Soviet Opposition Expanded

- Faster and re-balanced Right Opposition Coup

• New Democratic (Kerensky) path under Beaten, Not Defeated
• Reworked and buffed NEP with new branches
• Unique focus branches for Kamenev, Zinovyev and Smirnov as leaders
• New focuses for Left Opposition and the ability to elect Trotsky as Right Opposition leader
• New advisors for all paths

Coup Reworks

• Infiltrate the NKVD now guarantees a successful Stalin assassination and gives 10% Stability
• Recruiting Party Members and United Front Against Stalin now give +10% assassination success chance each
• Liberate Ryutin now takes 35 days, gives political power and raises assassination chance to 90%
• Shortened time to Align Zinovyevites to 35 days
• 'Prepare for the Coup' now only requires either 'Clandestine Cells' or 'Undermine Stalin's Authority' instead of both; shortening the coup by 70 days
• Decisions to recruit either NKVD head now take 30/50 days respectively

New, unique paths for Kamenev and Zinovyev as leaders

• Kamenev is focused on stability, research, and compliance
• Zinovyev provides better industrialization and subversive activities

New Bukharin and Rykov Focuses

• Revise Bukharin's work on the Stalin Constitution
• Rykov has two new focuses that improve war industrialization and cost for laws/command
• Bukharin has faster access to his expansionist path

New NEP buffs and expanded path:

• Shortened time for Curtailment and Trade Union as Labor Organizer

• Added 'Lessons of International Labor' branch for research and production growth

• Added 'Repeal Five Year Plan' path for infrastructure and rail

• Added 'Organic Collectivization' path for output and research

• All converge into 'Quality over Quantity' which provides reliability to a lot of equipment

• New Ivan Smirnov leader path that focuses on spy agency and peasant economy

• Three new general focuses for military and military industry

• New Kerensky democratic path within Beaten, But Not Defeated

• Gives access to some of the same foreign policy focuses + Strike Back at Central Powers

• Has unique military, political, and economic buffs

• Create a broad left-wing government or lean on fascist support to purge the left

• Three new democratic advisors (Viktor Chernov, Mikhail Tereshchenko, and Irakli Tsereteli)

Compatibility

This mod will not be compatible with any others that change the Soviet focus tree or decisions, but is broadly compatible otherwise. This mod cannot be made compatible with RT56.

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