History Fridge / TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope

* The upcoming patch that adds content to Poland and Ukraine is named "Lech i Rus," after the tale of the three Slavic brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus, who went on to create Poland, Czechia, and Ukraine respectively. What happened to Czech? The General Government and Reichskommissariat Ukraine still have their pre-occupation cultures. Bohemia and Moravia on the other hand...

** Even in a reformist Japan under Kōno Ichirō and his successors, elements of the old system such as the Co-Prosperity Sphere and Pan-Asianism would still persist by virtue of there being no destructive defeat to discredit them. On the other hand, a reform-minded direction would would give the Japanese a chance [[BecomingTheMask to live up to the rhetoric]] and prove their naysayers wrong.

*** Japan and the Sphere are constantly teetering on the brink of chaos, always at risk of a change in leadership - often violent. If the [=IJA=] specifically ends the [=YSK=], it pulls troops out of their international deployments worldwide to secure its coup at home, giving Germany much needed breathing room. In the United States, while a Yockey presidency will likely not last too long, Phyllis Schlafly coming to power will also cripple America's ability to counter Speer on the world stage, as her administration struggles to understand why the United States should concern itself with foreign affairs as much as it used to.
*** One could argue that in a world where Dengist Speer takes over Germany and defeats his opponents, a Chinese victory in the Great Asian War could ultimately end up a NiceJobBreakingItHero moment, especially if the newly independent China aligns itself with Germany in the aftermath of its victory.

* Suslov is clearly the Russian unifier who moves the restored Soviet Union closest to what it was in the 70s in our timeline, with a more bureaucratic style of collective leadership while shying well away from outright liberalization. The move away from Bukharin-era (read: Stalin-era) personalism is reflected in the fact that he's the only Soviet restorationist to put a plain hammer and sickle on his flag and have it be the post-Stalin version rather than the version with a rounder and more prominent sickle used in both TNO and OTL during the war years, which is what Stalinists and Bukharinists favor in TNO.

* Trying to pull off the same pace of reforms seen by a successful Gang of Four in Germany doesn't quite work the same way in Japan, despite what some elements of the Taisei Yokusankai (especially Takagi) would want. Given that in TNO, Japan has been under decades of militarist influence, followed by the codifying of that status quo under a nominally civilian government, it'd make sense that any genuine push for democracy or liberal reform would have to be both much more gradual and consistent with Japanese nationalism in order for it to sink in among a repressed society. In that respect, a successful drive [[AllohistoricalAllusion would not be too unlike Postwar Japan in OTL]].

* While Taboritsky's regime is already horrifying enough, the international repercussions of its collapse is probably going to be horrible in unexpected ways as the collapse, with how it utterly and completely destroys the idea of a united Russia, means that Germany, with a united Russia permanently destroyed, has its eastern flank secured [[TheBadGuyWins and possibly win the Cold War]] [[PragmaticVillainy under competent and pragmatic leadership]], especially if America and Japan find themselves having their own troubles in this period. In fact, one could argue that in a world where Taboritsky unifies Russia and Dengist Speer takes over Germany and defeats his opponents, a Chinese victory in the Great Asian War could ultimately end up a NiceJobBreakingItHero moment, especially if the newly independent China aligns itself with Germany in the aftermath of its victory.

** It gets worse with how the IJA's repression is directed not just against local ethnic Chinese but against other Japanese in the elimination of the top corporate executives and business leaders in Guangdong, with apparently little in the way of outrage at how even ''wealthy Japanese'' are not safe from the IJA's wrath. This also implies that Komai's ideas about the Japanese in Guangdong being "soft" and "uncultured brutes" are more popular than one assumes with this being arguably an example of how those in the colonial metropole have often looked down on those who stay too long in the colonies as having in some way or another lost track of their roots.

* Tokyo does nothing about Nagano’s brutal repression on Guangdong Riots and IJA’s takeover of Guangdong, even under moderate Takagi government. It is a fridge horror in the sense that it shows that even if Japan democratizes under Takagi, Empire of Japan would fundamentally be the same as Empire of Japan which committed war crimes like Nanjing Massacre and Unit 731 during World War 2.

* The 22nd Amendment was never ratified in the US in [=TNO=] limiting terms to two, imagine what a truly vile president like Yockey or Schafly (who is rather young at the start of her presidency) could do without such limits......