Odd Couple

What if the USSR fell apart early? What if there was a communist rebellion because of this? Literally no one asked, but here is a possible answer to these questions. A remnant group, calling themselves the "New Soviets", have seized land and bases on the Far East of Russia. Naming Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky "New Stalingrad," it looks like we have a pretty serious hard-line communist group on our hands. The new Russian government has been scrambling to contain the situation, and has reached out to NATO for help. They've begun to feed us every bit of information there is on the theatre, and have made it clear they intend to be upfront with their operations, if we are with them.