Wouldn't it make more sense for the Aztec Fascists to believe that the Acatl Dynasty is illegitimate because they were originally Norse, and thus entirely abolish the monarchy?
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Speaking of the Acatls, have they kept any Norse cultural aspects over the centuries, or are they completely Nahua by the time the Acatls were overthrown? Also, since (I presume) the Aztecs are led by a Nahuatl who isn't descended from the Norse, does that mean that they can join the Eimerican Federation (if it's still intact)?
The Eimerican Federation fell apart after the Weltkrieg, and I don't suppose that Fox wants them anyway.
Malian slave trade wasn't really that big and I didn't mention it much outside of its creation and abolition. It only brought enough Malians to the Eimericas to create jazz and voodoo.
Cree was the last to resist Kanatan expansion and survived into around the 1820s before I killed it with console for neat borders. Most natives in Kanata have converted to Norse (a few tribes converted in EU4 before they were conquered). Kanatan Odinism is slightly different from Scandinavian Odinism (think Mexican vs. Spanish Catholicism) and has incorporated a few native customs. In rural areas where natives still exist in large numbers native religions survive, though heavily influenced by Odinism (think trickster god = Loki, raven = Odin).
Tawantinsuyuans under Neu Rhomania have gotten more rights after Angelos stepped down as Regent. They now have citizenship and the right to keep their customs without persecution. It's a bit too soon for syncretism to occur, but if it does there's already enough real life mythology to create syncretism: there is the creator deity Viracocha, who sent a flood to wipe out humanity but warned his grandson Manco Capac and his wife so that they would survive and establish Incan civilization. Viracocha's son Inti then taught civilization to Manco Capac and the Quechua people. The Christian elements involve Inti sacrificing himself for the Quechua people's sins, after which he rose as the "unconquered sun," split into a trinity of sorts- Apu Inti (the father), Churi Inti (the son), and Inti Wawqi (the brother), representing the three diurnal stages of the sun. As long as it is mostly on the Inti side and does not claim to be a branch of Christianity the Inquisition would be okay with it and recognize it as a legitimate religious practice.
Australia has several names: Penglai (the name of a legendary island in Chinese mythology that was then applied to the continent), Aozhou (the name of the Chinese colonial administration after the deposition of the Song dynasty), and Nanzhou ("South Land," or the name given to the region by the original Song refugee fleet). In the EU4 update where I explained the Song exiles' backstory, I mentioned heavy syncretism between Buddhism/Confucianism and aboriginal beliefs (here's a link to the update). In the Song-colonized South Island of New Zealand the same thing has happened with the Maori. In the North Island (called Mittagsland), the Reich let the Maori keep their way of life and their religion, but the sheer number of German settlers resulted in most of them adopting the German language and Christianity on their own (my way of explaining the 1.15 mechanic which auto-converted the provinces to German culture and Orthodox religion after colonization). German settlers adopted a few Maori customs, and the local German dialect uses a few Maori words, phrases, and slang. Traditional Maori culture and religion, though, are in the minority, just like in real life, although Maori traditions are respected to some degree.
Due to Victoria 2 mechanics, the Hawaii province is called "Adamshaven." In-universe, Adamshaven is the name of the largest city in Hawaii and the place where the first Roman settlers arrived. The islands themselves are still officially referred to as Hawaii. Like with New Zealand, due to EU4 mechanics the islands are 100% German and Orthodox, but in-universe the explanation is the same as with Mittagsland. The German settlers outnumbered the natives so much that the natives simply started speaking German and converting to Christianity on their own, although there are some groups outside the cities and on smaller islands retaining their traditions. Again, the settlers also adopted some Hawaiian customs and use Hawaiian words and phrases in their local dialect.
Western Australia has some Indian settlers. The Chinese government officially does not approve of discrimination against Indians, but due to India's (and the Indian republic's) actions during and after the war it becomes hard for the local administration to prevent Chinese settlers from discriminating against the Indians and pushing them out of their homes.
In one of my 1870s or 1880s updates, I mentioned that the Siberian natives suffered a similar fate as their real life counterparts and the African natives did. They were mostly forced to convert to Confucianism/Shendao and speak Chinese. In addition, thousands of Chinese, Mongol, and Japanese settlers have taken many of their homes. Siberian traditions still persist in small amounts in the far north, along the Arctic coast, but mostly in a Sinicized form. The Inuits have received a similar treatment, although in the far north of Fusang they've mostly been left alone because it's so far away from major population centers.
Last I checked, the Ainu still dominated Hokkaido, though there is a significant Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Mongol minority in all of the Ainu provinces. I should also mention that the southern half of Sakhalin is majority Mongol for some reason, as is either Seoul or a random province near Seoul.
