Kurt Eisner, born on this day in 1867, was a German socialist revolutionary and radical journalist who was assassinated by a far-right nationalist while serving as head of the People's State of Bavaria.
Kurt Eisner, born to a Jewish family in Berlin, was a revolutionary German socialist, radical journalist, and theater critic. Before leading the People's State of Bavaria, he worked as a journalist in Marburg, Nuremberg, and Munich. In the early 1890s, Eisner served nine months in prison for writing an article that attacked Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In 1918, Eisner was convicted of treason for his role in inciting a strike of munitions workers. He spent nine months in Cell 70 of Stadelheim Prison, but was released during the General Amnesty in October of that year.
Following his release from prison, Eisner helped organize the revolution that overthrew the Bavarian monarchy, declaring Bavaria to be a free state and republic. Despite Eisner's socialist politics, he explicitly distanced the movement from the Bolsheviks and promised to uphold property rights.
On February 21st, 1919, while on his way to deliver his resignation to Parliament, Eisner was assassinated in Munich by a far-right German nationalist. Eisner's murder made him a martyr for left-wing causes, and a period of lawlessness in Bavaria followed his death.
On the night of April 6th-7th, 1919, communists, encouraged by the news of the communist revolution in Hungary, declared a Soviet Republic, with Ernst Toller as chief of state. The Bavarian Soviet Republic was crushed by the right-wing German Freikorps.
Some of the military leaders of the Freikorps, including Rudolf Hess and Franz Ritter von Epp, would go on to become powerful figures in the Nazi Party. Ironically, Adolf Hitler himself marched in the funeral procession for Eisner, a Jew, wearing a red armband as a display of sympathy.
"Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse."
- Kurt Eisner
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So, EU 5 is gonna be real sometime in the "near" future, huh? Anybody else excited for 'Project Caesar'? I'm really looking forward to consequntial wars for the economy aspect. It was always very ahistorical how any 1500's country could field a permanent standing army numbering tens-of-thousands with seemingly no issue. Now that those pops are needed toiling away for m'lord
, sending them out to die is gonna be an overall bad idea unless victory is assured. Really, a more civic centered EU game is very appealing.
I'm tempering my expectations. The devlogs look great, but so did the Vic3 devlogs. Vic3 is pretty disappointing still, so....
Fair enough, Paradox games on release have a well earned reputation of being shaky at best, unplayable at worst. But at the same time, I kinda trust Johan, I think having Paradox Tinto be dedicated to the EU series allows them time and focus to make a good game. Well, any way the wind blows, it is but a matter of time until we see the true face of Project Caesar. I just really hope it's good
I hope it will be good, but so much of what made EU4 work for me was the personality that the state of the world gave the other countries, which is almost entirely an emergent property that could disappear with added complexity.
The good thing is that EU4 is for all intents and purposes a feature complete game with tons of replayability and modding support. So even if EU5 ends up being wildly different in structure due to the introduction of pops, places, manpower rework, etc., I think EU4 will remain as a viable game to play well after EU5's release. I guess the only thing someone might be "missing out" on would be general engine improvements, smarter AI and such.