She has the luxury of many years and much land to allow time to be bought while this occurs. If Mother Russia can control her domestic problems she can proceed with another 5 year plan and begin to modernize her forces with immense manpower reserves. However, the soldiers of the Soviet Union are surprisingly well trained with the enlisted veterans through the great war and other 'operations'. The officer corp is suspect and Soviet research moves slower as part of the 5 year plan. The current doctrines and division layouts of the army were ineffective in the Great War and things have only gotten worst since then. The Soviet military is large but under strength and outdated.
It will take years of painful purges to finally rid his treacherous ideas. Trotsky remains ever present like a demon and only through constant national focus can his influence be contained. Stalin has managed to secure absolute power as head of the communist party and begin a process of industrialization, but his power is tenuous. The Soviet Union finds herself in a state of change and turmoil. The Soviet Union is a communist country in Europe.