While I see no problem for Baha'u'llah's father being Muslim, I would think that it's very impractical as Muslims and Zoroastrians have effectively switched places here compared to real life Iran and in this Persia Muslims would not be allowed to take the government positions that Baha'u'llah's father had. He can be descended from Abraham without a Muslim parent (he claimed to be twice descended from Abraham and regularly descended from Zoroaster). Perhaps his father claims to be a Sayyid but is Jewish/Orthodox Christian, as during CKII I bred the Sayyid and Saoshyant Descendant traits into the Hohenzollern line and from there it spread out to the other noble dynasties. It wouldn't be out of the question for the traits to then make their way into the local population, especially in Persia.
I think I should say now that there's a small chance an event will fire turning me into an equalist dictatorship, regardless of how powerful the Hohenzollerns really are. Blame Angelos if that happens.
Yes, Hirohito = Gandhi. I would rather not invade Japan. I prefer that it get its freedom peacefully.
Possibly, depending on how conversion goes, as I already have more than enough Victoria 2 leaders to convert over. I may include the most important ones (Patton, MacArthur, Eisenhower) if I can work out a backstory for them.
*cough* Maximists *cough* Iconoclasm *cough* Malcolm Bethune *cough* Sisi/Rudolf/Karl Ludwig/Franz Ferdinand's death
Also the Rurikids were in power for almost a thousand years but they still fell.
Because Mexica society is organized around the huetlatoani, and disposing of him would destroy their legitimacy as the Alliance has no republican tradition. There is no other noble dynasty qualified to take the position.
They lost their Norse heritage and are completely Nahua, since only their founder and his son were Norse. But they still remember their origins.
Yaquica is a self-styled "pure Nahua," but Fox won't tolerate a totalitarian ultranationalist dictatorship on its border, especially if it's the Triple Alliance, which basically claims all of the real life American South (over half of Fox) as its core territories.
The Federation is dead. Tawantinsuyu had to withdraw because of internal issues, meaning it's just Fox and Mayapan. Fox doesn't want any Mexica in its federation anyways, as they're blamed for conquering almost all of the Eimericas and oppressing most of its people. It's not that the Acatls are descended from Vikings, it's that the Nahua people betrayed their Eimerican heritage by trying to subjugate and oppress their neighbors (as well as causing the Reich and Scandinavia to seek vengeance for the Sunset Invasion by colonizing the Eimericas).
And did anybody catch who my Mexica fascist leader is?
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*cough* Maximists *cough* Iconoclasm *cough* Malcolm Bethune *cough* Sisi/Rudolf/Karl Ludwig/Franz Ferdinand's death
Also the Rurikids were in power for almost a thousand years but they still fell.
And how long did those last individually? And who took over again afterwords anyway? And the Maximists barely count, they claimed to be supporting a Hohenzollern claim on the throne anywayy
I recognize the image but couldn't put a name to a face and don't feel like trying to backtranslate the name.
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I've only been able to find one picture of him (and it isn't very good), but is it Tomás Garrido Canabal? He was a fascist politician in Mexico at around this time period. Of course, seeing how Stalin is the Ecumenical Patriarch and Hirohito is this world's equivalent of Gandhi, I'm probably completely wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomás_Garrido_Canabal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomás_Garrido_Canabal
OH NO YOU DON'T HIROHITO!
IM NOT GOING TO LET YOU RUIN THE ONE GOD DAMNED AAR IN WHICH CHINA HAS CONTROL OVER JAPAN!
IM NOT GOING TO LET YOU RUIN THE ONE GOD DAMNED AAR IN WHICH CHINA HAS CONTROL OVER JAPAN!
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
(triggered)
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AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE
THAT THINKS CHINA SHOULD CONTROL JAPAN!
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Yes. Glorious Nippon must be free from scoundrellous Chinese dogs.
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Actually,I have a perfect idea about restoring justice on Ukrainian land in HOI3 part(based on United Baltic State example):Malian slave trade wasn't really that big and I didn't mention it much outside of its creation and abolition. It only brought enough Malians to the Eimericas to create jazz and voodoo.
Cree was the last to resist Kanatan expansion and survived into around the 1820s before I killed it with console for neat borders. Most natives in Kanata have converted to Norse (a few tribes converted in EU4 before they were conquered). Kanatan Odinism is slightly different from Scandinavian Odinism (think Mexican vs. Spanish Catholicism) and has incorporated a few native customs. In rural areas where natives still exist in large numbers native religions survive, though heavily influenced by Odinism (think trickster god = Loki, raven = Odin).
