I have a 90-year old neighbour from Estonia who immigrated here, after he retired. The way he describes it, the youth in the Baltics in the late 70s and throughout the 80s were for some reason attracted a lot to Western culture (films, rock music, jeans, etc). Because many of those things were inaccessible or banned, they started feeling resentment towards the state. Now those people grew up and are running the countries.
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Unfortunately there isn't. The only decent one I know is the 2003 RTS Rise of Nations, which has a mode that allows you to play a very limited form of grand strategy set during the cold war (you play some cards, take a couple actions, then move your armies to enter into an RTS match with the military of another country)
I've been looking for years for the same kind of game, but it looks like nobody is interested in making it, or everyone thinks it's too hard to implement. There's a couple games that advertise themselves as Cold War simulators, but they usually only focus on a nuclear exchange, or they are really just a click-intensive RTS game happening on the world map (e.g. Supreme Ruler).
There's an upcoming grand strategy game called Espiocracy, set to release sometime in 2025. I hope it's the Cold War grand strategy we've been looking for.
Until then, HoI4 mods are all we get. The good news is you can mod them further if you wish. Changing words in events is not that hard. All you need to do is find the event in the english localization file and change the offending words. It's just a bit time-consuming if you want to do a bunch of changes.
Not exactly what you asked for but here's a very good summary on how democracy in the GDR worked. It was modeled after the Soviet system.
The country’s energy-intensive businesses have suffered from the lingering impact of the energy crisis sparked by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Yeah, ofcourse, nothing else sparked an energy crisis. Russia put sanctions on itself and then blew up its own gas pipeline.
And even after all that, the things that probably caused the government to collapse was Volkswagen announcing the closure of factories in Germany, the Trump re-election and the impending tarrifs that he will impose, and Intel's decision not to open a chip factory in Germany.
The only way Germany has to get out of this free-fall is to elect or appoint someone willing to end the wars and re-establish relations with Russia and its cheap energy exports. Considering German politics, this is very unlikely to happen from within the government parties. And the only ones willing to do this are the fascist AfD, and Sahra Wagenknecht (who is increasingly patsoc). I think the German people are going to realize this, and considering their leanings unfortunately, it's becoming increasingly clear that an AfD victory in Parliament and for the Chancellorship is looming on the horizon. That is unless Die Linke manages to pull its head out of its ass for once (even if they do, they'll likely end up being just another SPD), or by some miracle, the communists manage a come-back.
When the Reddit exodus occured, .world was set up to accept new users immediately, and skip the queue for approval on other instances. As a result all the toxic idiots nobody else wanted congregated there.
Important context that is missing from the article: The Maccabi fans were causing havoc in the city since the morning before the match was held. They were going around shouting anti-Palestine chants, climbing buildings to take down Palestinian flags from windows, burned down at least one Palestinian flag, attacked a taxi driver in his taxi with metal chains, and broke store and apartment windows. There's also numerous reports that they've been attacking people in the street who had attempted to stop their vandalism.
In traditional Israeli fashion, these goons are now trying to present themselves as the victims, after pissing off an entire city with their provocations and barbaric behavior.
Chang is Chinese-American (has a Chinese parent I think), so the author is saying Chang is selling off his people?
Of course, Jesus was an excellent capitalist. If he had 2 shirts, he sold one. One time at a wedding he took advantage of the huge demand for alcohol and sold watered-down wine for 10 times its price. It was a miracle! He made a killing providing quality healthcare at a premium price to the blind who needed eye correction surgery. He always preached about saving money and selling for a profit. And my favourite is when he visited the temple and congratulated all the merchants for their incredible business acumen.
Pentagon audit says Boeing cleaned up on Air Force parts, including soap dispensers marked up 8,000%
There were also reports that during covid, Boeing charged the Pentagon 600 000 to produce 15 trash cans. That's 40 000 dollars per trash can. Previously, the same trash cans cost the Pentagon 300 dollars per item.
Oh, you are right, I read that wrong. Apparently it started out at 100 000 rubles, and doubles every week. So yeah, we are getting there.
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Probably a combination of expected emigration (due to the country's destruction) and the death of many young people (which decreases birth rate and causes even more economic destruction).