Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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Capital:

Moscow

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Government Type:

Communist, Stalinist

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Faction:

Comintern (Leader)

The Soviet Union (officially “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” or “USSR”) is a major country and the leader of the Comintern faction. It is rich in both natural and human resources and has decent technology. It controls almost the entire northern third of Asia as well as the eastern edges of Europe.

Events

Main article: Soviet events

National focus

Soviet national focus tree.

Main article: Soviet national focus tree

 Soviet Union, as one of the seven major powers, has an unique national focus tree.

The Soviet focus tree includes four, both historical and alternative, branches:

• Finish the Five Year Plan focuses on development of infrastructure and factories
• Stalin Constitution focuses on manpower and research
• Found the PCDI is the main diplomatic tree that focuses on international relations
• Permanent Revolution / The Great Purge focuses on internal restructuring to unlock the full power of the Soviet Union.

Technology

Army Technology	Naval Technology	Air Technology	Electronics & Industry
SVT-38/40 Infantry Eq. I ZIS-5 Motorized Mountain Infantry I Paratroopers I Engineer Company I Recon Company I Military Police I T-26 Light Tank I M1936 76 mm Towed Artillery I	Orfey Class Destroyer I Krasniy Krym Class Light Cruiser I Upgraded Leningrad & Minsk Class Krasniy Kavkaz Class Heavy Cruiser I Borodino Class Battlecruiser I Marat Class Battleship I Series V Shchuka Submarine II Upgraded Series IX Srednyaya Transport Ship	I-16 Fighter I Il-4 Naval Bomber I DB-3 Interwar Bomber Pe-8 Strategic Bomber I	None
Doctrines
Mass Assault	Fleet in Being	None

Research and production

These are the choices of design companies and theorists for the  Soviet Union.

Tank designers

Designer	Type	Effect	Cost ()
Morozov Design Bureau	Mobile Tank Designer	Armor Research Time: -10 % Armor: Max Speed: +5 % Reliability: +10 % By selecting this Design Company it will permanently affect capabilities on all equipment researched while they are hired.	150
Astrov Design Bureau	Medium Tank Designer	Armor Research Time: -10 % Armor: Reliability: +5 % Soft attack: +5 % By selecting this Design Company it will permanently affect capabilities on all equipment researched while they are hired.	150
OKMO	Heavy Tank Designer	Armor Research Time: -10 % Armor: Armor: +5 % Hard attack: +5 % By selecting this Design Company it will permanently affect capabilities on all equipment researched while they are hired.	150

Ship designers

Designer	Type	Effect	Cost ()
Nevskoye Design Bureau	Ship Designer	Naval Research Time: -10 %	150

Aircraft designers

Designer	Type	Effect	Cost ()
MiG Design Bureau	Light aircraft designer	Air Research Time: -10 % Fighter: Agility: +10 % Max Speed: +10 % Carrier Fighter: Agility: +10 % Max Speed: +10 % By selecting this Design Company it will permanently affect capabilities on all equipment researched while they are hired.	150
Ilyushin Design Bureau	Medium aircraft designer	Air Research Time: -10 % Heavy Fighter: Reliability: +20 % Tactical Bomber: Reliability: +20 % By selecting this Design Company it will permanently affect capabilities on all equipment researched while they are hired.	150
Tupolev Design Bureau	Heavy aircraft designer	Air Research Time: -10 % Strategic Bomber: Strategic Bombing: +10 % By selecting this Design Company it will permanently affect capabilities on all equipment researched while they are hired.	150
Yakovlev Design Bureau	Naval aircraft designer	Air Research Time: -10 % Naval Bomber: Operational Range: +10 % Naval Attack: +10 % CV Naval Bomber: Operational Range: +10 % Naval Attack: +10 % By selecting this Design Company it will permanently affect capabilities on all equipment researched while they are hired.	150

