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Jake said:
I wonder if the Reds! version of Polandball is as... controversial, shall we say... as OTL?
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Probably just as. Making politically-illiterate hot takes via country personification wasn't a concept invented by Polandball, after all.

Difference being that there would perhaps be more Commie cartoonists to balance out the Libs, so it's all good.
 
Raiho-kun said:
Making politically-illiterate hot takes via country personification wasn't a concept invented by Polandball, after all.
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I approach the big box labeled "REDSVERSE HETALIA." It is - appropriately enough - bright red, almost glowing in the murky gloom of the cultural subbasement I found it in. Faint tendrils of purple smoke waft out from between the rough wood planking, as the low murmur of damned souls fills the air between me and the box. The mummified and slightly charred carcasses of rats surround it in a pattern that makes my eyes water just to look at. Were they sacrifices by some earlier pilgrim to this unholy place, or were they summoned and died at the command of the box?

Anyway, because I make poor life decisions on the regular, I open the box.
 
SuperZtar64 said:
What's with the country names? Did exonyms get declared counter-revolutionary at some point?
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It looks like it's just another version of how Siam became Thailand and Persia became Iran and now Turkey trying to be Turkiye. That's all there is to it.

Besides, why would you think that? And who's going to declare it "counter-revolutionary"? And what would happen if one used the endonyms and didn't use the correct exonyms? Go to a gulag? Or something far less brutal but is still a form of a sanction?

I guess I couldn't wrap my mind around it. I think it's a weird thing to ask and think about what's going to happen, honestly.
 
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SuperZtar64 said:
What's with the country names? Did exonyms get declared counter-revolutionary at some point?
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Iran used to be solely called Persia by nearly all westerners and COMINFORM policy is that member states (the Comintern is for parties, not states), get to decide their official translations in all languages.

So Japan set its name to Nippon/Nihon, East Germany to "Deutschland", Turkey to "Torkiye/Turkiye", Iran reaffirmed itself as Iran not Persia, Korea settled on "Chosun", Greece as "Hellas", Hungary as "Magyarország" or "Magyaria" in English, and China went with "Zhongguo".

With Germany in particularly "Deutschland" and not "Germany" is also a move to distance itself from Germanicism.
 
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Greetings.

I'd wish to know which are the standard heavy field artillery calibers in the order of 140 mm (5.5 inch) to 155 mm of:
  1. The UASR post Second American Civil War to the end of the Second World War/World Revolutionary War;
  2. Comintern postwar to present day; and,
  3. Same as above with AFS.
BTW, interesting the issue about Comintern countries' official names.
 
Libertad said:
Besides, why would you think that? And who's going to declare it "counter-revolutionary"? And what would happen if one used the endonyms and didn't use the correct exonyms? Go to a gulag? Or something far less brutal but is still a form of a sanction?

I guess I couldn't wrap my mind around it. I think it's a weird thing to ask and think about what's going to happen, honestly.
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That was a joke. I was joking.

Spartakrod said:
Iran used to be solely called Persia by nearly all westerners and COMINFORM policy is that member states (the Comintern is for parties, not states), get to decide their official translations in all languages.

So Japan set its name to Nippon/Nihon, East Germany to "Deutschland", Turkey to "Torkiye/Turkiye", Iran reaffirmed itself as Iran not Persia, Korea settled on "Chosun", Greece as "Hellas", Hungary as "Magyarország" or "Magyaria" in English, and China went with "Zhongguo".

With Germany in particularly "Deutschland" and not "Germany" is also a move to distance itself from Germanicism.
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I see. What is Germanicism?
 
SuperZtar64 said:
That was a joke. I was joking.


I see. What is Germanicism?
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Pan-Germanicism; which was one of the underlying bases of Nazi thought and underpinned German volkische ideology for decades before nazism arose.

Deutschland means just the Deutsch, rather than the Germanic people which includes the English, the Americans, the Scandinavians, the Dutch, the Czechs, the Slovenes and generally also claims on territory all over the place.
 
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Aelita said:
According to Nazis, especially in TTL, they are considered Germans with false racial consciousness. And while it's not true, they are also the Slavs that have the most in common culturally with Germans due to geography
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Nazi logic is not very logical,I mean the idea of Czech and Slovenes being Germans with false racial consciousness does not make sense.
 
I've been wondering something about Comintern member states' commerce during the "Lange"-system era starting from end of 2ACW up until the adoption of the labor note system How do they curb the impact of some products from lower-income member states of comparable quality to higher-income member states' products of the same type towarss the higher-income members' employment? Although it does help that outsourcing to undercut local labor is less likely to occur in ITTL Comintern member states considering all medium & large enterprises are co-ops.
 
I wonder what the hell will happen with Brazil, the into-the-future content seems to show Brazil is capitalist, when I see no ability for the FBU to somehow manage to grab Brazil from under the feet of the other Latin American country's. I suppose some kind of weird naval invasion from west Africa to Brazil is possible, but I am pretty sure the distance is too large.
 
Pigeon said:
I wonder what the hell will happen with Brazil, the into-the-future content seems to show Brazil is capitalist, when I see no ability for the FBU to somehow manage to grab Brazil from under the feet of the other Latin American country's. I suppose some kind of weird naval invasion from west Africa to Brazil is possible, but I am pretty sure the distance is too large.
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The FBU's got a staging area in Guyana, Guiana, and Suriname, as well as Americuba as a naval hub. Furthermore, once Brazil's collapse becomes clear, I suspect Colombia and Venezula would much rather side with the FBU than leave themselves open to the Comintern. A north to south invasion through the colonies is easily doable.
 
Also Brazil isn't defeated in the same way that the other Axis powers, with maybe the exception of Finland, are. As the Brazilian armies are driven back, Salgado's support base collapses and leads to him being overthrown in what is essentially a succesful Operation Valkyrie, leading to the restoration of the Brazilian monarchy and the restored empire joining the allies.

There is probably an argument to be made, and one I expect is made in the Comintern in latter years, that they could have crushed Brazil and installed a socialist republic but going by the old thread, the coup happens in early 1944 when Germany/Italy are still a legitimate threat and the IJN is still kicking the Royal Navy and WFRN around the Indo-Pacific with apperant ease and the new Brazilian emperor throws his country fully into the fight against the Axis, so there is bigger fish to fry.
 
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