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Soviet national focus tree

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Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union, as one of the seven major powers, got a unique national focus tree.

Soviet Union's unique NF 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.


Contents

Finish the Five Year Plan branchEdit

Finish the Five Year Plan
Focus Effect(s) Prerequisite(s) Description
  Finish the Five Year Plan

x2 Random(?):

Reward Logic:
IF two random states that already have at least one civilian factory and two free shared building slots:

THEN
  • Add 2  shared building slots.
  • Add 2   civilian factories.

No National Focus Prerequisites

The following will bypass the focus:
  • The Soviet Union doesn't own any eligible states.
 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.
  Move Industry to the Urals

Moscow(219):

  • Remove 6  military factories and 2  civilian factories.

Leningrad(195):

  • Remove 5  military factories and 1  civilian factory.

Smolensk(242):

  • Remove 2  civilian factories.

Zlatoust(573):

  • Add 8  shared building slots, 5  military factories and 3  civilian factories.

Magnitogorsk(582):

  • Add 8  shared building slots, 6  military factories and 2  civilian factories.

  Finish the Five Year Plan

Additional prerequisites:
  • at war

Moscow(219):

  • Owned and controlled by  Soviet Union and has at least 6  military factories and 2  civilian factories

Leningrad(195):

  • Owned and controlled by Soviet Union and has at least 5  military factories and 1  civilian factory

Smolensk(252):

  • Owned and controlled by Soviet Union and has at least 2  civilian factories

Zlatoust(573) & Magnitogorsk(582):

  • Owned and controlled by Soviet Union
 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.
  Defense of Moscow
  • Gain +5   army experience.
  • Add level 4  land fort in Moscow(129).
  • Add level 3  land forts in 8 provinces around Moscow.

  Move Industry to the Urals

Additional prerequisites:

Moscow (219):

  • is controlled by  Soviet Union AND

One of the following must be true:

  • Any neighboring state that is not controlled by Soviet Union
  • Soviet Union is at least 10% towards capitulation
 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!
  Armament Effort
  • Gain +10   army experience.

Sverdlovsk(653) & Chelyabinsk(572):

State Pick Logic:
IF any two states that have at least 2 free shared building slots

Prioritize
Sverdlovsk(653), Chelyabinsk(572), IF owned and controlled,

THEN

  Finish the Five Year Plan

The following will bypass the focus:
  • The Soviet Union doesn't own any eligible states.
  • Add 2  shared building slots.
  • Add 2  military factories.
 If you can build tractors, you can build tanks! We must not allow our military production capacity to lag behind.
  Extra Research Slot
  • Gain 1 Research Slot.

  Armament Effort AND
  Collectivist Propaganda

  Infrastructure Effort

x4 Random(?) states:

State Pick Logic:
Four random owned and controlled states with no more than 4 infrastructure

IF all states have 4 or more infrastructure, four random states with at least 3 free slots for infrastructure are chosen instead

THEN

  • add 3  Infrastructure

  Extra Research Slot

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.
  Transformation of Nature

Kzyl Orda(?):

  • Add 6  Rubber

  Infrastructure Effort

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 branchEdit

Focus Effects Prerequisites
  Stalin Constitution
  • Gain   +160 political power.

No National Prerequisites

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!
  Collectivist Propaganda
  • Gain   +120 political power.
  • Gain National Spirit Collectivist Propaganda, which grants:
    •   +20% Stability

  Stalin Constitution

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.
  Militarized Schools
  • Gain National Spirit Militarized Schools which grants:
    • +0.5% Recruitable population

  Colectivist Propaganda AND
  Armament Effort

Soviet children should be inculcated in military discipline and Socialist virtues like self-sacrifice and solidarity. Young minds are more easily molded.
  Workers' Culture
  • Gain National Spirit Worker's Culture, which grants:
    • +10% Construction speed

  Militarized Schools

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.
  Women in Aviation
  • Gain   +25 air experience.
  • Generated aces may be female.
  • The 588. Night Bomber Regiment becomes active in Moscow.

  Workers' Culture

Comrade Raskova, our heroic long distance aviator, should be allowed to form some all-female air regiments through her Aviation Group 122 program.
  Positive Heroism
  • Available as Military High Command: Konstantin Rokossovsky (Armor (Genius)), which grants:
    • +15% Armor division attack
    • +15% Armor division defense
  • Available as Theorist: Georgy Zhukov (Mass Assault Expert), which grants:
    • Mass Assault Doctrine: -10% research time
    •   0.05/day Army experience

Rokossovsky may be purged by Stalin. Zhukov may be purged by Trotsky.

