History Awesome / TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope

** Kemerovo generally is sheer awesome. It's a monarchy under a former Soviet Colonel who believes he is the reincarnation of a Viking prince who united Russia in medieval times. The guiding ideology of Rurik's government is a bizarre syncretic fusion of Soviet progressivism and feudal monarchism with [[DaysOfFuturePast Muscovite and Kievan aesthetics]], and despite Rurik's insanity, [[BunnyEarsLawyer he rules the kingdom pragmatically and listens to his advisors]]. The end result should they unite Russia is a country where the public go around dressed like it's a Renaissance fair, but the government runs quite smoothly, the military is modern and competent, and the R&D division produces weapons systems, computers and radar on par with western nations. [[spoiler::Later events hint that Krylov was actually sane all along, and "Rurik" was just an act he put on to give the Russian people something to believe in besides day-to-day survival. And if his son takes over, the Kingdom takes steps towards becoming a British-style constitutional monarchy with democracy.]]

** Kemerovo generally is CrazyAwesome. It's a monarchy under a former Soviet Colonel who believes he is the reincarnation of a Viking prince who united Russia in medieval times. The guiding ideology of Rurik's government is a bizarre syncretic fusion of Soviet progressivism and feudal monarchism with [[DaysOfFuturePast Muscovite and Kievan aesthetics]], and despite Rurik's insanity, [[BunnyEarsLawyer he rules the kingdom pragmatically and listens to his advisors]]. The end result should they unite Russia is a country where the public go around dressed like it's a Renaissance fair, but the government runs quite smoothly, the military is modern and competent, and the R&D division produces weapons systems, computers and radar on par with western nations. [[spoiler::Later events hint that Krylov was actually sane all along, and "Rurik" was just an act he put on to give the Russian people something to believe in besides day-to-day survival. And if his son takes over, the Kingdom takes steps towards becoming a British-style constitutional monarchy with democracy.]]

** Not to mention how CrazyAwesome some of these factions are. After the brutal regime did everything to silence its opposition, [[YouCannotKillAnIdea the remnants are still composed of various ideologies]] that Taboritsky loathed. Boris I seeks to finish what Rurik started in Kemorovo as TheGoodKing, Yevgeniya Taratuta champions for Mother Anarchy, Alexander Zinoviev has ensured that Tomsk's Salons and benevolence have remained, and Nikolai Kardashev genuinely pursues scientific advancement after the less savory "ultravisionary" and plain {{Mad Scientist}}s were purged.

** On a smaller scale, the Pacific Treaty with Japan, where, if the player makes the right choices, not only can the United States recover the West Coast ports taken at the end of World War II, they can also ensure Japan leaves Hawaii, finally achieving Eisenhower's hope of bringing the 50th State back to America.

* The Anti-Communist Volunteer Guard in Onega may at first seem merely a puppet state acting as a buffer for Finland, which most of the time exists to be simply be overrun by whoever unites West Russia... but they ''do'' have both a scenario and a focus tree for if they manage to ''win'' against the unifier, and one that proves the Guard leadership ''actually meant'' their promises of eventual democratisation, leaving West Russia mostly democratic and united into an alliance, if still divided into multiple states. Not the best outcome for West Russia, but considerably better than some of the others considering potential opponents for Onega in the war include states like Oktan's Samara, Taboritsky's Ust-Sysolsk and the Aryan Brotherhood.

* Should Sergey Taboritsky's [[TheTheocracy Western Russian Regency]] and Yazov's [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge West Siberian Provisional Authority]] come into conflict, [[https://i.imgur.com/cjlA2b6.png Yazov unsurprisingly declares the Mad Reagent an enemy]] almost instantly and rallies the soldiers of the Black League to defeat the scourge of western Russia to put a stop to his horror.

* 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 its way to embracing some form of democracy once Speer dies, and hopefully Nazism with him.
** Speer's intentions to reinvigorate National Socialism into lasting with his reforms are snuffed with the Gang of Four making the unrepentant Nazi their puppet. Speer can only yell at them in frustration, and Schmidt eventually says to his face that he's nothing more than a figurehead.

