Soviet Union

**Dev. Status** | Original units and building In-game

*"You say you want a revolution*

*Well, you know*

*We all want to change the world"*

- *"Revolution"* by The Beatles
The **Soviet Union** took a beating in the later stages of the Third World War, unable to keep control of France, Italy, the Low Countries and about half of Germany. Heavy losses of men and material as well as having to undergo a political purge, not to mention the mysterious disappearance of their top scientist and the bizarre flight of Premier Cherdenko into the endless depths of space; they are beginning to feel the weight of several years of fighting and are now primarily focused on rebuilding and integrating their sphere of influence as the populace is calling for peace and if possible progress towards the achievement of genuine communism and progressing past the Dictatorship of the Proletariat where class itself is abolished. However, a few would say that it was they who had really won World War Three, being the only faction whose power bloc had gained more than they lost, and the others having all suffered worse. Of course, most would rather say that nobody really won World War Three and this was all a huge waste of time.

With an eclectic mix of modernised old technology, reimplemented to fill the gaps of their broken military, and often bizarre new tricks up their sleeves, the Soviet Union is generally regarded as perhaps one of the most powerful country in the world, with more industrial production output than most alliances in their totality can scrape together, and a finely honed army that needed the whole of the allies combined to simply match and only being stopped from winning by the sudden entry of the Empire and its partners, though their warmongering ways has finally caught up and both has been depleted, shattered, and struggling to stay afloat, having desperately sued for peace by the end of WW3, at least for the time being. As the Allies seem to fall apart in a thousand little wars and internal issues, the Soviet Union has for the time being claimed the title of the world's only true (conventional) superpower nation in the wake of America's collapse and Japan's defeat, though the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Republic of France's resurgence to the point of predominating even over the Americans has seen Moscow's eyes turning towards that little rainy island and the Hexagon.

A title perhaps only rivalled by the likes of the newly risen Undersea nations or Atomic China, but neither can match the Union's diplomatic influence. Especially now that in this new era, there is a genuine belief that the first steps towards genuine classless Socialism instead of Proletarian managed class society have already been taken as the new premier expands the power of what the Cherdenko reforms had made once again the basis of the Soviet government in an undoing of Stalin's consolidation of power around the Politburo; the Soviets, or worker's councils in English. Cherdenko's restoration of the Leninist structure around the nested Soviet system and the Sovnarkom over the Politburo has been expanded on not only with the expansion of collectives but the growth of Soviet power in the common planning system to ensure an equitable rebuilding of the second world as far as is possible. It has also seen a move from the usage of rubles in the civilian economy to the usage of Vouchers, based on the long-established usage of Ore Credits for military production, though this has been delayed indefinitely as they are on the verge of an economic recession that’ll be worst than the Great Depression.

However, this does tread on the toes of an establishment still getting used to a young military woman finding herself as the Premier of the Council of People's Commissars in a country that has long feared the possibility of a Red Napoleon. While she is popular, she is even more of a maverick than Cherdenko was in terms of upending the Marxist-Leninist line and a number of the new members of the expanded World Socialist Alliance are still dominated by the Cherdenkovite or Stalinist interpretations of Bolshevik theory or have their own peculiar envisioning of such, with the Asia Pacific Revolutionary Compact which has a far more... futurist view of Commuism and regards the Russians as too conservative and ultimately too European to truly lead a future free of western capitalism and imperialism, and their the Middle East, their staunchest of allies and neighbour now renamed the Near-Eastern Socialist Organisation (or simply NESO), are rather angered by the Union decision to sue for peace rather than press the advantage and finally bring the workers paradise, especially in light of the Axis atrocities, secretly regarding them as growing too soft and placid from years of victory and comfort, in turn the Soviets (secretly) considers the the former too ambitious and naive with their heads in the clouds and the latter as warhawks who will drag them into another war unless leashed. This, more than anything is why for now the USSR has turned towards an internal vision of building strength rather than spending it on further Tukhachevskite military adventures.

