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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition

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Im kinda worried were gonna hit a major trading snag now that our export production doesnt have a major buyer. Is it a good idea to divest our workforce away from mega steel now? Im sure china, india, chunks of africa and even the middle east will be interested but Im worried our scale of steel production will still excede demand.

If its any consolation now is a good time to jump in on better machinery and electronics although even the turn states its not a resource or manpower issue but a material issue. We just dont have enough next gen machinery to make more of said machinery. Any ideas how to mitigate that? Is japan, korea or china working on that yet or is too early timeline wise?
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The steel issue is one that has two answers practically, we either let the sector collapse, or slowly decline. The latter we can do through an infrastructure and industrial plan, and is much more politically advantageous since it means we do popular stuff like housing and don't let a important sector employing a shitton of people collapse over night. But yeah, no more increases to steel production on our end.

In regards to machinery and electronics, the loss of the US in that sense is painful, but I don't think is permanent, Kissinger is in charge and he was one of the main proponents of detente. TTL, the political calculations that led to him seeking a rapprochement with China are tilted in our favor (they're not liberalizing any time soon, and are funding insurgencies in South America as of this turn), especially with our pre-existing trade ties. The US has notably not embargoed us or anything, just instituted tariffs and some limited sanctions.

Anyway, Western Europe (except maybe France lol), Scandinavia and Japan are still there, and we've been making massive gains through trade. I think we can work to entice their companies and governments into working with us whilst the US has cold feet.
 
With that said, I think [X]Keep with Ryzhkov is our best way forward for now. I don't want to work with the conservatives, and a politically neutral approach is unlikely to earn us many friends at a time we'll need em (the start of a new 5YP is the perfect time to put up a new Minister...). I am not confident we can really carve out our own little fiefdom from Semyonov's faction, and even if we do it will mean we antagonized him, which would be quite bad if we failed or did mediocrely. Ryzkhov seems reasonable enough, and he wants to use this period of economic prosperity to expand the Party and strenghten internationalism. Podgorny's view of him is likely a bit rosy, but Balakirev has actually met with the man. For reference:

Ryzhkov's Faction: Accepting that the Union needs both political and economic modernization now that the confrontation has escalated. The old system would have been adequate if nothing changed and the US was content to be overcome, but their leadership proved less deluded than some domestic thinkers. The broadest sense going into the election is to work with other nations to start containing American economic influence. The cold war needs to die down and ugly compromises will have to be made but the mess left behind still needs to be navigated. Domestically, opening the party further has been demonstrated in the Czechoslovak SR, and while the economy is great there are no better chances to include those who missed out on university in it."
 
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I don't see why we would not just go with Ryzhkov we wanted to ally with him and we seem to have gotten a great oppertunity to do it this is what we wanted. The alternatives of allying with Vorotnikov seems incredibly risky because i highly doubt Bala understands the conservative knife fight as we deliberately stayed out of it and i think going back when it is in full swing just makes no sense. politically seperating is an option but then again the entire reason we aproached Pod was because we didn't want to risk that and now trying to do that after deliberately not going for creating our own faction is really just a pathetic half measure.

[X]Keep with Ryzhkov
 
[X]Keep with Ryzhkov

Yeah, if we wanted to do something else, we wouldn't need to approach Pod in the first place. Staying neutral is not really an option, trying to claw a faction out of Semyonov is risky and we wouldn't get a better deal from Voroshilov one way or another.
 
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[X]Keep with Ryzhkov

Agree that this is our best option. We're not going to be the biggest political mover, but then again we don't need to be.
 
By following a line based on exchanging Western technology for Soviet labor or markets, is it contradictory with the policy of prioritizing goods produced within the CMEA (cf. the "CMEA Good Prioritization" policy option) ?
Can we do both ?
 
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