I didn't know that part of it since I haven't tried the U.S.A in the mod yet and everywhere I went in the community I only saw people posting about how the mandates are always doomed to fail be it general statements or answers to questions. Thank you for letting me know, but yeah the collapse is one of the only realistic parts of the situation.
I can't comprehend how stupid that is
One thing I don't get is how any of the post-Soviet warlords are even in the position industrially and militarily to do anything to the German Reichskommisariats. The USSR in this never even industrialized properly and lost everything up to the A-A line by the end of 1941, while the Germans have been indiscriminately bombing them for over two decades at this point. How do they even have a cohesive army at this point?
It was written by a tankie who was still doing penance for having previously been a neo-Nazi, so I'd be very surprised if any of the Russian content makes sense.
Apparently, Bukharin (leader of the USSR in WW2 in TNO's timeline, instead of Stalin), did kinda industrialize Siberia a bit more than OTL and the Russian Warlords in Siberia can choose to improve upon it, making Siberia's industrial capacity rival that of Western Russia.
Russia would need to be able to defeat Nazi Germany in open battle if it wants the Reichskommissariats back. This requires both foreign aid and a strong army, so fighting Nazi Germany pretty much requires that trans-Siberian Russia is united and has allies, be they American, Japanese or Italian.
While I admit Rhodesia wasn't the magical wonderland some on the internet think it was and that it had, to put it mildly, problems with systemic racism, it was a lot milder than South Africa, would probably have gradually democratised in the late 90s and was definitely not the evil regime that some people think it was.
Last I heard: according to Panzer Russia will canonically be the fourth superpower; Italy is doomed to never get to be a full superpower. Also according to the lore the USSR *only* industrialized from the Urals to Siberia which is why the Germans won as they rolled through agrarian European Russia.
Rhodesia was far worse than South Africa. That whole topic is a bit of a mess but simply put no, Rhodesia would not have democratized and had no inclination to until the rebels actually had managed to start to organize and the government forces could no longer just indiscriminately massacre unarmed men, women, and children. They still did up until a successful rebel attack killed their oil reserves.
It's Italy.
Rhodesia didn't have bantustans or (to the best of my knowledge) a requirement that private businesses practice racial segregation.
Indeed.
Autism pretty much. Only an autist could enjoy "roleplaying" in a stratgy game like the kind paradox interactive makes. Superficial stuff like that seems more important to paradox than actual gameplay
This is another big problem with these kinds of stratgy games. Instead of having interesting in game affects everything just increases how much your numbers go up.
They did have such requirements though they were more subtle about it. Bantustans provided at least some legal rights to natives. Rhodesian law had none of these protections. It allowed for slavery, allowed businesses to punish workers and set wages as they saw fit (to nothing for blacks), and comparing Flight 825 to the routine massacres and indiscriminate killings of unarmed civilians conducted by Rhodesia throughout the conflict is really really disingenuous. Rhodesia was not a good state to start with. The whole “Rhodesia was based and totally not as bad as South Africa” narrative is mostly because the Rhodesian government was very very good at marketing themselves as anti-communist and portraying any kind of rights for blacks as communist - something very popular in the US south during the time of the Rhodesian Brush War. There’s a lot of nuance to this stuff that is hard to get into on a forum and on a phone. I encourage you to do more research.
The reason why the Rhodesians get whitewashed is because their opposition was so much worse. For every black civilian the defense force killed the black rebels murdered 50.
Hello, someone who knows an actual Zimbabwean (black) here: yes, Mugabe was awful. Yes, he ran the country into the ground. No, despite all of that, most blacks do not miss the Rhodesian government. They miss having regular food and the ability to access a market economy instead of having to barter. Framing this as them "missing the Rhodesian government" like they're a bunch of good Sambos wanting to go back to their chains because massa treated 'em so good is gold-plated bullshit.
coincidentally that overlaps with white rule. The TNO modders definitely know what they're doing with Rhodesia
I said nothing of the sort. That's your personal nuance on the topic. People can still miss the days of being a second class citizen if it's compared to being a slave to a dictator who ran everything into the ground.
