[b]Nation's full name:[/b] Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
[b]Population:[/b] 182,321,000.
[b]Current leadership:[/b] Joseph Stalin, General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
[b]Government Type:[/b] Single Rule Authoritarian State.
[b]Military Strength:[/b]

[b]Army[/b]: 2,500,000 men (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Armed_Forces)
[b]Air Force[/b]: 2,750 aircraft (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Air_Forces)
[b]Navy[/b]: 82 submarines
100 - 150 surface vessels; no carriers or aviation support vessels.
[b]Occupational[/b]
* [b]Eastern Germany[/b]: 70,000, 2,800 vehicles (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Soviet_Forces_in_Germany)
* [b]Poland[/b]: 275,000 (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Group_of_Forces)
* [b]Hungary[/b]: 25,000 (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Group_of_Forces)

[b]State of the Union Summary:[/b] The second of two premier superpowers following the devastation of the Nazi war machine, the Soviet Union seeks to establish a Communist world front. Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union has garnered support in North Korea, as well as marginal political power in Eastern Europe, and the Chinese Civil War, where although supporting the Kuomingtang, has now turned a political eye to Mao Zedong and his Communists. The Soviet Union eyes the West however, supplanting Eastern European nations with Communist elections and ruling the now divided Germany by guiding Eastern Germany as a pseudo-communist nation.

The Soviet meaning of military doctrine was much different from U.S. military usage of the term. Soviet Minister of Defence Marshal Grechko defined it as 'a system of views on the nature of war and methods of waging it, and on the preparation of the country and army for war, officially adopted in a given state and its armed forces.' Soviet theorists emphasised both the political and 'military-technical' sides of military doctrine, while from the Soviet point of view, Westerners ignored the political side. However the political side of Soviet military doctrine, Western commentators Harriet F Scott and William Scott said, 'best explained Soviet moves in the international arena'