History Awesome / TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope

** John Glenn tries to reach out directly regarding nuclear disarmament, but when Bormann scoffs at the idea and turns the conversation to the renewed Space Race, boasting that Germany will have a man on Mars by the early eighties, Glenn's response fits the cool-headed former test pilot.
---> [[https://preview.redd.it/23hg1vyhgw961.png?width=549&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f402ca9caf046910d14968a78d533643a4a998b "That far away?" Glenn replied with a raised eyebrow.]]

** 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, 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.

-->God in Heaven; Trujillo Six Feet Under

** Most [[https://youtu.be/9mjbBXQxFMc music for superevents announcing Russian reunification]] is appropriately upbeat and awesome, denoting the dawn of a new era. Special attention is warranted by the [[https://youtu.be/9mjbBXQxFMc?t=547 Humanist Tomsk's]] theme (the appropriately martial but lively coda to Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11), [[https://youtu.be/9mjbBXQxFMc?t=951 liberal Vyatka's]] cheerfully raucous bar song, [[https://youtu.be/9mjbBXQxFMc?t=314 the Siberian Black Army's]] infinitely optimistic Ukrainian love song, and of course, [[https://youtu.be/9mjbBXQxFMc?t=175 Sablin's]] anti-authoritarian theme.

* S ticking 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 the reins of 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.

** 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 "the ugly man whose face is plastered all over their walls", and that the reason their terror bombing of Russia is born out of fear that a resurgent Russia would wipe their Reich from the face of the Earth.

** Later events hint that Krylov was ''actually sane all along'', and "Rurik II" 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 actual democracy.

** Most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbPUG1MzXp0&t=991s music for superevents announcing Russian reunification]] is appropriately upbeat and awesome, denoting the dawn of a new era. Special mention goes however to the People's Revolutionary Council as the part of ''V Put'' used for the superevent translates to this, symbolizing how they had risen from a small group of Red Army remnants in Mongolia and Tuva to the unifiers of all of Russia and how they will soon reclaim their lands:
--> "Let our foes remember this:
--> We are not threatening, but merely saying.
--> Together we crossed half the world.
--> If necessary, we will do it again."

* Mitchell [=WerBell=] III and his band of mercenaries could potentially take over Magadan, using it as a springboard for uniting the former USSR under an ideology that could be best described as a democratic [[Franchise/MetalGear Outer Heaven]], where soldiers are always needed. Not only do they have the means to pull this off, but they can actually ''succeed''.

* 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 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.

* 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.
** 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 the reins of 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.
*** 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 [[SaintlyChurch benevolent near-anarchist state that runs on Christian ideals without forcing it on anyone]]. Jews, Muslims, atheists, minority ethnic groups, any of his political opponents who are unwilling to violently and cruelly defend their ideals to the end, and even sexual minorities are all welcome in Men's free house of God, and 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 [[GoodIsNotSoft declare a holy war, proving that even the Lord's mercy has its limits]].
*** 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, 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 "Osvoboditel", "Emancipator" in Russian.

* 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 "the ugly man whose face is plastered all over their walls", and that the reason their terror bombing of Russia is born out of fear that a resurgent Russia would wipe their Reich from the face of the Earth.

* [[https://preview.redd.it/d9ida4k4bds81.png?width=2361&format=png&auto=webp&s=edeb42fb1ed220bad71a7e09c45ef298ebad85fa In ''Unfinished Business'', Free France will be able begin the liberation of France.]] After twenty years of exile, De Gaulle and his men will finally be coming home.

* 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]].

* 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.

*** 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 [[SaintlyChurch benevolent near-anarchist state that runs on Christian ideals without forcing it on anyone]]. Jews, Muslims, atheists, minority ethnic groups, even sexual minorities are all welcome in Men's free house of God, and 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 [[GoodIsNotSoft declare a holy war, proving that even the Lord's mercy has its limits]].

** 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 the reins of 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.

* [[https://imgur.com/gallery/QgylSB0 The entire journey of Steve]], an American tourist who decided to trek across the war-torn lands of Russia, from Kamchatka to the WRRF, alongside a local [[FriendlySniper sniper called Zoya]] whom he hired as his bodyguard. In their journey, they cross the territories of most of the Russian Warlords, collecting numerous friends and trinkets along the way, and coming incredible close to death many times traveling through [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Amur]], [[PoliceState Irkutsk]], [[DirtyCommunists Tyumen]], [[TotalitarianGangsterism Yugra]], [[FourthReich the Aryan Brotherhood]], among other [[WretchedHive horrible places]]. Should Steve make his journey intact however, he will then write a book about his experiences traveling Russia, titled "Across the Tundra", that quickly becomes a best seller. Talk about crazy adventures.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"One people will we be, — a band of brothers; No danger, no distress shall sunder us. We will be freemen as our fathers were, And sooner welcome death than live as slaves."'']]

