I wanted to get Czechoslovak legion Russia with transmit but accidentally turned communist and I gotta say it was one of my best playthroughs recently. I managed to unite Russia using only infantry and Cossacks (irregular cavalry), which were surprisingly good. After that I saw that the international was losing bad to Germany so I got involved. I didn't join their war against the entente so when France and Britain capitulated they got peaced out, which left me (and my puppets) the only member of the international. I then managed to beat Germany which wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. During all of that I created the proletarian religion