Yeah, thats what it thought too. However if you decide to go a fast light armoured strategy and put ressources into it, you have a advantage and disadvantage to it. If your enemy counters your vehicles and you just magically exchange units, it is called cheating.^^
I would like, that the Army of the USSR would not be called "soviets", but using the correct term "red army". The term changed to soviet army after WW2. Otherwise you would need to call the Wehrmacht the nazi army, which then would become quite a rant...
Yes, when you change the faction´s design, you can start the balance all over again. Since balance discussions require some games played using the new design, we can´t talk about it now, right?