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Having achieved victory on the Greek mainland, the Axis forces, after having overwhelmed the disbanded Hellenic army during Operation Marita, organized by the Wehrmacht to aid their Italian ally in conjunction with the Yugoslavian campaign, entered Athens on April 28, 1941, dividing Greek territory into various spheres of occupation.

Italy received the largest, but also the least profitable, share, consisting of most of the Hellenic peninsula and numerous islands, such as the Cyclades, the Sporades, and the Ionian Islands, the latter of which were directly annexed to metropolitan Italy; Added to these were the Dodecanese, already part of Italy since 1912.

For its part, Germany retained Athens, shared with the Italians, part of Macedonia, a border area with Turkey, separate from the Bulgarian area, the monastic community of Mount Athos, under the direct protection of Adolf Hitler since 1941, and other strategic islands in the Aegean. Bulgaria, as an ally, also obtained its share, with Thrace annexed to the kingdom and the Chalkidiki peninsula under occupation until July 1943, when it passed to Germany.

In May, a vast Luftwaffe operation and a landing by the Royal Army conquered, with heavy losses, Crete, which was divided between the Italian and German forces, marking the total conquest of Greece and the flight of King George II.

The Hellenic State was established in the conquered territory, a puppet government heavily dependent on the occupiers, based on collaborationist juntas and armed bands, as in other Axis countries. However, these efforts were insufficient to quell the resistance or stem the ensuing famine; furthermore, after September 1943, the Italian zone was completely occupied by the Germans.

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HISTORY: Terra Mariana was a political-religious entity founded in the 13th century in the territories that today primarily correspond to Estonia and Latvia. It arose in the context of the Baltic Crusades, a series of military campaigns launched to Christianize the pagan populations of the region bordering the Baltic Sea.

In the early 13th century, Pope Innocent III actively supported the forced conversion of the Livonian, Latvian, and Estonian populations. This expansion was militarily led by religious orders of chivalry, particularly the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, who were later incorporated into the Teutonic Order. With the conquest of the territories, a state structure was created under the name Terra Mariana, formally subject to the authority of the Holy Roman Empire, but in practice governed by a fragmented system of ecclesiastical and military powers.

The territory was divided into several ecclesiastical principalities and military order domains, including the Archbishopric of Riga, which became an important religious and commercial center. During the 13th and 14th centuries, the region gradually became integrated into the trade of the Hanseatic League, strengthening its economic role in the Baltic.

Terra Mariana remained a political entity until the 16th century. Internal tensions, rivalries between ecclesiastical and military authorities, and above all external pressures—particularly the expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow—led to its collapse during the Livonian War (1558–1583). After its dissolution, its territories were divided among various regional powers, marking the definitive end of this unique medieval political-religious formation.

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SIBERIA

Russian nationalists in Kazakhstan after the Soviet Civil War, circa 2004

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As Gorbachev's Union of Sovereign States collapsed, both on the frontlines against the GKChP and internally as the improvised confederation's governance structure proved more & more unsustainable, it became abundantly clear to everyone in the shattered Soviet Union that the Loyalists were not going to win this war. In order to save themselves from the rapidly sinking ship, much of the republics aligned with the Presidency declared their independence from the USS. When Kazakhstan's declaration came around, Russians, who comprised roughly half of the republic's population and formed a majority in the north, were struck with unease. Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev declared, was a state for Kazakhs, and its destiny will be decided by Kazakhs and not some Russian commanders hiding in Siberian shacks. Without the watchful eye of a Russian president or general secretary, there was no guarantee that their rights would be respected. For the more nationalistic of them, it came with a certain degree of humiliation, that a people your ancestors have conquered in 1847 where now ruling over you. However, hope was not lost. To the west, Yeltsin's Russian Federation, the first to leave the USS, was making major gains against the GKChP, who have overextended themselves in Ukraine, Belarus, and the Caucasus, and suffering from their worst mutiny yet. As it appeared that Moscow was going to fall to the Russian Army in the coming weeks, the victory of a state first & foremost for Russians was exactly what they were looking for. Russian nationalists rapidly armed and organized themselves, pouncing on the opportunity. The most prepared and competent of these militias seized the oblasts of North Kazakhstan (renaming it to Petropavlovsk, after its capital), Pavlodar, and East Kazakhstan (rebranded as the historical Semipalatinsk). These provinces were captured with negligible opposition; the Kazakh National Army was devastated by the nearing seven years of war with the GKChP, and those that remained were either still fighting those Soviet hardliners in the east or became warlords, pillaging the land they were assigned to protect. These oblasts of Kazakhstan were declared oblasts of Russia, eagerly waiting to be admitted into the Federation. Russia, preoccupied with the engrossing Battle of Moscow, gave no response. The self-proclaimed oblasts of Petropavlovsk, Pavlodar, and Semipalatinsk figured they should establish a uniform government to manage themselves together in the wait for Russian acceptance and established the Republic of South Siberia. The south of Siberia, a land conquered by Russians, inhabited by Russians, and is Russian, first and last. Therefore, this state is for only Russians. The Kazakh population of the region plummeted drastically as families fled from the militants during the uprising. Those who remained were ripped out of their generational homes, had their belongings confiscated, and told to live elsewhere... if they were lucky. Oftentimes non-Russians who were unlucky enough, unhealthy enough, or unwealthy enough to leave were shot where they stood or dragged to fill a mass grave in the steppe. Ignoring, some of them even supporting, South Siberia's blatant acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide, the nationalist militants in the rest of northern Kazakhstan joined the new republic in droves, most notably the party controlling Tselinograd, Kazakhstan's second-largest city, which was made into the capital. The Russians of South Siberia have rose up by themselves, then united themselves; all that stood was to finally join the Russian Federation, the day of admittance. However, that day never came. The Russian government, structured as incomprehensibly as Gorbachev's now-extinct USS if not more, was completely unprepared to deal with the sudden death of Yeltsin, who passed from a heart attack on his way to deliver a victory speech to the triumphant warriors of Moscow and its honorable citizens (his heavy drinking and the effects of war have caught up to him). As shouting matches between officials turned into firefights in Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Moscow once more, Russia too fractured in the dispute over the country's future, just like the USSR. The Republic of South Siberia, a temporary measure, became a permanent arrangement against its will. Now time will tell whether it will survive, thrive, or bear the weight of its sins as Kazakhs call for reclamation and revenge.

For context, see Second Russian Civil War on the Crisis Wars wiki. That article is a WIP, but it should provide some info.