Model i am going to try your VP idea now it sounds like a good way to get the usa to attack by stripping them of their VP points ? or at least getting russia to use their terrain better for defence thanks for the idea dude 
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To make a challenging Soviet enemy, what you do is go into difficulty.csv, scroll down to the comintern section and change the industry, resources, manpower, research, combat and organisation modifiers to, I don't know, 1000. I guarantee that you will have a hard fight on your hands with these settings.
Before my next game as Germany there's going to be some changes in the Soviet Union.
1. It's unacceptable that the USA has so much more base IC than the Soviet union. Therefore I'm giving the Soviets +200 base IC at the start of the game. This will give them 400 + change base IC. I will also add provinces to their IC buildup list.
2. 1936 peacetime industrial efficiency will be 50% for human but the AI will get an event to climb it to 150%.
3. Wartime efficiency will be 125% for human and 200% for AI.
That should get them cracking, eh?
1. It's unacceptable that the USA has so much more base IC than the Soviet union. Therefore I'm giving the Soviets +200 base IC at the start of the game. This will give them 400 + change base IC. I will also add provinces to their IC buildup list.
2. 1936 peacetime industrial efficiency will be 50% for human but the AI will get an event to climb it to 150%.
3. Wartime efficiency will be 125% for human and 200% for AI.
That should get them cracking, eh?
hendriks said:
I'd want these events!!
P.S.
Not entirely true, some planes, tanks etc. did go over, but the Soviets produced the overwhelming majority of their own weapons systems. Lend-lease was useful for solving their dire logistical problems (i.e. trucks), foodstuffs for a starving population increasinly engaged in industry not agriculture, and rare materials needed for production (which helped overcome certain bottlenecks).