tossi
Der kleine Prinz
OOC: I'm out. This NES has become tiresome to me. I just don't have the motivation to invest further time into this.
Brazil is free.
Sorry @my allies
Brazil is free.
Sorry @my allies
In the Shadow of Rome
- Thread starter EQandcivfanatic
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IronMan2055
Korra 2011
TO: Columbia, Venezuela
From: Japan
The Japanese see no purpose to continue the war as many more deaths where caused to repay so little, our forces are pulling out and ending the blockade.
From: Japan
The Japanese see no purpose to continue the war as many more deaths where caused to repay so little, our forces are pulling out and ending the blockade.
Warman, the plan only included the Confederacy.
sorry to see you leave tossi
i did some earlier today, the rest will be later, its been a very busy day.
To: USER
From: CSA
You provoke an attempted coup within our nation and ask us for help? Nuts.
sorry to see you leave tossi
i did some earlier today, the rest will be later, its been a very busy day.
To: USER
From: CSA
You provoke an attempted coup within our nation and ask us for help? Nuts.
IronMan2055
Korra 2011
how many hours untill the maps ready?
freakonomic
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2006
- Messages
- 22
To the CSA (secret)
Gentlemen, the communists have attacked. If USER is able to achieve hegemony over Europe, then they will have the freedom to try again. That is why I suggest that you give your full support to the fight against USER, any technology you can share, any money you can give, any troops you can commit will bring the world closer to peace.
If USER can defeat her opponents here, she will send herself abroad. The next communist attack on the CSA will NOT fail.
Our best wishes
Kingdom of Sweden-Norway
Gentlemen, the communists have attacked. If USER is able to achieve hegemony over Europe, then they will have the freedom to try again. That is why I suggest that you give your full support to the fight against USER, any technology you can share, any money you can give, any troops you can commit will bring the world closer to peace.
If USER can defeat her opponents here, she will send herself abroad. The next communist attack on the CSA will NOT fail.
Our best wishes
Kingdom of Sweden-Norway
das
Regeneration In Process
Just thought I'd mention that I have indeed decided to take Russia. Its been a while since my last world war...
Okay, back to updating ITNES!
Okay, back to updating ITNES!
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNION OF SOVIET EQUAL REPUBLICS
Comrades of the Soviet Union! I Benito Mussolini, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Union have come to declare a great triumph in the international fight against those who seek to enslave the people in the chains of oppression once more!
The great Soviet people with their Committern and Free American allies have struck a hefty blow against the imperialists, capitalists and fascists that have brought such hate and despair to this world. Even as I speak nations around the world are being liberated from oppression and new communist revolutions have begun. This is indeed the Worldwide revolution that Marx spoke of in the Communist Manifesto.
Already brothers in Canada, California, the Yucatan, South America, Yugoslavia, Greece, France, Indochina, China, Georgia, Finland and the list goes on have risen up and thrown down the shackles that the capitalists had enslaved them with and have taken to the streets. It is every Soviet citizen's duty to ensure that the proletariat and the people are successful in their worldwide struggle against tyranny
IronMan2055
Korra 2011
To: The World
From: Japan
We, the Japanese people are supporting the Axis we will be awaiting instructions from Germany.
From: Japan
We, the Japanese people are supporting the Axis we will be awaiting instructions from Germany.
jeps
Arcadefire
To PRE
CC: USER
From Scotland
We wish to assure you we shall not commit any acts that could be interpreted as an invasion or act of war. I can tell you in advance that we shall be building a navy and land defensive perimeter, but this is because of the wars in the world and the fact that many Scottish civilians are afraid that we shall go the same way as Ireland. We will not do anything to disturb the peace of the British Isles, and unlike Austria, we shall be a truly NEUTRAL nation of the world.
