Memes can be funny in small quantities, but the damn things have replaced regular speech to the point that talking to people on the Internet is like Picard and Dathon in Darmok. "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!"I feel that. I know for a fact you haven't been one for memes, but edgelords are essentially like pizza cutters: All edge, no point.
I also didn't like that liberalizing society carries massive stability penalties when a much more effective model would be to use the temporary idea method that Apres Moi le Deluge has had for years.I can't help but agree. Even if the quality of like in Orenburg goes up, is it really worth the sacrifice of life and limb of the people? There's also an event that kind of shows that Orenburg has massively changed in that it is noticed that the freedom they had earlier is well and truly gone under Burba, I don't have a copy of it on my computer right now but that was kind of a "what have I done" moment when playing as them. Manufacture of radios and new radio stations and such doesn't outweigh the presence of the existence of an oppressive hierarchy.
Hey, at least secret Nazbol Bernie Sanders makes a horrifying degree of sense given how badly America is fucked and what happened to his family TTL.Yeah, I got tired of that quickly. I sort of like Red World and even though its creator has explicitly stated that it isn't a meme mod Bernie Sanders being a National Bolshevik and Bill Gates leading a socialist technocracy kind of leaves me in doubt there. Dark humor has a charm to it only if the setting isn't Warhammer: 40k levels of grimdark or just dank meme levels of nonsense.
The TL that gets black comedy right, most of the time. (Tsar Viktor could be a bit too much edge at times IMO)With this aside for the moment, let me jump in to see this madness... No, not that madness!
It seems to have elements of anarcho-primitivism, and is the kind of thing that tbh I'd expect from a farm boy who joined the army and then got really bad PTSD.Traditionalist Socialism is oxymoronic (emphasis on "moronic") and from a theoretical standpoint combining neo-feudalism with socialism sounds absolutely disastrous. (It also sounds like a poorly thought-out compromise involving tsarism.)
Soviet Premier Lavrentiy Beria.The NKVD gets its own frozen autonomous SR and is deported to it. Considering their... reputation, I can't really hold fault in this. The NKVD must have done something absolutely awful ITTL beyond a massive purge to be dealt with in this manner.
Kuznetsov I think is a fail path.Kruglov actually looks pretty okay by Soviet standards.
Absolutely cursed.
Abakumov is a straight-up serial killer.
The Norilsk warlord is a rogue admiral who runs capitalist gulags. As in, his warlord state is basically a plutocracy where the poor are put in gulags.
Zhukovism seems to be a mashup of relaxing repression, building a wellfare state to some degree, and whipping the people up into a patriotic fervor to get payback for the whole ethnic cleansing, Generalplan Ost thing.Like father, like son. But hold the fuck up why is he using the colors of National Bolshevism?
(EDIT: Oh, it's something called "Zhukovism". As long as Zhukovism isn't red fascism I think it should be okay.
They're rivals.No wonder Zhukov has a focus dedicated exclusively to removing this guy from the picture.
He's a right-wing capitalist, he's purged by all but the most kindhearted reformists.The only non-socialist plan out of all of them so far, it looks like his plan may or may not be a hard sell. Weird indeed, especially using that imperial black-gold-white tricolor.
It's part of her reunification plan.Looks like COMECON is exclusive to Vigdorova's policies.
The implication seems to be that he'll be a disaster.This looks a little too good to be true but it's definitely more of an inverse (and less evil distant counterpart) of TNO's Andreas Meier.
He teaches in the US now OTL. Seems like a good dude.Once TWR is out I'll definitely try a playthrough with this guy. His ideas look pretty good and the flag looks pretty nice as well.
Lavrentiy Beria goes nuts with purges and is...well, Beria. He dies early game from having his genitals bitten off by one of his victims.Apparently the NKVD in this world were nasty enough to have their slice of paradise designated as a nuclear test site by Zhukov.
Heydrich's custom leader trait is God of Death. Because he exterminated millions of people to build a dystopian summer resort.*1984 soundtrack intensifies*
This isn't 1984, this is a thousand times worse.
I like the idea of her as a character. A young woman who has nothing left but her cause, and reacts viciously to any criticism of it or her.Minet's France does not look like a pleasant place to be but it's still preferable to Germany in any Nazi Victory TL.