All members of the Paradox dev team will face a firing squad, insha'Allah 🙏🙏🙏
rant
One of the worst things about the people who defend this game's whitewashing of the holocaust and 'evil=cool' aesthetics is that they base it on the fact that the game wouldn't be fun/would 'glorify violence'. Maybe don't make ww2 a game, or if you really fucking want to, do not allow the player to play as Germany. And if that's not enough for you, you still want to have your fun, then do a better job at it.
TNO does a ~~good~~ better job at showing how evil the Nazis were without making it not fun
they also explicitly added decisions to sell uranium to the highest bidder and focuses that sell Congolese gold and diamonds to fund Belgian reconstruction. both of these things are portrayed as buffs/ positive for the Congo. they also added the ability for Belgium to alter their colonial policy up to annexing and coring the Congo in a few months, ez pz. every single focus tree they add outside of the main area of WW2 is just creating save bloat, and of course paradox has to create racist and historically illiterate save bloat. don’t even get me started on what they did to rosa in this new dlc
Wait what did they do to Rosa?
they claim that the Luxemburg was an anti-militarist who wanted to achieve communism through democratic institutions. in order to ‘follow in their footsteps’, you have to complete focuses called “Civil Liberties” and “Embrace Democratic Institutions”. the shit-cherry on top is that your reward is to turn your neighbors into special puppets called “Volkskommissariats”.
now first off, Rosa Luxemburg is probably most famous for her 1899 book Reform or Revolution. she was opposed to reformism, and argued conclusively. i would not personally describe her as “embracing democratic institutions”. she is called by some a dem soc, and many argue that the lesson of the Spartacus League is that it was too much democracy, but paradox isn’t putting any nuance into this. they physically put this part of the tree right in the middle between communism and democracy. someone else could probably explain the details of her politics better.
the Volkskommissariat thing is actually the worst part. they are obvious reskins of Reichkomissariats, a game mechanic representing Nazi Germany setting up puppet regimes in occupied Europe. These were real institutions broadly responsible for managing forced labor and ethnic cleansing, but due to paradox policy against depicting war crimes, they are puppets that are easier to exploit. using the term ‘volk’ instead of people is always a weird red flag. it’s especially odd because in real life the USSR called their departments people’s commissariats (though that is not featured in the game). they somehow managed to smear Rosa as both a liberal and a fascist
I think theres a new DLC for like Belgium, Belgium Congo (DR. Congo/Zaire), Netherlands, Luxemburg and Germany. In the Dev video for the new Germany focus tree they say that Rosa was in favor of multi-party democracy and some other lib shit
Was she? I don’t know enough about Rosa but wasn’t there a difference of opinion between her and Lenin re: democracy?
I think she had an entire book against this, I believe she was against political parties in general.
I’ll take a look, I never had a luxemburgist moment