Soviet national focus tree
Soviet Union, as one of the seven major powers, has a 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.
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Finish the Five Year Plan branch[edit]
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Finish the Five Year Plan |
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No National Focus Prerequisites The following will bypass the focus:
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The second Five Year Plan prioritizes the development of heavy industry. The Soviet Union must develop quickly in order to match the Capitalist and Fascist powers of the West. | |
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Move Industry to the Urals |
Moscow(219): Leningrad(195): Smolensk(242): Zlatoust(573): Magnitogorsk(582): |
Additional prerequisites:
Moscow(219): Leningrad(195): Smolensk(252): Zlatoust(573) & Magnitogorsk(582):
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The backstabbing Hitlerists must not be allowed to seize our precious factories in the western part of the USSR. With supreme effort and sacrifice, we should be able to quickly move the most valuable heavy equipment and facilities to Chelyabinsk and other locations in the Urals. | |
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Defense of Moscow |
Additional prerequisites:
Moscow (219): One of the following must be true:
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The Fascists are knocking at the gates of the capital! Moscow must not be allowed to fall at any cost. Mobilize everyone, from children to old people to hastily erect what defenses we can! | ||
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Armament Effort |
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The following will bypass the focus:
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If you can build tractors, you can build tanks! We must not allow our military production capacity to lag behind. | |
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Infrastructure Effort | The Soviet Union is vast but t×costly empty. We must ensure the ability to transport goods and equipment across the width of the country quickly. | |||
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Transformation of Nature |
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Stalin's Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature must be put into action. The environment must be shaped and molded on a massive scale to work in the People's favor. |
Stalin Constitution branch[edit]
Focus | Effects | Prerequisites | Description | |
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Stalin Constitution |
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It is time to update our old constitution and impress the world with the rights enjoyed by the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union! | |
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Collectivist Propaganda |
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In the Soviet Union, there is no room for individual glory. Our propaganda should strongly emphasize collective efforts; surpassed production goals, successful expeditions and massive construction projects. | |
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Militarized Schools |
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Soviet children should be inculcated in military discipline and Socialist virtues like self-sacrifice and solidarity. Young minds are more easily molded. | |
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Workers' Culture |
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Socialism is not just an economic system and Marxism is not just a science; we must transform the very fabric of Soviet society to extirpate all remnants of bourgeois mores and traditions. | |
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Women in Aviation | Comrade Raskova, our heroic long distance aviator, should be allowed to form some all-female air regiments through her Aviation Group 122 program. | ||
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Positive Heroism |
Rokossovsky may be purged by Stalin. Zhukov may be purged by Trotsky. |
It is time to move on from the old Leninist collectivist propaganda and transform various exceptional individuals into larger-than-life Heroes of Socialism! | |
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Progress Cult |
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It is time to move on from the old Leninist collectivist propaganda and transform various exceptional individuals into larger-than-life Heroes of Socialism! | |
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Socialist Science |
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The world, like the mind, is in constant motion. Nature is in a state of constant progress; revolution even. The principles of dialectical materialism can be applied to the natural sciences as well as the social... | |
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Aviation Cult | The Soviet Union will impress the world with astounding feats of aviation. Our heroic pilots are the knights of Bolshevik culture and progress, demonstrating our technological mastery over nature. How far we have come since the days of the Tsar! | ||
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New Soviet Man |
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The New Soviet Man is selfless, learned, disciplined and healthy; a living triumph over base instincts and false consciousness. Men will gladly lay down their lives for the good of all, and women will bear many children for the future of Soviet society. | |
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Socialist Realism | All works of art in the Soviet Union must strive to educate the people in the goals and meaning of Communism, depicting the proletariat in realistic and typical scenes of everyday life. Soviet artists are the engineers of souls! |
Found the PCDI branch[edit]
Focus | Prerequisites | Effects | Description | |
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Improve Railway Network | No National Focus prerequisite | Our First Five year plan proved to be too successful. The massive expansion in heavy industry has left the Soviet Union in a much stronger position to defend herself but the soviet railway network has hit some critical bottlenecks. The People's Commissariat of Railways (NKPS) has an ambitious plan to close these bottlenecks and ensure that we can defend the motherland. | |