That is however, not to say it is entirely pacifistic. While the USSR rarely directly intervenes in wars the way that the Western European nations or the US did; it has its fingers in many pies and has sought to encourage revolution where possible, offering these hopefuls resources, organisational support, advice, and education. While parts of the World consider Stalin a Demon (which is justified for his many atrocities) and Cherdenko a maniac (less justified), the parts of the world that the old colonial system had to set free as a result of their wars do not see things this way; especially with the Union's extensive and seemingly bottomless generosity in aiding the development of the periphery. In many parts of the middle east and west Africa they build statues to Stalin and Cherdenko of their own free will, caring very little for the suffering of the white man when put up against the world wars allowing them to expel the westerners and punish the compradors who would give the wealth of their nations to Europeans and their American lackeys, the poster boy from this being the NESO that sprung up from the end of WW3 from the remnants of the Axis attempted purge on their homeland, whose dedication to the socialism can be considered fanatical at times, most notably their refusal to surrender and their ongoing war in Africa to end the League, since technically they never signed the peace treaty, and hopefully the Commonwealth too. Of course, it does so in expectation of allies, and also in expectation that every significant revolutionary wave will lead to reactionary pushback and thus potentially more wars, but what else can one expect?

*"Love the People, Love the Party, Love Communism!"*

The Soviets tried and true tactic, remaining unchanged since WW2, revolves around superior firepower, ground supremacy, numerical superiority with its powerful industry, and reliance on highly advanced but conventionally based technologies, relying primarily on its heavy armor divisions, supported by cheap infantry in the role of armor support. The slow-moving, predictable, nature of the juggernaut that is the Soviet military war machine is compensated by raw strength and durability combined with huge amounts of heavy armour and walker units have cemented their mastery of land combat.

## Background

### The Union under Joseph Stalin

In 1924, a man known both for rebuilding the country and mass-murder, Joseph Stalin, became the *"General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union"*. Stalin's goal was to recreate and modernize the Russian country, now internationally known as the Soviet Union. But he had another goal. Under the influence of mysterious advisers who continually drugged him to affect his mental health and drove him from his prior socialism in one-nation policies, he came to believe that the West was preparing an imminent assault on the motherland, and with extensive propaganda and selective usage of facts, the Soviet people came to believe this was true.

The MCV Industrial Revolution, which started first as a mobile tank factory named the "Stalin's fist" before International Incorporated expanded the concept into the MCV, saw the USSR grow into the largest industrial power on the planet, surpassing Germany and then all of Europe as it was implemented without concern for the potential for market disruption, eventually surpassing the Americans who were mired in austerity politics. While Stalin's industrialisation process was not without its often severe costs, the strange advisers always had gifts ready to ensure that the worst side effects of mistakes and piggish bureaucracy that always wanted to paint the best possible image of their efforts would be stymied. Severe drought in Kazakhstan and Ukraine covered up by officials terrified of looking bad before the Soviet central government had mysterious food aid delivered by organisations that bore a Scorpion's tail (though studies years later indicated the food was laced with hallucinogenics that was responsible for the numerous riots that led to the purges of certain figures), and Stalin's purges of Trotsky and Bukharin's former factions in the CPSU were carefully guided to avoid select figures.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky in particular was "saved", as these advisers believed that his thesis on international revolution was exactly what they needed to carry out the war they did while they decided that the USSR was now strong enough to serve a purpose they had once envisioned for Germany, Italy, and Japan only for their efforts in those countries to suddenly be unexpectedly foiled. Though they did not control all or even most of the Soviet Union's internal politics, they did give it the right nudges here and there to do what they thought needed to be done, though as the council grew they would fade into the shadows and manipulate in more covert ways. While their inner core of advisers remained at large, once Laventy Beria was usurped and ousted by Sergey Bessonov, Bessonov tracked down and “eliminated” much of the “Scorpion Cult” (one of the Black Hands many aliases to fool the world) middle ranks (in reality it was just an excuse to eliminate political rivals).

