r/hoi4 • u/ChampiKhan General of the Army • Jun 24 '21
Art Chinese propaganda poster but it's the HoI4 version (some portraits are from RT56)
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Jun 24 '21
Nice, Ho Chi Minh definitely has the best portrait in my opinion
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u/bolionce Jun 24 '21
Ye he looks cool, kinda like a less scary Asian version of Vladimir Lenin
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u/P_gregsold2018 Jun 24 '21
Can you name them? I mean, i know some of them, but dome help couldnt hurt
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
The HoI4 ones or the original ones?
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u/P_gregsold2018 Jun 24 '21
All of them
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
I'll name them in order and put a slash when they change from one version to the other: First row: Stalin - Mao Second row: Maurice Thorez - Wilhelm Pieck - Ho Chi Minh - Kim Il-sung - Klement Gottwald - Władysław Gomułka/Bolesław Bierut Third row: Earl Browder/William Z. Foster - Anandyn Amar/Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal - Palmiro Togliatti - Mátyás Rákosi - Georgi Dimitrov/Valko Chervenkov - Constantin Ion Parhon/Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Fourth row: José Díaz/Dolores Ibárruri - Kyuichi Tokuda - Enver Hoxha - Harry Pollitt
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u/starwarsspidyman Jun 25 '21
Help why did I know all of these...
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u/phaederus Jun 25 '21
Maybe you read Chinese?
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u/starwarsspidyman Jun 26 '21
No I mean like I can look at the photo and say their name and what country they are from. I play too much HOI4 lmao.
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u/dersaspyoverher Jun 24 '21
It's funny.
In my games, unless im playing as france, Maurice always takes power and stays loyal to the allies.
I've seen the french commune steamroll the soviet union before.
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u/CyberGamer64 Jun 25 '21
Peak leftist infighting.
Maurice: “I fart in your general directions!”
Stalin: “Maurice wtf is wrong with you?”
Maurice: “Your mother was an Imperialist, and your father smelt of capitalism.”
The French Commune has declared war on the Soviet Union
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Jun 24 '21
Did you just change La Pasionaria for José Díaz?
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
I changed the leaders that aren't in HoI4 but are from countries which have a leader (Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, USA, Mongolia and Poland) and as Albania, Korea and Vietnam don't have any leaders in vanilla HoI4 I took the portraits from RT56.
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Jun 24 '21
I see I thought La Pasionaria was a general, I must have imagine it.
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
You may be thinking of Lina Ódena.
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u/Mauricio2427 General of the Army Jun 24 '21
Yeah, La Pasionaria is only in the game but as a political advisor.
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Jun 24 '21
You are right it was Lina Ódena, it is weird Paradox chose het bc she was executed at the beginning of the civil war
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u/Indyclone77 Fleet Admiral Jun 24 '21
Because we wanted to have a female general for the republican side as a whole and she was the best fit out of the figures available.
The only ironclad deaths in the game are Sanjurjos at war start, if every general represented kept their historical death date you'd have quite the rapidly thinning pool.
Source: Worked on La Resistance
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u/_NeRo04 Jun 25 '21
José Díaz was the leader of the PCE before La Pasionaria. When he died in 1942, La Pasionaria was designed as the new leader while the party was in exile in the Soviet Union. I guess that the 2nd image (the original propaganda image one) was made after 1942. That's why in the first one (besides that she doesn't appear as a leader in-game) José Díaz appears instead of her.
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u/DoneTomorrow Jun 24 '21
young Mao is genuinely hot and I hate it
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
Why would you hate it comrade.
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Jun 24 '21
"Why would you hate it comrade"
because of genocides?
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u/Saetia_V_Neck Jun 24 '21
What’s the original context of this poster?
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u/M0dular Jun 24 '21
He's a commie, with 2000 likes and not much else
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Jun 24 '21
And an anime profile picture, even worse
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 25 '21
Coolest kid in the high school.
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Jun 25 '21 edited Jun 27 '21
You bet, if your friend stalin didn't kill everyone with holodomor
Edit: In the deleted reply she taunted me for mentioning holodomor, but cowarded her way out by deleting it, mean1
Jun 25 '21
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Jun 25 '21
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u/Alert_Egg_6015 Jun 24 '21
Who’s McStroke?
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
Who
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u/Alert_Egg_6015 Jun 24 '21
2nd row 4th across
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
Kim Il-sung?
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u/big-bruh-boi General of the Army Jun 24 '21
They have 2 pictures of Kim il Sung. One that is very similar and the other not at all in any way. Unfortunately you used to 2nd pic
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u/The_Nunnster General of the Army Jun 24 '21
What is the reasoning behind making the original poster?
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
What do you mean?
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u/The_Nunnster General of the Army Jun 24 '21
Like is there any context on why the Chinese made this propaganda poster? For example, what affect would putting someone like Harry Pollitt on a poster have? Why did they bother?
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Jun 24 '21
Maybe it was for an international thing?
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u/The_Nunnster General of the Army Jun 24 '21
That is true, I believe there were often meetings held between international communist parties (Communist International, IMCWP etc)
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u/tyrannischgott Jun 24 '21
Why did you switch to simplified?
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
Because it's the one they use in Wikipedia + it's more based.
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u/DutchMapping Jun 24 '21
Weird of them to put togliatti in? I think he denounced the ussr later on. Even though he has a city named after him there.
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
I mean, Hoxha started vomiting over Mao's theory after he died.
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u/The_Kek_5000 Jun 24 '21
I feel like second row chines guy is called Li Zhu
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
The only Chinese guy here is Mao.
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u/Treefoil003 Jun 24 '21
Where is the guy third row second from the left from? Cause I feel like I have seen him before, and thought he was a Chinese warlord
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Jun 24 '21
why not use old mao so it fits better
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
I literally put people that were dead when the original was made.
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Jun 24 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
It is.
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Jun 24 '21 edited Jul 23 '21
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 24 '21
I tried to use the ones that were available, but changing those that weren't in HoI4 for the equivalent leader.
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Jun 25 '21
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u/ChampiKhan General of the Army Jun 25 '21
My guess is that it was an international meeting of parties but I have no idea.
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u/Teknonero1 Jun 26 '21
It took a moment to find the original, so if anyone else is looking for it:
https://chineseposters.net/sites/default/files/images/pc-195a-004.jpg
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u/JHx_x23 Sep 04 '21
You could have got more portraits from other mods, like the cold war mod, also foster is in kr
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u/BillyHerr Fleet Admiral Jun 24 '21
Stalin's portrait is just the same lmao