Tawantinsuyuans under Neu Rhomania have gotten more rights after Angelos stepped down as Regent. They now have citizenship and the right to keep their customs without persecution. It's a bit too soon for syncretism to occur, but if it does there's already enough real life mythology to create syncretism: there is the creator deity Viracocha, who sent a flood to wipe out humanity but warned his grandson Manco Capac and his wife so that they would survive and establish Incan civilization. Viracocha's son Inti then taught civilization to Manco Capac and the Quechua people. The Christian elements involve Inti sacrificing himself for the Quechua people's sins, after which he rose as the "unconquered sun," split into a trinity of sorts- Apu Inti (the father), Churi Inti (the son), and Inti Wawqi (the brother), representing the three diurnal stages of the sun. As long as it is mostly on the Inti side and does not claim to be a branch of Christianity the Inquisition would be okay with it and recognize it as a legitimate religious practice.
Australia has several names: Penglai (the name of a legendary island in Chinese mythology that was then applied to the continent), Aozhou (the name of the Chinese colonial administration after the deposition of the Song dynasty), and Nanzhou ("South Land," or the name given to the region by the original Song refugee fleet). In the EU4 update where I explained the Song exiles' backstory, I mentioned heavy syncretism between Buddhism/Confucianism and aboriginal beliefs (here's a link to the update). In the Song-colonized South Island of New Zealand the same thing has happened with the Maori. In the North Island (called Mittagsland), the Reich let the Maori keep their way of life and their religion, but the sheer number of German settlers resulted in most of them adopting the German language and Christianity on their own (my way of explaining the 1.15 mechanic which auto-converted the provinces to German culture and Orthodox religion after colonization). German settlers adopted a few Maori customs, and the local German dialect uses a few Maori words, phrases, and slang. Traditional Maori culture and religion, though, are in the minority, just like in real life, although Maori traditions are respected to some degree.
Due to Victoria 2 mechanics, the Hawaii province is called "Adamshaven." In-universe, Adamshaven is the name of the largest city in Hawaii and the place where the first Roman settlers arrived. The islands themselves are still officially referred to as Hawaii. Like with New Zealand, due to EU4 mechanics the islands are 100% German and Orthodox, but in-universe the explanation is the same as with Mittagsland. The German settlers outnumbered the natives so much that the natives simply started speaking German and converting to Christianity on their own, although there are some groups outside the cities and on smaller islands retaining their traditions. Again, the settlers also adopted some Hawaiian customs and use Hawaiian words and phrases in their local dialect.
Western Australia has some Indian settlers. The Chinese government officially does not approve of discrimination against Indians, but due to India's (and the Indian republic's) actions during and after the war it becomes hard for the local administration to prevent Chinese settlers from discriminating against the Indians and pushing them out of their homes.
In one of my 1870s or 1880s updates, I mentioned that the Siberian natives suffered a similar fate as their real life counterparts and the African natives did. They were mostly forced to convert to Confucianism/Shendao and speak Chinese. In addition, thousands of Chinese, Mongol, and Japanese settlers have taken many of their homes. Siberian traditions still persist in small amounts in the far north, along the Arctic coast, but mostly in a Sinicized form. The Inuits have received a similar treatment, although in the far north of Fusang they've mostly been left alone because it's so far away from major population centers.
Last I checked, the Ainu still dominated Hokkaido, though there is a significant Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Mongol minority in all of the Ainu provinces. I should also mention that the southern half of Sakhalin is majority Mongol for some reason, as is either Seoul or a random province near Seoul.
While I see no problem for Baha'u'llah's father being Muslim, I would think that it's very impractical as Muslims and Zoroastrians have effectively switched places here compared to real life Iran and in this Persia Muslims would not be allowed to take the government positions that Baha'u'llah's father had. He can be descended from Abraham without a Muslim parent (he claimed to be twice descended from Abraham and regularly descended from Zoroaster). Perhaps his father claims to be a Sayyid but is Jewish/Orthodox Christian, as during CKII I bred the Sayyid and Saoshyant Descendant traits into the Hohenzollern line and from there it spread out to the other noble dynasties. It wouldn't be out of the question for the traits to then make their way into the local population, especially in Persia.
I think I should say now that there's a small chance an event will fire turning me into an equalist dictatorship, regardless of how powerful the Hohenzollerns really are. Blame Angelos if that happens.
Yes, Hirohito = Gandhi. I would rather not invade Japan. I prefer that it get its freedom peacefully.
Possibly, depending on how conversion goes, as I already have more than enough Victoria 2 leaders to convert over. I may include the most important ones (Patton, MacArthur, Eisenhower) if I can work out a backstory for them.
*cough* Maximists *cough* Iconoclasm *cough* Malcolm Bethune *cough* Sisi/Rudolf/Karl Ludwig/Franz Ferdinand's death
Also the Rurikids were in power for almost a thousand years but they still fell.