CC: USER
From Scotland
We wish to assure you we shall not commit any acts that could be interpreted as an invasion or act of war. I can tell you in advance that we shall be building a navy and land defensive perimeter, but this is because of the wars in the world and the fact that many Scottish civilians are afraid that we shall go the same way as Ireland. We will not do anything to disturb the peace of the British Isles, and unlike Austria, we shall be a truly NEUTRAL nation of the world.
das
Regeneration In Process
Many enough had at some point asked the question "who is Nikolai Gagarin?", although after a while it became either redundant or rhetorical, depending on how do you look on it. "So, who is this... Gagarin?" - asked an old nobleman in 1929, while reading a social chronicle reprinted in some provincial newspaper; his butler, who too had been trying to keep up with St. Petersburg, replied immediately: "Oh, cadet line, cadet line - some distant relative of Grigory Grigoryevich, your highnobleness". "Gagarin?" - asked a baffled old capitalist in 1932 - "A relative of the painter?"; his banker, eager to assist, said - "Some distant relative... But his company's stocks ARE going up. A bright young man, they say. Has a good mind for business... Yes, I'd recommend an investment." "And who is that dashing young man that arrived two days ago?" - inquired an American lady a few days before the ball at the Russian embassy in 1935; her friend, another lady, said that it was "Nicholas Gagarine", a Russian nobleman from an impoverished, but ancient family, who however had single-handedly recovered his fortunes and become one of Russia's most prominent industrialists - and a great dancer, too, they say. "Gagarin? Gagarin?" - asked the nervous Ostzean engineer in early 1936 - "Wasn't he in the light industries?" "No, not at all!" - his Russian friend exclaimed enthusiastically - "He is interested in mechanics now, he already has several automobile factories, and I am sure that I could get him for you - Gagarin is the most open-minded of them all! I know, one of my friends worked with his men. They are making use of every innovation in the field..." "But it IS more useful for the military..." "So? Gagarin works with the military! I already said - he thinks in the long-term! And the long-term future is with the military!" "Very well..." - the man who will soon became famous as the inventor of the T-21 agreed. And lastly, in late October 1936, a very tall, prematurely-white haired man paced back and forth, back and forth in the Gatchina, and mumbled to himself, asking himself: "Menshikov?.. Gurko?.. Ivanov?.. Canailes, they're all too regional, too specialized! Too shortsighted, with their intrigues and whatnot... Too... too stupid!" The Autocrator of the Entire Russia paced back and forth some more, and suddenly stopped, and muttered: "Gagarin? Gagarin! He will do!"
But few had ever asked "WHAT is Nikolai Gagarin?", which is at least as good a question as the aforementioned one.
Well, first of all, he was indeed a nobleman from an ancient family that could trace its ancestry to Rurik, and as a distinct branch - to Prince Ivan I of Starodub, son of Grand Prince Vsevolod III of Vladimir. The Gagarins excelled and thrived through the ages; in Muscovite days, they were amongst the most powerful of boyars. In early 19th century, a Gagarin, Nikolai Sergeevich, was one of Tsar Nicholas I's early collaborators, and had held many important positions; he was killed by his forest warden for alleged abuse. Later in the century, a Gagarin from a completely different branch (by then there were at least four major ones), Grigory Grigoryevich, was the vice-president of the Imperial Academy of Arts, and himself a great artisan, one of the most prolific 19th century Russian painters. Gagarins remained relatively wealthy and powerful into the 20th century, but there they faded overtime, until Nikolai Aleksandrovich Gagarin, from some fairly minor branch, came into the play.
He was a nobleman from an ancient, still prominent, but now impoverished family. That description matched tens of thousands all over Russia. Yet himself, Gagarin was less similar to them, and more to the early 19th century playwright, pianist and statesman, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov - though few had ventured to compare them, which is strange, as, actual life and career aside, the two were most similar in character - equally bitter, proud, contemptous of those around them... equally brilliant, perhaps. And though the manner and extent of their ascendancy was very different, both were indeed such "ruined aristocrats" - that suddenly jumped up in an outburst of energy that has been gathering in their genes for generations.
Gagarin was a complete orphan since he was three - his parents died in a train crash. Fortunately, he was taken care of by his uncle. He did not seem too promising at first; though definitely smart, Gagarin seemed fairly average, and passed through school and university alike moderately well, but not much more. It was only when he had moved away from his Ryazanite uncle to the industrial center of Nizhny Novgorod that his otherwise-predictable life course changed. Getting a secondary education, he begun speculating in the stock market actively, and also gambled, and participated in lotteries... He wasn't always lucky - but he was more often lucky than not, and gathered up a considerable capital quickly. In 1924, he founded his company... The rest was a story of success.
