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Hearts of Iron IV (2016)

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Just in time for Easter, here's a new TNO custom compilation! This one covers different manifestations for the "distant epilogue" to Post-Taboritsky Russia ( https://old.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/meqmra/despite_all_the_odds_despite_the_neardeath_of/ ), set roughly in the 1990s-early 21st Century. Despite the madness and seeming collapse of the HRE following Tabby's death, the country's woes aren't quite finished, with different warlords, remnants and beacons of civilization still clinging to the husks. Depending on who emerges over the subsequent years (or doesn't), the broken nation could either re-emerge and move onward, succumb to its dark excesses, or have one final curtain call.

For some trivia, the images used for the Despotist/Ultranat/BurgSys version of the Awakening, and the Russian Silence are from the First and Second Chechen Wars, driving home just how harrowing such an outcome would be. Coincidentally, the use of both Prokofiev and clocks is meant to highlight the ironic similarities between Tabby's "successors" and factions like the even more radicalized Black League. The picture used for the Socialist Awakening is the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman statue in Moscow, whereas the Non-Socialist one is from modern-day Tomsk, befitting one of the last beacons of sanity left in Russia.

And I totally did not slip in another piece from the Violet Evergarden OST to match the all too fitting quip in the game's event.

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0:00 - Socialist/Communist/Sane-Despotist Awakening - "The Battle is Going Again/Tupitsyn's March" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAh13M4bofU )
0:40 - Despotist/Ultranat/BurgSys Awakening - "Sergei Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky Op. 78 Mov. 4/Arise, Ye Russian People" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F6e9mI1bGU )
1:19 - The Russian Silence - "Темная ночь/Dark is the Night" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjmmxX5U2VM )
1:56 - The Belated Great Trial ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek5bCXrqxmg )
2:09 - Non-Socialist Awakening - "Violet Evergarden OST - What It Means To Love" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW2W69kpFvk )

Yes, the Belated Great Trial event is the same as the in-game Thermonuclear War outcome.

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