In Defense of the Red Army

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Originally Posted by kato13

Since the fall of the Berlin wall I have had the Soviets find massive Oil reserves on their Chinese Border. After reading "The Bear and The Dragon" I added large gold veins spanning the Sino/Russo border. This helps me explain how the Soviet economy could survive and adds another reason for the initial Soviet/Chinese conflict.

Nice. This would work either with or without the fall of the Berlin Wall (i.e. in either the v1 or v2 timeline).