• We have updated our Community Code of Conduct. Please read through the new rules for the forum that are an integral part of Paradox Interactive’s User Agreement.
I'm sure; Comrade. I was merely expressing my support akin to that of Comrade Grigoryevich.

-Comrade Pyotrovich
No disrespect was intended Comrade. Your support is very much appreciated.
 
9bRCBXXuhL.jpg

Julia Wjatscheslawowna Rakobolskaja (born 1911 - age 24)
Born near Grozny, as single daughter of two American Communists, she got political very early - gaining access to higher party levels by using her sex appeal, she was appointed People's Commissar for Defense in 1935 by Stalin personally.
--
((Sorry for being late. I was on vacation, and had no Internet, despite Internet was promised in the hotel's description.))
 
((The Socialist Paradise has been somewhat achieved, there is definitely no glass ceiling in this political game))
 
((Three major female politicians in the USSR? I think Anastasia is the most respectable as she never had to help old men across the street for her position. >_>))

The "F" word is a strict no-no on the forums. :)-- Avindian
 
Last edited by a moderator:
((Three major female politicians in the USSR? I think Anastasia is the most respectable as she never had to help old men across the street for her position. >_>))

((*holds baseball bat up* Excuse me? ...))
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Being as to my plan did not survive meeting my fellow bright minds of the Council, I hereby support the Foreign Ministry plan. It is the most comprehensive of our plans to establish the USSR as a bastion of culture and insight.
 
The polls as of now (thank you, Comrade Sokolov, for your tireless efforts to simply everything):

Sphere of Influence plan - 5 votes
NK Yagoda ((son of liberty))
NK Vatutin ((Davout))
NK Hrynko ((Dadarian))
NK Glazkov ((Plutonium 95))
NK Sokolov ((Gen. Marshall))

Foreign Ministry Plan - 3 votes
NK Kamensky ((SovietAmerika))
NK Soldatov ((Novatheorem))
NK Petrova ((Sakura_F))

We are waiting on official votes from Comrade Petrova ((Sakura_F)), Comrade Rabolskaja ((shierholzer -- very nice on the Polish spelling, BTW. :))), and Comrade Sarigov ((Greek HOI3)). I will venture to guess that Comrade Petrova supports her own plan, so I have tentatively listed her vote for the Foreign Ministry Plan as well. She is welcome to correct me, of course. If we get one more vote for the Sphere of Influence plan, we will end voting. Otherwise, I will need to cast the final vote.

Stalin


((Gen. Marshall, it's NK -- Narodnaya Kommissar, or People's Commissar; not sure where you're getting NF. shierholzer, I've added you to the initial list; sorry to hear about your internet problems, but I hope you enjoyed your vacation!))

The plans:
2)Modified Sphere of Influence Plan
Link
1. Secure control of the Bosphorus Strait
2. Install a puppet regime in (Eastern) Germany
3. Annex Poland
4. Annex the Baltic States
5. Puppet China
- 6. Manchukuo -- Give to China
- 7. Install a puppet regime in Korea
8. Install a puppet regime in Sweden
9. Install a puppet regime in Czechoslovakia
10. Install a puppet regime in Yugoslavia
11. Install a puppet regime in Romania
12. Install a puppet regime in Persia
13. Install a puppet regime in Greece
14. Annex Finland
15. Support a left-wing regime in Spain

3) Foreign Ministry Plan

Goals outlined by Foreign Ministry Document 1935-DZ
Link
Operation: Bagration (Occupation of all of Poland and capturing Berlin)
Operation: August Storm (invade Manchukuo)
Poland must be a puppet (conquer by force)
Finland must be a puppet (conquered)
Romania must be puppet
Hungary must be puppet
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia must be puppeted
East Germany must be part of the Comintern
Manchukuo and Korea must be part of the Comintern.
We must dominate the straits (Istanbul)
Comintern controls Frankfurt and Munchen (capture West Germany)
Control Tokyo (conquer Japan)
Get Mexico into the Comintern
Czechslovakia into Comintern
Turkey as part of the Comintern
 
((shierholzer -- very nice on the Polish spelling, BTW. :)))
((Well, I used the random article feature of Wikipedia (narrowed on the Soviet citizen category), to get three articles...
So if there's any inconsistency between background/spelling, feel free to correct the spelling.))
(([...] shierholzer, I've added you to the initial list; sorry to hear about your internet problems, but I hope you enjoyed your vacation!))
((Yeah, aside from the Internet problems it was a beautiful vacation - they even gave me an room upgrade because of that.))
If we get one more vote for the Sphere of Influence plan, we will end voting. Otherwise, I will need to cast the final vote.
((Voting is closed...))
Since the Foreign Ministry plan lists countries like Mexico as our immediate targets of World Revolution, while dropping other more obvious countries like China (their Communist Movement has even it's own state), I'll consider it grossly unrealistic, an more some wishful thinking than reality.
Therefor I'll vote for the SoI plan.
 
Comrade Rakobolskaja, I'd like to note that in the pre-dispositioned plan sets, there is no obvious choice to back the Chinese communists, besides, I thought we were already going to support Mao? That was a given.

Signed,
NK Petrova
 
Comrade Rakobolskaja, I'd like to note that in the pre-dispositioned plan sets, there is no obvious choice to back the Chinese communists, besides, I thought we were already going to support Mao? That was a given.

