Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition
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The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
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Balakirev survives, and retains his post.
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Good news, you picked the safest plan, if you picked the head in the sand, you'd have been out the second the consolidation actually happens without a way to counter it or really do anything. Now you have instead achieved success in politics, taking a mid-high risk plan and it going about as well as expected with you getting to go up to the rostrum of the Supreme Soviet, axe 6 ministers, and broadly provide for the passage of significant state end re-organization. And no one got shot, no military units moved, and everything proceeded in a mostly orderly fashion.
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So it turns out we picked the best of the leading plans, and Bala developed a completely underserved political reputation as he flails to victory.
plotvitalnpc
Once more walking the path of the catgirl.
We're not a major independent politician in the party like Bala hoped and dreamed of but we've still got our job and the new coalition functions properly - arguably better than the old soviet government because the two big men in the duopoly don't trust each-other enough to not formalize the relationship between the powers of party and state now that they've each taken one.
At least, that's my understanding?
Peaceful transition of power achieved.
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Well, the safe play would have been entirely aligning with one, not trying to do anything fancy and committing to a faction good and bad while explicitly signposting it by passing major reforms for them. As uh, was shown no one was willing to consider that and focused on two faction outreach for some reason.
Parzival
They shall not pass. We shall overcome.
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What would have happened if my plan succeeded somehow?
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I have one that mostly just goes all in on the left
ah shoot, tragic we got the rightist deputy, alas alas alas
perhaps next decade we'll be able to move against the marketeers, the bastards
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what would the backstab have lead to?
I was working on it if you'd given me time.
Oh, there's plenty of room for doom now that Balakirev has to produce results on his promises to farmers...
Oh, and rebuild Moscow.
But that's just the slow choking doom of more pork projects in an economic crisis. No biggie.
Regards,
fasquardon
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Likly entered a slap fight over economic policy without much decisiveness. If Vor and Ryz worked together well, it probably wouldn't have immediately gotten you booted out but it would have then been you twisting economic policy into a pretzel to appease both.
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Vorotnikov, the leftist, came out on top here from all appearances, and the Stalinists benefited from this quite a bit. Arguably, this whole affair strenghtened anti-market forces.
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Look on the bright side, when oilshock hits the farmers will be the least of the Supreme Soviet and everyone else's worries! And if it doesn't hit this plan, its not that bad.
Moscow will be annoying, but I am pretty sure this won't anything near a comprehensive rebuilding program as what Voz did. And hey, having the city in tiptop shape for when the 1980 Olympics happens is not the worst! But yes, I would rather we'd have been able to just not do it, but it was for a good cause.
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I'm mostly looking at the deputies, where we got the marketist's pick, though hopefully we can switch out later. Overall it's a fine plan though yeah, even if I am a bit sad the state beat the party again like they did after Stalin died
Yes, and as I've said before, I think doing Moscow is a good idea. We've had a few years to find bugs in Voz's design, it's a fine enough time to fix them.
The problem is we are probably gonna need to throw free dice at farmers while we are doing Moscow and river reversal. Having to do them all at the same time AND deal with an economic crisis is going to be painful.
Like sewers delayed painful.
We do at least get to pick from several candidates with Ryzhkov.
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fasquardon
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I wonder what would have happened the backstab one
or any of my fairly poorly thought out plans
or any of my fairly poorly thought out plans
It should probably be worrying that each successive MnKH head does some increasingly audacious power move within 3 years of entering office. Wonder when our politicians will learn that anybody they put into this seat will be a major player regardless of how tight they think the leash is.
plotvitalnpc
Once more walking the path of the catgirl.
Well, actually the trade unionist's supporters still existed after his decline, and they need some patron in the new political environment, so, uh...
Well, let's just say that Ryzh - who's the theoretical major partner in this alliance - won't be the one making platform compromises to court them given he hates unions with a passion.
Blackstar rolled the backstab as a what if - it failed massively in the earliest stages, and we and Semyonov both got taken into a basement and shot after being sentenced to ten years without contact with the outside world, while Voro and Ryzh formed a duopoly anyways.
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