Because Mexica society is organized around the huetlatoani, and disposing of him would destroy their legitimacy as the Alliance has no republican tradition. There is no other noble dynasty qualified to take the position.
They lost their Norse heritage and are completely Nahua, since only their founder and his son were Norse. But they still remember their origins.
Yaquica is a self-styled "pure Nahua," but Fox won't tolerate a totalitarian ultranationalist dictatorship on its border, especially if it's the Triple Alliance, which basically claims all of the real life American South (over half of Fox) as its core territories.
The Federation is dead. Tawantinsuyu had to withdraw because of internal issues, meaning it's just Fox and Mayapan. Fox doesn't want any Mexica in its federation anyways, as they're blamed for conquering almost all of the Eimericas and oppressing most of its people. It's not that the Acatls are descended from Vikings, it's that the Nahua people betrayed their Eimerican heritage by trying to subjugate and oppress their neighbors (as well as causing the Reich and Scandinavia to seek vengeance for the Sunset Invasion by colonizing the Eimericas).
And did anybody catch who my Mexica fascist leader is?
Soviet Commune is divided on actual Russia (Leningrad capital) and Ruthenia (Kiev capital,territories of Ukraine and Belarus).Foreign minister reports about crisis in Ruthenia,League of Nations orders to separate actual Ukrainian provinces from Ruthenia(with new capital in Minsk) and giving it to Reich.In it`s turn,Reich says that upkeep this land would be costly to Romans,so instead Ukraine as puppet is created,with capital in Kiev,and UKR tag(Tsarist Russia meanwhile returns to Svitjod from 1915-1916 period of Weltkrieg).
Events:"Dawn of new nation","Ryurikids return to Kiev","Svitjod get independent from Russian opressors".
In NWO continuation:we have Ukraine with Ukrainian culture and on right place,Belarus(also Belarussian culture and true capital),and Russia(on place of old Soviet Commune`s Russian&Yavdi lands)
Governments:Ukraine - enlightened absolutism of Tsarist Russian example(Ukrainizers (conservative) ruling party and Military-Industrial Complex priority)
Belarus and Russia - republics of Kerensky`s Russia example (before equalist coup)
P.S.:
Well,I guess that Mexican generals will be copy of actual Italian(if new Mexican leader is true Balbo)
P.P.S.:
Is my idea above impossible?
Chapter 281: The Revolutions of 1926, Part 1
"The die is cast. The reactionaries have fled. People of Vinland, we free you from your chains! No longer will you have to serve the evil capitalists! No longer will you have to fight and die for absent gods! Today, Ragnarok has happened! The gods are dead! The people have overthrown Asgard! And we shall be in control of our destinies and establish a workers' Valhalla here on Midgard!"
-Thorvald Erikson, leader of the Equalist Party of Vinland and first Chairman of the Union of Vinland
"The inhabitants of Isfahan are invited to keep quiet. Please don't try anything stupid, or my men will be forced to shoot you."
-General Reza Khan, during the March on Isfahan
"A few citizens go on strike in the Ruhr, and suddenly the whole world goes crazy."
-Paul von Hindenburg
There were many causes for the 1926 General Strike. The war had consumed large amounts of the Reich's coal reserves, and coal production had dropped to record lows. Coal prices went down, and interest rates went up after Angelos reintroduced the gold standard. The mine owners, though, still wanted to maintain profits, so they ignored the Augustinian Code's workers' rights clauses and reduced wages and increased working hours. Thus all of the major mine owners announced that they would be reducing the wages of their workers. This announcement was met with large protests by the workers and the largest trade unions. Hindenburg attempted to alleviate the problem by issuing a year-long subsidy to the workers to maintain their wages, while the Bureau of Economics opened an investigation into how to best resolve the issue permanently. When the Bureau, after being paid large amounts of money by the mining companies and other special interests, decided that the subsidy had to be withdrawn and all wages had to be reduced by 13.5%, the mine owners eagerly announced even more wage reductions and work hour increases, to Hindenburg's shock. He ordered the Bureau to retract its report, but it was too late. Miners in the Ruhr went on strike, demanding that the government respect their Augustinian Code rights. The government immediately opened negotiations, but Berlin's representatives were paid by the mining companies to support their interests, and as a result the talks broke down. On the 3rd of June, the trade unions called for a general strike against the Reich itself.
Miners on strike
The Schweinfurt dynatoi, who were avowed socialists, were unhappy about the proposed general strike because they were aware of the revolutionary elements within the union movement and of the damage an association with them would do to their established reputation as a faction of the Diet. During the next two days, frantic efforts were made to reach an agreement with the government and the mining industry representatives. However, these efforts failed, mainly owing to an eleventh-hour decision by printers of Die Zeiten to refuse to print an editorial ("For Kaiser and Reich") condemning the general strike. They objected to the following passage: "A general strike is not an industrial dispute. It is a revolutionary move which can only succeed by destroying the government and subverting the rights and liberties of the people". When Hindenburg heard of this, he was concerned about the unions and printers' action interfering with the freedom of the press.
