Hi everyone!
As it doesn't seem to have been noted by the devs (and my bad if it has been), I wanted to point out that the dynamic name for red France makes no sense at all.
The word "commune" is an administrative division that means a village/town/city, and it is used when we talk about Paris' Commune nowadays (which was, for those who don't know, a brief insurrection that happened when Paris people refused to surrender to Prussia - surrender that was by the way wanted and actively backed by some/most of the elites - in 1871 and ended in a real purge of the most influential leftist activitsts of that time) because it happened in Paris (with attempts to do the same in other cities, but then we talk about Lyon's Commune for example). To say French Commune in order to talk about France is like to say British City to talk about the UK, it isn't a correct government name I think. (Plus, actual french commies of 1930' wouldn't have at all thinked about making this name up, they were following the USSR's model and orders.)
A simple Communist France or French Socialist Republic (since France is in fact already named French Republic) could be used. Or anything else, as long as it makes sense.
From Paris (Rennes in fact) with love,
A french fan
EDIT: So my unawareness of the other meaning of the word "commune" have led me to make a missed case, but the "complain" still holds, and here is why:
If we had to translate it in french, "French Commune" would be "Communauté Française", which does not evoke a government name at all, so there would be no reason for France to be named like this. But even if we were to imagine that "French Commune" could be a name given by other countries to a french "commune" government (one that anarcho-syndicalism could give birth to), that is not what a communist party would have done - especially not the 1930-1940 French Communist Party. The French Communist Party was a plain stalinist party at the time (the proof of this is that they stopped fighting the nazis during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which made some members, like the philosopher Paul Nizan, leave the party), and was financially backed by the USSR and more or less (more more than less) following Moscow's orders. However, we can clearly see in the game that red France is ruled by Maurice Thorez and backed by its party in the political screen. Historically, this makes no sense.
I understand that it's a reference to a well liked mod, but it really doesn't sound right.
As it doesn't seem to have been noted by the devs (and my bad if it has been), I wanted to point out that the dynamic name for red France makes no sense at all.
The word "commune" is an administrative division that means a village/town/city, and it is used when we talk about Paris' Commune nowadays (which was, for those who don't know, a brief insurrection that happened when Paris people refused to surrender to Prussia - surrender that was by the way wanted and actively backed by some/most of the elites - in 1871 and ended in a real purge of the most influential leftist activitsts of that time) because it happened in Paris (with attempts to do the same in other cities, but then we talk about Lyon's Commune for example). To say French Commune in order to talk about France is like to say British City to talk about the UK, it isn't a correct government name I think. (Plus, actual french commies of 1930' wouldn't have at all thinked about making this name up, they were following the USSR's model and orders.)
A simple Communist France or French Socialist Republic (since France is in fact already named French Republic) could be used. Or anything else, as long as it makes sense.
From Paris (Rennes in fact) with love,
A french fan
EDIT: So my unawareness of the other meaning of the word "commune" have led me to make a missed case, but the "complain" still holds, and here is why:
If we had to translate it in french, "French Commune" would be "Communauté Française", which does not evoke a government name at all, so there would be no reason for France to be named like this. But even if we were to imagine that "French Commune" could be a name given by other countries to a french "commune" government (one that anarcho-syndicalism could give birth to), that is not what a communist party would have done - especially not the 1930-1940 French Communist Party. The French Communist Party was a plain stalinist party at the time (the proof of this is that they stopped fighting the nazis during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which made some members, like the philosopher Paul Nizan, leave the party), and was financially backed by the USSR and more or less (more more than less) following Moscow's orders. However, we can clearly see in the game that red France is ruled by Maurice Thorez and backed by its party in the political screen. Historically, this makes no sense.
I understand that it's a reference to a well liked mod, but it really doesn't sound right.
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