  Stalin Constitution

It is time to move on from the old Leninist collectivist propaganda and transform various exceptional individuals into larger-than-life Heroes of Socialism!
  Progress Cult
  • Gain National Spirit Progress Cult, which grants:
    • -5% Research time

  Positive Heroism

It is time to move on from the old Leninist collectivist propaganda and transform various exceptional individuals into larger-than-life Heroes of Socialism!
  Socialist Science
  • Gain National Spirit Socialist Science, which grants:
    • +3% Recruitable population

  Progress Cult

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...
  Extra Research Slot
  • Gain 1 research slot.

  Socialist Science

  Aviation Cult
  • Gain   +25 air experience.
  • Gain 50% research bonus for:
    • Light Aircraft (land fighter, land close air support)
    • Medium Aircraft (heavy fighter, tactical bomber)
    • Heavy Aircraft (strategic bomber)
    • Naval Aircraft (naval bomber, carrier aircraft)

  Positive Heroism

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!
  New Soviet Man
  • Allows Kamikaze Strike air missions.

  Aviation Cult

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.
  Socialist Realism
  • Gain   +120 political power.

  Stalin Constitution

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 branchEdit

Focus Prerequisites Effects
  Improve Railway Network No National Focus prerequisite Mykolaiv(197), Ulyanovsk(250), Ryazan(254):
  • Add 3  Infrastructure
  Transpolar Flights No National Focus prerequisite
  An Oceangoing Navy No National Focus prerequisite 2× Research Bonus for Project 21 and Sovetsky Soyuz Class
  Found the PCDI
  • has the focus   Improve Railway Network,   Transpolar Flights,   An Oceangoing Navy
 
People's Commissariat of Defense Industry

  • –20% Civilian to Military Conversion Cost
  Anti-Fascist Diplomacy
  • has the focus   Found the PCDI

( ), ( ), ( ): +30 Opinion of Soviet Union
( ), ( ), ( ), and 6 others: −40 Opinion of Soviet Union

  Far East Fortification
  • has the focus   Anti-Fascist Diplomacy

Chita(563):

  • Add 6  land forts to the Japanese border

Birobidzhan(657):

  • Add 8  land forts to the Japanese border

Khabarovsk(409):

  • Add 4  land forts to the Japanese border

Vladivostok(408):

  • Add 2  land forts to a province
  Operation Zet
  • has the focus   Far East Fortification
  • has at least 200 Infantry Equipment in Stockpile

  China: +40 Opinion of Soviet Union

  Japan,   People's Republic of China: −40 Opinion of Soviet Union

  Annex Tannu Tuva

 Soviet Union:

  • has the focus   Operation Zet
  • Does not have National Spirits Trotskyite Plot? AND Officers Purged

  Japan:

  • Exists

 Soviet Union:

  War With Japan
  • has the focus   Annex Tannu Tuva

 Soviet Union:

  Improve Stalin Line
  • has the focus   Anti-Fascist Diplomacy
  • not in an offensive war

(Pskov):

  • Add 6 land forts to a province;

(Nevel):

  • Add 4 land forts to a province;

(Vitebsk):

  • Add 4 land forts to 3 provinces;

(Minsk):

  • Add 4 land forts to a province;

(Kiev):

  • Add 7 land forts to 2 provinces;

(Cherkasy):

  • Add 7 land forts to a province;

(Odessa):

  • Add 5 land forts to 3 provinces
  Claims in Baltic
  • has the focus   Improve Stalin Line

 Soviet Union:

  • Gain claims on (Kaunas), (Siaulai), (Vidzeme), (Kurzeme);
  •  World Tension +3.0;

(  Lithuania), (  Latvia): −50 Opinion of Soviet Union

  Baltic Security
  • has the focus   Claims in Baltic

 Soviet Union:

  • Gain claims on (Karjala), (Tartu), (Harju);
  •  World Tension +1.0;

 ,  ,  ,  : Gain Communist Pressure= +0.10 Communism support/day for 1 year

  Claims on Poland
  • has the focus   Baltic Security

 Soviet Union:

  • Gain claims on (Wilno), (Nowogradek), (Polesie), (Wolyn), (Lwow), (Stanislawow);
  •  World Tension +3.0;

  Poland: −50 Opinion of Soviet Union

  Claim on Bessarabia

 Soviet Union:

  • has the focus   Claims on Poland

 Soviet Union:

  • Gain claims on Bessarabia(78), Bucovina(80);
  •  World Tension +1.0;

  Romania: −40 Opinion of Soviet Union

  War With Germany
  • has the focus   Claim on Bessarabia

 Soviet Union:

  Demand Eastern Poland
  • has the focus   Claims on Poland
  •   does not have the focus   Offer Poland Protection

  Poland:

Poland must approve event for the following to occur

 Soviet Union:

  • gains control of (Wilno), (Nowogradek), (Polesie), (Wolyn), (Lwow), (Stanislawow);
  Offer Poland Protection
  • has the focus   Claims on Poland
  •   does not have the focus   Demand Eastern Poland

  Poland:

