The Interstational Period can be compared to the Russian civil war and the attempt to spread Communism into Poland, Finland, and the Baltic States. (Numerous parallels can be made between the USSR and the Red Line this is especially true of its history. Once enough station governments had been overthrown, the masterminds of the revolution declared a first "Interstational", with the goal of uniting the entire metro and establishing true Communism for all time. All across the Red Line, Muscovites overthrew their administrations and established revolutionary councils. It was this aura which attracted to the line everyone nostalgic for the socialist past and saw in the new world an opportunity to build a communistic utopia like pilgrims journeying to visit the relics of a long-dead saint, surviving believers in the socialist dream congregated in the stations of Sokol, and bided their time.įollowing the collapse of Central Metro Command a few years after the destruction of the surface, Communist agitators throughout the Red Line began to bring their work to fruition. On every wall and edifice, sumptuous statues were sculpted and mosaics laid, and while now stained by soot or decayed by the passing of time, the name remained, and so did the aura of Soviet majesty. A testament to the glory of the Soviet state, and the power of Stalin himself. Sokolnicheskaya was built for much the same purpose as the palaces (or tombs) of the ancient Pharaohs. This, combined with the pseudo-socialist nature of the Red Line and the association of the colour red with socialism, easily explain the post-apocalyptic origins of the name. The names used in everyday parlance before the war to describe the different lines of the Underground are based on their colours on maps of the Metro, and Sokolnicheskaya was always depicted in bright red. Following a Marxist-Leninist and Neo-Stalinist ideology, political repression and indoctrination is an everyday part of life for Line citizens, considered a vital tool if the Party is to maintain its ascendancy or prevent fascist infiltration. The Red Line is a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party of the Moscow Underground and its General Secretary, Maxim Moskvin. Juxtaposed to Hanza's policy of political ambivalence and economic hegemony, the Red Line pursues a policy of violent expansion whenever possible, as showcased by its permanent state of conflict with the fascist Fourth Reich, crimes committed against non-aligned stations, and conflict with the Rangers over the Д-6 military installation. With the largest population in the Metro (estimated at 15,000), an unparalleled capacity for mass conscription, and a number of stations and metres of track surpassed only by Hansa, the Red Line is one of the most formidable factions in the post-apocalyptic world. 10.1 Concept Art by Vlad "Feanture" Tkach.
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