Actually my idea is that the Soviets send a task force thru the Pacific escorting freighters that have equipment that was supposed to go to reinforce Soviet Division Cuba. The ships get to Baja, where the Soviets hear that a US Task Force is in the area. The Soviets sortie and fight the US and both sides basically get wiped out with the Virginia barely making it to shore.
Meanwhile the Mexican Constitutionalists, who need equipment badly, and with the Soviet naval forces destroyed grab it and ship it to California where it goes to equip the 1a Brigada - their biggest force in the area - which is about the size of the four Forces described in City of Angels - and bingo you get why the Soviet ships were in the area and how the Mexican Army in City of Angels - or at least that particular unit- got Soviet vehicles and armor
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