He tried to the situation and create balance saying, "Try living on their wages before you judge them."
Although they had organized it in the first place, the unions feared that an all-out general strike would bring revolutionary elements to the fore and limited the participants to railwaymen, transport workers, printers, dockers, ironworkers and steelworkers, as these were regarded as pivotal in the dispute.
The government had been preparing for a strike over the last few months, creating organizations such as the Organization for the maintenance of supplies, and did whatever it could to keep the country moving. It rallied support by emphasizing the revolutionary nature of the strikers. The armed forces and volunteer workers helped maintain basic services. Angelos's Emergency Powers Law—an act to maintain essential supplies—had been passed in 1920 and now went into effect. Hindenburg, as much as he despised the man, had to thank him for enacting at least one useful piece of legislation.
On 4 June 1926, the number of strikers was about 1.5–1.75 million. The workers' reaction to the strike call was immediate and overwhelming, and surprised both the government and the unions. On this first day, there were no major initiatives and no dramatic events, except for the nation's transport being at a standstill. Soon the rest of the economy was taken down with the strikers.
Hindenburg said:
On 6 June 1926, there was a change of atmosphere. The government newspaper Imperial Gazette suggested that means of transport began to improve with volunteers and blackleg workers, stating on the front page that there were '200 buses on the streets in Berlin'. These were, however, figures of propaganda as there were in fact only 86 buses running.
On 7 June 1926, the unions met with Hindenburg and worked out a set of proposals designed to end the dispute. The mining companies, though, rejected the proposals.
On 8 June 1926, there was a dramatic moment in Constantinople's Harbor District. Trucks were protected by the legions. They broke the picket line and transported food. This episode showed that the government was in greater control of the situation. It was also a measure of Hindenburg's rationalism. The soldiers were not armed.
On 11 June 1926, the Orient Express was derailed by strikers near Vienna. The Imperial Worker, alarmed at the fears of the unions that there was to be a mass drift back to work, claimed: "The number of strikers has not diminished; it is increasing. There are more workers out today than there have been at any moment since the strike began." The unions thus called for workers from the rest of the Roman economy to strike. By the 12th of June, the entire economy, except for the government-controlled and subsidized sectors, had gone on strike, and Hindenburg was forced to raise taxes to the maximum to prevent the government from going bankrupt.
The shock waves of the general strike rippled around the world. The most powerful nation in the world was now sick, potentially terminally. Radicals everywhere took the opportunity to rise up, confident that the Reich could no longer defend the status quo. The Soviet Commune funded equalist insurgencies throughout Tsarist Russia, hoping to undermine the royalist government in exile and finish the extermination of the Rurikids. Hindenburg immediately dispatched Ludendorff and a small task force to deal with the equalists. He could only send a few legions because to send more would destabilize the domestic situation even more. The situation got even more complicated when more Soviet-funded rebels rose up in Noregr, taking advantage of the grand duchy's instability, though they were quickly crushed.
As soon as word of the equalist rebellion in Noregr reached Markland, King Gnupa declared the Toronto Accords void and ordered a general mobilization, knowing that the Reich could not stop him. The Royal Army immediately launched a preemptive strike against equalist strongholds in the occupied Fox provinces, the western regions (where miners inspired by the events in the Reich had went on strike), and the native-dominated regions around the Great Lakes. Kanata's trade unions then declared a general strike, paralyzing the economy, while the equalist rebels took up arms again. The Kanatan Civil War resumed with a vengeance, only this time the equalists had the support of the people, who viewed the royal government as increasingly oppressive of the working class and corrupted by powerful corporate interests.
Meanwhile, the United Baltic State officially joined the International Olympic Committee, while King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal abolished the elected government and centralized all power under himself and a meritocratic bureaucracy, angering the Chinese government.
The general strike weakened the Reich's abilities to project power even into Africa. Abyssinia's absolutist regime, propped up by the legions, had become highly unpopular among the people. When the legion in charge of the capital's security was suddenly withdrawn to deal with a strike in the Nile river valley, the fascist New Abyssinia Party took the opportunity to rise up against the government. The Party's blackshirts stormed the royal palace and the Parliament building, quickly seizing control over the entire capital and capturing all of the bureaucrats and the entire court. With a gun pointed at his head and the Party threatening to abolish the monarchy again, Haile Selassie agreed to a compromise. He would restore Abyssinia's suspended constitution and call for free and fair elections, in which the Party could participate. Elections several days later, after Haile Selassie issued his last declaration as an absolute monarch granting women the right to vote in the elections.