** Another one sees Dirlewanger [[ShowdownAtHighNoon challenged to a duel]] by a mysterious figure from the wastes known only as the "Ural Ranger," who somehow made his way past the guards and other forces to meet the monster in the war camp. Dirlewanger laughs and accepts, believing that it'll just be another tally to his list of kills. Once they draw at around 11:20, with impeccable aim and the swift draw of his pistol, the ranger nails the dastard, to the disbelief of everyone around them. As the bandits get thrown into chaos and the Ranger makes his way back to the wastes, many can only ponder, "[[Music/MartyRobbins Where did that ranger even hide the Makarov? His hip?]]"

** Not to mention how CrazyAwesome some of these factions are. After the brutal regime did everything to silence its opposition, [[YouCannotKillAnIdea the remnants are still composed of various ideologies]] that Taboritsky loathed. Boris I seeks to finish what Rurik started in Kemorovo as TheGoodKing, Yevgeniya Taratuta champions for Mother Anarchy, Alexander Zinoviev has ensured that Tomsk's Salons and benevolence has remained, and Nikolai Kardashev genuinely pursues scientific advancement after the less savory "ultravisionary" and plain {{Mad Scientist}}s were purged.

** The most notable warlord has to be Michał Goleniewski, a former NKVD agent from Poland, as he makes like Rurik II and proclaims himself to be a royal to establish benevolent rule over Russia. And not just any monarch--he boasts to be ''Alexei II himself''. If the vestiges of the HRE paint Taboritsky's regime and beliefs as a massive cult, then Goleniewski should the ultimate BlasphemousBoast in their eyes. The Mad Regent must be spinning in his grave.

* Despite the fact that it is only triggerable by the "sandbox mod" debug, and lorewise, Russia is never being able to unify for decades (if not ''centuries'') as a result of its collapse in that route, playing as one of the sane post-Taboritsky Warlords in sandbox mode can be rather rewarding. You not only finish off the remnants of the Holy Russian Empire seeking to purify Russia a second time, but also take down unsavory figures, from HRE breakaways not beholden to their ideology like Nikolai Talberg and Ivan Melkikh, to the Redeemed Black League, the Kazakh Purification League and the Brotherhood of Cain. Additionally, winning as them means that you have managed to restore Russia like a phoenix from the ashes, perhaps signifying to the world that Russia's existence as a nation is far from over and that there may yet be hope.

* Despite the fact that it is only triggerable by "sandbox mod" debug, and lorewise, Russia is never being able to unify for decades if not centuries as a result of it's collapse in that route, playing as one of the sane Warlords in sandbox mode can be rather rewarding. You not only finish off the remnants of the Holy Russian Empire seeking to purify Russia a second time, but also unsavory figures such as HRE breakaways not beholden to their ideology like Nikolai Talberg and Ivan Melkikh, as well as the Redeemed Black League, the Kazakh Purification League and the Brotherhood of Cain, but you have managed to restore Russia like a phoenix from the ashes, perhaps signifying to the world that Russia's existence as a nation is far from over and that there may yet be hope.

---> "Comrade soldiers, steel yourselves for this task as you uproot and exterminate this evil and end the statuesque excuse of a human being who leads it. [[BadassBoast Go forth, and save holy Russia! Our cause is just. The enemy will be destroyed. Victory will be ours!]]"
---> ''Who, if not us?''

* Villainous example. The final confrontation between Heydrich and Himmler upon the former's victory in the Second German Civil War. Despite Heydrich being one of the worst Nazis in both our world and TNO's, seeing Himmler break down in front of Heydrich and [[KickTheSonOfABitch Heydrich's response]] before killing him was very satisfying.

-->'''Himmler:''' Reinhard. Reinhard, what have you done? Th-th-this betrayal is the end of us, o-our undoing! The god of Zion w-w-will rule f-f-f-forever! Your wife, your d-daugthers, will be whores! Breeding sows for--

* Villainous example. The [[https://i.redd.it/n1r3fq6e6q061.png final confrontation]] between Heydrich and Himmler upon the former's victory in the Second German Civil War. Despite Heydrich being one of the worst Nazis in both our world and TNO's, seeing Himmler break down in front of Heydrich and [[KickTheSonOfABitch Heydrich's response]] before killing him was very satisfying.

