How can we adjust starting conditions in Twilight Struggle to favour the USSR?
Me and a friend of mine play this a lot and we had to explain it a bit to a new player, so we also had to give the USSR an advantage because it would be first time player against a veteran.
We found that there are three ways to make this a bit more fair:


Give the USSR more starting influence to divide (this can be in Eastern Europe or in any other continent)
Give the USSR some starting points, that way America has to accumulate more points to win the game, I think that 5 or 3 is fair but you can choose that for yourself
In the first headline phase: USSR plays a card and America doesn't, this can give the USSR an advantage if they have good cards so it's a gamble.


EDIT


You could also give the USSR player a partial mulligan, discard the cards he doesn't want and let him pull that many new cards