Not being able to find a minister or leader on Google does not necessarily mean that they're fakes. They could have been in photo-books with their images scanned and their names put into the game. Or they could have been in places Google doesn't pick up (e.g. PDFs of books, newspaper images, etc.) Furthermore, there may be different spellings for a minister or leader which differ from their "accepted" name-forms. (E.g. names which were originally in Cyrillic only but then transliterated into the Latin alphabet, of which there are plenty of cases)
Take the case of A.D. Kravchenko. He technically isn't a "fake" minister for Tannu Tuva, although not particularly realistic and he died in 1923, but he did indeed exist. If you tried to find info on him, however, you'd be practically empty. When you translate his name into Cyrillic, however, you get far more info.
I actually made a Wiki article for him in English, based heavily off of the Russian wiki entry which was in Cyrillic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Diomidovich_Kravchenko
It seems the only reason he's actually a minister for Tannu Tuva is because he set foot on the territory for a brief amount of time during the Russian Civil War (from the work Civil War in Siberia, which mentions him a grand total of two times—the second in a footnote in passing, pp. 595-96):
So those in charge of finding ministers for such an obscure state evidently got desperate.
Take the case of A.D. Kravchenko. He technically isn't a "fake" minister for Tannu Tuva, although not particularly realistic and he died in 1923, but he did indeed exist. If you tried to find info on him, however, you'd be practically empty. When you translate his name into Cyrillic, however, you get far more info.
I actually made a Wiki article for him in English, based heavily off of the Russian wiki entry which was in Cyrillic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Diomidovich_Kravchenko
It seems the only reason he's actually a minister for Tannu Tuva is because he set foot on the territory for a brief amount of time during the Russian Civil War (from the work Civil War in Siberia, which mentions him a grand total of two times—the second in a footnote in passing, pp. 595-96):
Meanwhile... A.D. Kravchenko had driven north their summer fastness at Belotsarsk (Kyzyl) to engulf Minusinsk (which had been abandoned by its terrified White garrison) on September 13th...
So those in charge of finding ministers for such an obscure state evidently got desperate.
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