On October 31st, 1949, Soviet tanks rolled over the Union's borders directly into Polish territory after a Polish-German-Romanian incursion into the country demanding the expatriation of German nationals accused of spying for the Soviet Union. While the European states remained over the years in a state of petty international conflict and mistrust, the Soviet Armed forces had modernised, organised, and made ready for war to a degree that their enemies hardly expected after the USSR had largely stopped much of its importation of foreign machine tools once MCVs had spread across the country. The initial offensives were stopped so quickly that who was actually at fault was, and remains a subject of debate, as the initiative quickly fell into the hands of the Red Army and swept across the border within hours.

The British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italians, who had sat on the sidelines before out of distrust for Schleicher's reich and having expected to fight Germany first if the Kaiser turned west, decided to intervene as the Red Army had reached Silesia and overrun most of Prussia, pushing Germany to the Oder River while sweeping towards the South in response to Pro-Soviet uprisings in Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Albania. The alliance was however, initially one of mistrust and working at hugely contradictory purposes, and the Soviets would cement their control in the Balkans and most of Germany before pausing in Europe to shift gears towards the colonies of France and Britain.

Tukhachevsky's initial offensives into the Middle East and North Africa as well as to repulse the KMT's attempts to push into Turkestan and render aid to a nearly victorious Maoist China were nothing short of disastrous for the allies, and widespread anti-colonial and communist insurgencies were wracking their empires from top to bottom. Soviet and Chinese forces, pushing the KMT off the coastline and to a precarious position supported only by British India even penetrated into Indochina where massed uprisings broke down the bases of French control. Fearful of a wholly red Eurasia while the US was in a panic regarding the rapid rise of anti-capitalist ideology in Latin America that initially thwarted OSS operations, Japan, Brazil, and the United States intervened into the war at last to try and divide the attentions of the Communist bloc and to prevent a red dawn from Saigon to Lisbon.

The initial interventions hardly went well, with the Soviets rolling into Japanese Korea and crushing Allied Scandinavia and Italy before sweeping into Southern France. However, redoubling their commitments to total war as well as the Soviets feeling the weight of overstretch allowed for some degree of pushback to be made, with distraction efforts in North Africa and Arabia forcing the Soviets to commit the world's most widely spread army to those sectors to allow for counterattacks into Germany, Italy, and Scandinavia while the Japanse and Thai bypassed Indochina to try and restore KMT coastal access and retake Korea. Finally, after months of fighting together and the deaths of incompetent generals, Gunter Von Esling, his longtime friend Niko Stavros, and Charles De Gaulle were able the rally the nations, now a united front known as the Allied Nation, and finally stopped the USSR's advance at the famous battle of Dunkirk and dealt the Soviets first, out of many, defeat with their successful storming of Normandy beach where countless MCVs would deploy to begin the counterattack.

After a protracted series of back and forth grindfests that eventually ended in a stalemate in eastern Europe after the debacle of Operation Blackbeard, which can be summarised as a clear plan descending into a free for all as communications broke down that cost millions of lives for an inch of ground, and von Esling's death in battle against Tukhachevsky via a prototype V3 rocket impacting his command centre in the outskirts of Brest, followed by the sudden sickness that forced Tukhachevsky out of the war and nearly killed him (later on it was founded he was poisoned by Nadia) a peace treaty was ultimately agreed to. The war was threatening to turn into a stalemate like the First World War, something nobody wanted to return to. Stalin himself was poisoned and then shot by his aide, and rumoured lover, Nadia Zelenkov for mysterious reason who herself was executed by a man who claimed to stand for a Leninist restoration movement by the name of Anatoly Cherdenko who had occupied the diminished position of Premier of the Council of People's Commissars.

Cherdenko offered peace, to focus on restructuring the USSR to remove the rot that Stalin had allowed to fester and deviate it from comrade Lenin's dream. The Allies would recognise the independence of the socialist republics in the Middle East, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Romania, but the Soviets would withdraw from Arabia, end the occupation of the southern half of Germany, cease the occupation of Sweden and Norway, and return southern Korea to Japan.

Both sides would claim a great victory in the aftermath of course, but neither had illusions that this would last forever.

