East Germany

The DDR is a country in East Germany that is a Satellite State of the Soviet Union, following Germany's surrender. It does not have its historical borders until Germany's surrender, beforehand it will have the region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schwerin is the capital.

Alliances
Warsaw Pact

Obvious choice of alliance would be The Warsaw Pact and you're communist.

Politics
Ministers

Military
Army

You will start out with 1,000 Mechanized Infantry

Navy

You will have no Navy because before Germany's surrender you will have to focus in defending yourself from Germany.

Air Force

Air Force is fine however you will only have 1 Airship.

War
War with Germany

Germany wants to conquer all of German land so you with Austria and the Suddenland are primary targets of Germany. So build up defences with 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Mega Tanks on your border with Germany. Send forces to the Suddenland to arm against Germany.

War with Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Denmark, Norway and Sweden want certain interest in your trade for NATO. That's a bad thing for you and Poland so block off your borders with Denmark and control ports of Copenhagen, Olso and Stoclkhlom.