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Transpolar Flights | No National Focus prerequisite |
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Our bravest pilots are just beginning to prove that daring routes across the arctic are possible. By using unexpected shortcuts like these in our planning of aerial warfare, we will be able to surprise the enemy. |
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An Oceangoing Navy | No National Focus prerequisite |
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Although the Union encompasses a greater land area than any nation on the planet, the oceans of the world are yet to be ruled by our ships. Heavily armored battleships will be a part of our future ocean going fleet. |
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Found the PCDI |
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The People's Commissariat of Defense Industry of the USSR will be a heavy industry ministry focusing on our military industrial projects. In the long term, the work load may require further divisions of the ministry. | |
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Anti-Fascist Diplomacy |
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Though all Western regimes are repressive and corrupt, there are none worse than those who pretend to be progressive; or even Socialist! By promoting such false consciousness among the proletariat, they are attempting to delay the Revolution and keep the workers in perpetual bondage. | |
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Far East Fortification |
Chita(563): Birobidzhan(657): Khabarovsk(409): Vladivostok(408): |
The Japanese are constantly making incursions across the border with Manchuria. We must improve our defenses along that frontier in order to deter them permanently. | |
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Operation Zet |
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Though the Kuomintang is reactionary, it seems unlikely that Mao and his brand of communism will prevail in China. We should strive to improve relations with Chiang; the ridiculously anachronistic Empire of Japan is bound to collapse soon anyway. | |
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Annex Tannu Tuva |
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War With Japan |
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It seems the Japanese have no plans to back down. The only effective deterrent is going to be war. They will regret having resisted our demands when The Red Army tramples them down. | |
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Improve Stalin Line |
(Pskov): (Nevel): (Vitebsk): (Minsk): (Kiev): (Cherkasy): (Odessa): |
Our western border must be better protected from fascist aggression. The Stalin Line should be extended and modernized. | |
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Claims in Baltic | Peter the Great was right in seeking access to ports in the west. The Baltic States, which were lost after the revolution, should be reintegrated into the Soviet Union. | ||
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Baltic Security |
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The Baltic is our front yard and must be protected at all costs. Karelia must be seized to give Leningrad a secure buffer zone, and the self-rule of Estonia is just ridiculous! | |
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Claims on Poland |
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The display of incompetence and embarrassment that was the Soviet-Polish war must be avenged and eastern Poland reintegrated into the USSR! | |
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Claim on Bessarabia |
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The Black Sea is even more important to our economy than the Baltic. We must do everything we can to secure control of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. | |
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War With Germany | The Germans have left us with no other choice. For the sake of the free world and the future of our children. It is time for war. | ||
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Demand Eastern Poland |
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Having reasserted our right to Poland's eastern territories, we should make clear that they can only save themselves from another partition by handing them over peacefully. | |
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Offer Poland Protection |
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Although we could simply seize eastern Poland, it would be much preferable if they joined our Comintern in the process. We would need to offer something in return for our claims, however. If we promise them eastern Germany, they might be interested. | |
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Anti-Capitalist Diplomacy |
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The worst obstacles to global revolution are, without a doubt, the fat bankers of the USA and the ruthless colonialist oppressors of the United Kingdom. It must always be our primary aim to slap their grasping hands and undermine their liberalist propaganda. | |
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Expand the Red Fleet |
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The Red Fleet is pathetically weak compared to the navies of the imperialist powers. We must make its expansion a national priority! | |
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The Comintern |
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With the capitalist system entering its period of final collapse, the correct stance for all Communist parties must be a highly aggressive, militant, ultra-left line. In particular, we urge the Communist parties of the world to devote their energies to the destruction of the moderate left. | |
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Southern Thrust | Annexing Iran and Iraq would both secure their vast oil reserves for the Revolution and put direct pressure on the British imperialists in Egypt and India. | ||
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Claim the Straits | The straits leading from The Black Sea to the Aegean Sea is a key strategic point. We cannot allow this territory to be controlled by foreign powers. To ensure relevance of The Red Fleet we need to secure the straits. | ||
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Ultimatum to Greece |
