Regional separatism is quite strong, to the point of having leaked into the culture itself of those regions, but those movements are non-violent, to the point in which organized acts of violence have been virtually nonexistant since almost a decade and a half ago in the Basque Country and for even longer in Catalonia. No, the truth is that very few people would not get angry at the prospect of being forced into conscription (a concept that, if it wasn't awful enough by itself, is also tightly associated with the Francoist regime), and being on the other side of the continent no one really believes that Russia is any threat to us in particular. Moreover, the Spanish government has been pulling some moves that are very unpopular with the right-wing sector of the country by attempting to reach a compromise with the Catalan separatist movement and granting amnesty to the political prisoners of the Referendum of the 1st of October, so threatening the population with war mobilization is pretty much the worst thing they could do right now.
It's a bit biased according to personal criteria, tbh. Also, the tierlist can be interpreted in several ways, like "knowing that these exist" but also as "knowing how do/did they work, their history and so on". According to how you interpret it, a few flags may move one tier up, one tier down.
You must now print a picture of Sukhbaatar and another of Choibalsan, hang them on the wall of your bedroom and beg them every night to forgive you for your sins.
No worries! To be fair I did considering putting in Democratic Kampuchea, as it wouldn't be the only dumpster fire under the name of socialism that is on that list. However I decided not to, on the basis of not wanting to repeat several iterations of socialist (or "socialist") states encompassing the same geographical area. Otherwise, there would be many, many more chinese communist flags from the Civil War era in there and I didn't want to be redundant.
Reading too much theory like me leaves you with the sight of a mole for things that are far away, but also with the eyes of a falcon for very tiny and small things that are close. That is the flag of the People's Republic of Kampuchea, not to be confused with the Khmer Rouge's Democratic Kampuchea. The flags are slightly different.
Probably, although reading books specifically on modern Korean history isn't that much of a popular activity. I won't lie, it should have been one tier up, but the need to have all ephemeral countries shoved together into one single tier was stronger than I was.
nah we talking about the Caballero government not the dang CEDA! its “underground” in the sense reds were running an ostensibly bourgois republic with a liberal president for 2 years or so
You see, "bourgeois state run secretly by reds" would make a lot of countries get into the list and it was somewhere that I had to put the line to decide which states are in and which ones are out. At first I even considered putting inside every country that ever made a reference to socialism in their constitution, but that would put Portugal in, despite having been nowhere close to work socialist state the likes of the USSR. I even had to discard countries that ran on arab socialism like Lybia.
Funny you say that, because I had the same complaint from a person who made the role of test audience. The 2SR is the best period of Spanish history, but it was no socialist state and CEDA's rule from 1934 to 36 is proof of that.
no mexican liberal party
That learns more towards the side of anarcho-communism, and I decided to not include those (even if they also have their little hidden projects that have been forgotten by history).
I only accept if the name of the country is actually and officially "USSR 2". Not even "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 2". I want it in that exact form.
Finland being considered the victor of the Winter War would be a hilarious act of copium if it wasn't for how widespread of a belief it is, which makes it just plain sad. Finland lost its second largest city after the war. Imagine how it would be if in a war your country lost its second largest city (Los Angeles for the USA, Birmingham for the UK, Hamburg for Germany...) and think if there would be any way you could ever twist that in your imagination as a victory.
It would be like getting out of a street fight having lost a leg and claiming that you won because you could have lost both and because your adversary got really tired by the end of the fight.
None that comes to mind right now.