Sorry for the delay, it's my birthday
The thing to remember is that when people talk about Fascism not being racist it's a statement relative to the baseline of the time. And the baseline of human behavior in general and western civilization in particular at that time is still very racist to our modern eye. This was a time when it was acceptable for progressive western democracies to both firmly espouse the ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality whilst at the same time maintaining massive colonial empires with a permanently oppressed nonwhite majority underclass in them. And this was not seen by anyone as a contradiction because to the than current mind it simply was not one.
The fact is that the policy of racial segregation was, in principle, atypical for Catholics. "Democratic Catholics"/the French, without batting an eye, gave full citizenship to the entire population of the West Indies back in the 1830s. Since the 1870s, Algerians could claim French citizenship, and then almost all residents of the new colonies received this right with a certain time interval.
"Decree No. 137 of the Government of National Defense of October 24, 1870, prepared by the Minister of Justice Adolphe Cremier, regulating the issue of naturalization of Algerian residents. According to him, an Algerian Muslim could become a full-fledged French citizen only if, upon reaching the age of 21 (in the absence of a criminal past), he wrote to the head of the Arab bureau of his district with a statement that he was under the jurisdiction not of local traditional law, but of French civil law. This provision was included in the "Code de l'endizhen" adopted on June 28, 1881, describing the system of colonial administration in Algeria, India and Indochina. According to the Code, the entire local population of the colonies was divided into two large categories: evolution and originals. The former were full citizens of France, the latter were non–assimilated residents of the colonies. To move from one category to another, it was necessary to be able to read and write in French, and to come under the jurisdiction of French civil law"..
In Portugal, the same scheme has been in effect since 1910.
After the First World War, the British began to give up the positions of the white masters.
That is, all this is no longer fashionable.
The whole Russian Civil war is a fascinating era of political and social experimentation containing everything from anarchist socialism and anarchist ultranationalism to well just about everything else. One could spend a lifetime studding it and not get the whole picture.
Yes, I get carried away too
At the same time, the nuance is that
a) the Leninists were actually already quite marginal within the framework of the second International, as discussed below.
b) following the results of the revolution, they themselves perfectly realized their break with the rest of the socialists, creating the 3rd International.
I basically feel that the Stalin vs Lenin dynamic is much like that between Cesar and Augustus.
In general, you are right, but… The nuance is that the Soviet model acquired its most radical forms already during the Civil War (military communism). At the same time, the preservation of small-peasant land use was considered as an annoying compromise, and in 1920-21 the Bolsheviks already tried to carry out quasi-collectivization in the Crimea with the usual result in the form of famine on the peninsula. The NEP was seen as a rollback. Thus, Stalin simply returned to the uncompromising model (however, the last remnants of "entrepreneurship" were already finished off under Khrushchev). That is, the Soviet "principate" was already created by "Caesar", August simply had more opportunities to consistently design the model.
Plus I think that from a gameplay perspective it makes more sense to put Socialism and Liberalism, the two foundational ideology of mid-century Europe early rather than late on the research tree so that they have time to spread.
The fact is that it won't be too historical. The revolutionary Marxists were the guiding and guiding force in the left movement only from their own point of view. In fact, the First International was totally dominated by anarchists (63% against 31% among Marxists). In the second International, which broke away from the anarchist mainstream, reformists prevailed even before the First World War. He, in principle, has not gone anywhere – this is the Social International, with the Labor Party, etc. In general, supposedly mainstream Soviet-style Marxism is actually a "late religion". The latter are disliked by the mechanics of the vanilla game, but this does not prevent them from being extremely successful in reality. It seems to me that it's better to just remove this glitch. It is not difficult (high speed of distribution + at times cheaper missionaries).
in all cities
from Security Bureau, Prison etc.
