War. In the end the there were a total of 250,000 Red Army soldiers stationed in Sakhalin and Khabarovsk and just a mere 30,000 US soldiers. The US was under too much pressure to ensure that Communism didn't spread to Japan after they had left it in ruins. The US disbanded from Sakhalin on the 1st of January 1948 under a wave of celebration and parading of the Soviet Victory in Khabarovsk. The US had given up on Sakhalin and set their sights soley on the re-construction of Japan.
1948-1977 The Gorchenko Era
Not wanting to break his promise to his good friend Gorchenko, Stalin appointed him as the first Sakhalin Premier during the Khabarovsk May Day Celebrations on the 1st of May 1948. During an Address to the Khabarovsk people, Gorchenko announced the new collective name of the Khabarovsk Krai and Sakhaliskaya; The Peoples Republic of Sakhaliya. There was mass applause at the announcement, Stalin was even noted to muse "These people are very joyful. We should trade occupations".
He worked closely with the Soviet Union for the next 5 years, industrial goods moved freely between the USSR and Sakhaliya, the country didn't seem to even exist, the US even rejected to acknowledge it as a country, it was merely a Soviet 'Puppet State'. No Borders were drawn between the USSR and the CHP, there were no border guards and all CHP good were shipped from Vladivostok wich was outside of Sakhaliyan juristiction.
From 1960-1970 Gorchenko struggled to stablize the country, every coming year looked up economically with the production of goods getting stronger, but come the winter the production would drop to depressing levels as snow storms could leave many place in Sakhaliya isolated and entire Industial districts without power. Food was scarce and those who were'nt starving to death were freezing to death. In 1962 Gorchenko managed to appeal to the US for funds to construct new Power stations, they loaned him $400 million but it wasn't near enough to repair the economic damage Khrushchev had caused. Sakhaliya was now in debt to the US and this made Communists all over the world view Khrushchev with a degree of malice, although no-one more than Mao Zedong who vowed to help Sakhaliya by whatever means possible, he told Gorchenko "Socialists are to each other what the heart is to the brain. Without partnership the body [Communism] cannot function."
In 1965, China and Sakhaliya signed the "Bejing Treaty" wich is an Economic and Human Development colaboration between the two ountries. The treaty had a profound impact on Sakhaliya and is still in effect to this day. Goods were able to move freely from Sakhaliya to China, the fence and border guard between the two countries was removed and the USSR stopped getting the Taxes from Sakhaliya's Imports. This made the new General Secretary of the Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev who had been elected the year before look very foolish for not adressing Khrushchev's mistake sooner rather than later, his impotence had cost them a valuable comrade and a loss of income, but all was not lost. Brezhnev spent a good while trying to get Sakhaliya back on favourable terms, and it worked to an extent, but Sakhaliya found greater friendship in Mao's China than the Soviets who had shunned them before already; Gorchenko, even though being from the Soviet Union himself, could never see himself trusting a future Soviet leader for as long as he lived and for as long as they kept denouncing his good friend, Stalin.
For the next decade Gorchenko continued to keep ties with China strong, in 1968 Mao personally offered him a holiday home near the City of Dalian for his 20th year as Premier of the Sakhaliyan Peoples. Gorchenko reluctantly declined, however, he asked Mao that he hoped this would not affect their friendship, Mao replied "My friend, the Tiger does not hate his fellow Tiger for refusing offered Meat. He embraces the fact that there is more for himself and it only strengthens the fellowship!". Needless to say, Gorchenko admired Mao's wisdom, he soon became an aficionado of Mao's teachings and writing, he read the 'Little Read Book' as if it were a Bible. Gorchenko found a friendship in Mao that he could have never found in Stalin, but it became more and more apparent that
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