Ladies and Gentleman.
For long I awaited, for long I deduced, for long I tried to understand how would it be to play as Yagoda, and now I have the answer.
I gonna highlight some points of my Yagoda campaign, but first I gonna leave here a phrase that I really like, as my favorite soviet leader is by far Nikita Kruschev, I made a thread about him some time ago, and of everything I saw, the strongest point was when he ended the soviet reign of terror, someone said...
"People were still arrested for political reasons of course, but they were now likely to be real, not imaginary, opponents of the regime. This decrease in the arrests of innocent people--and the massive releases from the camps--did not of course turn the Soviet Union into a democracy. But we should remember that the changes that were made were literally a matter of life and death for millions of people."
This is the kind of stuff I was expecting as Yagoda, and oh boy I got it.
For long I awaited, for long I deduced, for long I tried to understand how would it be to play as Yagoda, and now I have the answer.
I gonna highlight some points of my Yagoda campaign, but first I gonna leave here a phrase that I really like, as my favorite soviet leader is by far Nikita Kruschev, I made a thread about him some time ago, and of everything I saw, the strongest point was when he ended the soviet reign of terror, someone said...
"People were still arrested for political reasons of course, but they were now likely to be real, not imaginary, opponents of the regime. This decrease in the arrests of innocent people--and the massive releases from the camps--did not of course turn the Soviet Union into a democracy. But we should remember that the changes that were made were literally a matter of life and death for millions of people."
This is the kind of stuff I was expecting as Yagoda, and oh boy I got it.
First and foremost, yes, Yagoda is the original leader of te soviet union, he was elected by the presidium as soon Bukharin was dead, and Irkutsk was the original capital, whom everyone retreated to.
As you unify Siberia, nobody can escape your wrath, everyone ends executed, be Konstantin, the Tsar (the only tear I shed on the entire gameplay), the leader of Ochirov if he doesn't join you, sablin and others. At the same time you can choose how you will improve the soviet union, Yagoda himself wants to do that, so you can either do what I did, increase political participation, do the thousand letters campaign, allow politicians who were corrupt to return under surveillance, or you can increase the security apparatus to crush regional warlords. On all routes you see the soviet union rebuilding as you advance, people return to the schools, farms reopen, the prosperity of the post war soviet union OTL happens, and it's beautifull.
With this, the soviet union is back, the same old structure, but improved a thousand times, a party, not a stalininst tyranny.
And finally, after the bayonets fell silent and before they moved to the west to reclaim Russia, the internationale was back
India, Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Italy (that turned libsoc), all of them joined, the COMECON was started, investiment flooded, the soviet aviation industry was rebuilt, the mechanization is now reaching the level of developed nations along the literacy. Libsoc and autsoc countries are on the unionclad union.
I think this can count as a happy ending for now
As you unify Siberia, nobody can escape your wrath, everyone ends executed, be Konstantin, the Tsar (the only tear I shed on the entire gameplay), the leader of Ochirov if he doesn't join you, sablin and others. At the same time you can choose how you will improve the soviet union, Yagoda himself wants to do that, so you can either do what I did, increase political participation, do the thousand letters campaign, allow politicians who were corrupt to return under surveillance, or you can increase the security apparatus to crush regional warlords. On all routes you see the soviet union rebuilding as you advance, people return to the schools, farms reopen, the prosperity of the post war soviet union OTL happens, and it's beautifull.
With this, the soviet union is back, the same old structure, but improved a thousand times, a party, not a stalininst tyranny.
And finally, after the bayonets fell silent and before they moved to the west to reclaim Russia, the internationale was back
India, Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Italy (that turned libsoc), all of them joined, the COMECON was started, investiment flooded, the soviet aviation industry was rebuilt, the mechanization is now reaching the level of developed nations along the literacy. Libsoc and autsoc countries are on the unionclad union.
I think this can count as a happy ending for now