Nikolai Gagarin was a wealthy capitalist, a succesful industrialist, one of the many in the rapidly-developing Russian Empire. He didn't fit the stereotypes here neither, though. His own countenance and physical form were NOT those of a bourgoise - no, in that regard he definitely was an aristocrat, and a Russian aristocrat at that, one of that insanely calm breed that once again made it fashion to kill and die with a pale face and a sarcastic smile, that had invented the famous roulette named for the land of its habitation. He looked like such a nobleman, but inside there was a difference - he was calm there as well, and never despaired, and never particularily looked for his death - for unlike those dead-bored aristocrats, he had something to do, an empire to build. He had a pragmatical, rational mind of a capitalist; yet he was very aristocratic and very unbourgoise in his constant readiness to take risks, as long as they served a goal. He risked; he gambled; and he triumphed, buying and building a web of all sorts of factories, only his web was made as much by gradual, dull, routine work as it was by bold, daring strokes. His brilliance consisted in being able to do both, to be both an aristocrat (a role that he had confirmed by temporarily moving to St. Petersburg, and mingling with the people there) and an industrialist.
But ofcourse he was not the only such man; no, he was part of the new, rising Russian "young guard" of "New Russians" or "New Nobles" - a new political and economic elite, which consisted of bright, innovative, smug, arrogant young men, of noble origins and capitalist means, and titanic goals. These men were unstoppable due to their willpower and daring; they were NEW, and they were also utterly unprincipled and amoral - not that they were evil in private life, in fact many of them were quite pious and noble-minded, but their careers were made by making the most of all advantages that could be found, by going against tradition, by catching the Devil by his horns and riding him to prosperity and power until he dropped and they found some different mount. They were the personifications of Nietzche's ideals, for they considered themselves, not without reason, to be above good and evil; they had huge ambitions and delusions of grandeur, and were willing and able to do lots and lots to satisfy them. Boldly they advanced, outracing the "old guard" and taking advantage of Russia's social enthropy and political reformation to charge into the Gosduma and the stock market. They did not stop there, and continued seeking more power, more wealth, and in perspective already planned to become Russia's Napoleons.
Nikolai Gagarin wasn't quite like them. The origins and the means matched, but the goals varied. Gagarin waited out. He was content to be "one of" Russia's key industrialists; yes, he grew more and more prosperous, but he did not go out of his way to reach the top. Indeed, after a while, he had cooled to economic management itself, and left much of the routine to his various assistants. Himself, he spent the early 1930s socializing - in St. Petersburg, in Europe's capitals (even Rome, where he came just in time to watch the Revolution and left just fast enough to avoid any potential unwanted consequences), then further abroad... But it wasn't just socializing - he also used the time to win friends and influence people, and also in this time showed a very wide range of interest in technology. Curious, he talked with inventors and scientists all over the world, and came back with some new cadres and lots, lots of new ideas. In 1935, his economic empire got yet another push - he switched to heavy industry. And in particular, to MILITARY industry...
Thus by October 1936 Nikolai Gagarin had become an abstract concept as well as an unique great man. What was Nikolai Gagarin? He was the link. He linked together technology, economy, society, politics, the military, the aristocracy, the capitalists, the old guard (through the many friends he had had time to make in its ranks), the new guard... He was at Russia's center, and nobody, nothing escaped the effects of his influence. He reached into every facet of Russia's society with his tentacles, and did not let go, and nobody asked him to... for few noticed.
One final distinguishing trait was added to our hero's character (at least, as perceived by the society) only on November 1st 1936, and did so completely out of the blue as far as those who didn't know Gagarin and/or the Russian economic situation well thought. On that day, the Gosduma ratified the "Universal Mobilization Dekret"; amongst other things, it created the All-Russian Economic-Industrial Congress (VEIK), centered in the Lower Novgorod. And Nikolai Gagarin was appointed chairman over the Congress, thus suddenly going into official politics, gaining considerable political and economic power and influence and soon becoming, along with Tsar George II, Graf Avalov, Graf Barykin, Knyaz Dolokhov and Oleg Nelepin, one of Russia's "Big Six" who formed a semi-official war council and, under the conditions of martial law, national emergency and the Universal Mobilization, enjoyed absolute power in one of the world's greatest countries - engaged in one of the world's greatest and most decisive military conflicts. Gagarin's tentacles stretched out to grasp all of the world now. And he would not let go.