The Finnish Army's lines collapsed, and all of Suomi's eastern and southern provinces fell to the Soviets. Just as Ludendorff eliminated the last of the equalist rebels in Tsarist Russia and received orders to reinforce Suomi, Temur III capitulated, agreeing to cede all of Karelia to the Soviets. Trotsky was generous enough to accept these terms, knowing that the NKVD had already funded equalist rebels in other parts of Suomi.
In Kanata, the imperial legions assigned to train the Royal Army came under attack from Huron separatists and equalists. Despite being vastly outnumbered, the legion, supported by several Royal Army units, managed to destroy the rebel army. It would be the last time that the Royal Army cooperated with the legions, because several weeks later, over half of the army defected to the equalists and marched on Markland, tipping the scales in favor of the rebels and weakening the government significantly. As the rebels now numbered in the hundreds of thousands and had occupied over half of the country, it was clear that Kanata was lost. The General Staff ordered the legions to retreat to Harbor City and Manhattan, where the Kaiserliche Marine would evacuate them to Europe.
In late July, a large rebel army was spotted outside Markland, and the legion in charge of the capital's defense prepared for battle. Inside the city, though, the equalist-leaning population rioted and barricaded the streets. Gnupa declared martial law and sent in the troops, but the soldiers defected to the rioters and stormed the Hogting, executing over half of the bureaucrats and representatives. The rioters then seized control of the city gates and opened them, letting the rebels outside march in. Faced with a situation they couldn't win, the General Staff ordered the legion to begin evacuating the royal family, the government, and the supporters. On the 2nd of August, after some resistance by the few troops still loyal to the monarchy, the rebels entered the city center, and King Gnupa II, his family, and his government fled the city through the Jormungadr River, heading for Noregr, where royalist control had been reasserted. The next day, the leader of the rebels, Thorvald Erikson, proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Vinland from a balcony of the former royal palace, with himself as the chairman. He quickly established an alliance and economic ties with the Soviet Commune, which recognized the new regime. Trotsky sent his congratulations to Erikson. Chairman Erikson then ordered all foreign assets seized and foreign nationals expelled from the country. A new People's Hogting, made up of representatives from the various trade unions of the country, was established, though the Politburo would make all decisions.
However, the separatist factions within the country then declared independence from Markland. Along the eastern coast, radical equalists, declaring the regime in Markland was "too moderate," established their own equalist dictatorship, the Commune of Old Vinland. The occupied Fox provinces declared their independence as the Union of Seven Republics, while the native provinces of Ojibwe, Huron, Powatomi, Mikmaq, Cree, and Assiniboine declared their independence as equalist republics. All of the newly independent states attempted to gain recognition from powers other than the Soviet Commune by signing the Geneva Convention and establishing national banks.
Thousands of Norse still loyal to their king fled to Noregr, where Gnupa had set up a government in exile. The grand duchy was raised to the level of a kingdom, and its status as a satellite state of Kanata was abolished. In a speech in the capital of Hardradasborg, he vowed to return one day to Kanata and destroy the traitorous rebels who exiled him.
One legion proved just enough to deal with Persia. The Ghaznavids invaded from the east, while the legion attacked from the south, easily destroying the technologically and tactically inferior Persian forces with minimal casualties.
In early September, the Athanatoi intercepted communications between Erikson and Trotsky discussing spreading the world revolution. Erikson assured Trotsky that he would attempt to spread the world revolution through the Eimericas, starting with Fox. Hindenburg immediately sent a warning to Dohumme that the NKVD and the Union of Vinland were plotting a coup against her but Dohumme refused to heed the warning, believing her troops would be enough to stop a potential uprising.
Meanwhile, General Reza Khan was not finished yet. Although he had saved the Seljuks from destruction, he viewed the constitutional government as corrupt and incompetent and now turned his attention to destroying it.
Reza Khan and his senior officers
On 12 September 1922, Khan declared before 60,000 people at the Fascist Congress in Tehran: "Our program is simple: we want to rule Persia." Meanwhile, the Persian Blackshirts, who had occupied the north of the region, took all strategic points of the country. On 13 September, former Nakhost Vazir (prime minister) Mirza Hassan warned current Nakhost Vazir Hassan Pirnia that Khan was demanding his resignation and that he was preparing to march on Isfahan. However, Pirnia did not believe Hassan and thought that Khan would not dare rise up against his shah. On September 15, 1926, Reza Khan ordered his troops to march on Isfahan.
Khan's blackshirts marching towards Isfahan, waving the Persian revolutionary tricolor (which was subsequently abandoned)
To meet the threat posed by the bands of fascist troops now gathering outside Isfahan, Pirnia ordered a state of siege for Isfahan. Having had previous conversations with the shah about the repression of fascist violence, he was sure the shah would agree. However, Cyrus refused to sign the military order. On 16 September, the Shah handed power to Khan, who was supported by the military, the business class, and right-wing politicians. The Seljuks themselves would rmain, but they wouldn't be able to exert any control over the government.
