USSR Thread

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Need help with planning a story. What I need to know is what the weaponry of the Red Army would look like if the USSR won the cold war. Basically this is what I have planned:
The part of the story that we are concerned with is set in an alternate history 2007, where the USSR has effectively won the cold war. It looks very much like the world of Hotline Miami, with America effectively being turned into the USSR's bitch. The country is a shell of it's former self with a very limited military budget. 'Nam-era (or what would have been 'Nam-era in our time-line) M-16s and M1911A1s are still in use by the military. And the entire country is all sorts of fucked up, with in-fighting between fascists and communists all around. Meanwhile the USSR is doing great, expanding it's influence deep into Western Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South-east Asia, Canada, and Latin America and it also has direct control over Afghanistan, China, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, both Koreas, Japan, Guam, Hawaii, and some parts of Alaska.
What I need to know is everything I can about the Red Army's small arms, fighting vehicles, and how they interacted with different parts of their sphere of influence in terms of military operation during the later stages of the cold war and how these things would have developed as the USSR grew stronger. I know that the USSR was working on all sorts of crazy stuff before 1991; silent assault rifles, silent pistols, silent revolvers, underwater assault rifles, and all sorts of stuff. I know that Putin's government has started getting the ball rolling again with things like modernizing the AK platform and the SU-35s, but I want to know what would have happened if the Rooskies had the funds and desire to crank it up to eleven. Thanks.