The USSR is a fragmented country, which should not be so for the various Republics did not act as states independent of Moscow just as the states in the US did not act independently of Washington, who has nothing except a economy in tatters and a military in prime condition. Her industry is nonexistant and thanks to the Republics being independant, agriculture is imported and so is industrial goods. You cannot make any money because of the imports and the fact that everyone is leaving your country compounds the problem. You can't research anything because you have no money, and because you have no money you cannot keep your people from leaving or stop the imports. You start out in a no win situation because of such you can't fix your problems and the your allies get systematically conquered by the US who of course has viturally no problems what-so-ever. On top of that, the A.I. just starts causing more problems on top the ones you start with, if you play the USSR. It starts pumping up the prices on imported goods so of course, your people start leaving but you can't lock out the A.I. from the controls because then trade stops because of price fucuations (trading with other A.I. is virtually impossible unless you give them an insanely good deal) every five seconds. The developers just absolutely murdered the game, they pulled a major COD with the game (not story-wise but developer-wise) as they basically took the last game and added a minor patch and new story and shoved it out into the market. I've experienced nothing but crap from the game I'm fixing to call it the biggest waste of $30 I ever spent. Has anyone else had any good or bad experiance with the game?
Probably not, it just seems to me that the start is a little biased. I understand why they would make it little unfair but not this unnessicarly hard for USSR players to get off the ground. By the end of the Second World War, Soviet industry should be booming as they had rebuilt practically all their pre-war industry in Siberian cities such as Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, ect, and were producing massive amounts of goods. They were enjoying the post-war golden age of patriotism and faithfulness to the KPSU so don't see why everything is so bad when it starts off. (You will have a emgriation rate 1.5 million years after one month). Its not McCarthyism, more like developer laziness.