Materiel designers

Designer	Type	Effect	Cost ()
GAZ	Motorized Equipment Designer	Motorization Research Time: -10 % Motorized Rocket Artillery Research Time: -50 %	150
Tula Arms Plant	Infantry Equipment Designer	Small Arms Research Time: -10 %	150
Grabin Design Bureau	Artillery Equipment Designer	Artillery Research Time: -10 %	150

Industrial concerns

Designer	Type	Effect	Cost ()
Stalingrad Tractor Factory	Industrial Concern	Industrial Research Time: -10 %	150
Leningrad Industrial Institute	Electronics Concern	Electronics Research Time: -10 %	150

Theorists

Theorist	Type	Conditions ( Purged?, etc ) + Effects	Cost ()
Georgy Zhukov	Mass Assault Expert	Not: Purged by: Trotsky Has completed focus Positive Heroism Army Experience Gain: +0.05 daily Mass Assault Doctrine: -10 %	250
Sergey Gorshkov	Naval Theorist	Not: Purged by: Trotsky Naval Experience Gain: +0.05 daily Naval Doctrine Research Time: -7 %	150
Sergei Rudenko	Close Air Support Proponent	Not: Purged by: Trotsky Air Experience Gain: +0.05 daily Battlefield Support Doctrine: -10 %	250
Mikhail Tukhachevsky	Mass Assault Expert	Not: Purged by Stalin Army Experience Gain: +0.05 daily Mass Assault Doctrine: -10 %	250
Vladimir Tributs	Grand Fleet Proponent	Naval Experience Gain: +0.05 daily Fleet in Being Doctrine: -10 %	250
Alexander Golovanov	Air Warfare Theorist	Air Experience Gain: +0.05 daily Air Doctrine Research Time: -7 %	150
Boris Shaposhnikov	Military Theorist	Army Experience Gain: +0.05 daily Land Doctrine Research Time: -7 %	150
Sergei Korolev	Rocket Scientist	Rocket Research Time: -10 %	150
Igor Kurchatov	Nuclear Scientist	Nuclear Research Time: -10 %	150

Politics

National spirits

Trotskyite Plot?

• Stability: −20%

Paranoia and pathological distrust stemming from old power struggles impact the leadership of this nation.

Home of the Revolution

• Ideology drift defense: +50%
• Can create factions

Comrades, with the defeat of the vile Trotskyite counter revolutionaries we were able to focus on defending the revolution. Our goal, our hope, our slogan is Socialism in One Country. We will build a bountiful socialist utopia here in the Soviet Union and the rest of the world will inevitably embrace it.

Diplomacy

As the premier communist nation in 1936, the Soviet Union is the head of the Comintern, consisting of  Tannu Tuva and  Mongolia.  Communist China,  Sinkiang and  Paraguay are the only other countries that have a favorable view.

Should  Republican Spain prevail in the Spanish Civil War, it may be amenable to joining, as would a communist-aligned  France.

If Leon Trotsky becomes leader of the USSR and Permanent Revolution and NKVD Primacy are taken, then the USSR can start Communist civil wars in countries without having to spend any Political Power.

Political parties

Political party	Ideology	Popularity	Party leader	Country name	Is ruling?
All-Union Communist Party	Communist	88%	Joseph Stalin	Soviet Union	Yes
Trudoviks	Democratic	10%	Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky	Russian Federation	No
RFP	Fascist	2%	Konstantin Rodzaevsky	Russian Empire	No
Non-Aligned	Non-Aligned	0%	Random leader	Russia	No

Economy

A brief summary of the state of the nations economy in 1936.

Laws

Conscription Law	Economy Law	Trade Law
Volunteer Only 1.5% Recruitable population	Civilian Economy 35% Consumer Goods factories –30% Factory construction speed +30% Factory (type) conversion cost	Export Focus 50% Resources to market –5% Research time +10% Factory/Dockyard output +10% Construction speed

Industry

Factories 1936

36 Military Factories

6 Naval Dockyards

42 Civilian Factories

Resources

Total resources 1936

Oil	Rubber	Steel	Aluminum	Tungsten	Chromium
193	0	543	133	67	353

These numbers represent the available resources, depending on trade law a certain amount may be traded away.

