Hey all, before I begin this big long thing I’d like to say that I love Paradox’s games, especially CK and HoI2. I’d love to see these, especially HoI2 (being a WW2 history fanatic) expanded to be as accurate as possible. Also, being Latvian, I thought I’d provide some information and such for possible changes. I’ve divided them into 3 sections (due to only finding information that’d impinge on these 3 sections): Events, Military and Misc. Let us therefore begin, as I said before and seems to be quite accurate, “this big long thing”.
Events
(quotations describing events, followed by source of quotation and then suggestions in implementation)
- “Latvia signed a nonaggression pact with Germany in June of 1939” (http://www.historia.lv/publikacijas/gramat/mangulis/07.nod.htm), supported by “on June 7, 1939, Latvia entered into a non-aggression pact with Germany” (http://www.politics.lv/en/vesture/1940/4.htm) Suggestion for thing would be 2 choices: Accepting, obviously getting non-aggression pact with Germany; and Declining, lowering Germany’s relations with Latvia.
- “The Satversme terminated its performance, the Saeima was dissolved, the political parties were liquidated, municipalities were reorganised, several newspapers were closed, many political figures were arrested and the marital law was announced in the country. Such situation existed until the year 1938.” (http://www.politics.lv/en/vesture/1940/4.htm) It could be one of those simple, no-choice events and could lead to a dissent decrease (the event being the ending of this situation in 1938)
- “as well as in summer of the same year it participated in negotiations among the representatives of the USSR, England and France in Moscow” (http://www.politics.lv/en/vesture/1940/4.htm) Another no-choice event, improving relations with the UK and France. Or perhaps a choiced event where Latvia may (a) push forward its own agenda or (b) go with the flow and perhaps other choices may avail themselves as well.
- “On October 5, 1939, Latvia and the USSR signed a pact on mutual assistance, later also an agreement on trade. According to the provisions of the Pact in the territory of Latvia (mainly in Liepaja and Ventspils) the Soviet military bases were located (25000 persons).” (http://www.politics.lv/en/vesture/1940/4.htm) Obviously a choice event where Latvia may (a) refuse or (b) accept and grant military access to the USSR.
Military
- Chronological biography of Rudolfs Kandis “Commander of the 2nd Fighter Squadron... attends at the Daugavpils summer base to ensure that all Fighter Squadron flying personnel (not just the officers) would be assigned the new Gloster Gladiators.” (http://latvianaviation.com/BB_KandisR.html) First part implies at least 2 fighter squadrons, second implies that they were upgraded to Gloster Gladiators. Unfortunately, my copy of HoI2 is overseas at the moment (am currently a tourist
) and I uninstalled it a little while ago, so I don’t know if the Gloster Gladiator is the most basic plane or not, but it would be nice to see Latvia gaining 2 fighter squadrons.
Misc
- “Latvian foreign trade is characterised by the 224,711,000 Lats worth of imports and 227,053,000 Lats worth of exports, in 1939. In other years the preponderance of exports has been even more striking. Among the exports, butter takes the first place - 21,929 tons, 51 million lats in value. Next in order of importance come timber, flax, bacon, live pigs, paper and grain. The importance of the Baltic States as producers of food for industrial Europe must not be under-estimated…According to countries, Latvian foreign trade shows the following picture in 1938 (the last complete normal pre-war year) : in percentage of the total, Great Britain - imports 20.8, exports 41.9; Germany - imports 38.9, exports 29.5; U.S.A. - imports 6.3, exports 1.4; U.S.S.R. - imports 3.5 per cent, exports 3.0 per cent.” (http://www.latvians.com/en/Reading/TheStoryOfLatvia/SoLatvia-06-chap.php) So basically, Latvia trades supplies for energy/metal/rare material (ie, the things it needs) with a couple West European countries.
- 2 provincial complaints: Mazirbe and Dagaupulis. In Latvian, it is Daugavpils, and it is referred to the same way in English. I am unsure where this Dagaupulis comes from (it was Dunaburg in German, Dvinsk in Russian), but would like to see it corrected. And Mazirbe is a tiny little station that was demi-important during the Soviet period for its satellite dish thing there, which the Red Army installed some time after WW2. A more suitable name for the province of Mazirbe would be Liepaja, or Ventspils—both important naval ports.
- Latvia wasn’t a fascist state. Under Ulmanis’ dictatorship it leaned toward an ethnocracy-type (ie, fascist) state but didn’t have the time to get there (if such ever was the destination). I think Paternal Autocrat (such as Estonia) would be more accurate.
- Latvia actually had a half-dozen tanks during the inter-war period, maybe they should start with the Great War tank technology? (I can’t remember if they do in game or not, but I believe they don’t).
Yeah, there’s quite a lot here, in comparison to the size and importance of the country, and I must admit I’m kinda surprised that you read the whole thing (if you did, of course). I know most of these are rather small things, but small things are just as important as big things, especially if they’re relatively big when compared to their country. I wrote all this up with the 1936 campaign in mind (as that’s what I play 99% of the time). When I get back to Latvia, I’m going to do some more research (the internet has nearly nothing) and see if there’s anything else (sorry!) that could be improved upon. I really hope to see at least some of these improvements in the next patch.
