✎┊ RECS [pt.7]

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Why bother studying history when you can just get isekaied into it and fix everything yourself? Meet the popadantsy: the "heroes" of russian alternate history fiction who somehow manage to travel through time or get reincarnated with one very important advantage: they have this Wikipedia level knowledge of what happens next and immediately starts correcting military doctrine in order to conquer the world. #niche

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Assyrian Tanks at the Gates of Memphis by Mikhail Akhmanov

An ordinary modern day guy gets isekaied into ancient Egypt only to discover that someone has already introduced tanks to the ancient world. Now the Assyrians are rolling toward Memphis, the pharaoh is desperately trying to understand what a 'main battle tank' is and our protagonist somehow becomes the most qualified military expert in Egypt despite knowing absolutely nothing about tanks.

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The Crimson Ruler by Sergei Shkenev

Joseph Stalin is reborn in a parallel fantasy world of sword and sorcery where he promptly discovers that the local aristocracy has yet to experience the joys of revolution. As the leader of a People's State, he faces an aristocratic empire on one side and man eating battle dragons on the other. Naturally the solution is simple: build a Red Army, industrialize at maximum speed and teach the dragons what total war means.

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If Yesterday There Was a War by Oleg Tarugin

Yuriy Kramarchuk is an ukrainian army lieutenant colonel from 1955 and he somehow finds himself in the soviet onion of 1940, less than a year before the outbreak of war. His mission is simple but nearly impossible: convince Stalin that the coming disaster can still be prevented. If he fails, millions will die, history will repeat itself and Yuriy himself will probably be executed as a spy and enemy agent. But there is still almost a year before the war and perhaps, just perhaps, enough time to change history.

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Red Padawan by Viktor Dubchek

A damaged imperial star destroyer carrying Darth Vader mysteriously appears above Earth on June 21, 1941... just hours before nazi Germany invades the soviet union. Vader meets Stalin and recognizing a fellow practitioner of ruthless authoritarianism, decides that the USSR is the perfect ally. Now the Red Army has a very unusual new weapon: the Force. The Eastern Front is about to become a war between tanks, TIE fighters and the nazi soldiers wondering why the Soviet dictator has a man in black armor commanding the battlefield.

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Get up, Russia! Troops from the future by Alexey Makhrov, Boris Orlov & Sergey Pletnev

A group of modern russian soldiers suddenly finds itself transported back to World War II, landing in the middle of a war they already know how to win... at least in theory. Armed with modern weapons, military knowledge and absolutely no idea why time travel happened, they decide to help the soviet onion change the course of history. Unfortunately explaining drones, night vision and modern warfare to Stalin era generals may prove very difficult.

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Suvorov Crosses the Himalayas: The Miracle Warriors of the Time Traveler by German Romanov

A modern man is thrown back into the age of Alexander Suvorov, one of Russia's legendary military commanders. Instead of trying to quietly blend into history, he decides to give Suvorov a little help and suddenly the russian army is preparing for an absolutely insane campaign across the Himalayas. With Suvorov's soldiers, the time traveler's modern knowledge and a growing army of miracle warriors, history is about to discover that the Himalayas were apparently just an inconveniently large mountain range standing between Russia and its next conquest.

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Autocratic Isekai Traveler: Peter the Liberator by German Romanov

A modern man wakes up in the past and discovers that he has been reborn as Peter the Great. Armed with knowledge of the future, he decides that Russia's historical problems can be solved with a simple combination of reforms, modernization and an alarming amount of military expansion. Now Peter is determined to turn Russia into a superpower ahead of schedule because apparently being transported through time is the perfect excuse to speedrun an entire empire's development.

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And that's everything for today. See you next time!

*NOTE: none of the plots I've listed here are my reviews. I'm not russian and I can't read the language. I'm simply presenting the premises because honestly I find these ideas ridiculous and funny.
I'll also be taking a short break from the ✎┊RECS series because the second SBR episode is coming out very soon and I am way too excited to focus on anything else right now!! Take care ♡♡