If you watch the extra news videos for the years, 2001’s one mentions that Russia is running out of lithium that’s used to make the battery tech our cars rely on (in this reality that is post-fossil fuel). It goes on to mention that Politburo member Fyodor Korzhenko (played by actor Dimitar Bakalov in the news briefs, who formerly played a doctor in the movie “The Hitman’s Bodyguard”) rebuked Gorbachev’s open market policies and accused the upper classes in the USSR of cozying up to capitalists in the West. He insisted Gorbachev “rein in these new entrepreneurs or face dire consequences”… it then mentions that should there be an economic downturn as Russia runs out of lithium and iridium, it still has large crude oil reserves.
Without giving away anything that happened in this episode, I think what we’re about to see is this reality’s version of the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis. No Yeltsin, no more Gorbachev. My bet is that Fyodor Korzhenko becomes the new head in the Kremlin.
If you watch the extra news videos for the years, 2001’s one mentions that Russia is running out of lithium that’s used to make the battery tech our cars rely on (in this reality that is post-fossil fuel). It goes on to mention that Politburo member Fyodor Korzhenko (played by actor Dimitar Bakalov in the news briefs, who formerly played a doctor in the movie “The Hitman’s Bodyguard”) rebuked Gorbachev’s open market policies and accused the upper classes in the USSR of cozying up to capitalists in the West. He insisted Gorbachev “rein in these new entrepreneurs or face dire consequences”… it then mentions that should there be an economic downturn as Russia runs out of lithium and iridium, it still has large crude oil reserves.
Without giving away anything that happened in this episode, I think what we’re about to see is this reality’s version of the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis. No Yeltsin, no more Gorbachev. My bet is that Fyodor Korzhenko becomes the new head in the Kremlin.