Soviet Collapse triggers Revolution and Mutiny

Victim to a two-pronged assault from both American and UIR forces, the Soviet frontier armies were swiftly overwhelmed. Allied and Republic columns drove in their separate directions, seizing countless Russian cities and enveloping hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops. As Red Army High Command began to collapse, riots broke out in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the Communist regime. Soviet troops around the capital began to desert and join the swiftly-growing resistance to Soviet rule which nearly all agreed was chiefly responsible for the military disasters Russia was suffering. The Premier's Latvian Guard was besieged in the Kremlin and overwhelmed. The final fate of Vladimir Taftikov is not known; some sources say he escaped disguised as a milk-maid, throwing his great seal in the Moskva River, others state that he was shot by traitorous guards. Despite the overthrow of Soviet authority in Moscow and St.Petersburg, American and UIR forces quickly closed in and swept aside the disorganized defences. Soon all of Russia proper was under foreign occupation, although many European nations still lay under Russian occupation.

In response to events in Russia, the armies of the front quickly purged their ranks of any who remained loyal to Communism. The newly-formed general staff in their headquarters in Warsaw declared themselves the 'Russian government in exile' dedicated, no longer dedicated to spreading communism but to freeing their homeland from its occupiers.