Signed,
NK Petrova
Unfortunately Comrade Petrova Mexico and Tokyo are completely unrealistic goals unless we invest heavily in a modern navy. Many of our fellow commissars have already expressed opposition to doing so. Several even oppose building a few transports. The expense involved in trying to subvert the Mexican government to our cause was prohibitive in my own humble opinion. The MSoI plan was the most realistic while being in line with both our short term and long term goals to spread Communism to the world.
 
Comrade Petrova, the statement wasn't centered around China. It was centered around goals like bringing world revolution to mexicans - a noble wish (probably something to send in the TV), but nothing else (at least at the moment). The same goes for the goal to conquer Japan - either we must rely on the allies, stupid enough to beat the IJN, while not invading their homeland for ages, or we must rely on the Germans being the personification of stupidness.
 
Even if we succeed - don't you think the Capitalists will use their army to bring capitalism to them again?
Of course they would comrade.
 
Comrade Petrova, the statement wasn't centered around China. It was centered around goals like bringing world revolution to mexicans - a noble wish (probably something to send in the TV), but nothing else (at least at the moment). The same goes for the goal to conquer Japan - either we must rely on the allies, stupid enough to beat the IJN, while not invading their homeland for ages, or we must rely on the Germans being the personification of stupidness.

Though, none of us here would be surprised at German stupidity, would we? Perhaps if the coming war in the west goes well, we can bring freedom to the oppressed workers of Mexico and Japan, but otherwise, I agree. Those targets are simply unrealistic.
 
It is official. We will adopt the Sphere of Influence plan.

Our next order of business is for the Commissars of Education and Finance to present their initial proposals for the year 1936. We have 21.9 leadership and 116 IC. Your job is to distribute each of these accordingly. Please have these on my desk by Wednesday at 10 PM (-6 GMT).
 
Comrade Stalin,

I wish to ask STAVKA which is more important, the upgrading of our current forces or the production if new forces. Until I know, I will be uncomfortable giving you this quarter's economic plan.

Sincerely,

Narkomfin H.F.H.
 
Comrade Hrynko,

Use your best judgment.

Stalin

((My intent is to set budgets first; there are merits to both options, and we will hash this out after you've made your original report.))
 
I've added the save to the front page; essentially, I dropped a heavy cruiser tech for light tank reliability; scrapped the three BBs and one CA; built ten armored divisions (2 x LARM, 1 x MOT, 1 x MOT AA). I'm also in the process of updating the OP with links to all the character profiles.
 
This Briefing is most secret upon pain of death for any who leak it's contents and banishment to a Siberian work camp for their closest family members

Happy New Year 1936 comrades. With our 5 year plan for world domination in place, it is now time to consider our leadership and IC budgets. Most important at this time being the LS budget. I would like to make my proposal and lay out my plans for the NKVD. The overarching goal of the NKVD in our coming struggle will be to minimize loss of manpower and IC by destroying our enemy's will to fight. We will also attempt to steal technology from the fascists and the imperialists. To that end, I propose an initial LS split of:
Research: 15 LS
Espionage: 6.4 LS (This number will go down in the future, but initially training and placing our spies is expensive)
Diplomacy: .50 LS (We have a significant number of diplomatic points to start with)
Officer Recruitment: 0.0 LS (We have a good ratio of officers at present, unless we immediately begin a massive expansion of the Red Army it should be adequate for the next 6 months to 1 year.)

Our Targets and missions will be:

1)The USSR
10 spies, max recruiting((lvl 3))
Initial orders counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and raise NU((lvl 2))
In March/April switch to counterintelligence((lvl 2)) and raise NU((lvl 3))
By early 1937 NU will exceed 60% and we will be able to enforce better laws

2)Finland
10 spies, max recruiting((lvl 3))
Initial orders counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and lower NU((lvl 2))
When Finish intelligence is at LVL 0, switch to counterintelligence((lvl 1)) and lower NU((lvl 3))
By late 1939 Finnish NU will be ~40% making conquest very easy and fast especially with amphibious assaults on important coastal cities.

3)Germany
10 spies, max recruiting((lvl 3))
Initial orders counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and raise threat((lvl 2))
When German intelligence <5, Switch to counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and raise threat((lvl 3))

4)Japan
10 spies, max recruiting((lvl 3))
Initial orders counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and raise threat((lvl 2))
When Japanese intelligence <5, Switch to counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and raise threat((lvl 3))
After Marco Polo Japanese Belligerence will exceed German Belligerence until after Anschluss

5) The UK
10 spies, max recruiting((lvl 3))
Initial orders counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and Tech Espionage((lvl 2))
When British intelligence <5, Switch to counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and Tech Espionage((lvl 3))

6) France
10 spies, max recruiting((lvl 3))
Initial orders counterintelligence((lvl 3)) and Tech Espionage((lvl 2))
When French intelligence <5, Switch to counterintelligence((lvl 2)) and Tech Espionage((lvl 3))

We will not place all spies at once, but will instead do one nation at a time in the above order as 12 spies become available. This high starting budget will only be required for ~6 months. After which we should be able to reduce expenditures and only maintain spy levels unless the politburo sees fit to add extra targets.
 
Last edited: