Здравствуйте товарищи! - Greetings comrades! And welcome to a new Hearts of Iron 4 Dev Diary! I hope that you are all having a great summer, and that you are prepared for a little reading, because...
Great Man BS aside, I'm not really that bothered by this, given how much worse it could have been handled, seeing PDX's treatment of Socialism/Communism in general. At least it's not HOI4 now, where "Stalin is a big evil doo-doo head but also there's a civil war if he isn't enough of one". The biggest worry is that the gameplay is going to just end up dull, since not having your best advisors and generals purged at the cost of some mana is the obvious choice.
(Also, obligatory "Stalin did bad stuff and shouldn't be uncritically lionized" take)
Great Man BS aside, I'm not really that bothered by this, given how much worse it could have been handled, seeing PDX's treatment of Socialism/Communism in general. At least it's not HOI4 now, where "Stalin is a big evil doo-doo head but also there's a civil war if he isn't enough of one". The biggest worry is that the gameplay is going to just end up dull, since not having your best advisors and generals purged at the cost of some mana is the obvious choice.
(Also, obligatory "Stalin did bad stuff and shouldn't be uncritically lionized" take)