National Culture Expansion

[Coinneach]

Only just bought Victoria revolutions, so this question may seem nooby or 'oh not again, look at this thread '

Anyways I was playing as Austria-Hungary in the 1914 scenario, managed to defeat Russia with Germany by 1916-ish (Brest-Livotsk started firing sometime around then), allowing Germany to mop up the western front by 1918-1919. Then after the war around1921ish, germany DOWed me (alliance ended). It was tough but i eventually got a white peace out of it. After this faschist movements sprang up all over europe (Russia, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy) and soon enough I fell victim to it too. So I now have my primarily south german provinces faschist, and a few hungarian POPs, while most of the slavs are liberal/socialist/conservative.

I installed a fascist government, and was wondering for RP purposes if I could be able to repopulate some more provinces with Hungarians and South Germans - i.e, replace some of the slavic pops with german ones? How can you do that? Any help VERY much appreciated

 

[unmerged(84717)]

Do you want to move some Germans on Slavic territory, or attempt a full "re-population"?

What you could do is find a way to move away your Slav pops and attract your Hungarians and German ones. That can be done by:

- Overspilling RGO's and build factories where the Germans are at, convert all of them to laborers; convert the Slavs in their territories to craftsmen, make sure there are no industries where they're at; expand their RGO''s (make sure the RGOs elsewhere are pretty much full, or as full as it can). In short, German laborers will go to the Slavic lands, and the Slavs will go to Germanic land.

- Do exactly the opposite. Overspill the Slav RGO's and build factories there, convert Germans elsewhere into Craftsmen, expand RGO's in German territory. That will cause Slavic laborers to go into German territory, while German craftsmen are going to Slav territory.

You cannot really "get rid" or "convert" Slav POPs into German ones because Fascist parties always have "Residence" as their minority policy, meaning it's pretty much impossible for them to assimilate into your primary culture. You could also find a way to increase Slavic militancy to force them to emigrate, but I think that'd have too many adverse consequences for it to be worth, not to mention very difficult and could easily go wrong.

 

[olorin42]

What I like to do in that situation is move the slavs to where the Germans are. Promote the slavs to craftsmen. Make sure there's no open factory slots first (fill them or delete the factories in the states where the slavs are). The slavs will then migrate to where there are jobs. Just make sure there's jobs where the German pops are. The Germans can eventually mostly get promoted to clerks and let the slavs be the craftsmen. If you get a lot of craftsmen and have extras, you can demote some and put them in RGOs.

I did this once as the USA. I occupied all of China. Promoted a bunch of pops to craftsmen in each province. Had about 80K-100K migrants from China alone every month.