A GKCHP guide for the 1991 scenario

Overview

Enjoy and good luck not dying comradeThe guide is now updatedthe rest will get done when the update is released

The Coup

There are severals ways to get a succesful coup but the one i will show you is the one what is the easiest to me
Special thanks to:Passerby and εὐδαιμονία for the strategy to survive and for the coup path respectively

I will go whit Yanayev but you can choose your own custom Gen sec for this,(Note what the only thing custom gen secs affects are the starting factions since the “Posotion” event changes your doctrines)

Now is time for the coup events
important to know

And for the events themselves







If you did it correctly you will get this screnn

(Path courtesy of εὐδαιμονία)
Congratulations you overthew Gorbachev and saved the USSR for collapsing,just kidding this was the easy part now is time to rule the country

The first turn

Now what you got past the coup is time to set up the budget, your council of ministers purge the party and to do some foregin policy stuff

Important to do this first since reorganizing the council costs money
leave imports alone for now but slowly take they money off to avoid an economic collpase
only take away the party envelopes since you have the popular support to defeat the party coup and keep the rest in place, also set propaganda to 200

ignore this one for now but as soon as you can set ecology to 150 and diplomatic missions to 300 to get a high defcon and avoid detente since you are too poor to afford it (but dont rush it, the army budget is more important)
set it like this and put money in as the situation evolves

Remove all money from party salaries and fight against corruption and try to get 260 in social spendings
150 should work early on but get soldiers living to 300 as soon as you can,(ideally add money in small quantities at every opportunity)
also set state mechanism to 300 to avoid corruption destroying your income and 180 to the kgb to use them instead of the army if possible

cut religious orgs to 10 to get more money and let cultural enligtenment as it is

ignore science for now

also set taxes to 6% to get enough money to fund your foregin policy,afghanistan and to expand your budget

This is the shortest part of this as is quite easy to do
Go to the “council” tab and ban this two groups

• reformers
• liberals

Ban the reformers first and then the liberals since if do ban liberals first you wont be able to ban reformers

your council should look like this after you purge them
(PD:if you aim for a full freedoms run dont ban reformers)

This is quicker to do than the budget but is equally important so lets get it done quickly

let foregin affairs as it is for now but maybe change it to oleg troyanovskiyif you need to improve relations whit china

for internal affairs Pugo all the way
In order to ensure the army stays loyal put solokov in there and when to stabilize put achalov to restore its strength

For the planning committe put Maslukov for some extra money

you wont be able to change this one yet but put Pavlov there or Kuznetsov if you are going moderate, and if you get to have the chance of getting Yanaev in there (by rolling back separation of powers) do it

for this one Tikhonov for a long long time since he doesnt consume any money

you can choose betwen Kolovanov or Rabev depending on your priorities

Demichev all the way here

Comrade Bobkov will make the job well here

Put Mikhailov to improve your army but later you can switch to Ladygin if the new WPO liberaizes a lot

Let Kosolapov there for extra stalinism (needed to stabilize early on by getting the harder law enforment and court policy laws)

both Budyka and Polyansky are good picks here, if you agricultural doesnt do very well usa polyansky)

There are 2 main zones to look for here

• Estern Europe
• Afghanistan

Is the simplest one since you only need to press a button called “finance communism” in the former WP countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia)
Priotize the one whit the lowest value (Romania and Poland) since you wont be able to do them all the first turn due to lack of political points and if they hit 0 communist power they join nato and you wont be able to recover them unti the usa are defeated

Support the afghan goverment from the start but barely (they lose 6 control points each year when you support them they win 10 points) the idea is to keep them alive so the islamits wont become a threat to you (directly). you only need to make sure they dont collpase since your army wil be too weak to invade again

PD:do everything you can to keep russia from revolting that event will kill your army loyalty

WIP

since the update will add new thing for the revolts and rework events this guide will be left like this until the new update