In Ricky there was very little incentive I felt to letting Communists win and forming the equivilent of the Soviet Union as I was always plagued by massive uprisings of rebels *everywhere* this made no sense to me and broke immersion, didn't they have the Cheka or NKVD? Where's the all encompasing security operatus that keeps revolts from taking place?
I feel that if your a totalitarian government and your willing to foot the bill for your police state revolt risk should tumble like a rock to the low 1 digits.
Well the game should let allow you to eventually establish a stable, functioning dictatorship, but before you get there, you would suffer years of revolt as your officers, capitalists and clerks throw one revolt after another. The Cheka and NKVD were born out of the life-or-death struggle of the Civil War, and the USSR only really became a stable country because everyone who dissented had been killed or purged in the early 1920s.
You should not be able to become a prol.dict. on January 1 and have a working secret police up and running by January 3rd... more like this:
1) bolshevik revolution, government overthrown, new regime assumes dictatorial powers
2) attempts at counter-revolution begin (aristocrat and capitalist POPs, also reactionary and radical liberal POPs rise in revolt)
3) bolsheviks establish workers militias (-2 MIL for craftsmen and workers), struggle with counter-revolutionary forces, defeat them militarily
4) bolsheviks implement radical economic policies
5) Civil war erupts in the cities: Basically every liberal POP and every craftsmen, clerk and artisan who is not Communist rises in revolt
6) Bolsheviks establish Secret Police (-3 MIL for large groups of POPs), Bolsheviks mobilize the rural masses (farmers with less than 50% satisfaction of everyday demands become communists)
7) Bolsheviks implement implement radical social reforms (all POP savings are wiped out, aristocrats are forcibly demoted to farmers etc)
8) Everyone who is not Bolshevik and hasn't rebelled already, rises in revolt at this point, also foreign intervention may happen at this point
9) Civil war is fought out
10) Bolsheviks implement full blown totalitarian policies, shut down connections with all foreign non-communist nations, events give -MIL to most POPs eventually, revolts end eventually
11) Communist party rules absolutely, totalitarian control has been established. Peace has been won. Onwards to fulfill the goals of the five-year plan!