### Preparations for another war

Cherdenko was not the type of man the Allied Nations hoped, however. In the time between World War II and III, he had the military rebuilt and strengthened with its new allies and a grand vision for a new wave of revolution. He would surpass Stalin's achievements in industry, all while staying true to the original vision of Ilyich in as far as it fit the situation at hand. The Communist bloc was modernised further, its technology expanded and industrial base grown to even further heights while he cleared the board of some of Stalin's odder projects, often forcefully and violently due to resistance, like the Psychic Warfare Division, where the entire Red Army was sent to raze the lab and their research to its foundation and publicly executing the entire divisions staff and their entire families with forged “evidence” of them being spies, to focus on "innovative, but reliable means of triumph".

In 1962, he would get that chance as world war 3, though many would say it was simply a continuation of 2 with how little time passed between the two, erupted with a shootdown incident between Poland and the USSR. This time though the Soviet Advance was even more unstoppable than before and much faster thanks to the mind of scientist, whom Chernenko personally hired despite having no prior documents or achievements, Gregor Zelinsky. Within months, the Red Army had reached Lusitania and swept the Allies out of virtually the whole of Mainland Europe, with a great invasion force being prepared for Britain and Iceland that would serve as a testing ground for the even larger fleets being held in reserve at Andreeva Bay for the planned invasion of America. However, the second occupation of Italy proved far more problematic than the last, with cybernetic attacks by the Syndicate paralysing significant sections of OGAS and leaving the Soviets temporarily blinded, while the suicidally overconfident attack at Brighton did little but waste the strength of both the Soviet Marines and Air Force on an attack that Marshal Krukov seemed to assume was so sure to win he didn't even have to bother with a plan beyond "clear the beach and land some MCVs and then the new blood should be able to figure it out" while he focused on drawing up his plans to destroy the KMT once and for all (which never came to fruition with his death by Cherdenko’s staging a fake assassination to have him disposed).

The destruction of unescorted Kirovs and the loss of over-exposed warships while Soviet Command was still sorting out their software technical issues was enough for the subcommanders to call the whole thing off rather than risk further unpleasant conversations with the STAVKA, while America and Brazil once again went on total war footings to try and gain some purchase back in the corners of Europe; with Ackerman signing a bill for a full war economy while the Soviets seemed to be ready to draw down their own military commitments out of a belief of having already won. A foolish and costly mistake when Japan returned in force with an army far stronger and better lead than its last mostly barely noteworthy outing, making for incredibly audacious naval attacks on the one border of the USSR nobody thought anybody would even want to try to attack it from; the North. With the ramming prows of Shogun battleships and the sheer size and "all you can need" logistical support of the Empire's nanomachines and Floating Fortresses, the seeming plain insanity of trying to attack the Soviet Union from the Arctic Ocean allowed the Japanese to make the trip in the midst of winter with the People Liberation Army and Soviet pacific fleet warnings of massive naval movements by the Japanese being ignored as a bluff.

Japan was a country with a mediocre land warfare doctrine with equipment that was more stylish than actually effective and an amphibious attack on the arctic coast of any country is something only a madman would even attempt; let alone in winter. This was surely some sort of posturing by the Emperor to look important as the twilight of the Rising Sun settled upon a country that had proven to be a disappointing great power. And the reports suggesting that major movements by Japanese allies such as the Titan Inclusive, the African League, the Reactionary Guard, or the Pacific Traders only further confirmed the Sovnarkom and STAVKA's dismissive reports. The amount of strain that such a huge military force would place on the populations and industry of these nations would make the whole endeavour little more than a terminal fit of stupidity. The estimation for how many men would need to be mobilised totalled to such a huge portion of Japan's estimated population that it all had to be some kind of trick.

Plus, who in their right mind would try invading Russia, America, India, China, Australia, Arabia, East Africa, South America, Canada, Britain, West Africa, South Africa, Gibraltar, Central America, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mainland Southeast Asia, the Socialist Asia-Pacific, and Mexico all at the same time no matter how many allies they had?

Evidently, Yoshiro would and did.

