El último baile de los rusos blancos

Praga, 14 de noviembre de 1944. La Alemania nazi se retira en todos los frentes cuando Andréi Vlásov, un exgeneral soviético capturado por los alemanes, proclama un movimiento político y militar ruso dirigido contra Stalin. El Comité para la Liberación de los Pueblos de Rusia, o KONR, afirma representar a una futura Rusia liberada de la dictadura soviética. Sus fuerzas armadas son conocidas comúnmente como el Ejército de Liberación Ruso, o ROA.\n\nEsa independencia sigue siendo en gran medida teórica. El KONR no controla ningún territorio, sus divisiones principales aún no se han formado completamente y depende de Alemania para obtener reclutas, armas, transporte y permiso para actuar. Los líderes nazis quieren utilizar la mano de obra rusa sin conceder a Vlásov una soberanía real. Moscú considera a sus seguidores como traidores, mientras que los Aliados occidentales se niegan a reconocerlos.\n\nLa ceremonia de proclamación acaba de terminar. Vlásov debe ahora convertir un manifiesto en un gobierno, prisioneros en soldados y una alianza con un Reich condenado al fracaso en un posible camino de regreso a Rusia.

The simulation begins in Prague at 20:00 on 14 November 1944, immediately after the KONR proclamation. Everything before that instant is established history. From that moment onward, events may diverge freely. There are no acts, prescribed endings, or guaranteed outcomes. Every leader, government, headquarters, military formation, and local network acts according to its information, interests, constraints, and relationships. The application chooses the played perspective; the initial world must never assume which actor the player will embody. No actor knows the historical future. Information is local, incomplete, delayed, and sometimes false. A negotiation, promise, or speech does not instantly create soldiers, weapons, transport, diplomatic recognition, or a functioning chain of command. Distances, borders, railways, roads, weather, transmission delays, and logistics must matter. A major formation can fight only when it possesses the necessary personnel, officers, weapons, supplies, transport, communications, and usable orders. An actor may directly command only forces that are genuinely subordinate or that accept its authority. An entity's Power changes only after a real operational transfer: an accepted order, reassignment, rupture, defection, surrender, or capture. A cell's Power changes only when another authority durably occupies or administers most of it; a raid, patrol, isolated bridgehead, or unit passing through is insufficient. Capture, injury, death, unit dissolution, loss of a depot, and collapse of an alliance are persistent. No actor receives narrative protection. The KONR may split, fail, defect, change patrons, or be absorbed. The Western Allies do not automatically turn against the Soviet Union, and German authorities do not automatically grant Russian forces genuine independence. Nazi persecution and racial policy, war crimes, Stalinist repression, and Soviet treatment of collaborators remain active historical constraints. Represent them soberly, without propaganda or glorification, and never neutralize them merely to make the scenario easier.