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The Aegean Islands is the last strategic piece we need to make sure The Red Fleet can operate freely. The Greeks are pressured from all sides and will most like give up a little territory to avoid an all-out war. | |
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War With UK | ![]()
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The imperialistic British have never had any respect for us. There is no doubt that they will turn to The Soviet Union when they are finished with the rest of the world. There is only one way to prevent their aggressive expansion. War! |
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Reconcile Japan |
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Our relations with Japan have always been troubled, but there are bigger fish to fry. By exploiting their desperate lack of natural resources, the Japanese could be led by the nose... Their anachronistic feudal regime is bound to fall soon anyway. |
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Claim Sinkiang |
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Under Comrade Sheng Shicai's rule, Sinkiang is already a virtual Soviet puppet state. We should make it official... |
Permanent Revolution/Great Purge branch[edit]
Focus | Prerequisites | Effects | Description | |
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Permanent Revolution |
No National Prerequisites
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+15% Justify war goal time
−50% Subversive activities cost +15% Ideology drift defense |
The oppressive demagogue is gone! True power has been restored to the people of our nation. All are now able to pursue their interests independently and without compromise. We are forever changing. The permanent revolution is a triumphant revolution. |
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The Great Purge |
No National Focus prerequisite |
![]() Trotskyite Plot Purged?
Despite the purges, the fear of betrayal remains.
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There is a dangerous Trotskyist plot brewing among the officers; even in the highest ranks. Though Trotsky's personal involvement remains unknown, the threat is great. The USSR could even be thrown into another civil war... unless we are prepared to break some eggs. |
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Rehabilitated Military |
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With the taint of Trotskyism finally cleansed from the officer corps, it might be possible to allow the military some freedom from political interference again. | |
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Military Reorganization |
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The Purge has not left the military in a good state. The new leadership is green and ineffective, and no work has been done to develop our doctrines. We must rectify this situation immediately! | |
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NKVD Primacy |
NKVD, The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was a law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the All Union Communist Party. It was also tasked with protection of Soviet borders and espionage, which included political assassinations abroad, influencing foreign governments and enforcing Stalinist policy within communist movements in other countries.
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The military has shown that it can never be trusted. Therefore, the NKVD will need to be expanded and given greater powers, with more political commissars to keep an eye on the officers. | |
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NKVD Divisions |
NKVD, The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was a law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the All Union Communist Party. It was also tasked with protection of Soviet borders and espionage, which included political assassinations abroad, influencing foreign governments and enforcing Stalinist policy within communist movements in other countries.
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The NKVD should be given some divisions of its own to act as Internal Troops, protecting railways and important installations. | |
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Lessons of War |
One of the following must be true: |
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With the experiences gained fighting limited wars, we should be able to make some breakthroughs in armored warfare, and perhaps even finally whip the depleted officer corps into shape! |
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Research City Experiment |
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One of our foremost scientists, Kurchatov, has noted that when breaking up of kernels in a kilogram of uranium, the energy released must be equal to the explosion of 20,000 tons of trotyl. We need to harness this power before our enemies to ensure the survival of the Motherland. | |
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Diversify the Program |
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We have learned much from the last years and progress have been made in fields of traditional warfare. We are a nation of great scientists who have the capacity to uncover methods of war giving tremendous advantages. We must make sure they have the best conditions to work under if we want to see results. | |
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Closed City Network |
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We should set up closed cities for research that require more space than we have available in our military bases. Restricting access to the cities ensures that our research remains secret, while giving our scientists plenty of space for large scale experiments. | |
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SMERSH |
The following will bypass the focus:
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![]() Trotskyite Plot Purged?
Despite the purges, the fear of betrayal remains.
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SMERSH, or 'Death to Spies', is a proposed counter-intelligence initiative that would serve a dual purpose; rooting out enemy spies and executing deserters and partisans within the ranks of the Red Army. |
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Partisan Suppression |
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SMERSH should be expanded to better be able to infiltrate and ruthlessly suppress all forms of partisan activity in occupied territory. |
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