Nikolai Gagarin was not a fanatical anti-communist, a power-hungry intriguer or a sincere patriot; no, he was a pragmatic, somewhat cynical man who may have shouted out anti-communist and nationalist slogans, but personally had no inflexible convictions, except one - his life stance, which remained unknown to all. Above all, he was a player. And behind his smug smile of November 1936 was the knowledge that, win or lose, he had finally gotten what he wanted. For the world was his playground now.
But few had ever asked "WHAT is Nikolai Gagarin?", which is at least as good a question as the aforementioned one.
Well, first of all, he was indeed a nobleman from an ancient family that could trace its ancestry to Rurik, and as a distinct branch - to Prince Ivan I of Starodub, son of Grand Prince Vsevolod III of Vladimir. The Gagarins excelled and thrived through the ages; in Muscovite days, they were amongst the most powerful of boyars. In early 19th century, a Gagarin, Nikolai Sergeevich, was one of Tsar Nicholas I's early collaborators, and had held many important positions; he was killed by his forest warden for alleged abuse. Later in the century, a Gagarin from a completely different branch (by then there were at least four major ones), Grigory Grigoryevich, was the vice-president of the Imperial Academy of Arts, and himself a great artisan, one of the most prolific 19th century Russian painters. Gagarins remained relatively wealthy and powerful into the 20th century, but there they faded overtime, until Nikolai Aleksandrovich Gagarin, from some fairly minor branch, came into the play.
He was a nobleman from an ancient, still prominent, but now impoverished family. That description matched tens of thousands all over Russia. Yet himself, Gagarin was less similar to them, and more to the early 19th century playwright, pianist and statesman, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov - though few had ventured to compare them, which is strange, as, actual life and career aside, the two were most similar in character - equally bitter, proud, contemptous of those around them... equally brilliant, perhaps. And though the manner and extent of their ascendancy was very different, both were indeed such "ruined aristocrats" - that suddenly jumped up in an outburst of energy that has been gathering in their genes for generations.
Gagarin was a complete orphan since he was three - his parents died in a train crash. Fortunately, he was taken care of by his uncle. He did not seem too promising at first; though definitely smart, Gagarin seemed fairly average, and passed through school and university alike moderately well, but not much more. It was only when he had moved away from his Ryazanite uncle to the industrial center of Nizhny Novgorod that his otherwise-predictable life course changed. Getting a secondary education, he begun speculating in the stock market actively, and also gambled, and participated in lotteries... He wasn't always lucky - but he was more often lucky than not, and gathered up a considerable capital quickly. In 1924, he founded his company... The rest was a story of success.
Nikolai Gagarin was a wealthy capitalist, a succesful industrialist, one of the many in the rapidly-developing Russian Empire. He didn't fit the stereotypes here neither, though. His own countenance and physical form were NOT those of a bourgoise - no, in that regard he definitely was an aristocrat, and a Russian aristocrat at that, one of that insanely calm breed that once again made it fashion to kill and die with a pale face and a sarcastic smile, that had invented the famous roulette named for the land of its habitation. He looked like such a nobleman, but inside there was a difference - he was calm there as well, and never despaired, and never particularily looked for his death - for unlike those dead-bored aristocrats, he had something to do, an empire to build. He had a pragmatical, rational mind of a capitalist; yet he was very aristocratic and very unbourgoise in his constant readiness to take risks, as long as they served a goal. He risked; he gambled; and he triumphed, buying and building a web of all sorts of factories, only his web was made as much by gradual, dull, routine work as it was by bold, daring strokes. His brilliance consisted in being able to do both, to be both an aristocrat (a role that he had confirmed by temporarily moving to St. Petersburg, and mingling with the people there) and an industrialist.
