My first quesiton for this is, would the Russian Mob end up being founded by ex-KGB officials or would they get a genesis from the already existing blackmarketeers that existed during the Communist Regime?
Kato and I where talking about how different factions in the USSR would pop up... I have the idea that not only would their be indepdenence movements (such as the Baltic states and the Ukraine), and I had came up with the Russian White Army in my campaigns. The Russian White Army is the pro-Democratic faction, that is pushing for the birth of a democratic pro-western government with the return of the Romanov family as constitutioinal monarchs.
In my old gaming group we had the heir of the Romanov's having been invited by the Danilov regime before the war started as part of a 'goodwill' media tour that would show just how much the Soviet Union had imporved. Said Romanov was an extremely popular humanitarian (kind of like how Princess Di had become before her tragic death) as well as a major industrialist who used the ecconomic reforms that allowed foreign investments in the USSR to start phiantrophic charities that helped the 'average' soviet citizen to establish the 'cottage industries' that sprung up to provide luxury items (such as toliet paper, fashionable clothing, ect) for the Soviet market.
But i degress...
There are different levels of blackmarketeers... You have the small scale 'fixers' who have lots of contacts who are able to to get different kinds of items and services. This is the kind of blackmarketeers that i am the most knowledgeable about.
There is a Nick Cage movie, the "Lord of War" that showed how an ethnic Russian became a major arms dealer thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union... And it works great for creating either a protagonist or antagonist for Merc 2000 campaigns...
does anyone have ideas of criminal underground organizations forming up actual post-war empires?
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