History YMMV / ZhirinovskysRussianEmpire

** Even more so after February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with the aim of subjugating the country. And in an eerie coincidence, the invasion started shortly before the real Zhirinovsky's death.

** Even more so after February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with the aim of subjugating the country. And in an eerie coincidence, the invasion happened started before the real Zhirinovsky's death.

** Even more so after February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with the aim of subjugating the country. And in an eerie coincidence, the invasion happened shortly before the real Zhirinovsky's death.

** Even more so after February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with the aim of subjugating the country. And in an eerie coincidence, around this time the real Zhirinovsky would end up hospitalized from COVID, and ended up dying two months later from complications.

** Even more so after February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with the aim of subjugating the country.

* LifeImitatesArt: [[https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1512859698428624912 After the Russians invaded Ukraine in 2022, Vladimir Putin offered Poland a chunk of Ukraine]], [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/zhirinovskys-russian-empire.245924/page-13#post-6568994 imitating the scene where Zhirinovsky offers Germany Poland]].

* LifeImitatingArt: [[https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1512859698428624912 After the Russians invaded Ukraine in 2022, Vladimir Putin offered Poland a chunk of Ukraine]], [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/zhirinovskys-russian-empire.245924/page-13#post-6568994 imitating the scene where Zhirinovsky offers Germany Poland]].

* MagnificentBastard: Alexander Ivanovich Lebed

* HarsherInHindsight : The timeline was started in 2012 and finished early in 2014. Right after that came a real world crisis with secession of Crimea from Ukraine and annexation by Russia after a dubious referendum, plunging relations between Russia and the West to their lowest since the UsefulNotes/ColdWar with no solution in sight.

* HarsherInHindsight : The timeline was started in 2012 and finished early in 2014. Right after that came a real world crisis with secession of Crimea from Ukraine and annexation by Russia after a dubious referendum, plunging relations between Russia and the West to their lowest since the ColdWar with no solution in sight.

* MoralEventHorizon: The massacre at Grozny for the UIS, both in and out of Universe.

* LifeImitatesArt In one scene, a UIS diplomat comically accuses his Estonian counterparts of being Nazis. A year after the scene was written, the Russians in real life accused Ukrainian protesters of being Neo-Nazis when they rose up against their government.

** In one scene, a UIS diplomat comically accuses his Estonian counterparts of being Nazis. A year after the scene was written, the Russians in real life accused Ukrainian protesters of being Neo-Nazis when they rose up against their government.

** In one scene, a UIS diplomat comically accuses his Estonian counterparts of being Nazis. A year after the scene was written, the Russians in real life accused Ukrainian protesters of being Neo-Nazis.

** In one scene,a UIS diplomat comically accuses his Estonian counterparts of being Nazis. A year after the scene was written, the Russians in real life accused Ukrainian protesters of being Neo-Nazis.

** In 2016, America would elect its own [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump unhinged, delusional, racist and malapropism-speaking leader]].

* HarsherinHindsight : The timeline was started in 2012 and finished early in 2014. Right after that came a real world crisis with secession of Crimea from Ukraine and annexation by Russia after a dubious referendum, plunging relations between Russia and the West to their lowest since the ColdWar with no solution in sight.

MagnificentBastard: Alexander Ivanovich Lebed