Just going to say wrt the England debate, especially comparing opinions here vs. on SV I've noticed a significant political divide on the issue of whether CPGB would have been better the HMMLR between left leaning and liberal democratic leaning TNO fans.
While both would agree that Nazism, fascism and the openly evil collaborators like Oktan and Chesterson are horrible, the former tends to sympathize with Panzer's intent to make the OFN not a good choice have a dim view of the more sympathetic collaborators, "centrist" democratic choices like Bennett, while praising the good socialist unifiers.
By contrast the latter are openly critical of making the OFN cursed on it's own, tends to sympathize with the morally gray or genuinely sympathetic collaborators or internal reformists like Vladimir, McMillian, Schmidt and to some extent Zykov, and balk at Thatcher's portrayal, while favoring the centre-leaning democratic options and pointing out critiques of good socialist unifiers.