Reichskommissariat Moskowien

Reich Commissariat of Moscow Reichskommissariat Moskowien
Flag of the Reichkommissariat Moskowien TAG = MCW
Politics
Capital	Moskau
Ruling Party	Arbeitsbereich Osten der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (Tr: Working Area East of the National Socialist German Workers' Party)
Head of State	Reichskommissar Siegfried Kasche
Head of Government	Deputy Reichskommissar Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff
Diplomacy
Sphere	Grossraum Kontinentaleuropa
Foreign Alignment	Autonomous Reichskommissariat, Einheitspakt
Economy
Credit Rating	Fair
Market Type	Gelenkte Wirtschaft

Reichskommissariat Moskowien (RKM; Russian: Рейхскомиссариат Московия, romanized: Reykhskomissariat Moskoviya, literally 'Reich Commissariat of Muscovy') is a colony in Eastern Europe, part of the Greater Germanic Reich, encompassing most of the former European parts of the former Russian SFSR. It is the largest European Reichskommissariat and is operated by Reichskommissar Siegfried Kasche, the former German Ambassador to Croatia.

The colony utilizes the large Slavic population through a middle class of Russian laborers, providing a higher quality of life than other Reichskommissariats like Kaukasus. However, the political system has provided an uneasy glimpse of stability, with pressure from eastern warlords causing difficulties in controlling the border region.

The West Russian War in the mid-50s led to the nearly overrandom of several Russian warlords, including the West Russian Revolutionary Front, backed by the Organization of Free Nations and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Although the invasion was repelled, it diminished a large portion of the RK's land forces, giving Moskowien a "bloody nose" from which it has not recovered from to this day.

The Colony was established in 1941-1942 after the German occupation of Western Russia, conquered from the Soviet Union in WWII, led to the creation of the Moskowien region, which was the least Germanized part of the entire German colonial sphere and one of the most unprofitable, with mismanagement and powerful collaborator groups.

History

Before Operation Barbarossa, the lands that make up Moskowien was part of the Russian SFSR inside of the Soviet Union, inhabited by mostly Russians. It was a key subject of Nazi planning for the post-war expansion of the German state under the Lebensraum or Living Space under Generalplan Ost. The Nazi extermination policy in Western Russia, ended the lives of millions of people in The Holocaust and other mass killings under SS Einsatzgruppen units.

Nazi Germany aimed to permanently destroy Russia and the Russian people, regardless of their political affiliation. Adolf Hitler's Lebensraum policy, as outlined in Mein Kampf, involved disposing of Russian inhabitants and expeling them beyond the Ural mountains or through various means. The Generalplan Ost encouraged German colonial settlement in former Slavic regions. As the campaign against the Soviet Union advanced, the occupied territories were gradually transferred from military to civilian administration. Hitler's final decision involved dividing the new eastern territories into four Reichskommissariats to destroy Russia as a geographical entity.

These institutions were under the nominal supervision of Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg, head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. The leaders of these provinces were direct subordinates of Hitler and answerable only to him. The conquered territories initially became a Reichskommissariat Russland, later changed to Moskowien (Muscovy) or Moskau (Moscow). These eastern districts were considered the most sensitive to administer, and were managed directly by the German government in Berlin.