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Barentsburg

Comrade! The arctic is heating up! this opens up new possibilities for our glorious workers union. luckily for us we already has a presence on the islands, Svalbard! The most industrious town of Barentsburg will lead our glorious charge into the barren wastelands of Svalbard!
However, due to some reactionary elements in our government fearing that the west will view our renewed interest in the island as a sign of aggression you will have to fend for yourself economically once get there. but who needs money anyway when the great world revolution of the workers comes along?
And one last thing comrade: Watch out for polar bears.

The town of Barentsburg was bought by the soviet state mining company Arktikugol from the dutch in 1932. As the soviet union has signed the Svalbard treaty they are allowed to settle and exploit territory on the island even tough its considered a part of the Kingdom of Norway. So it is basically a soviet town in Norway. the town these days mainly survives on coal mining and tourism, but is dependent on state subsidies from Russia to survive.

This map has a lot of coal in the mountainside but limited other resources. the only part of the map that has anything close to a forest is a small area to the west. The main town of barentsburg has most of the things you should need to get going except for a construction industry and a power plant. there is two customs houses to the west block and one to the east block. other than that you should base yourself around shipping and tourism.