In summary:
- Started a second Bolshevik Revolution and won a civil war
- Invaded all of the lands held by the real-life USSR (excluding the countries in Germany’s faction)
- Joined the Western European Syndicalists in the Second Weltkrieg and retook Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic region, eventually invading Eastern Germany and seizing Berlin
- Invaded the Japanese Empire (while it was occupied with their invasion of China)
- Invaded the Balkan Pact as well as Greece and Bulgaria
- Invaded the Ottoman Empire (which controlled Persia)
Yes. While their starting leader is Wang Jingwei (who, yes, was a fascist Japanese collaborator in real life), if you take certain focuses that centralize the government, you can eventually do a focus which results in Dai Li couping the government and installing a Totalist government.
Its been a while since I played KR, is totalist basically like ML? Last time i played, i remember it being more like strasserism or something
it’s a liberal’s idea of what totalitarianism is… “socialism for the state”, Orwellian type beat that has never existed nor will likely ever exist, at least on Earth. Mosley is as much a totalist as Mussolini who is as much a totalist as Beria. It’s silliness ofc.
On the flip side, there is lore related to totalist infighting or sectionalism with some “totalists” really just being properly internationalist Marxist-Leninists who were lumped under the banner ostensibly for gameplay purposes and who in-lore dislike Mussolini, Mosley etc. And in fairness… even if it’s represented in a silly way using actual communists and fascists to represent it, it’s not necessarily outside of the realm of possibility for an ideology of its flavor to have gained some popularity I guess, with ideological trends like blanquism, socialism-from-above and Sorelian violence fetishism having had some measure of historical popularity.