Giant Of Iron——Waking The Union!

**Current Version: Alpha 2.4 – The Great Red Agricultural Collectives**

This mod makes the following changes to the Soviet focus tree in the base game:

**1. Political Branch:** Most focuses have reduced completion time. Added a new focus after "Socialism in One Country": "Steel Giant", which replaces Stalin’s "Iron Heart" with two new traits. "Heir to Lenin’s Legacy", "Loyal Follower of Lenin", "Great Commander", "Architect of Communism", "Brilliant Genius", and "Ban Excessive Personality Cult" no longer require the "Conduct Propaganda" focus. The "Zinoviev Anti-Soviet Center", "Trotsky Anti-Soviet Center", "Military Conspiracy", and "Rightist-Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Bloc" no longer require 175 days of waiting — enjoy your Great Purge! Replaced the "War Economy" focus with "Awaken the Soviet Union". Completing "Leninist-Stalinist Path" now gives the "Sleeping Soviet Union" debuff, which can be removed by "Awaken the Soviet Union". This also triggers the "Choose Economic Development Path" event. Added five new focuses corresponding to the Zinoviev Anti-Soviet Center, Trotsky Anti-Soviet Center, Military Conspiracy, Rightist-Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Bloc, and "Cut off the Serpent’s Head" — mutually exclusive with the original focuses, forming a reconciliation path. Enhanced the national spirit effects of "Revive Stakhanovism" and "Socialist Competition". Added two military sub-branches under the "Heroism" war hero path: the Zhukov line and the Tukhachevsky line.

**2. Army Branch:** Most focuses have reduced completion time. Some focuses are no longer mutually exclusive. "Lessons of War" no longer requires the "Emergency Measures" national spirit to expire. Added the "World Revolution" focus.

**3. Navy Branch:** Most focuses have reduced completion time.

**4. Air Force Branch:** Most focuses have reduced completion time.

**5. Industry Branch:** Most focuses have reduced completion time. Reworked most focuses, strengthening and rebalancing their national spirit or focus effects. Also strengthened industrial design companies such as the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (since I haven’t finished editing the localization files, the focus descriptions still appear vanilla — but after completing the focus, check the design company to experience the enhanced version).

**6. Science Branch:** Most focuses have reduced completion time. Added five new focuses. The path is determined by completing the "Future of Soviet Science" focus. (PS: All three branches feature unique background music upon completion.) If either of the two "Ultrasight Socialism" branches is chosen, players can proceed to the "Project Vostok" focus, enabling the early launch of the Vostok 1 manned rocket. (Note: The launch itself does not provide gameplay bonuses.)

**7. Foreign Affairs Branch:** Most focuses have reduced completion time.

**8. Brand New Agriculture Branch:** Covers agricultural collectivization reforms, featuring four factions: the "Full Collectivization Faction", the "New Economic Policy Faction", the "Maintain the System Faction", and the "Proletarian Faction". Currently only the Full Collectivization Faction is implemented — stay tuned for the other three factions in future updates!

**Vague Hint:** The "Soviet Model" + "Sleeping Soviet Union" will leave you with very few available civilian factories — it is recommended to abolish the civilian economy as soon as possible.

**Balance Note:** The bonuses provided by this mod are significantly overtuned! It is recommended to use with caution, or balance the difficulty by enabling other mods or adjusting game rules to ensure a reasonable challenge.

**Contribution Note:** If you wish to contribute translations or modifications to this mod, simply leave a comment on the mod page and credit this mod in your modified version’s description. Knowing that my work is respected and appreciated makes me happy.

**Languages:** Currently supports English, Simplified Chinese, and Russian.

**Status:** Mod is not yet complete — more updates to come.

**Translation Note:** All languages other than Simplified Chinese are translated by DeepSeek or ChatGPT, so there may be awkward phrasing or translation errors.

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**Patch Notes:**
– Adjusted certain national spirit bonuses and rebalanced focus completion times.
– Fixed the issue where Master of Blitzkrieg could not be obtained.
– Changed the Soviet flag to the historically correct version.
– Changed Soviet territory color to a brighter red (closer to true red) rather than the vanilla dark red.
– Changed the prerequisite for the Vostok manned rocket launch: now requires either a date after June 20, 1944 (historically when the V-2 rocket passed the Kármán line) or researched Advanced Rocket Engines.

Since the vanilla USSR had only an abstract "Collectivization Progress" focus — which poorly reflects the nature of a worker-peasant state, especially for a country where agriculture and industry were so tightly intertwined — I have added agricultural collectivization focuses. The USSR now starts with two negative national spirits: "Withering Agriculture" and "Aftermath of the Great Famine", which inflict severe penalties. These debuffs must be removed through agricultural collectivization focuses, ultimately upgrading to "A New Future for Agriculture". Currently only the Full Collectivization branch is implemented, split into two sub-factions: the Party Apparatus Faction and the Decentralist Faction.

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**Next Update Plan (Alpha 2.5):**
Complete rework of the army focus tree, adding five new military reform branches: Zhukov, Tukhachevsky, Vasilevsky, Batov, and Decentralized Reform.

That is the current plan — more ideas may come later. Stay tuned!

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**Additional Future Plans (Low Priority):**
Art and localization improvements are also under consideration, but since the mod currently has relatively little content, these updates are unlikely to be prioritized in the near future. Following that, Left Opposition, Right Opposition, and even the Leninist intra-party democratic path will only be considered after the centrist path is completed — those are even farther off.

That is roughly it for now.