Military

1936 Scenario The player starts the game with 1.22M in manpower available and the monthly gain for manpower is 2.95k. The player starts with the Volunteer Only conscription law, providing 1.50% of the player's core population as manpower, totaling 2.42M. 1.13M of this manpower at game start is tied up in the army, 30.68k in the air force and 33.25k in the navy. The Soviet Union has a population of 161.43 million.

Army

Army 1936 Scenario

91Infantry Divisions	11Light Tank Divisions	1Motorized Division	22Cavalry Division	13Mountaineer Division

1936 Scenario: The player begins the game with 91 Infantry divisions, of which 18 are Reserve NKVD Divisions with Military Police. Additionally, the player has 22 Cavalry divisions, 13 Mountaineer divisions, 11 light tank divisions and 1 Motorized Infantry division. The player begins the game producing Infantry Equipment I at 36.19/day with 7 factories; Support Equipment 1 at 1.29/day on 2 factories; Towed Artillery at 5.17/week on 1 factory; Light Tank I at 6.78/week on 3 factories; and Motorized at 3.04/day on 3 factories. However, Motorized units lack rubber and have a penalty to production speed. The player has 18 additional military factories that can be allotted to production. The army is fairly average in the beginning, but the Soviet doctrine tree gives them a higher reinforce chance as well as either Large Front Operations or People's Army. It is up to the player upon reaching those decision points as to which line to pursue.

Examples of alternative division template names for the Soviet Union include:

• Mountaineers - Gornostrelkovaya Diviziya
• Marines - Morskaya Pekhota
• Paratroopers - Vozdushno-Desantnaya Diviziya
• Motorized - Motostrelkovaya Diviziya
• Mechanized - Mekhanizirovanaya Diviziya
• Armor - Tankovaya Diviziya or Tankovyj Korpus

Navy

Capital ships 1936 Scenario 3 Battleships Screens and Submarines 1936 Scenario 4 Light Cruisers 17 Destroyers 43 Submarines

1936 Scenario: The player starts the game with only 3 Battleships, 4 Light Cruisers, 17 Destroyers and 43 Submarines. For production, the player only has 6 naval dockyards to begin with. The players dockyards are initially producing 4 Destroyer Is and 31 Submarine IIs, the latter across three separate production lines. While the player can cancel these productions, the first of the four destroyers is set to be completed by February 22nd, 1936 and all three of the Submarine lines are set to complete another sub by February 8th, 1936, so to avoid any loss of time and production, simply finish these in production before canceling or changing the lines to a different ship class. Naval technology at game start in 1936 includes all of the 1922 ship classes except for carriers, but none of the 1936 ship classes apart from submarines. The Soviets also start with the Naval Doctrine Fleet in Being, providing +10 organization to Battleships, Battlecruisers, and Heavy Cruisers.

Air force

Air Force 1936 Scenario

658 Fighters

108 Naval Bombers

240 Tactical Bombers

72 Strategic Bombers

1936 Scenario: The player begins in 1936 with 0 Close Air Support, 658 Fighters, 108 Naval Bombers, 0 Heavy Fighters, 240 Tactical Bombers, 72 Strategic Bombers and 0 Transport Planes. For production, the Soviet Union is only producing fighters with a single factory for 3.14/month and strategic bombers for 1.23/month on a single factory. The player lacks rubber, which reduces production speed. Obtaining rubber via trade should be one of the player's first priorities. For technology, the Soviets begin with 1936 Fighters, Naval Bombers and Strategic Bombers. Tactical Bombers are outdated 1933 models. The player lacks the technology for Heavy Fighters and Close Air Support. The player does not begin with any Air Doctrine in 1936 and has full choice over any of the three branches.

Military staff

These are the Military Staff candidates for appointment of the Soviet Union.

