Faith became a important part of the war effort, and the Russian Federation became the Holy Russian Empire, WWZ now being promoted as a holy war, a crusade against death. This also resulted in a morale increase, the common soldier now believing that God was with them. So, after reporting this to his division commander, the message of God was received by every chaplain, and they carried out "The final purification". It was at the battle of Kostroma that Father Sergei Ryzhkov, after witnessing too many deaths by suicide (A major sin in most religions), states that he received a message from God, which commanded that the priest must be the ones responsible to release the infected from their burden. Fatigue and hopelessness was common among the russians, yet the offensive carried on. As the officers suffered the "second decimation" and their numbers decreased, it was then ordered that the wounded would be the ones to carry their own execution. Anyone who was bitten during combat was to be executed by their officers, which later let to depression, suicide or desertion of many officers who carried this responsibility. Its first major battle happened in Ufa, resulting in a pyrrhic "victory", with a high casualty rate. A massive offensive was prepared, the objective of it being the reconquest of the volga region. As the situation stabilize, old supply depots where found and open, its equipment, uniforms and vehicles, the legacy of soviet military might and the struggle of the Great Patriotic War, used once again to serve the motherland. With zombies coming from the middle east and Europe, The Russian army was forced to retreat to the Ural Mountains.įacing a two-front war, Russia was reduced to its siberian region. Now motivated by fear and guilt, the remaining troops where regroup and sent to fight. Spetsnaz where sent to kill any rebel individual, and the rest of their units where broke into groups of ten, letting them choose which one was to be executed by the rest. The Government enacted a "decimation" policy on all the army, with the intent to restore order. As the existence of the zombies became known among army units, open rebellion and desertion became common.
Maria Zhuganova former soldier stationed in North Ossetia (Alania), tells in her interview that at first the government tried to contain information of the undead from most of the ground forces, relying on military police, officers and (possibly) special service operatives to keep control on border units, while also ordering regular inspections to frontier villages, alerting to its authorities of the coming danger. At the start of World War Z, the Russian Federation was dealing with high levels of corruption, low morale in the military and separatism in its borders.
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