The sheer audacity and contravention of not only military logic but all estimations of the war-fighting strength of the so called axis powers that rated even the strongest of them; Japan; as a mediocre runt of the litter with impractical toys rather than serious weapons while the rest were deemed virtual nonentities contributed much to the initial success of Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi and Emperor Yoshiro's Operation Kamikaze, an attempted rapid and complete domination of all the waterways of the world at once with the support of carefully positioned allies such as the Reactionary Guard who could help with the attack into Europe and the Americas while the African League would of course; swarm across the African continent, Titan Inclusive would attack South America and the Middle East, and finally the Pacific Traders would blockade the Atlantic Ocean, denying naval support and supply between the Americas and Europe. The intent was a swift, decisive and deadly decapitation of the naval strength of both the COMINFORM and the Allied Nations all at once from which it was reasoned, the dominoes would fall in short order while an army bloated by cloning, robots, and nanotechnology freeing virtually the entire young adult male population for war would stab into points of interest and weakness to deliver the killing blow.

And if they resisted, well, sheer bloody terror and ferocious massacres and the application of the "Kill All, Loot All, Burn All" policy as well as surgically culling undesireable civilian populations to make way for Yamato settlement would damage their will to resist, along with economic warfare by using nanites to squeeze local industries and peoples out of their ways of life and leave them dependent on the new Japanese dominated world order (with loyal compradors in Africa, the Monarchists, and the like of course). And the sheer outlandishness and bizarreness of their military which flouted many rules of military design allowed them to penetrate deep with their narrow but rapid advances, as did the brazen audacity of moves such as simply forcing the Strait of Kattegat to ram a Fortress Battlegroup into the Gulf of Finland while also attacking the Soviet Pacific and sending fast; air mobile formations to quickly race across the Soviet Hinterland from the North to unpack nanocores to exert control in places like Stalingrad or inner Alaska before anyone realised that Axis divisions were in their countries.

The Soviets were blindsided and stunned, the motherland was assumed to be an invincible fortress, the Allies had tried and failed to breach it, the whole world had tried and failed to crush the Bolshevik revolution in the red October war. Yet here was a country most had assumed was past its prime bringing in the Romanovs of all people to plant their flag and try to terrorise the populace into bowing before their puppets and Emperor. This could not stand and would not do, and the Soviets reluctantly shifted forces to the east while the Allies launched operation Reconquista to try and grab western Europe back while they were distracted once the Syndicate reasserted control in Italy as the Italian Red Army was called to save Mother Russia; overwhelming the underequipped people's militias and resuming business, including signing a treaty its the Axis to remain neutral if they don’t invade them (admittedly both side would have broke it once the Allies/Soviets were taken care of), as usual while landings in Iberia and France struck at the third stringer divisions left behind to guard the rear. While Ackerman was hellbent on ignoring the Axis even as the Japanese and the reactionaries had reached as far east as the Great Lakes and Japanese troops were invading Iberia, the near full strength of the core Allies was being thrown at some of the weakest divisions the COMINFORM had while the Soviets tried to purge every cell left behind in their country by the Axis and drew back its naval and airpower to chase away the Axis.

Only when the Axis invasion was largely beaten were the COMINFORM able to reorient to deal with the Allied reconquests as Ackerman's attempted veto of a congress bill to focus on Japan first was overturned by a unanimous vote from a congress panicking at the Yellow Peril only a few defensive lines away from conquering the entire country west of the Mississippi and having a straight shot towards D.C itself. Soviet counter-counter offensives stemmed the bleeding, breaking the back of the attempted Allied landing at Anatolia and making good on the theft of Proton Collider data to allow for a daring plan to hopefully convince the US to come to terms with a surprise attack on New York before the battered but unyielding Allied Navies could respond as they committed much of their strength to the long voyage of the great blue fleet in the hopes of a do-or-die operation against Japan.

With the Soviet victories in the naval battle of the Danish Straits and the Ionian and Arabian Seas, Moskvin was tasked with taking an elite task force to attack New York while the most of the American army was either stuck in Europe, busy fighting in the western states against the Axis, or committed to Operation "Long Shot" to try and sneak up on Japan from the west via India and the east via the South pacific with an Island hopping campaign in Indonesia following India's successful prosecution of its war of liberation against the Empire and the Reactionaries.