** Most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbPUG1MzXp0&t=991s music for superevents announcing Russian reunification]] is appropriately upbeat and awesome, denoting the dawn of a new era. Special mention goes however to the People's Revolutionary Council as the part of ''V Put'' used for the superevent translates to, symbolizing how they had risen from a small group of Red Army remnants in Mongolia and Tuva to the unifiers of all of Russia and how they will soon reclaim their lands:

** Most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbPUG1MzXp0&t=991s music for superevents announcing Russian reunification]] is appropriately upbeat and awesome, denoting the dawn of a new era. Special mention goes however to the People's Revolutionary Council as the part of ''V Put'' used for the superevent translates to:
--> ''"Let our foes remember this:

--> If necessary, we will do it again."''

** Most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbPUG1MzXp0&t=991s music for superevents announcing Russian reunification]] is appropriately upbeat and awesome, denoting the dawn of a new era.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI7ql3JRJ5g superevent for Goering's invasion of Russia]] features ''Sacred War'' playing in the background, illustrating how the Russian people will fight to the bitter end as the Germans invade their country once more.

** Finally, and most beloved by the fandom, Curtis [=LeMay=] starts things off by swearing at Bormann, calling him "little Martin" to his face, and demanding he not bring his cameraman into the Office. The two [[SirSwearsALot infamously profane men]] immediately escalate the situation into a [[https://preview.redd.it/385ycnyhgw961.png?width=555&format=png&auto=webp&s=348690cb6e712dff2a4bbab486edfb50d44534e0 furious argument as bitter as it is hilarious]], with Bormann literally screaming so loudly that he nearly drowns out his own interpreter, and [=LeMay=] [[HistoricalInJoke uttering Khrushchev's immortal "We will bury you!" line]]. All while the cameras keep rolling, catching the whole thing.

* One of LBJ's event chains (provided you are sufficiently strong in resolve for Civil Rights and other Great Society policies) is the mobilization of the African American community as a new political force in America. It takes some effort, but it's possible with their support to flip Southern states away from the Segregationists (including voting out Strom Thurmond in 1966!) and make them a potent voice to be heard. It's a really cool feeling to see the previously marginalized community rally in the 1960s and fight back against discrimination

'''Heydrich:''' ''(as he unholsters his sidearm and takes off the safety)'' As did I.

* The least likely help for South Africa against the Nazi hordes arrives from the North, [[https://i.redd.it/om2smlzq08w41.jpg in the form of a hundred Russian volunteers]], all from different warlord-states with opposite alignments, throwing aside their differences to unite against a common foe and make sure what happened to their country will never happen to another.

* The final battle between [[TheCaligula Sergey Taboritsky]] and [[GoodShepherd Alexander Men]] (The Father) is this, should Men come out on top of course. Both of them were heavily teased warlords and secret paths, and their reveals showed them to be the complete opposites in terms of demeanor, with Taboritsky leading an AxCrazy Burgundian theocracy in one of Russia's worst paths while Men leads a tolerant and borderline anarchist state based on Christian love and egalitarianism in one of Russia's ''best'' paths. Thus, the final battle between Taboritsky and Men effectively turns into a battle not just for Russia's reunification, but Russia's ''soul'' as well, as what are effectively the worst and best interpretations of Christianity clash. The two also [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/k7r52u/alexander_mens_reaction_to_taboritskys_russia/ have a special event]], where Men fittingly [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech calling Taboritsky]] TheAntichrist before he rallies his forces to wipe out this abomination for good.

-->"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!]]"\\

* Extremely difficult to pull off, but if the OFN can both win out in the South Africa War ''and'' successfully decolonize and rebuild the continent, the result is a ton of resources and skyrocketing popularity for the president's party. By then, the US will have truly earned its national spirit's title of "The Last Bastion of Freedom".

* Bormann can choose to try to diplomatically realign the Reich with America against Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, capped off with a state visit. What happens next depends heavily on who the sitting president is, and whether or not they accept his offer. While Wallace and Thurmond are [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame left deeply uncomfortable by Bormann's praise for their racial policies]], and Bennet, fitting his low-drama attitude, just tries to move things along politely, every other possible president gets at least one good lick in when meeting Bormann in the White House.

** Second, Kennedy will [[https://preview.redd.it/7kfpj10igw961.png?width=548&format=png&auto=webp&s=83bb4ef84dae459a2b0004feed990e6efe90b426 obliquely criticize German slavery, then more than hold his own in an impromptu debate with Bormann in the White House garden]] (an AllohistoricalAllusion to his brother's "kitchen debates" with Khrushchev), earning the miserly Fuhrer's [[WorthyOpponent begrudging respect]] in the process.

** Kemerovo generally is sheer awesome. It's a monarchy under a former Soviet Colonel who [[NapoleonDelusion believes he is the reincarnation of a Viking prince who united Russia in medieval times]] (or put another way, it's like if [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton Emperor Norton I of the United States]] actually ''was'' a king with his own country rather than simply a well-liked eccentric celebrity). The guiding ideology of Rurik II'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, workers have rights and their workplace union has royal backing, the military is competent and well-equipped, and the R&D division produces weapons systems, computers and radar on par with the three superpowers. [[spoiler:Later events hint that Krylov was actually sane all along, and "Rurik II" 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 actual democracy.]]