The short answer is no. You cannot swap sides unless it's a sceanrio. The sides each nation starts from is, for most of the nation pairings, pre set in the code but with all the possible pairings there will alway be some that someone might consider to be the "wrong" side. In this case, the Russians get the right side of the map
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