Moskvin's operation however, would achieve and succeed at nothing but wasting more lives, including the general himself who was said to have been personally executed by Tanya, though its hotly debated if the failure was because of the skills of ACIN and Allied tactical mind or the Cherdenko unintentionally sabotaging them with his sudden purges. The defeat would not be helped by internal conflicts as Cherdenko faked an assassination attempt by Krukov to have him eliminated by Davidova with his elite forces being put down for their loyalty to the Marshal to ensure nobody who knew the truth about Cherdenko's manipulations would get the word out, followed by sending Krukova and Reznov to explicitly suicidal missions in the hopes they die (since their loyalty to the Union meant he can’t frame them as traitors), and failing that the spies he implanted into their army would kill them and frame it as the Axis/Allies, and attempted to assassinate Zelinsky after finding out he tried to warn the Allies that “Nothing is as it should be!”, but the scientist was one step ahead and fled into hiding, alongside a small retinue of scientists who knows the truth. Even as the Soviet bloc had largely defeated the Axis in its territories and began expanding into the Empire's peripheral island colonies in the north and central pacific and managed a landing at Hokkaido and northern Honshu, and the demise of Yoshiro, Cherdenko was more concerned with the enemy within than without.

To the point of, to the shock of a Red Army expecting to sweep through Japan and kick the Allies who had won Tokyo at the cost of what remained of the American navy as the Empire and claim the whole of the Home Islands as a new Socialist Republic; agreeing to a peace with honour for a country they had already essentially thoroughly beaten to the point that the IJN couldn't contest the Soviet and British navies bombarding their shore at leisure. A move that was hardly popular with the likes of Davidova or Oleg who felt this was a betrayal of the Japanese communists who they had spent months preparing for revolutionary action behind Japanese lines while the Red Army fought as their sword and shield.

With the surrender of the Axis and Jade August however, there was a growing peace movement in the USSR following the repulsing of the Allies at Hamburg, enough had already been laid to waste in not even twenty years and "the long 50s" as they were called had seen more years at war than at peace. There was one obstacle however

The short but intense civil conflict between Cherdenko and Davidova, aided by the remnants of Reznov and Krukova army, weakened their position, and with the Allied help in deposing Cherdenko who was forced to flee to the Moon with his elite new Black Guards giving her a shaky sense of legitimacy in a country that never quite trusted generals in positions of civilian power even as the Supreme Soviet, Sovnarkom, and Politburo basically forced her to accept the position of Premier of the Council of People's Commissars she felt that she couldn't risk continuing the war when the populace was demanding peace. Honouring the agreement to put an end to the conflict despite the complaints of old man Tukhachevsky who said that the exhausted Allies and militarily broken Axis were begging to be finished off, Germany was divided almost exactly in half and more bitterly; fraternal revolutionary countries such as Libya, Yugoslavia, and Cuba would have to carry on their fights without the Red Army's intervention on the horizon. In exchange, Poland, Eastern Germany, Turkey, Northern Norway, Lapland, Denmark, Eastern Austria, and the pleasant surprise of revolutionary success in Sudan, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay in the west and not inconsiderable gains in the northern and central pacific would have to suffice.

### Lonely at the Top

The Soviet Union is in essence, back to the same strategic position Russia was in the 1800s, massive series of revolutionary wars that have cleared the board of great powers save for itself and the British Empire or Commonwealth or whatever London wants to call it these days. Japan's military has been completely depleted and broken, with the ensuing power vacuum causing its surviving Axis members to collapse into civil war, and the restrictions on their military seeing the Empire suddenly switch to marketing and economics has seen their economy booming. The US, the one member of the allies who could challenge the Franco-British bloc, has been politically sundered and collapse into warlordism and civil conflict, and the Soviets are watching with interest.

One of the most populous nations in the entire world due to a largely nonstop baby boom and its premier industrial power, the Soviet Union for the first time in its history stands with no apparent direct threats that border the USSR proper but no obvious ideas for where to go with it. The British are extending overtures of peace and cooperation, as the British government believes that working with the Soviets and bringing them into a world system is the key to general global peace and the containment of what the United Kingdom believes is the greatest threat in the world; China. Save for the cooperation against Imperial Germany in the first world war, Russia and Britain have been mostly opposed to each other since Napoleon's defeat, and many are skeptical, but the new generation wants to give peace a chance.

