Yah, that either doesn't sound feasible or it was "Al Queda," all right. We are dealing with an ideology that gave us the gem "To lose you is no great loss."
Viktor Anpilov was Russian stalinist communist. He participated to anti-Yeltsin faction during Constitutional Crisis in 1993. After defeat and death of Yeltsin him became minister of industry on NSF government. He anyway break up with right wing faction and eventually took power with communists. Him became premier and led Red faction from Volgograd which was re-named as Stalingrad.
Anpilov was even more paranoid and brutal as Stalin and purged communist party in such degree that there barely was any capable official left couple years later. He too purged effectively army and it became very similar as Stalin's Red Army. Due Anpilov's paranoia some of his ministers survived only few hours after their appointment.
Anpilov was killed when al-Qaeda detonated nuclear bomb in Stalingrad at end of Second Battle of Stalingrad. Due massive purges Anpilov hadn't any suitable successor and his Soviet faction collapsed pretty soon after fall of Stalingrad.
Tanks of nashis nearby of Stalingrad, just before the battle which would prove about as brutal and massive as First Battle of Stalingrad during WW2.
Nuclear bomb detonated by al-Qaeda in Stalingrad on April 10, 1996. It was first nuclear bomb detonated during warfare since end of WW2. It killed whole leadership of Russian Soviet Republic and lot of political commisars and military commanders. Nashi and Red armies were greatly reduced. Civilian casualties were too massive. No one really know how many people were killed during nuking of Stalingrad but it is estimated that it was between 80,000 and 200,000. It left the city horribly ruined and it wasn't yet by 2022 recovered. Unfortunately this wasn't last nuclear bomb used during Second Russian Civil War.
It is entirely possible someone thought they were being slick. Some "pro gamer" (as in thought they would kill all rivals and get a target requiring more tyranical power to fight), vindictive (after loosing all friends) or simply jaded survival oriented military personnel simply gave 0 shits.
The kind of device capable of killing 200k folk "does not simply walk into Mordor."
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