The main problem i see with the Russians is that they must build the T-70 (or is it T-90?) in order to suppress German troop formations, and the artillery fire-base is that most useless investment ever. So while i send in waves of NKVD (or whatever they were renamed) conscripts, i must capture a point, hoping my conscripts are distracting the Easy AI computer. Then i need to repeat. i voted for the DSHK MG team, cause then you can give the Soviets an early game MG to suppress the enemy, and i voted for the PTRS-41 cause being able to fire more than one shot against enemy tanks would beneficial to the Russians, as the PTRD doesn't do much against the German tanks. Oh, btw, something needs to be done with the Russian fire-base to make it useful, three Katyusha rockets are way more useful than a fire-base.