Now the Soviet Union is mostly concerned with internal development, socialist transformation, and rebuilding its strength. Computers which have proven vital for the modern socialist economy and the expansion of the drone and space forces are a particular priority, with Soviet computers being regarded as excellent ever since they invented the E.V.A system in use by most armies, albeit focusing on very different wavelengths of technical development than in Japan or Italy. Energy generation is another priority, as Water, Coal, Desolator Defoliant, Solar, Wind, and Tesla power can only scale up so far. Thorium fission, Solar Satellite to Ground Transfer, and Vacuum Energy are seen in particularly high regard. And of course, the Union remains the master of electromagnetism and a great student when it comes to the other fundamental forces.

Space Exploration has also been a major investment of the USSR, with successful captures of Asteroids by means of Magnetic harpoons having already yielded great mineral wealth for the Communist Bloc and demonstrated the range and power of the Soviet space fleet, who are humanity's mightiest, with a peculiar Russian obsession with space having driven this for a long time. Space Station Habitats have also been tested in geosynchronous orbit over the communist bloc, but as of now only house scientists to conduct field tests. The construction of the Stavka's new headquarters; the military Space Station Krasnarus; or "Red Russia" is seen as an attempt to intimidate other powers with the superiority of the USSR's lift capacity and orbital construction infrastructure, not to mention the many military satellites and defence stations that surround the Krasnarus along with an extensive network of infrastructure. Oddly, the Soviets are more concerned with building weapons to fire at things approaching Earth than are actually on Earth, for reasons that ACIN has never understood.

Soviet plans for space exploration also are extensively guided by the mysterious NKGB Division A and its military counterpart; the GRU Division P; which both deal with... Abnormal occurrences, as the Union has long been suspicious of the myriad unidentified fantastical objects flying over their heads for decades now and sometimes even engaging in undesirable tomfoolery within the Union's borders. Perhaps it is because of the strange Tunguska meteor, or the Wrangel event in Russia's Imperial past that the Soviet Union holds such an obsession with space and builds such a significant space military, perhaps fearful of what may come from beyond some day. Of course ther are plenty of conventional advantages to having orbital superiority or even supremacy, so perhaps not. But the truth is that "A" and "P" as they are often called, are aware that there are intelligences in the void and they have a great interest in Earth.

However while Davidova's faction of the Bolshevik party have been successful and popular, the speed at which she pushes her transformations and her belief that the time has come to transition to Socialism and move away from the compromise model of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat has alienated many who feel that she is being too adventurist, too rash, too sudden. While she has die-hard supporters such as fellow young rising stars Valery Sablin, Svetlana Bukharina, Susanna Pechuro, Ryzkov, Pavel Batov and many from the non-Russian SSRs such as Lyudmilla Pavilchenko, Mikhail Suslov who was essentially the man who defined post-Stalin orthodoxy for Cherdenko has been a particular obstacle. Pyotr Masherov and Tukhachevsky also consider her decision to end the war as entirely wrongheaded and urge the Supreme Soviet towards a more aggressive decision, who are distantly supported by the NESO. Anastas Mikoyan and Slepkov meanwhile do not believe that the time is quite right for the transition away from market economics and towards the Credit system, especially give that it may be seen as an aggressive move to allow the USSR full independence from the global economy.

The Soviet People however, ever since their ancestors founded the Kievan Rus, simply strapped their boots, grit their teeth, and soldier on into what is known as the Red Spring, a return to the optimism of the early Lenin era and a time to put the guns away for now. The Soviet Union may have come out ahead in the war (well, depending on how you view it), but the motherland is for the time being, mostly concerned with the world relatively close by to it. The eyes of the Union are turned mostly inwards, and few would countenance a fourth world war anytime soon. If only the news from China and the dark corners of the Earth not so concerning, and were only the effects of the disintegration of the United States and the rise of fourth or even fifth positionist movements not so far-reaching.

