This is the starting event for Yagoda.
I'm not a communist, neither a sympatiser (I do like it's aesthetics and it's care with science tough), but Yagoda holds a lot of value for me on one main factor: He leads the original soviet government, the one that came from the 1917 revolution, through the civil war and Bukharin. When he starts he holds Irkutsk and the surrounding areas, under war with Sablin (I have nothing against Sablin). Yagoda is stuck on a situation along with the Politburo that there is nowhere else to retreat, from the greatest non colonial country in the world, they now hold only one major city, everything was lost, and now they are in their darkest hour in danger of being swallowed by who they see as a traitor, and on this moments that things like that happens. I do not believe that people acts through ideology all the time, this is not a predicted moment of socialist rebirth, this is per se a country at the brink of collapse thinking of it's roots, it's founder, and how the old times set their example to continue moving, and as such the only option left is to attack, attack, and attack, reconquer everything, just like their fathers and grandfathers did fifty years before, following the spirit of their founder, the light shall not be extinguished.