Ion Antonescu - hero or criminal? (Possible inspiration for the new DLC)

[Orlunu]

Don't know much about him, but of all the loading quotes, his preference for living in a big swamp over a small paradise makes my jaw drop most. The idea that the nutter who came up with that could ever be a 'hero' is.. um..

Well, in the context of the Romanian national history, justifying massive expansionism was a kind important point of one's rhetoric:

Interesting approach of interpreting the forum rules to justify not mentioning the list war criminal's crimes in his biography, accidentaly turning it into an eulogy instead.

The rules are to not discuss or even bring up such things. Not mentioning the specifics of these things seems like the most rational response to that rule, to me. Actually, please stop doing so - while I don't agree with the rule per se, it is currently in place.

 

[GrounchoVilla]

Interesting approach of interpreting the forum rules to justify not mentioning the list war criminal's crimes in his biography, accidentaly turning it into an eulogy instead.

To be fair, that's how Westerners talk about the old bulldog Winston. Certain topics about certain colonies are never brought up, so by omission he's the greatest hero who ever fought to save democracy.

 

[Achab]

Well, in the context of the Romanian national history, justifying massive expansionism was a kind important point of one's rhetoric:

The rules are to not discuss or even bring up such things. Not mentioning the specifics of these things seems like the most rational response to that rule, to me. Actually, please stop doing so - while I don't agree with the rule per se, it is currently in place.

Btw that map would be much more interesting with dual city names where the majority wasn't of Romanian origin at all.

We can probably agree that stating well known and proven facts, like "1+1=2 (dec)" is not a discussion. The same way making a list of well known, proven and documented war crimes is not a discussion.

 

[Orlunu]

Btw that map would be much more interesting with dual city names where the majority wasn't of Romanian origin at all.

We can probably agree that stating well known and proven facts, like "1+1=2 (dec)" is not a discussion. The same way making a list of well known, proven and documented war crimes is not a discussion.

Aye, the city name change would be a nice touch, but I just pulled this off wiki as the most available example.

It might not be a discussion, but it is certainly bringing it up - you appear to be selectively reading the ban here. And I'm pretty sure that I could list well known and documented fun stuff in the same rough area and period that would pretty much unavoidably be starting a discussion - but I won't, and I would like again to point out that this is very much skirting the edges of being such a discussion by proxy.

 

[Graf Radetzky]

It might not be a discussion, but it is certainly bringing it up - you appear to be selectively reading the ban here. And I'm pretty sure that I could list well known and documented fun stuff in the same rough area and period that would pretty much unavoidably be starting a discussion - but I won't, and I would like again to point out that this is very much skirting the edges of being such a discussion by proxy.

Which sort of leads to this thread being pointless-to-baity, when the question in the title can't be truthfully answered in these forums in any elaborative manner (which is not a criticism of the forum rule, but of the thread).

 

[Orlunu]

Which sort of leads to this thread being pointless-to-baity, when the question in the title can't be truthfully answered in these forums in any elaborative manner (which is not a criticism of the forum rule, but of the thread).

For sure, at least as far as the thread title goes. As to future DLC content needed for Romania relevant to the topic, I'd say there is something to be brought up there.

 

[Graf Radetzky]

Well, there have certainly been blunders in DoD Romania implementation (as someone already mentioned, King Michael's coup as probably the worst offender), but even if slightly less worse, some of the ahistorical Czechoslovakia or Hungary focus trees from DoD aren't very good either. A question ought to be asked though, should overhauls have precedence over replacing default focus trees for countries that took part in WWII and don't have 'em?

 

[Secret Master]

This discussion has outlived its usefulness, and people keep trying to find creative ways to get around directly mentioning forbidden topics by indirectly referencing them and then playing "genocide reference chicken" with other posters.

Thread closed.