What a lot of people miss about red winter that it's not a parody on the USSR, but on early 1900's Russia as a whole, most likely the ending period of Russian empire, 1916-1920's.
Cherino is not Stalin, she's Nicolas 2, a completely incompetent buffoon, child at heart not made for ruling a country. Tomoe is something of a Rasputin \ Stolypin \ generic upper class bureaucracy, Marina is the same. Minori is Lenin, planning to overthrown a bunch of retards leading a bunch of other retards while being a completely deranged moron herself.
And finally my wife Shiggy and Nodoka represent generic people of that period getting completely fucked over by all of that niggering around them.
Reading Red Winter events made me incredibly sad, it's an accurate representation of how fucked up my homeland is. And yeah, it's still pretty much the same after solid 100 years.