Report on the state of the Soviet Union for the ten day period between the 9th and the 18th of February 1938,
Army:
2 new Mot regiments (194 & 170 MSP) have been deployed to make the two existing Motx2 Divisions into the standard Motx3:
7. MSD, XXVIII MSK, 2ya Tankovaya Armiya, Armoured Army Group, STAVKA.
New leader Maj. General Larichev SK2, DD has taken it's command.
15. MSD, XIV MSK, 7ya Armiya, 3rd Army Group, Brjansk HQ.
New Leader Maj. General Eremenko SK3 has taken it's command.
5 new AT regiments, equipped with 76,2mm ZiS3E's have been deployed to strengthen existing Infantry Divisions:
189. SD, 169. SD, 130. SD of Lt. General Frolov's XII. SK, 7ya Armiya, 3rd Army Group, Brjansk HQ.
45. SD & 62. SD of Lt. General Purkaev M.A.'s XIII. SK, 7ya Armiya, 3rd Army Group, Brjansk HQ.
Army numbers (Brigades/
Personnel) Reserves included:
Frontline troops: 454 /
1.362.000
Support troops: 83 /
83.000
Total fighting troops: 537 / 1.445.000
Headquarters: 52 /
26.000
Total Army Personnel: 589 / 1.471.000
Officers: 50.871 /
59.050 needed / 86,149 %
Active Leaders: 123 /
40 Reserve
Production has started on a new Motx2 Division, 36. MSD.
6 new AT Regiments have also been added to the queue.
Additional changes in Army Leadership:
Lt. General Maslennikov SK3 of XXII GSK, 1st Army Group, Archanglesk-Leningrad HQ is replaced by the new leader Maj. General Pukhov SK3, WS who is instantly promoted to the appropriate rank of Lt. General.
Air Force:
36. IAD-PVO was deployed to the new IV. IAD-PVO, which is nominally part of the Army.
VVS Numbers (Wings/
Planes)
Interceptors: 13 /
1300
Close Air Support: 1 /
100
Single Engined: 14 / 1.400
Tactical Bomber: 4 /
400
Total Bombers: 5 / 500
Total VVS: 18 / 1.800
Active Leaders: 7 /
18 Reserve
Production has continued on the same Polikarpov I-16 inteceptors, the next 100 will form 38. IAD.
Changes to VVS leadership:
II. IAD's Maj. General Rychagov SK2, SAT has been replaced by the new leader Astakhov SK4, NF.
Maj. General Rychagov SK2, SAT has been assigned to lead the new IV. IAD-PVO
Navy:
No changes in the Navy for the last ten days
Politics / International:
Spanish Civil War Progress:
Republicans (Surrender Progress / NU): 64,6 / 99,4
Nationalists (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,00 /
99,5
The Nationalists nibbled two single province pockets off the South-Eastern pocket around the level 1 port in Almeria.
Slowly Nationalist troops get closer to the remaining East Coast VP's, creating small pockets along the way.
SIno-Japanese War Progress
Nationalist China (Surrender Progress /
NU): 71,4 /
70
Japan (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,0 /
69,9
Even more Japanese troops have crossed the Yangtze river.
They have enveloped Chengdu and Chongqing from three sides, and Nanjing from two sides.
They are still sitting in the outskirts of Chengdu, Chongqing, Changde, Nanchang, and Nanjing, moving around these VP provinces instead of capturing them. Would this be a plan to keep Wartime laws and restrictions in place? Or is there just a lot of resistance in Chinese cities?
The Japanese are also closing in on Shanghai, and are only one province away.
There have been no amphibious landings.
Industry:
Industry Numbers:
Industrial Complexes in Nizhnaya Tura, Brezniki, and Uray finished construction on the 11th and have been gearing since, some factories have already started operations.
Construction started on three new Industrial Complexes in the same provinces.
Working Industrial Capacity /
Available capacity:
172 / 227
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC /
Need )
Upgrades: 13,54 / 112,91
Reinforcement: 1,51 / 2,57
Supplies: 0 / 13,08 (We are currently importing 93,5 supplies every day)
Production: 116,38 / 116,99
Consumer Goods: 95,57 / 95,56 (+0,19)
Stockpiles:
Energy: Maximum
Metal: 65.021 tonnes +
Rares: 24.058 tonnes +
Crude: 35.012 barrels +
Supplies: 45.103 tonnes -
Fuel: 70.213 Barrels +
Money: 1.959 +
Intelligence:
Spy numbers, spies in (active / added /
lost /
caught by us):
France (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 /
0 /
0
{ Germany (/): 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 }
UK (Tech Espionage / Counterespionnage): 10 / 0 /
0 /
0
Other: 3 / 0 /
1 /
3
Total: 23 / 0 /
1 /
3
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,26
Reserve: 8
Research:
Research of Advanced Construction Engineering has lead to huge improvements in Infrastructure construction, which means we can now start improving our infrastructure in an efficient manner, there is still a lot of room for improvement.
This Engineering team is now looking at how to better mechanise Agriculture (Level 5) to increase yields
Improved Elastic Defense (Level 2) Tactics have been developed by Army theorists, this will help us get the best defence out of an increasingly mobile Army.
The theorists started work on improved Central Planning (Level 3) this should improve our Counter-Attack capabilities, and eventually lead to faster combat reinforcement, which is hugely important for a large Army like Ours.
No changes to LS distribution.
Statistics:
National Unity: 82,037 (+0,014)
Neutrality: 51,37 (-0,18)
Dissent: 0,00 =
Manpower:
Available: 2.183.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 5.140 Men
To mobilize(need): 694.700 Men
Monthly gain: 30.800 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 11 days)
No changes to Party Popularity:
Party Organisation:
- Communist Party: 46,1 (+0,13)
- Trotskyite: 16,50 (-0,1)
- Bukharinite: 11,50 (-0,1)
- Octobrist: 12,00 (-0,1)
- Trudoviks: 8,70 (-0,1)
- Social-Revolutionary: 1,80 (-0,1)
- Kadets: 0,0 =
- Tsarists: 3,20 (-0,01)
- POA: 0,0 =
- NTS: 0,0 =
This Information is accurate on the morning of the 18th of February 1938, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'