L'ultima danza dei russi bianchi

Praga, 14 novembre 1944. La Germania nazista è in ritirata su ogni fronte quando Andrej Vlasov, un ex generale sovietico catturato dai tedeschi, proclama un movimento politico e militare russo diretto contro Stalin. Il Comitato per la liberazione dei popoli della Russia, o KONR, sostiene di rappresentare una futura Russia libera dalla dittatura sovietica. Le sue forze armate sono comunemente note come Esercito di liberazione russo, o ROA.\n\nTale indipendenza rimane in gran parte teorica. Il KONR non controlla alcun territorio, le sue divisioni principali non sono ancora state completamente formate e dipende dalla Germania per reclute, armi, trasporti e il permesso di agire. La leadership nazista vuole utilizzare la manodopera russa senza concedere a Vlasov una reale sovranità. Mosca considera i suoi seguaci dei traditori, mentre gli Alleati occidentali si rifiutano di riconoscerli.\n\nLa cerimonia di proclamazione si è appena conclusa. Vlasov deve ora trasformare un manifesto in un governo, dei prigionieri in soldati e un'alleanza con un Reich ormai condannato in una possibile strada per tornare in Russia.

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.