Poland must approve event for the following to occur

  Poland:

  • Gain claims on Ostpreussen(5), Hinterpommern(63), Ostmark(68), Niederschlesien(66), Oberschlesien(67);

 Soviet Union:

  • gains control of (Wilno), (Nowogradek), (Polesie), (Wolyn), (Lwow), (Stanislawow);
  Anti-Capitalist Diplomacy
  • has the focus   Found the PCDI

( ), ( ), ( ), and 6 others: +30 Opinion of Soviet Union
( ), ( ), ( ): −40 Opinion of Soviet Union

  Expand the Red Fleet
  • has the focus   Anti-Capitalist Diplomacy
  • not in an offensive war

(Mykolayiv), (Vladivostok):

  • +2  Building Slots
  • +2 Naval Dockyards
  The Comintern
  • has the focus   Expand the Red Fleet
  •  World Tension +1.0;

( ), ( ): Gain Communist Influence= +0.05 Communist support/day for 1095 days

  Southern Thrust
  • has the focus   The Comintern

 Soviet Union:

( ), ( ), ( ): −30 Opinion of ( )

  Claim the Straits
  • has the focus   Expand the Red Fleet
  • Gain claims on (Istanbul), (Izmit), (Bursa), (Izmir);
  •  World Tension +2.0
  Ultimatum to Greece
  • has the focus   Claim the Straits

 Soviet Union:

  • Gain claim on Aegean Islands;

(  Greece): Gets event Soviet Ultimatum

  War With UK  Soviet Union
  • has completed both   Southern Thrust &   Ultimatum to Greece
  • Does not have National Spirits  Trotskyite Plot? and Officers Purged

(  United Kingdom): exists

 Soviet Union:

  Reconcile Japan

 Soviet Union:

  • has the focus   Anti-Capitalist Diplomacy
  • is NOT a puppet
  • at peace with Japan

  Japan:

  • is NOT in a faction

  Japan:

  Claim Sinkiang
  • has the focus   Reconcile Japan

 Soviet Union:

  • Gain claims on Dzungria(618), Urumqi(617), Yarknd(619), Taklamakan(287);
  •  World Tension +2.0;

  Poland: −50 Opinion of Soviet Union

Permanent Revolution/Great Purge branchEdit

Focus Prerequisites Effects
  Permanent Revolution

No National Prerequisites


Other prerequisites:

  • available on the return of Trotsky (Country Leader)
  •  has_country_flag = counter_purge
  • is   communist.
  • is not in a civil war.

Reward Logic #1:
IF  has_country_flag = counter_purge

Completion Reward #1
  • replace trait Permanent Revolutionary with Triumphant Revolutionary which grants:
+15% Justify war goal time

−50% Subversive activities cost

+15% Ideology drift defense

Reward Logic #2:
IF does not  has_country_flag = counter_purge

Completion Reward #2
  • display tooltip: Trotsky gains a better leader trait.
  The Great Purge

No National Focus prerequisite


Other prerequisites:

  • does not  has country flag = counter_purge
  • is   communist.

The following will bypass the focus:

  •  has country flag = counter_purge
  • display tooltip: Trotsky becomes the leader of The Soviet Union
  • Start The Great Purge (amount of completed purges will affect chance and size of a civil war and the penalty from Officers Purged
  • remove National Spirit  Trotskyite Plot?
  • gets the national spirit:
 
Trotskyite Plot Purged?

  •   –5% Stability
Despite the purges, the fear of betrayal remains.
  Rehabilitated Military
  • has the focus   The Great Purge
  •   does not have the focus   NKVD Primacy
 
Rehabilitated Military

  • +2% Reinforce Rate
  • +10% Division Recovery Rate
  Military Reorganization
  • has the focus   Rehabilitated Military
  NKVD Primacy
  • has the focus   The Great Purge
  •   does not have the focus   Rehabilitated Military
 
NKVD
  • Subversive activities cost −50%
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.
  NKVD Divisions
  • has the focus   NKVD Primacy
 
NKVD
  • Subversive activities cost −50%
  • +5% Reinforce Rate
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.
  Lessons of War
  • has the focus   Military Reorganization OR   NKVD Divisions

One of the following must be true:

  • after 0100hrs 1.1.1941
  • has had a war since completing  The Great Purge
  Research City Experiment
  • has the focus   Lessons of War
  Diversify the Program
  • has the focus   Research City Experiment
  Closed City Network
  • has the focus   Diversify the Program
  • Gain 1 Research Slot.
  SMERSH

The following will bypass the focus:

  • does not have  Trotskyite Plot Purged?
 
Trotskyite Plot Purged?

  • –15% Stability
Despite the purges, the fear of betrayal remains.
  Partisan Suppression
  • has the focus   SMERSH
 
Partisan Suppression

  • +20% Effect of Partisans on us
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