I've always wanted to try running (or participating in!) a campaign where the PCs start out as escapees from a POW camp in Siberia or Ukraine. I'd use the background information from Gateway to the Spanish Main for what starting equipment they would have, but to prevent it from being a really, really short campaign one of the first encounters would likely provide them with some reasonable weapons and the possibility for some means of mobility. PCs could have a variety of backgrounds and stories of how they were captured (shot down bomber crewmen, troops from any Allied nation, from Romania to China, Korea, Iran, etc.) and probably at least one Soviet collaborator, whether a corrupt/friendly MVD guard to a dissident (or criminal) that was a fellow prisoner (since I'd say the POWs were quickly handed over to the Soviet prison system for detention) to bridge the language/cultural barrier and provide cover. (i.e. I am Captain Vlasov of the MVD and I am transferring these NATO prisoners to Camp 157 to the West. Let me see YOUR papers!).
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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