OOC: BTW Masada, I know perfectly well it's utter bull that the Soviet Union is the whole of the Russian people. But given I'm playing a nationalistic side it makes a nice pretext...
From Russia
To Bavaria
Then perhaps you can help us reestablish an educated populace in our urban centres? Although we disagree with Bavaria on some ideological points, we accept that they are better than us in this respect.
From Russia
To Sweden
No- we only wish to reach the nominal borders of the Soviet Union, not the informal empire the Soviets established. This is because the nominal borders of the Soviet Union represent the Russian people.
As we have said, although we are likely to be enemies in the future this need not be the case for the moment.
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Orders:
Economic Policies:
-1 point in Consumer Goods
i- Democracy:
The new strategy will be to balance out the economy. Our policy will be based around trying to restore the importance of elections amongst other things. Whenever the Populists are in power, they focus government resourcse on ensuring the prosperity of the countryside. Whenever their rivals are in power, they emphasise the cities. Elections will be completely fair and un-rigged. In something of a "gentleman's agreement", however, neither side tears down what the other has already created- if they did, the Church would veto it.
Rural and urban elites will probably try to interfere with the elections. Criminal sanctions will be used against those who use methods considered unfair in democracies (threats etc), but attempting to influence them will be considered fair game.
It is worth noting that as a matter matter of Russian law, any lands occupied by non-Russians in the former Soviet Union are either "in rebellion" or "under foreign occupation" depending on who rules them. This means that residents of those areas can migrate to our regions and automatically be recognised as Russian. It also means that Parliament has several empty seats representing those regions.
Finally, as a side-policy to the elections complete freedom of speech and of the press will be granted, along with freedom of association rights. The Constitution will be amended to ensure their existence. The only mitigation is that the Church's propaganda machine will argue against anybody who contradicts their posistion, and have government funding to back them up.
ii- Other:
Civil servants will head to technocratic countries, even without their government's cooperation, and attempt to learn about how they do things (we can probably scrape together an old airplane or something). The civil service will then be reformed as much as possible, as well as the urban education system, along technocratic lines.
Military Policies:
-2 points in Emphasise Army
Given the expansion of other powers in the region, first priority is changed to expansion westward. We still refuse to recognise the Caucasaus as independent in theory, but in practice leave them be. Our objective is to get back the old Soviet borders, however we will tolerate Sweden in the Baltic region plus Hungary making minor moves.
If secondary expansion is possible, we use it to try and restore contact with the Far Eastern Republic, as before.
Propaganda:
The state reforms stage by stage along Dobyrnin's lines, through a series of constitutional amendments. The nation's image is aimed for internal consumption- an Orthodox Christian nation which champions the faith as it did in the past, once fallen to Communism but now back to it's old values and striving to build a glorious Novaya Russia.
To this end, the Church will send out missionaries to try and convert the non-Orthodox Christians within the state's borders. Within those areas that are Orthodox Christian, the emphasis will be that being a Christian means more than simply calling yourself one. The Church, as well as the government, will be constantly trying to increase the level of religiousity in the populace (with the exception that the Populists don't want to do this but the Church still will).
In response to the claim of Russian genocide, the Russian state will argue that earlier reigmes were mistaken in their policies, and that all the peoples of the former Soviet Union ARE Russians and will be treated as such. It will also be pointed out that they will have a vote under Russia, and not under Sweden.