Variant Bis-2: Year of the Dead Snake

27 hrs. 48 min.

Language Russian

Author Sergey Anisimov

Narrator Larionov Sergey (babay7)

World War II is over by the “B” variant; it is 1953… In Korea, a prolonged positional war is underway, involving far too many parties, each with its own interests. In China, communism thrives—and with that state, one can no longer avoid reckoning. Japan, which had escaped the collapse of 1946, has grown rich from military supplies; the United States and the Soviet Union—just like in our history—in the “B” variant-2 are drawn into the arms race. For the Korean peninsula, there is a brutal and merciless war—though this strip of land means nothing compared to the scenes behind the scenes, where the struggle for influence in the world plays out among the powers.

Will it be possible to achieve a ceasefire? Will this war grow beyond the rivalry between the drained armies of divided Korea and the “UN forces,” Soviet and Chinese volunteers, into something bigger: a direct collision of fully deployed armies of all participants in the conflict?
The landing of American troops near Shanghai, landings near Nakhodka and Vladivostok—with an advance toward Blagoveshchensk and Khabarovsk… An atomic strike on Soviet groupings in Europe, the spread of a full-scale chemical and biological war across the space from Lisbon to Kagoshima—against which the 38th parallel will fade… Can it be prevented? How many lives would have to be paid to ensure it doesn’t happen?

1. Variant Bis (narrated by Larionov Sergey (babay7)) 1. Variant Bis. Debut (narrated by Alexander Vorobyov) 1. Variant Bis (narrated by Mikhail Roslyakov) 2. Variant Bis-2: Year of the Dead Snake