The march itself was composed of fewer than 30,000 men, but the shah in part feared a civil war which could further weaken the country since the blackshirts had already taken control of most of the country, while Fascism was no longer seen as a threat to the establishment. Khan was asked to form his cabinet on 17 September, while some 25,000 Blackshirts were parading in Isfahan. Khan thus legally reached power, in accordance with the Persian Constitution. The March on Isfahan was not the conquest of power which Fascism later celebrated but rather the precipitating force behind a transfer of power within the framework of the constitution. This transition was made possible by the surrender of public authorities in the face of fascist intimidation. Many business and financial leaders believed it would be possible to manipulate Khan, whose early speeches and policies emphasized free market and laissez faire economics. This proved overly optimistic, as Khan's neo-corporatist view stressed total state power over businesses as much as over individuals, via governing industry bodies ("corporations") controlled by the Fascist party, a model in which businesses retained the responsibilities of property, but few if any of the freedoms.
Khan pretended to be willing to take a subalternate ministry in a cabinet, but he soon demanded the presidency of the Majli and the chancellery itself. Fearing a conflict with the fascists, the ruling class thus handed power to Khan, who went on to install a dictatorship under his complete control. A day later, the Rahbar, as he was referred to, instructed the Council of Nations to officially refer to his country as Iran instead of Persia.
The Rahbar, Reza Khan
Despite a regime change have occurred, the Reich continued its war with Iran. An invasion of Mesopotamia was repelled with most of the Persian Army destroyed in just one battle. Hindenburg signed an alliance with Abyssinia, planning to drag them into the war should Iran continue to resist.
However, in late September all state-run industries, which were the only industries still not shut down by the strike, finally collapsed under the immense pressure. Hindenburg ordered the subsidies expanded even more, but he could not get the industries back up and running. Public unrest continued to rise, and more and more people sided with the strikers and the trade unions.
On the 2nd of October, the NKVD and the Vinlandic government launched their coup against the Fox government. Equalists within the military and the trade unions seized control of the capital and Chicago, shutting down the stock exchange. Within hours they had taken control of all important government buildings. Dohumme's cabinet strongly urged her to flee the city. After more of the military defected to the equalists, Dohumme agreed and left the city on a private train, along with her government, court, and several hundred loyal civilians and soldiers. The equalists declared the establishment of the Commune of Michigan the next day, quickly forming ties with the Soviet Commune. Almost immediately the empire fell apart. The only thing holding Fox's empire together was Dohumme, who ruled over the other native states through personal unions. As the monarchy was now abolished, the nobles of every state declared independence from Michigan, claiming that the personal unions were now void. The Commune of Michigan was reduced to its core territories around the Great Lakes. Independent monarchies took root in the south and the west: the Pueblo Alliance, the Duchy of Arapaho, the Pawnee Dominion, the Sioux Confederacy, the Cheyenne Union, the Grand Duchy of Illiniwek, the Petty Kingdom of Osage, the Duchy of Lenape, the County of Creek, and the Grand Principality of Chickasaw. The entire Nahua-dominated southern regions, which used to be under the rule of the Triple Alliance, declared their independence as the Confederation of Southern Altepetls (CSA). When Dohumme's train arrived in Confederation controlled territory, the Nahua nobles elected her the Regent (but not Empress) of the CSA, as they intended to unite with the Greater Mexican Empire. The Cherokee provinces in Fox's eastern territories then declared their independence from Michigan, but they did not establish a monarchy, as the Cherokee before annexation into Fox had lived under a theocracy and only briefly under a monarchy. Instead, they established the Republic of the Cherokee, a democracy where all Cherokee (with a biased towards the nobility and the wealthiest industrialists) could elect their leaders. The CoM government vowed to destroy the "rogue states," which had all been recognized by the Reich, and spread the revolution further throughout the Eimericas.
Good news finally came in October, when Reza Khan, realizing that he could not win the war and that Turkish troops were approaching Isfahan intending to depose him, sued for peace with the Reich. Hindenburg opened negotiations with the Rahbar at once. Reza Khan agreed to pay war reparations to the Turks and accept a five-year limit on the size of the Iranian army, on the condition that he and the Iranian Independence Party remain in power.
A ceasefire went into effect in mid-October, and a formal treaty ending the war was signed on the 16th. An uneasy peace returned to Southwest Asia, but it was only a matter of time before the region descended into chaos again.