*** You also have Alexander Men, a charismatic faith preacher from Olomon who forms a Divine Mandate within the remote villages in Siberia. If Men succeeds, he will turn Russia into a benevolent near-anarchist state that runs on Christian ideals without forcing it on anyone - Jews, Muslims, atheists, minority ethnic groups, even sexual minorities - from one of the hardest starts in all Russia. And if the last obstacle to reunification happens to be the Taboritsky's waking-nightmare Holy Russian Empire, [[https://i.redd.it/dv7q460qij361.png Men will]] denounce the mad regent as TheAntichrist and declare a holy war, [[GoodIsNotSoft proving that even the Lord's mercy has its limits]].

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*** You also have [[spoiler:Alexander Men, a charismatic faith preacher from Olomon who forms a Divine Mandate within the remote villages in Siberia. If Men succeeds, he will turn Russia into a benevolent near-anarchist state that runs on Christian ideals without forcing it on anyone - Jews, Muslims, atheists, minority ethnic groups, even sexual minorities - from one of the hardest starts in all Russia. And if the last obstacle to reunification happens to be the Taboritsky's waking-nightmare Holy Russian Empire, [[https://i.redd.it/dv7q460qij361.png Men will]] denounce the mad regent as TheAntichrist and declare a holy war, [[GoodIsNotSoft proving that even the Lord's mercy has its limits]].]]

** Most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbPUG1MzXp0&t=716s music for superevents announcing Russian reunification]] is appropriately upbeat and awesome, denoting the dawn of a new era.

* 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]].

** 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!]]

** On a similar note, there are two events that fire if Yazov's Omsk/West Siberian Provisional Authority is victorious over the [[BoomerangBigot Aryan Brotherhood]] or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Rodzaevsky's Amur/All-Russian Government of the Far East]]. For [[https://i.redd.it/fb9jbwtsk4v51.png the former]], [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene members of the Black League line up AB soldiers to gun down and bury in mass graves]], while the "[[{{LARP}} Aryans]]" [[AintTooProudToBeg pitifully beg for their lives]] [[PoirotSpeak in their butchered version of the German language]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards to which the Black League troops scoff in disgust at them using a foreign tongue they consider a threat to the Russian people]]. Not a single AB member is described as going out with a stoic demeanor, as every single one has their own breakdown before execution. For [[https://i.redd.it/tnsysk6l4ia61.jpg the latter]], [[ThePurge the Black League utterly decimates Rodzaevsky's fascist blackshirts]], [[PublicExecution hanging them en masse]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard on the very gallows Rodzaevsky executed all of his starting enemies upon]], whether the fascists [[AintTooProudToBeg begged for their lives]], [[BlatantLies plead ignorance]], outright used the JustFollowingOrders excuse, or occasionally [[FaceDeathWithDignity said nothing in regards to their executions]]--all while [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing the crowds openly celebrate the slaughter]]. While these events still make no bones about [[VillainProtagonist how destructive the Black League is]], [[PayEvilUntoEvil it also gives a sick catharsis when they deliver that destruction unto the handful of factions that are objectively worse than they are]].

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwpJ38ARpuc Fall Schwarz event]], where [[EnemyCivilWar Goring invades Burgundy]], is appropriately scored with [[PsychoStrings a hectic violin section]] from "Devil's Trill Sonata", symbolizing the frenzied fighting between [[EvilVersusOblivion Goring's world-conquering Reich, and Himmler's nuclear extinctionist SS]] - bonus points in [[https://i.redd.it/kcdwcv10rgu51.png the news event]] that plays if [[BeyondTheImpossible Goring somehow defeats Burgundy before they're able to retaliate with nuclear MAD]], where [[PayEvilUntoEvil Goring drags the beaten and disshelved Himmler and his cronies to Germania]], [[KangarooCourt immediately pronounces them guilty for every crime they attempted against the Reich]], [[PublicExecution publicly hangs them]], [[DeadGuyOnDisplay leaves their bodies up for the people to see for a few days]], and then [[DisposingOfABody burns their corpses in the streets]], [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing all while Goring and the rest of Germany celebrate defeating not just the worst threat to Germany, but humanity as a whole]].