Chief of Army

Candidate	Type I	Type II	Effects + Conditions ( Purged? )	Cost ()
Semyon Timoshenko	Army Reformer	(Expert)	Army Experience Gain: +10 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Kliment Voroshilov	Army Drill	(Specialist)	Division training time: -5 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Alexander Yegorov	Army Defense	(Expert)	Division Defense: +10 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Vasily Blücher	Army Maneuver	(Expert)	Division speed: +10 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150

Chief of Navy

Candidate	Type I	Type II	Effects + Conditions ( Purged? )	Cost ()
Pyotr Smirnov	Naval Aviation	(Specialist)	Naval Air Attacks from Carriers: +3 % Naval Air Targeting from Carriers: +3 % Naval Air Agility from Carriers: +4 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Mikhail Frinovsky	Commerce Raiding	(Specialist)	Convoy Raiding Efficiency: +10 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Nikolay Kuznetsov	Naval Reformer	(Expert)	Naval Experience Gain: +10 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Ivan Yumashev	Decisive Battle	(Expert)	Capital Ship Attack: +10 % Capital Ship Armor: +10 % Screen Attack: +10 % Screen Defense: +10 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150

Chief of the Air force

Candidate	Type I	Type II	Effects + Conditions ( Purged? )	Cost ()
Alexander Novikov	Air Reformer	(Genius)	Air Experience Gain: +15 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Konstatin Vershinin	Ground Support	(Expert)	Air Superiority: +10 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Yakov Smushkevich	Air Safety	(Expert)	Air Accidents Chance: -10 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150
Pavel Rychagov	All-Weather	(Expert)	Bad Weather Penalty: -20 % Not: Purged by Stalin	150

Military High Command

Candidate	Type I	Type II	Conditions ( Purged?, etc ) + Effects	Cost ()
Pavel Zhigarev	Airborne Assault	(Specialist)	Not: Purged by: Trotsky Paradrop Attack: +1 % Paradrop Defense: +3 % Paradrop Agility: +3 %	150
Stepan Krasovsky	Air Combat Training	(Expert)	Not: Purged by: Trotsky Ace generation chance: +10 %	150
Ivan Konev	Concealment	(Expert)	Not: Purged by: Trotsky Konev is not supporting a civil war against the Soviet Union Enemy Air Support: -10 %	150
Arseniy Golovko	Amphibious Assault	(Expert)	Not: Purged by: Trotsky Amphibious invasion speed: +10 %	150
Konstatin Rokossovsky	Armor	(Genius)	Not: Purged by: Stalin Has completed focus Positive Heroism Armor Division Attack: +15 % Armor Division Defense: +15 %	150
Aleksandr Vasilevsky	Army Regrouping	(Expert)	Not: Purged by: Stalin Division Recovery Rate: +8 %	150
Vladimir Kasatonov	Submarines	(Expert)	Not: Purged by Stalin Submarine Attack: +15 % Submarine Defense: +10 %	150
Sergei Khudyakov	Close Air Support	(Expert)	Not: Purged by Stalin Close Air Support Attack: +3 % Close Air Support Defense: +3 % Close Air Support Agility: +3 %	150
Gorday Levchenko	Capital Ships	(Expert)	Not: Purged by Stalin Capital Ship Attack: +10 % Capital Ship Armor: +10 %	150

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Achievements

The Revolution Triumphant Have Germany as a puppet of Soviet.

Countries

Europe

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North America

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South America

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Asia	Afghanistan Bhutan British Malaya British Raj Communist China Guangxi Clique Iran Iraq Mongolia Nepal Oman Philippines Saudi Arabia Siam Sinkiang Tannu Tuva Tibet Xibei San Ma Yemen Yunnan

Africa

Liberia South Africa

Oceania

Australia New Zealand

Europe

France Italy Netherlands Kingdom of Romania United Kingdom

North America

South America

Brazil Colombia

Asia	China Japan Manchukuo Mengkukuo Shanxi

Africa

Ethiopia

Oceania