Maybe that's a recent change, since it used to work for me. If you do it instantly, it should end in about 1939. Not very relevant but somewhat relevant: I prefer to make the Great Purge my starting National Focus as the Soviet Union because the penalties last for four years or so, and if you do it too late you'll end up having it carry over into 1940 and enduring the effects during World War II. In fact, I even used the console to switch back to Communism, do the Purge, then return to Fascism, because it triggered a lot of times and no amount of saving and reloading stopped it inevitably getting triggered again at some point. I ignored the Purge and went Fascist in a save file, and the civil war/coup still ended up happening. Worst part about Trotsky in my eyes isn't the civil war, it's losing Konev and Zhukov.
You can keep Konev, Zhukov, Rokossovski, and Tukhachevski that way :D Originally posted by BrigadierBill:Technically, going democratic or fascist instead of staying communist will skip the civil war and the great purge entirely. If an anti-Soviet uprising was to take place, it would therefore likely be in the old White-controlled areas of the Far East and Siberia: far from the tightly-controlled industrial areas of the far west of the Soviet Union, and where Japanese equipment and support would be most forthcoming.
