Cherdenko invited his superior, General Nikolai Krukov, to the Kremlin and introduced him to Dr. Twelve months later, the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse, a collapse brought upon largely due to the incredibly costly war against Yuri, and the Premier of the USSR had cowardly fled from Moscow. This makes him Stalin's actual successor respectively.Īnatoly Cherdenko was a senior officer in the Soviet army, placed to oversee a highly classified military project to develop and construct an experimental time machine. His interference in the time-stream was the only way he was made Premier and so Premier Romanov never came to power, leaving Cherdenko the de-facto leader of the Soviets in his place. Gregor Zelinsky's time machine and creating an alternate timeline. He was directly responsible for the outbreak of the conflict by assassinating Albert Einstein with Dr. He held the titles of Premier of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, during the Third World War's third iteration, giving him a position synonymous with the towering rank of former Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Alexander Romanov.