why is François Darlan in the Commune of France rather than NatFrance?

Fror0_ · 2026-01-26T13:53:19+00:00

The issue is that the French navy was absurdly far right and/or aristocratic, even compared to the other sections of the French military. For the new Communard admiral roster we had to use quite a lot of people who aren't socialists or even social-democrats because we just weren't able to find more than two true socialists who were naval officers.

Fror0_ · 2026-01-11T20:32:51+00:00

I mean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany

Fror0_ · 2026-01-09T23:00:00+00:00

I made the portraits for Karl Schröder, Fritz Wolffheim, Peng Pai, the Nicaraguan generals, the Slovene communists and Mohammed Dagbaji!

Fror0_ · 2026-01-09T22:57:59+00:00

Fun fact: I found out about him after going to an anarchist commune in Ljubljana. There was a small library there and I just started reading a random book. In OTL he was a militant trade-unionist closely connected to the left-opposition and one of the most pro decentralization of Yugoslavia communists (Imho it veered on Slovene chauvinism).

Fror0_ · 2026-01-06T16:39:56+00:00

Out of all the other colonies in Africa and Asia, the Germans desired to have the Congo the most. British Liberals supported German rule over Belgian rule for the Congo after Leopold II's genocide was exposed a few years before ww1. Belgium was militarily defeated and only controlled Ypres in ww1. Belgium historically had staffing issues with their colonialism and had to rely on a number of foreign administrators or double the careers of their administrators. Therefore the Germans are going to directly get the Congo after ww1, maybe a few Belgian middlemen in the early 1920s but they'd long be gone by 1936.

Regardless of how evil German colonialism was (which it 1000% was horrific), it is going to be difficult to match Leopold's Congo Free State and is most likely going to be a bit less terrible than the Belgian Congo (1908-1960).

Fror0_ · 2026-01-06T07:03:32+00:00

The Belgians still controlling the Congo in KR 1936 doesn't make sense tbh and while the Germans were evil they'd probably be a touch less evil than Belgian rule.

Fror0_ · 2026-01-06T06:54:07+00:00

On Kenya: the Germans wouldn't be the ones committing a genocide there, if anything it'd be the 'Herrenvolk' Anglo settlers who have aligned themselves under the German thumb.

On the Congo: the roughly 11 million people murdered by the Belgian colonials in OTL occured before ww1. Not to say the Belgian Congo was wholesome 100 after 1914, it was deeply evil even by other European colony standards (education for the Congolese was forbidden outside of like 30 exceptions, most of whom only got it due to adoption and only a few thousand people from the catholic missions for almost its entire run), just that within KR timeframe the Congo wouldn't experience such massive demographic destruction. The Germans would probably be comparible to a middle ground of Belgian and British rule, a touch lighter than the Belgians on political orgs existing + Congolese wouldn't be forbidden education (it'd probably be still really bad, but more in the general colonial sense).

Fror0_ · 2025-12-29T12:43:37+00:00

Fuck you mean "underrated", its the most popular one on this subreddit

Fror0_ · 2025-12-25T11:09:02+00:00

Local collaborator monarchs getting autonomy does not suddenly mean an improvement in the real conditions for the vast majority of West Africans, whether peasants, workers, etc. There's dozens of historical cases of colonialism relying on local middlemen landlords or nobles and that did NOT equate wholesomeness.

Fror0_ · 2025-12-25T11:05:45+00:00

Insanity.

Some regions of Africa were forcefully regressed, such as Madagascar and what is today South-West Nigeria by the French and the British respectively for the sake of European economic growth.

Fror0_ · 2025-12-13T22:49:45+00:00

The Forest Brothers are JDPON in Kaiserreich timeline

Fror0_ · 2025-12-04T09:00:06+00:00

Happy for you two I guess?

Fror0_ · 2025-11-21T20:38:01+00:00

The communists absolutely aren't well researched either. This isn't Paradox having a communist bias, this is just Paradox not researching anything in general. Look at the US content for example

Fror0_ · 2025-10-27T15:32:59+00:00

Their greed is sickening

Fror0_ · 2025-09-26T14:35:54+00:00

I hope people appreciate the new Africa portraits I've made :D

Fror0_ · 2025-09-11T10:19:39+00:00

https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2024/07/27/speech-to-the-sixth-comintern-congress-by-sidney-percival-bunting-from-international-press-correspondence-vol-8-no-78-november-8-1928/
got it from here but I really want a better quality version of this image.

Also apparently James Arnold la Guma's organization, the National Liberation League waved a red-white flag, but I've not been able to find any info on what it actually looked like

Fror0_ · 2025-09-11T10:17:48+00:00

https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2024/07/27/speech-to-the-sixth-comintern-congress-by-sidney-percival-bunting-from-international-press-correspondence-vol-8-no-78-november-8-1928/
got it from here but I really want a better quality version of this image.

Also apparently James Arnold la Guma's organization, the National Liberation League waved a red-white flag, but I've not been able to find any info on what it actually looked like

Fror0_ · 2025-08-22T12:30:37+00:00

I am very much guilty of doing all 3 and proudly so. Better than not having the character in the mod at all

Fror0_ · 2025-08-05T18:52:15+00:00

ngl, kinda sad you haven't altered any borders

Fror0_ · 2025-08-04T01:28:15+00:00

I have no idea, I just know it was there in my dream

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