That’s an interesting run. What kinda role will the merchants play in your state?
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This is why I do cosmo faithful. No need to deal with the nobles or border disputes.
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I DO cosmo because I’m ambitious. New Hegemony is near.
Also I go faithful because church is a good way to support my order.
Edit: ( and I believe I am the Eclect)
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Yeah exactly. Why settle for some nationalist revanchist separatism when I can just take the whole country. Don’t need to worry about who gets which bits of territory if no one breaks off.
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The mistake that you are making is that nobody will declare independence if you declare that you are egalitarian. Vladimir Lenin tried that, and he ended up with fighting against Ukrainian nationalists so painfully that he turned he gave a bunch of regions autonomy (the republics) and changed the name of the entire country to the Soviet UNION, just to prevent another major rebellion in the future
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Yeah, but they didn’t break away successfully under Lenin’s rule.
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Yeah, but the Bolsheviks lost many soldiers in Ukraine, soldiers that could not be used against the White Army after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk made the Bolsheviks very vulnerable to the White Army.
Edit: the Ukrainians did lose, but the Red Army lost so many soldiers that the losses could have been disastrous if the White Army had been better
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OK but in your analogy, you’re the Ukranian nationalists. Who lost.
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Yes, but the Red Army was easily the most powerful faction in Russia at the time. The Hegemony will be so divided that it will be much more hard for them to defeat me. The downside is that there will probably be many other Shayardene factions fighting against me, but the point is that the power differences will be much less vast and that many people will either dislike or not care about your egalitarianism
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Of course, these people are also fuel for the harrowers.
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ADAT we had the Xthonosmas update, in which I rolled out Horion and Linos, religion-founding, and as much of the Hector fight as I’d finished at that point.
I’d hoped to be done with Ch 3 before posting the update, but as I said then:
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The Red Army was very weak and was surrounded from literally all sides and only controlled Moscow and another city, but no matter how they managed to survive and win, literally everyone expected them to lose the civil war.
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The Red Army was succeeding everywhere before the Germans unpaused their invasion.
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The Germans did not participate in this civil war. They went to the Western Front to fight the French and the British. I do not know how we won. Imagine being surrounded on all fronts and being ruled by two forums However, analysts said that Trotsky, who ruled the party after Lenin, was a smart and terrifying leader, and when he was able to control the railway lines, he was able to decide the war.
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The Germans invaded Ukraine and the Baltics after Trotsky refused to sign the initial peace agreement.
Karl Radek led a delegation that signed the humiliation of Brest-Livtosk then told Hoffmann and the Central Powers, “Today is your day, but soon Germany will be forced into a peace just like this.”
Also @Mahalalel, Trotsky was never in the succession argument. Rykov was Head of Government and Stalin was General-Secretary. Trotsky was asked by Lenin to become his deputy, but he refused because Trotsky didn’t understand that Lenin was trying to keep absolute power out of Stalin’s hands and create a viable base for the CC to resist the Secretariat.
Trotsky effectively removed himself from contention due to him being a shitty politician.
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I still think it’s funny that Trotsky didn’t go to Lenin’s funeral.
Trotsky: Hey, Koba, I’m sick do you think it’s ok if I miss the funeral?
Stalin: yeah, I think that will be totally ok. Take care of yourself bud.
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When asked in an interview how the Central Committee approved its own destruction (the decision to expel a member from the CC or for a member to be arrested by the authorities had to be approved by the CC itself through a plenary session), Vyacheslav Molotov replied; “In the first place, on democratic centralism—Listen, it did not happen that a minority expelled a majority. It happened gradually. Seventy expelled 10–15 people, then 60 expelled another 15. All in line with majority and minority. … Essentially, it happened that a minority of the composition of the TsK [CC] remained of this majority, but without formal violation [of democratic centralism].”[10]According to J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov the CC “In the name of party unity and with a desperate feeling of corporate self-preservation, the nomenklatura committed suicide.”
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Stalin was also fortunate in that Zinoviev and Kamenev proved to be Lenin’s silliest clowns fighting his funniest battles.
Stalin was just operating at another level than all the other guys in the leadership.
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Rykov was probably the best option to lead an opposition, but he didn’t take it. He could have led a revolt on the floor by publishing Lenin’s Dictation and isolated Stalin and orchestrated his removal.
Or he could have organized a vote once Stalin asked for the CC to accept his resignation.
He didn’t do it, because deep down they knew Stalin was indispensable for the cause.
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I hope you can create decentralized empires like the Holy German Empire. Each kingdom has its own economy, its own army, and its own wars, but they are all under the control of the emperor.
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