Two great powers had already fallen to the scourge of equalism and had to be booted from the Council of Nations. Kanata was a key Roman ally, diminishing the Reich's influence in the Eimericas. All of the Reich's companies and organizations in Kanata had been relocated to the UPM, but the UPM was only a regional power and could not project as much influence as Kanata did. While the fall of Fox eliminated one of the Reich's enemies, it only spawned another even more dangerous enemy. Hindenburg had to act quickly to contain the Commune of Michigan before it conquered the breakaway monarchies and reclaimed its dominance over North Eimerica. He would not tolerate the union of the CSA and the Greater Mexican Empire, as that would be reviving the Reich's oldest enemy (after Iran, of course). While Iran was weak and only a regional power at best, he had to contain it before it turned its attentions to the Roman concessions along the Persian Gulf coast. The restoration of constitutionalism in Abyssinia, while he believed it was the right thing to do, needed special attention due to the soaring popularity of the New Abyssinia Party, which was predicted to win the elections with a large majority in the Parliament. And who knew what the Rasa Party in India was planning? He had to end the strike soon, or the damage to the world order might become permanent.
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Exactly my point. Hence why the equalist takeover event has a very low chance to happen. The Hohenzollerns would simply come back eventually.
Nice try, everyone, but it's none of them. I can say that he loved to annoy Americans though.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
(triggered)
No, I think Korea should control Japan, for maximum irony.
I'll see what I can do about that, but as it is I need the Soviets to remain intact into NWO, so I'm not just going to invade and destroy them immediately. That wouldn't make for a good plot.
There will be a problem with the Mexican generals being copies of Italian generals, because of two reasons. One is that Persia/Iran has become the fascist Italy analogue. The second reason...I'll reveal it in the next update.
Two can play at that game...
Chinese dragon superior to Japanese dragon! Huangdi wansui! Huangdi wansui! Long live the Celestial Empire and the Son of Heaven!
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They should be fixed now. For some reason the forum deleted all of my uploaded images, so I had to go upload them again.
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Well then, now that I can see the update... that was interesting.
Two great powers in the Eimericas, Fox and Kanata, have fallen. The world of HOI is going to be very different from the world at the end of EUIV; already, Russia, Scandinavia, India, Fox, and Kanata have fallen, and many new nations have risen in their stead. This will be a very different world indeed.
For the various nations that declared independence from Kanata (Cree, Seven Republics, etc.), are they mostly following traditional Native American beliefs or Norse paganism? Or are they atheist (actually, now that I think about it, I don't think atheism has been mentioned; is there atheism in this world?), seeing how they're equalist?
We could see the Aztecs rise back to power soon as well; that would be unexpected, but it would be cool. And, tying into the dragon discussion earlier, the Chinese dragon may be better than the Japanese dragon, but tell me; are either better than the dragon of Mexica (hint: no)?
Two great powers in the Eimericas, Fox and Kanata, have fallen. The world of HOI is going to be very different from the world at the end of EUIV; already, Russia, Scandinavia, India, Fox, and Kanata have fallen, and many new nations have risen in their stead. This will be a very different world indeed.
For the various nations that declared independence from Kanata (Cree, Seven Republics, etc.), are they mostly following traditional Native American beliefs or Norse paganism? Or are they atheist (actually, now that I think about it, I don't think atheism has been mentioned; is there atheism in this world?), seeing how they're equalist?
We could see the Aztecs rise back to power soon as well; that would be unexpected, but it would be cool. And, tying into the dragon discussion earlier, the Chinese dragon may be better than the Japanese dragon, but tell me; are either better than the dragon of Mexica (hint: no)?
If they weren't equalist, they would be following Norse paganism, as most converted to Norse paganism shortly before being annexed by Kanata in EU4 and the last time I checked all of the revolter states here are Norse pagan. Officially every equalist regime, like communist dictatorships in real life, is atheist.Well then, now that I can see the update... that was interesting.
Two great powers in the Eimericas, Fox and Kanata, have fallen. The world of HOI is going to be very different from the world at the end of EUIV; already, Russia, Scandinavia, India, Fox, and Kanata have fallen, and many new nations have risen in their stead. This will be a very different world indeed.
For the various nations that declared independence from Kanata (Cree, Seven Republics, etc.), are they mostly following traditional Native American beliefs or Norse paganism? Or are they atheist (actually, now that I think about it, I don't think atheism has been mentioned; is there atheism in this world?), seeing how they're equalist?
We could see the Aztecs rise back to power soon as well; that would be unexpected, but it would be cool. And, tying into the dragon discussion earlier, the Chinese dragon may be better than the Japanese dragon, but tell me; are either better than the dragon of Mexica (hint: no)?
And Quetzalcoatl is far inferior to the glorious Chinese dragons. There is only one Quetzalcoatl, but there are many Chinese dragons!