Events
(quotations describing events, followed by source of quotation and then suggestions in implementation)
- “Latvia signed a nonaggression pact with Germany in June of 1939” (http://www.historia.lv/publikacijas/gramat/mangulis/07.nod.htm), supported by “on June 7, 1939, Latvia entered into a non-aggression pact with Germany” (http://www.politics.lv/en/vesture/1940/4.htm) Suggestion for thing would be 2 choices: Accepting, obviously getting non-aggression pact with Germany; and Declining, lowering Germany’s relations with Latvia.
- “The Satversme terminated its performance, the Saeima was dissolved, the political parties were liquidated, municipalities were reorganised, several newspapers were closed, many political figures were arrested and the marital law was announced in the country. Such situation existed until the year 1938.” (http://www.politics.lv/en/vesture/1940/4.htm) It could be one of those simple, no-choice events and could lead to a dissent decrease (the event being the ending of this situation in 1938)
- “as well as in summer of the same year it participated in negotiations among the representatives of the USSR, England and France in Moscow” (http://www.politics.lv/en/vesture/1940/4.htm) Another no-choice event, improving relations with the UK and France. Or perhaps a choiced event where Latvia may (a) push forward its own agenda or (b) go with the flow and perhaps other choices may avail themselves as well.
- “On October 5, 1939, Latvia and the USSR signed a pact on mutual assistance, later also an agreement on trade. According to the provisions of the Pact in the territory of Latvia (mainly in Liepaja and Ventspils) the Soviet military bases were located (25000 persons).” (http://www.politics.lv/en/vesture/1940/4.htm) Obviously a choice event where Latvia may (a) refuse or (b) accept and grant military access to the USSR.
Military
- Chronological biography of Rudolfs Kandis “Commander of the 2nd Fighter Squadron... attends at the Daugavpils summer base to ensure that all Fighter Squadron flying personnel (not just the officers) would be assigned the new Gloster Gladiators.” (http://latvianaviation.com/BB_KandisR.html) First part implies at least 2 fighter squadrons, second implies that they were upgraded to Gloster Gladiators. Unfortunately, my copy of HoI2 is overseas at the moment (am currently a tourist
) and I uninstalled it a little while ago, so I don’t know if the Gloster Gladiator is the most basic plane or not, but it would be nice to see Latvia gaining 2 fighter squadrons.Misc
- “Latvian foreign trade is characterised by the 224,711,000 Lats worth of imports and 227,053,000 Lats worth of exports, in 1939. In other years the preponderance of exports has been even more striking. Among the exports, butter takes the first place - 21,929 tons, 51 million lats in value. Next in order of importance come timber, flax, bacon, live pigs, paper and grain. The importance of the Baltic States as producers of food for industrial Europe must not be under-estimated…According to countries, Latvian foreign trade shows the following picture in 1938 (the last complete normal pre-war year) : in percentage of the total, Great Britain - imports 20.8, exports 41.9; Germany - imports 38.9, exports 29.5; U.S.A. - imports 6.3, exports 1.4; U.S.S.R. - imports 3.5 per cent, exports 3.0 per cent.” (http://www.latvians.com/en/Reading/TheStoryOfLatvia/SoLatvia-06-chap.php) So basically, Latvia trades supplies for energy/metal/rare material (ie, the things it needs) with a couple West European countries.
- 2 provincial complaints: Mazirbe and Dagaupulis. In Latvian, it is Daugavpils, and it is referred to the same way in English. I am unsure where this Dagaupulis comes from (it was Dunaburg in German, Dvinsk in Russian), but would like to see it corrected. And Mazirbe is a tiny little station that was demi-important during the Soviet period for its satellite dish thing there, which the Red Army installed some time after WW2. A more suitable name for the province of Mazirbe would be Liepaja, or Ventspils—both important naval ports.
- Latvia wasn’t a fascist state. Under Ulmanis’ dictatorship it leaned toward an ethnocracy-type (ie, fascist) state but didn’t have the time to get there (if such ever was the destination). I think Paternal Autocrat (such as Estonia) would be more accurate.
- Latvia actually had a half-dozen tanks during the inter-war period, maybe they should start with the Great War tank technology? (I can’t remember if they do in game or not, but I believe they don’t).
Yeah, there’s quite a lot here, in comparison to the size and importance of the country, and I must admit I’m kinda surprised that you read the whole thing (if you did, of course). I know most of these are rather small things, but small things are just as important as big things, especially if they’re relatively big when compared to their country. I wrote all this up with the 1936 campaign in mind (as that’s what I play 99% of the time). When I get back to Latvia, I’m going to do some more research (the internet has nearly nothing) and see if there’s anything else (sorry!
) that could be improved upon. I really hope to see at least some of these improvements in the next patch.
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