* 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, and hopefully Nazism with him.

** On a similar note, there are two events that fire if Yazov's Omsk/West Siberian Provisional Authority is victorious over the [[BoomerangBigot Aryan Brotherhood]] or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Rodzaevsky's Amur/All-Russian Government of the Far East]]. For [[https://i.redd.it/fb9jbwtsk4v51.png the former]], [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene members of the Black League line up AB soldiers to gun down and bury in mass graves]], while the "[[{{LARP}} Aryans]]" [[AintTooProudToBeg pitifully beg for their lives]] [[PoirotSpeak in their butchered version of the German language]], ([[EvenEvilHasStandards to which the Black League troops scoff in disgust at them using a foreign tongue they consider a threat to the Russian people]]). Not a single AB member is described as going out with a stoic demeanor, as every single one has their own breakdown before execution. For [[https://i.redd.it/tnsysk6l4ia61.jpg the latter]], [[ThePurge the Black League utterly decimates Rodzaevsky's fascist blackshirts]], [[PublicExecution hanging them en masse]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard on the very gallows Rodzaevsky executed all of his starting enemies upon]], whether the fascists [[AintTooProudToBeg begged for their lives]], [[BlatantLies plead ignorance]], outright used the JustFollowingOrders excuse, or occasionally [[FaceDeathWithDignity said nothing in regards to their executions]]--all while [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing the crowds openly celebrate the slaughter]]. While these events still make no bones about [[VillainProtagonist how destructive the Black League is]], [[PayEvilUntoEvil it also gives a sick catharsis when they deliver that destruction unto the handful of factions that are objectively worse than they are]].

* During the planning stage of Fall Rockwell, Goring will attempt to ally with Cuba and Haiti by sending the leaders of both nations a letter which gives them praise and offering them to join the Einheitspakt. Both Fidel Castro and François Duvalier reply with a heavy dose of "[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech reason you suck]]", with Castro calling Goring's fascism "infinitely worse than any American brand of capitalism" and Duvalier pointing out Goring's hypocrisy in criticizing French imperialism while also holding dominion over half the globe.

** On a similar note, there are two events that fire if Yazov's Omsk/West Siberian Provisional Authority is victorious over the [[BoomerangBigot Aryan Brotherhood]] or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Rodzaevsky's Amur/All-Russian Government of the Far East]] - for [[https://i.redd.it/fb9jbwtsk4v51.png the former]], [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene members of the Black League line up AB soldiers to gun down and bury in mass graves]], while the "[[{{LARP}} Aryans]]" [[AintTooProudToBeg pitifully beg for their lives]] [[PoirotSpeak in their butchered version of the German language]] ([[EvenEvilHasStandards to which the Black League troops scoff in disgust at them using a foreign tongue they consider a threat to the Russian people]]). For [[https://i.redd.it/tnsysk6l4ia61.jpg the later]], [[ThePurge the Black League utterly decimates Rodzaevsky's fascist blackshirts]], [[PublicExecution hanging them en masse]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard on the very gallows Rodzaevsky executed all of his starting enemies upon]], whether the fascists [[AintTooProudToBeg begged for their lives]], [[BlatantLies plead ignorance]], outright used the JustFollowingOrders excuse, or occasionally [[FaceDeathWithDignity said nothing in regards to their executions]] - all while [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing the crowds openly celebrate the slaughter]]. While these events still make no bones about [[VillainProtagonist how destructive the Black League is]], [[PayEvilUntoEvil it also gives a sick catharsis when they deliver that destruction unto the handful of factions that are objectively worse than they are]].

---> ''Who, if not us?''