NationStates Jolt Archive

Map:
Actually its one of 1944, but why quibble?
http://media.maps.com/magellan/Images/NGC_Dec_1944_c.jpg

Important Figures'

Joseph Stalin
Stalin gained power in the USSR three years after the death of Vladimir Lenin by ostracizing Trotsky and manipulating the Politburo. He turned the Soviet Union from a One Party State into a complete personnel dictatorship. Having modernised and expanded the USSRs economy and purged the military & Politburo to ensure loyalty, Stalin now seeks to extend Socialism throughout the world and continue his iron grip on power.

Lavrenti Beria
Chairman of the NKVD, Beria is responsible for internal security and external spying. A malicious and cruel person in a nation of malicious and cruel people, he also has a hand in the Soviet Economy due to his control over the USSRs massive forced labor gulags. Despite professing loyalty to Stalin, he has his own aspirations to power.

Georgi Zhukov
A rather obscure, but brilliant, general currently in command/exile somewhere in Siberia. Is one of the survivors of Stalins 1937 purges of the military.

Vyacheslav Molotov
Currently viewed as Stalins deputy and long term successor incase of his death, Molotov is the Soviet Unions Foreign Minister.

Military
5,800,000 Infantry/Calvary
5,000 Operational Tanks(7,000 in reserve)
800 Operational Aircraft(2,700 in reserve)
19,000 Operational Artillery Pieces
3 Battleships(3 more under construction)
6 Heavy Cruisers(5 more under construction)
37 Destroyers & Torepedo Boat Flotilla's
41 Submarine Flotilla's

Economy
The Soviet Economy, needless to say, is HIGHLY, HIGHLY centralized... ah hell, its communist style, duh. A large amount of that industry is actually pretty recent, from Stalins two five-year plans. The Soviet Unions industrial capacity is hugely devoted to heavy industry, such as steel, armaments, aircraft, vehicles, etc. Consumer Goods is actually devoted very little allocation.

Agriculture is collectivised extensively, but not completely, there are private plots spread across the Soviet Union.

OOC: In August 1939 Soviet Union had 170 (approx.15k strong, extremely heavily equipped) infantry divisions and 28 brigades, 44 (approx.4k strong) cavalry divisions, propably more than 20,000 tanks (most of them old and shitty T-26's though) mostly in organic tanks battalions of the infantry, rest in 30 independent armoured brigades. About 2,5 million men alltogether.
When mobilized, the Red Army would have fielded (in August 1939) 426 infantry divisions, 112 brigades, 65 cavalry divisions (10 of them "mountain cavalry"), 65 armoured divisions and 46 brigades (armoured divisions were being created (by merging brigades and battalions) and disbanded again constantly between 1936-41, so this is just an estimation in one book), 12 million men alltogether. Your navy has 3 old battleships (and 3 under construction),6 heavy cruisers (5 und.const.), 46 destroyers and torpedo boats (37) and 140 (41) submarines. About 3,000 first line planes in the airforce.
Stalin is at the moment completely raping your army, by executing officers and changing organization, doctrines and tactics back and forth all the time.

EIDT: NKVD troops and its frontier units aren't counted in these figures.

(note, this is counting all aircraft as frontline, and exluding any reserves. also note that though i give exact numbers for units they may have been different due to the many different sorces and such. as well i exclude ships under construction.)

but i looked very deaply into this and the USSR had by Sep. 1

1,800,000 Infantry
21,762 Tanks
10,366 Fighters
7,839 Bombers
3 Old Battleships
1 Heavy Cruiser
4 Light Cruisers
63 Destroyers
37 Submarines

or so says what i got after much time.

in early 39 the T-26 was still quite a good Tank, i can think of only 2 that are considerable better...

OOC: Hmmm, all tanks from which you can actually see what's happening around you (from T-26 you can't, really) and have radios are better than T-26. It's also quite slow and has a pathetic engine. Finns stopped T-26's by pushing a log between the track wheels... and I'm not sure about the numbers of ships. I have a book right here, open in the table, and it gives the figures I wrote. But dunno. I guess there are no perfectly reliable sources available at all.