One of the major improvements to the Soviet armed forces that came out of the Winter War was the replacement of Kliment Voroshilov by Semyon Timoshenko as People’s Commissar for Defence. Voroshilov had helped Stalin carry out the Great Purge by denouncing some of his military colleagues, and (as I recall) he reversed some of the army reforms that his predecessors had carried out. He also bungled the opening phases of the Winter War, and was eventually turfed out in favour of the more competent Timoshenko. After the Soviets won in Finland, Timoshenko set about modernizing the Red Army.
Interesting possible WW3 scenarios during the 1980's
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While this is interesting information, it would be a long road to go from these scenarios to games with special rules, set-ups, turn orders, etc…
Good background item, not quite game-ready.
-Midnight_Reaper
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Read then pages 39 to about 42. Indications show clearly numbers of divisions and reinforcement rates over time. So if WW3 broke out in the late 1980’s , you would have some raw info on how each could produce and deploy.
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Iiiyyyeee there you go IL, a Western Front game u can make a map and do a setup.
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1980’s however was a strange time for both sides and NATO and USSR were losing allies left and right and neither side wanted to engage in conflict so both sides tried to downsize their military while also trying to scare the other side.
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