History Awesome / TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope

*** Constitutionalist Chita in particular has one of the most awesome character arcs in the mod. At the start of the mod, Tsar Mikhail is an pretender with no claim to the Russian throne, [[TheWoobie kept under house arrest and isolated from his family and friends]] by his [[EvilChancellor Prime Minister, Boris Shepunov]]. Shepunov and the rest of the junta running Chita [[PuppetKing use him as a prop to legitimize their rule and don’t let him make any independent decisions]]. As a result, Mikhail is deeply depressed and hopeless, wanting nothing more to do with Russia or politics. However, after Chita unites the Russian Far East, [[spoiler: Mikhail has a chance encounter with a sympathetic Tsarist military officer, giving him the opening he desperately needs. Mikhail gradually becomes more active in government, all the while forming a clandestine clique of rival officers to depose Shepunov. When Shepunov gets wind of this, he marches on Mikhail’s residence with a small army, planning to depose Mikhail and replace him with a new puppet. Several of Shepunov’s rifle units and his own lieutenant then turn their guns and arrest him. In the aftermath, Mikhail installs a provisional civilian government and tries his hardest to improve the lives of everyday Russians, now believing that it’s his destiny to lead and heal a broken Russia]].

*** Constitutionalist Chita in particular has one of the most awesome character arcs in the mod. At the start of the mod, Tsar Mikhail is an pretender with no claim to the Russian throne, [[TheWoobie kept under house arrest and isolated from his family and friends]] by his [[EvilChancellor Prime Minister, Boris Shepunov]]. Shepunov and the rest of the junta running Chita
[[PuppetKing use him as a prop to legitimize their rule and don’t let him make any independent decisions]]. As a result, Mikhail is deeply depressed and hopeless, wanting nothing more to do with Russia or politics. However, after Chita unites the Russian Far East, [[spoiler: Mikhail has a chance encounter with a sympathetic Tsarist military officer, giving him the opening he desperately needs. Mikhail gradually becomes more active in government, all the while forming a clandestine clique of rival officers to depose Shepunov. When Shepunov gets wind of this, he marches on Mikhail’s residence with a small army, planning to depose Mikhail and replace him with a new puppet. Several of Shepunov’s rifle units and his own lieutenant then turn their guns and arrest him. In the aftermath, Mikhail installs a provisional civilian government and tries his hardest to improve the lives of everyday Russians, now believing that it’s his destiny to lead and heal a broken Russia]].

** Speaking of the last one, a true libertarian socialist anarchic Russian Free Territory can ''crowdfund and crowddesign nukes''. And it works, going door to door, consulting everyone you meet until you figure out how to make a nuclear missile, inviting everyone to join in communal labor. It's named "The Emancipator" in Russian.

* Any of the harder paths, if successfully pulled off, is this, even if these paths are dark paths like Long Yun driving out Japan, Heydrich winning the German Civil War, or Omsk reuniting Russia.

* While most of the text accompanying [[https://i.redd.it/ah0js42uof751.png the defeats of Russian warlords]] [[TearJerker/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope are appropriately downbeat]], the one for the [[FourthReich Aryan Brotherhood]] reads [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing "There remains some justice in the Russian Anarchy"]]-- an appropriate send-off to one of the most evil warlord factions in Russia, and one of the worst paths it can go down. It's even better if you're the one who defeated the AB.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re [[ChummyCommies successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina]], [[TheRepublic maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi]], [[TheGoodKingdom forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Vyatka, or Chita]], [[{{Cincinnatus}} handing power to a democratically-elected civilian government as Sverdlovsk]], or [[RousseauWasRight rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian]], it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re [[ChummyCommies successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina]], [[TheRepublic maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi]], [[TheGoodKingdom forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Viatka, or Chita]], [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cincinnatus handing power to a democratically-elected civilian government as Sverdlovsk]], or [[RousseauWasRight rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian]], it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re [[ChummyCommies successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina]], [[TheRepublic maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi]], [[TheGoodKingdom forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Viatka, or Chita]], [[ Cincinnatus handing power to a democratically-elected civilian government as Sverdlovsk]], or [[RousseauWasRight rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian]], it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re [[ChummyCommies successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina]], [[TheRepublic maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi]], [[TheGoodKingdom forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Viatka, or Chita]], [[Cincinnatus handing power to a democratically-elected civilian government as Sverdlovsk]], or [[RousseauWasRight rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian]], it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re [[ChummyCommies successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina]], [[TheRepublic maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi]], [[TheGoodKingdom forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Viatka, or Chita]], [[Main/Cincinnatus handing power to a democratically-elected civilian government as Sverdlovsk]], or [[RousseauWasRight rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian]], it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re [[ChummyCommies successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina]], [[TheRepublic maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi]], [[TheGoodKingdom forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Viatka, or Chita]], [[Cincinnatus handing power to a democratically-elected civilian government as Sverdlovsk]], or [[RousseauWasRight rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian]], it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re [[ChummyCommies successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina]], [[TheRepublic maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi]], [[TheGoodKingdom forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Viatka, or Chita]], [[TheCincinnatus handing power to a democratically-elected civilian government as Sverdlovsk]], or [[RousseauWasRight rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian]], it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina, maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi, forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Viatka, or Chita, handing power to a democratically-elected civilian government as Sverdlovsk or rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian, it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina, maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi, forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, Viatka, and Chita, handing power to a civilian government as Sverdlovsk or rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian, it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

