What a fascinating experience.

The game is, fundamentally, written by someone with a somewhat limited perspective of the world. Croats are all fascists, Ukrainians are dangerous, and Pizza Hut is a sign of impending doom. In this mode of analysis, the USSR genuinely could have been saved by re-instituting an obscure computerisation programme abandoned in the 70s, landing a man on Mars, and messing around with how much bribe money you give away to the people who do the torturing.

Another example- one of the "victory" conditions is successfully launching a first strike on the USA. Meanwhile decommissioning your nuclear arms totally- even if the US does the same- leads to an automatic in-game defeat; a NATO "no-fly" zone is imposed and the USSR is forcefully broken up. There is no way to avoid this, even if DEFCON is at 5 and Ross Perot is president when you decommission.

The UI is poor, the English translation is spotty, and it's almost impossible to figure out what anything actually does, but I can't help but feel like that's only in line with the experience.