TNO is a cool mod, but as a resident of Russia and Ukraine, I see some of its parts as funny and contrary to Russian reality.
My notes on Western Russia:
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WRRF. It makes no sense for the Western Russian revolutionary front to be where it is. In general, I am amused by the warlords of the revolutionary front, the Divine Mandate, Vorkuta. Guys, these regions are on the same latitude as Alaska. And the climate is the same there. There is nothing there, no industry, no agriculture, no infrastructure. These regions live off food supplies from the south.
In 10 years of anarchy, the fighters of the revolutionary front will either die of hunger or desert to the south. Historically, the inhabitants of northern Russia (referred to in Russian as "Pomorie") have never supported the communists, because there was no serfdom and there was developed self-government due to the difficulty for the Petersburg authorities to control these cold, sparsely populated lands.
It makes sense to move the start of the WRRF to another location. For example, I would move it south to Orenburg and the Ural League replacing them. And Arkhangelsk would have made a free city (analogue of Orenburg).
Further. Zhukov. Lol.
Zhukov in the game is terribly far from the real person. Zhukov has never been a humanist and a supporter of any kind of liberalization. He was a cruel barracks fighter. He was famous for beating his subordinates with his fists. His other nicknames are "butcher general", "Stalin's butcher".
He is responsible for the tactics of pelting the Germans with soldiers' meat until the Germans run out of ammunition.
Further, after the war, Zhukov became comically famous for looting valuables from Germany. Stalin discovered that Zhukov had sent several trains to the USSR from Germany with expensive furniture, paintings, gold jewelry, aristocratic dishes, dozens of fur coats for his wife, and so on.
It was literally Soviet Goering. Lol.
His regime, based on its characteristics, is Soviet despotism with its moderate personality cult. The economy and social life will be stagnant. Only the army will develop. Zhukov himself will live the luxurious life of the general secretary. With resorts, aristocratic polish, personal servants, delicacies, perhaps trips to the United States and friendly states for entertainment.
See it as Brezhnev.
Tukhachevsky.
This guy is seriously underrated. He was a pagan and his views are closest to the term National Communism or Ordosocialism.
Here are his quotes:
"- No, just the opposite, I want to say that we, Russians, are all religious, but precisely because we have no religion. I am not a Christian," he stopped in front of a Catholic, "moreover, I even hate that Vladimir The Saint who baptized Russia, thereby giving it to the power of Western civilization! We had to preserve our crude paganism, our barbarism. Both of that and another. But wait, both will come back, I do believe in this! Saint Vladimir made us lose a few centuries, but that's all. "
Or here's a curious quote:
“Jews?” Tukhachevsky said mockingly, “Jews brought Christianity to the world. That's enough for me to hate them. And then the Jews are an inferior race. I'm talking about the dangers they can bring. You are a Frenchman for whom equality is - dogma, you cannot understand it. ”It is the Jews who sow their dangerous fleas everywhere, trying to instill in us the infection of civilization, giving everyone their morality of money - the morality of capital.
- Oh, I understand! Are you against capital ?? Fervak laughed, interrupting. "Are you a Russian socialist?"
“What a need for classification you have,” Tukhachevsky laughed, “but, first of all, all the great socialists are Jews, and the socialist doctrine, in fact, is a branch of world Christianity. I am not very interested in how the land will be divided between the peasants and how the workers in the factories will work. The kingdom of justice is not for me. My ancestors, barbarians, lived in a community, but they had leaders who led them. If you like, this is a philosophical concept. I hate Jews, socialists and Christians all together. There is also a big difference between me and the Jews. Most Jews love the power of money, but I despise money. "
If Tukhachevsky has the time and power to realize his fantasies, this is literally the red Velimir. Moreover, an interesting approach would be to make Velimir's root as one of the WRRF paths, i.e. Velimir could be Tukhachevsky's successor.
Tukhachevsky's views are a mixture of militarism, Marxism, nationalism, Russian paganism.
The curse of war communism in the western community is also greatly underestimated. War communism is when guys come to you with machine guns and say that you have to give up your property. If you disagree, they beat you up or take your wife, children, and parents hostage. Then you agree.