** And it’s not just Sablin; sticking to your guns as any of Russia’s non-authoritarian paths can qualify as this. Whether you’re successfully reforming the Union as Zhukov or Bukharina, maintaining the fragile democracy of Tomsk or Komi, forming a constitutional monarchy as Kemerovo, or rejecting the military’s influence to keep the Siberian Free Territory egalitarian, it always feels rewarding not to have given in to nastier impulses.

* Actually managing to fully reform Germany through the Gang of Four. You fight off the hardliners, Schorner and even Speer's own ambitions to preserve Fascism in one form or another. Your reward? A Germany that has successfully sidelined both Speer and the NSDAP, and well on it's way to embracing some form of democracy once Speer dies.

* Putting a man on Mars as John Glenn. Take that Nazis!
* While most of the text accompanying [[https://i.redd.it/ah0js42uof751.png the defeats of Russian warlords]] [[TearJerker/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope are appropriately downbeat]], the one for the [[FourthReich Aryan Brotherhood]] reads [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing "There remains some justice in the Russian Anarchy"]]-- an appropriate send-off to the most evil warlord in Russia, and one of the worst paths it can go down. It's even better if you're the one who defeated the AB.

* Russian reunification in itself. In a decade, a Russian warlord clique which rules over a small region of Russia unites Russia under its banner through using both diplomacy and force to create a new Russia under its leadership and banner.

* Putting a man on Mars as John Glenn. Take that Nazis!

* Getting to Mars as John Glenn.

** In one of them, Dirlewanger [[KickTheDog murders a dog]] whose owner was a former NKVD agent. His response? Going on a rampage, [[OneManArmy killing all of Dirlewangers men]] before putting two bullets in his head, with the event ending with what is presumably [[FamousLastWords Dirlewanger's last words]]: [[Film/JohnWick IT WAS JUST A FUCKING DOG!]]

* Russian reunification in itself. In a decade, a Russian warlord clique which rules over a small region of Russia unites Russia under its banner through using both diplomacy and force to create a new Russia under its leadership and banner.

* Should you choose to play as [[TheGoodKing Rurik II]], he can deliver an absolutely SCATHING ReasonYouSuckSpeech in [[https://i.redd.it/7tjnxpe9ppc51.jpg a letter to the Führer of Germany]], in which he lambasts the supposed "Master Race" as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil a horde of uncivilized barbarians]], says the Reich's CultOfPersonality is simply [[CompensatingForSomething desiring validation for their insecurities]], claims that their attempts of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain scapegoating Jews and other "subhumans"]] will inevitably fail when the people realize their real enemy is "[[MalevolentMugshot the ugly man whose face is plastered all over their walls]]", and that the reason their [[DeathFromAbove terror bombing of Russia]] is born [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain out of fear that a resurgent Russia would wipe their Reich from the face of the Earth]].

* Should you choose to play as [[TheGoodKing Rurik II]], he can deliver an absolutely SCATHING one in [[https://i.redd.it/7tjnxpe9ppc51.jpg a letter to the Führer of Germany]], in which he lambasts the supposed "Master Race" as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil a horde of uncivilized barbarians]], says the Reich's CultOfPersonality is simply [[CompensatingForSomething desiring validation for their insecurities]], claims that their attempts of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain scapegoating Jews and other "subhumans"]] will inevitably fail when the people realize their real enemy is "[[MalevolentMugshot the ugly man whose face is plastered all over their walls]]", and that the reason their [[DeathFromAbove terror bombing of Russia]] is born [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain out of fear that a resurgent Russia would wipe their Reich from the face of the Earth]].

* Actually managing to fully reform Germany through the Gang of Four. You fight off the hardliners, Schorner and even Speer's own ambitions to preserve Fascism in one form or another. Your reward? A Germany that has sucessfully sidelined both Speer and the NSDAP, and well on it's way to embracing some form of democracy once Speer dies.
* Reuniting Russia as Valery Sablin ''and'' sticking true to your ideals. It's a long and uphill battle, but if you've mostly kept true to your ideals, you will have created one of the most wholesome and hopeful incarnations of the Soviet Union to appear in this mod.

* Actually managing to fully reform Germany through the Gang of Four. You fight off the hardliners, Schorner and even Speer's own ambitions to preserve Fascism in one form or another. Your reward? A Germany that has sucessfully sidelined both Speer and the NSDAP, and well on it's way to embracing some form of democracy once Speer dies.