To go back to the beginning of the Fifth Global War, the story goes back to after the Fourth Global War, and those countries who had won, and those who had lost. After the loss of the war, Russia was devastated, it was forbidden from having an army greater than 500,000, and could no longer develop tanks or planes, stopping Russia's war industry in its tracks. The Russian economy was ruined by reparation payments, they were constantly trying to pull out loans from some of the richer countries in the area, but failed as no one wanted to give money to a country that likely couldn't pay it back. The battle for control of the government after the war was dominated by socialism, and the head of the Russian Socialist Party, and president of the country from 1920-1928 was the Socialist Leon Trotsk