I have played the second edition recently twice. I probably play very bad as Russia, USA and England, because both games we lost withou ever having a chance to win. Both times Russia had no clue what to do its first turn and that was immediately disastrous. What basically happend was that Germany took the Northern Russian country with its industry and anti=aircraft defense. From that point Moscow was under attack while the english fighters were shot down by the french anti-aircraft or iinfanterist. Then Japan destroyed the american Navy in the Hawaiian see en concuered the USA in Asia as well. So Usa was down 1 country and most of its see power. From that point the allies were almost without any chance. Pressure on Russia is huge (from Germany and Japan, although Germany, did not need Japan to destroy Moskou), USA has no power to attack Japan and England is quite weak as well.
So, what should the allies do to prevent this from happening?