Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition
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So... would you describe her as a... lethal workaholic ?
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what if, horror of all horrors, and completely unnaceptable to the Soviet state, she turns out to be a Communist
She is the ringmaster of all the bad dubbing for western media in this timeline
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At somepoint we will find the Rocky movie in her office.She is the ringmaster of all the bad dubbing for western media in this timeline
Tfw no neo-pagan Eurasianist train nerd bf, absolutely tragic 😭😭😭
she looks like an evil school teacher from a 90s movie I hope she outlaws skateboarding
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Also, she is 10 years older than Bala, will be 54 next turn, so his 70s era mansplaining will be very awkward. She's been in politics for longer than him, and is technically more qualified as well.
Wait, does this mean that effectively the hired adjutant might retire before the Minister does? Talk about a politically neutral move then, assuming they avoid getting fired for the next decade.
Eh the only Minister I really iked was our first guy because he was simultaneously 'oh fuck I have no idea what I'm doing', 'our leadershiip is on a murder rapampage' and 'holy shit I can aim the murder rampage?!'. While most ministers tend to be in denial about at minimum one of those three things.
Mine was Voznesensky. He is a corrupt bastard but a lovable corrupt bastard. He also led the MNKH during the most prosperous time of the Soviet Union's history. Next would be Mikoyan simply because he is the godfather of our current political system.
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Probably not. Deputy minister of the MNKh is not really a position you're likely to leave before your boss leaves his for one reason or another, not if you're minimally politically competent, which Zemly is. And since our retirement age is 75, she has time until Bala moves up, fucks up or stays his full 15 year term at the post.
Every deputy we could've hired this turn was older than Bala, by the way, though she by the most since she is a woman.
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I enjoyed Malenkov myself, at least before he was an alcoholic. He was justly cynical and recognized life in the USSR was shitty, yet he had a serious conviction he could make things better: A fascinating position for Stalin's hatchet-man to end up in. He had a unique education (electrical engineering) that provided a large dice bonus to a narrow set of projects across departments rather than a moderate bonus to one entire department. Plus, if Mikonyan is the father of our political system Mal fathered our modern economic system with its enterprises limited private sectors, and incentive funds that lets us dodge the worst flaws of central planning.
Second is Klimenko, even with his lethally delusional hawkish foreign politics. He in general seemed to be level-headed not up his political ass. I still feel that the signal-to-noise ratio in actions descriptions took a frustrating drop when he was swapped out for Balakirev.
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I liked Voz, he was fun
least favorite is probably the first guy after Stalin died, had technocracy and apolitical expert brainworms if I remember correctly
least favorite is probably the first guy after Stalin died, had technocracy and apolitical expert brainworms if I remember correctly
In my opinion it would have been out of character for a guy who realizes life in the USSR is shit, is so sickly we rolled to see if he died, had to deal with Stalin and WW2 I think it would take a type of person Malenkov was not to stay sane. sober and stable. Those types of people are not the types to be MNSKH leadership.
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But... Voz absolutely had technocracy and apolitical expert brainworms...
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No, Voz pretended to so he could do all of the corruption, besides, he's too funny to hate, easily my favorite voice of all the one's we've had
Malenkov was fun in the sense of 'I am apolitical in the sense I have whatever politics is required to survive and to survive when that I stop one Stalin Brainworm a year"
I hope one of them is Elvira Nabiullina. She would be a based MNKH minister.
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If I recall correctly, most of the relevant OTL soviet politicians of the 1980s will be reaching their term limits by the mid 1980s at the latest here.
Except for Gorby. It would be so cursed if we got him as Premier or General Secretary in the eighties.
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Just imagine the possibility of Gorby's politics being completely different ITTL.
He seems to have been a party climber in OTL moreso than a state climber, I think, but in this different system he may well have slid into the state as well/instead.
He seems to have been a party climber in OTL moreso than a state climber, I think, but in this different system he may well have slid into the state as well/instead.
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