## Gameplay

### The Bureaus

To aid in their war effort the Soviet can build four branches of the bureau

**Bureau Of Propaganda**

The Telescreen Tower controls Soviet tech levels. With any other building, you are still limited to building the Tier One units of whatever production structure. As the Telescreen Tower is upgraded, you gain access to Tier Two and Tier Three units in all production structures. With it, units like the Apocalypse Tank, the Kirov Airship, and the Tesla Trooper can be aquisitioned.

**Bureau Of Defense**

Protect the Motherland with fire and steel! The Super Reactor gives you access to the powerful defenses of the Soviet Union, and provides power to them as well. Each upgrade of the Super Reactor provides even greater yield and even better tools to smash the enemy in front of your walls.

**Bureau Of Technology**

Soviet Science is in a league of it's own! The Science Bureau allows you to research feature upgrades that give you an edge over the competition and increases the effectiveness of your units. From improved Infantry Kits to Grinder Threads, Improved Desolator to Barracks Man Cannon, the Soviets make the best there is!

**Bureau Of Industry**

Drown your enemies in the industrial output of the Soviet Union! The Industrial Plant makes everything you produce cheaper and faster to manufacture, moreso as it is upgraded. It also acts a refinery, a head start to the reckless economic expansion nessesary to support such a strategy.

### Camaraderie

The aftermath of WW3 had taught the Soviets to not be disheartened by their fallen brethren, but to make use of their sacrifice and seek vengeance upon their killers. When a Soviet unit is killed, surrounding Soviet units gain a culminative 10% increase in damage and 20% rate of fire every time a nearby friendly unit dies for 10 seconds.

### Red Tide

In the aftermath of WW3 the Soviets had to reform their military. One of them training their forces to fight and work together as one, inspired by the PLA own special training (prior to their deterioration as the war dragged on).

Whenever five or more Soviet units are in close proximity to one another, they become emboldened and confident in their victory due to their sheer numbers — they become a Horde, which is designated by a red star underneath the unit, and gains a 50% bonus to their firing rate.

Note that their more larger/expensive units (like the Apocalypse) does not have the horde bonus.

## Army Of The Union

*"The Red Army has challenged the whole world thrice before, in our revolution and in two world wars, and each time the red banner advances farther than before despite losses and we stand despite the bourgeoise efforts to break our spirit. Ours is the most feared and respected military the world has ever seen, and has risen to every challenge it sees. They say that we are broken and crippled, that we are exhausted and that the Red Bear is at death’s doorstep. They may be correct but who are they to throw stones in glass houses? The Allies who bleed themselves in conflict on every continent but Europe and whose strongest member has shattered? The Empire that was smashed into the gravel by our hand or its former puppets who tear at each other to be the new leader? The mercenaries who wet themselves when they see our tanks cresting the horizon? The GLA or Corsairs who go pale when they have to face us in open battle and look above and see lightning and zeppelins coming for them or below where our submarines wait only for orders to sink them? These Chinese royalists who seem to be, as they say, making up their war plans as they go? Or perhaps the wild stories of robots, of molemen, of time travellers and aliens who don't seem brave enough to face us man to man? No none of them can say a single thing against us or our brave allies in revolution. We've been broken, beaten, and scarred countless times yet we have risen back up and fought back despite it, and we'll beat them again if it comes to that if they do not permit the Socialist Island to live in peace."*

- *Commissar Yakov Gordonoy of the Red Army*

### Elite

Note that all Elite infantry use battlesuits, making them able to shrug off most small arms fire, but it does mean that they are highly vlnerable to EMP; though they do restart back into action somewhat faster than normal if afflicted by such a pulse. They are also magnetizable. However, they are resistant to poison gas and biological agents.

### Economic Vehicles

Produced directly from a Construction Yard to keep the momentum the Soviets uses mobile factories. Building-sized vehicles that contain the SPAM production to create and repair all of the Soviet forces on the frontlines once deployed. And when the army marches the Factories simply packs up and follow.

## Protocols

A list of protocols used by the Soviets. Those are tied to non-production structures. How they upgrade is not decided yet.