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{Hey guys. I apologize for my inactivity, Steve hasn’t been cooperative recently. I wish I could say that this is me coming back but I don’t think I can do that just yet.

It’s my senior year of high school, and I absolutely /need/ all of my focus on the college application process. My muse hasn’t been active either and I’ve learned that trying to force it helps no one and doesn’t make my life enjoyable.

Senior year guys. I need to take a step back and make sure that I do all I can to be in a good space mentally, as free of stress as I can be. So, that being said, here’s what’s happening with this account.

I’m putting this account on indefinite hiatus. Hopefully, when Civil War comes out, most of my year will be over and my muse will be back! So I do plan on hopefully coming back sometime in May, if not before then. But not for awhile, at least not until applications are in and there is nothing I can do but wait for an answer.

To those of you who recently sent me a message, I have a draft of yours, you recently expressed an interest in roleplaying with me: I’m sorry that I didn’t tell you guys sooner, but I need this time.

I will probably be on my personal/fanworks & original content tumblrs more than any other tumblr. If you want links to those, message me and I’ll be happy to give them to you (off anon, otherwise you will not get an answer). If you come into my askbox on my personal account and are rude to me, I will block you on that account, and over here. So please, just don’t.

Talking strictly MCU here – the last time we’ve seen Zola before the train scene, he’d been experimenting on Bucky at a facility near the Italian/Austrian border.

Steve catches a glimpse of the map:

(Sorry for the terrible quality)

The HYDRA base should have been somewhere around that stylish red dot.

There’s almost a year (?) between Bucky being rescued by Steve and falling from the train, so Zola could have gone anywhere. Russia though, that seems a rather dangerous journey, even if HYDRA had already infiltrated parts of the military there.

I assumed, given Zola continues working for the Red Skull, they retreated to one of the other bases… again, see map.

Now, I’m dead sure I read “train through the alps” a lot in fanfic, and either we’re all wrong, or that’s Canon. (I think I even remember Eastern Alps?)

So there, hello Alps:

Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, parts of Germany, Italy, Hungary and what’s now Slovenia.

So Zola’s Swiss, right? For some reason, I always assumed that’s where the train was headed, but even if it wasn’t – they must have been in that general area somewhere, and I can’t really see how they’d be likely to meet Russian soldiers there.

And even IF.  Why wouldn’t they return Bucky to their – at that point – allies? 

I have both read and written fic where Bucky was found by some other party first and only when the war was over came to be with the Russians, but that doesn’t seem to be backed up by Canon, either.

We know the first HYDRA base, the one where Dr Zola experiments on Bucky, is located in Austria, between Kitzbühel and Klagenfurt (the red dot on your first map above):

When the Kitzbühel-Klagenfurt base is set to self-destruct, Red Skull escapes in a one-person prop-plane while Dr Zola drives off in Red Skull’s car. They later meet up in the vicinity of another HYDRA base, as evidenced by Red Skull driving the car to inspect the destroyed base during the Howling Commandos montage, and again in the “you are failing!” scene. This suggests Dr Zola is travelling between the different HYDRA bases in Europe to speed up the production of weapons and parts for the Valkyrie and to ward off the Howling Commandos, a mission he is obviously failing on both counts as Red Skull tells him, “we are continually delayed because you cannot outwit a simpleton with a shield!”

The movie cuts straight from Red Skull ordering Dr Zola to “finish your mission […] before the American finishes his” to Dr Zola’s train driving through a snowy mountain range. According to the CA:TFA Director’s Commentary, the Howling Commandos are waiting to ambush the train “on a mountainside in Austria,” and the visual effects team reports that the scene “takes place in the Alps”—put together, this gives us the Eastern Alps. I’ve been trying to find an in-movie reference to the Eastern Alps specifically, but I’ve only got extratextual evidence. However, I think it’s fair to assume Dr Zola is heading towards the main HYDRA base, according to Colonel Philips located “in the Alps, 500 feet below the surface,” to finish his work on the Valkyrie, which is scheduled to take off a couple of days later. This all points towards Bucky falling from the train somewhere in the Eastern Alps.

So what’s up with the Soviet soldiers finding him? Answer: the Eastern Front. In the spring of 1945, the Eastern Front was pushing through Czechoslovakia into Hungary and Austria:

It’s not unlikely a vanguard of Soviet soldiers would’ve made its way into the Alps and found Bucky there. They’d have taken him back to their camp for medical treatment, discovered that he had superhuman strength/stamina/healing abilities due to Dr Zola’s experiments, and then just… kept him. The Soviet Union and the US weren’t exactly the best of friends even as allies, and the end of the war became a free-for-all grab-bag of German technology and resources. An American soldier left for dead would be considered spoils of war, especially if he showed evidence of superhuman abilities that Soviet scientists wanted to study. Which evidently they did, since the KGB’s Special Division started a file on James Barnes on March 23, 1945 (see eatingcroutons​’s fantastic MCU timeline):

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