But ofcourse he was not the only such man; no, he was part of the new, rising Russian "young guard" of "New Russians" or "New Nobles" - a new political and economic elite, which consisted of bright, innovative, smug, arrogant young men, of noble origins and capitalist means, and titanic goals. These men were unstoppable due to their willpower and daring; they were NEW, and they were also utterly unprincipled and amoral - not that they were evil in private life, in fact many of them were quite pious and noble-minded, but their careers were made by making the most of all advantages that could be found, by going against tradition, by catching the Devil by his horns and riding him to prosperity and power until he dropped and they found some different mount. They were the personifications of Nietzche's ideals, for they considered themselves, not without reason, to be above good and evil; they had huge ambitions and delusions of grandeur, and were willing and able to do lots and lots to satisfy them. Boldly they advanced, outracing the "old guard" and taking advantage of Russia's social enthropy and political reformation to charge into the Gosduma and the stock market. They did not stop there, and continued seeking more power, more wealth, and in perspective already planned to become Russia's Napoleons.
Nikolai Gagarin wasn't quite like them. The origins and the means matched, but the goals varied. Gagarin waited out. He was content to be "one of" Russia's key industrialists; yes, he grew more and more prosperous, but he did not go out of his way to reach the top. Indeed, after a while, he had cooled to economic management itself, and left much of the routine to his various assistants. Himself, he spent the early 1930s socializing - in St. Petersburg, in Europe's capitals (even Rome, where he came just in time to watch the Revolution and left just fast enough to avoid any potential unwanted consequences), then further abroad... But it wasn't just socializing - he also used the time to win friends and influence people, and also in this time showed a very wide range of interest in technology. Curious, he talked with inventors and scientists all over the world, and came back with some new cadres and lots, lots of new ideas. In 1935, his economic empire got yet another push - he switched to heavy industry. And in particular, to MILITARY industry...
Thus by October 1936 Nikolai Gagarin had become an abstract concept as well as an unique great man. What was Nikolai Gagarin? He was the link. He linked together technology, economy, society, politics, the military, the aristocracy, the capitalists, the old guard (through the many friends he had had time to make in its ranks), the new guard... He was at Russia's center, and nobody, nothing escaped the effects of his influence. He reached into every facet of Russia's society with his tentacles, and did not let go, and nobody asked him to... for few noticed.
One final distinguishing trait was added to our hero's character (at least, as perceived by the society) only on November 1st 1936, and did so completely out of the blue as far as those who didn't know Gagarin and/or the Russian economic situation well thought. On that day, the Gosduma ratified the "Universal Mobilization Dekret"; amongst other things, it created the All-Russian Economic-Industrial Congress (VEIK), centered in the Lower Novgorod. And Nikolai Gagarin was appointed chairman over the Congress, thus suddenly going into official politics, gaining considerable political and economic power and influence and soon becoming, along with Tsar George II, Graf Avalov, Graf Barykin, Knyaz Dolokhov and Oleg Nelepin, one of Russia's "Big Six" who formed a semi-official war council and, under the conditions of martial law, national emergency and the Universal Mobilization, enjoyed absolute power in one of the world's greatest countries - engaged in one of the world's greatest and most decisive military conflicts. Gagarin's tentacles stretched out to grasp all of the world now. And he would not let go.
Nikolai Gagarin was not a fanatical anti-communist, a power-hungry intriguer or a sincere patriot; no, he was a pragmatic, somewhat cynical man who may have shouted out anti-communist and nationalist slogans, but personally had no inflexible convictions, except one - his life stance, which remained unknown to all. Above all, he was a player. And behind his smug smile of November 1936 was the knowledge that, win or lose, he had finally gotten what he wanted. For the world was his playground now.
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
Do we get a map?
IronMan2055
Korra 2011
^ hopefully much diplomacy is stopped because of it not being here.
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
EQ hasnt been online for 5 days now... Hope all is alright with you.
IronMan2055
Korra 2011
either he's sick again or it's the wii
carmen510
Deity
In ONE WEEK AWAY, there's a communist takeover????
Anyways, I'll be away, again......
To USER
So how exactly did you stage the revolution?
Also, I'ma neutral baby!
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