Hearts of Iron IV

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Historical Party Names with Emblems
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Update: 2 May, 2019 @ 7:51am

-Add clique names for the neutral party of Shanxi and Yunnan warlords. In the vanilla, they are just called Kuomintang, which causes inconsistency with other Chinese warlords where the clique name is used.

Update: 1 May, 2019 @ 6:52pm

-Rename China's democratic party to Left-KMT, and fascist party to Reorganization-KMT. These were two historical factions, the left wing and Reorganization Faction of the Kuomintang.
-Make all 'Kuomintang' shown in its abbreviation 'KMT' in order to make them look consistent with the renamed China's democratic and fascist parties.

Explanation on the Left-wing Kuomintang: The Left-KMT's ideology was close to democratic socialism, and was not necessarily to be Leninism even though they allied with communists. As a matter of fact, communism and democracy at the period were often mixed with each other in Chinese context. Is there any purely democratic, non-socialist option for Chinese democratic party. Well, the Reorganization Faction. But here I use it to name the fascist party instead of the democratic one, why? First, the Reorganization Faction supported democracy but it also executed communists in a brutal way, so maybe not that democratic? Second, it did constitute Japan's puppet Chinese government in history and the leader of this party Wangjing Wei is also designed as a fascist leader in game. So, party name follows its leader.

Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/610920?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/CSH0009-4633270102123?journalCode=mcsh20

These are academic sources, may need special access though

Update: 1 May, 2019 @ 1:45pm

-Add carons to names of the democratic and communist parties in Czechoslovakia. For example, the democratic party now is called ČSNS instead of CSNS
-Rename Czech fascist party to National Partnership (Národní souručenství), the only authorised party during the Czech protectorate period
-Now China's democratic and fascist party will have the same name as the neutral party, Kuomintang

explanation:

1. Carons: All souces I found have carons on their names but PDX, for unknown reason, seemed to intentionally omit carons from the letters.

2. Czech fascist party: The vanilla fascist party NOF was more relevant to the pre-protectorate period but was dissolved during the German protectorate period. I would like to keep the original party because if the player chooses a fascist path for Czechoslovakia it would be more natural to have a local-born fascist party to assume power instead of a by-product of the collaborationist policy. However, the name NOF always conflicts with its party leader in game, who is Jaroslav Krejčí, the prime minister of the German protectorate. The mod won't change the party leader, which effectively means I need to change the party to suit the party leader if possible. Therefore, I replace NOF with a more protectorate-related fascist party. At least when Czechoslovakia becomes a German puppet, you get a correct match. If I keep the original choice, there will never be a correct match no matter in what situation.

3. Kuomintang as the names of both Chinese democratic and fascist party: As the logic I talked above, I make the party names follow the party leaders. The original name of the Chinese fascist party also causes great conflict with its party leader, as the original party was essentially a faction of Kuomintang consisted of Chiang's loyalists. They could never become the ruling party under the leadership of Wang Jingwei who was Chiang's opponent. However, there is an obvious problem for renaming these parties to Kuomintang: Chinese parties except communists all look the same now on the political interface.

Update: 29 Apr, 2019 @ 8:46am

-Italianise the name of the Italian non-aligned party
-Capitalise the first letter of the name of the Polish non-aligned party

Update: 23 Apr, 2019 @ 12:04pm

-Rename Polish non-aligned party to 'pułkowników'.

Thanks to @Hetman Poznański 's suggestion, I understood Sanacja split and ceased its existence along with BBWR in 1935 after Piłsudski's death. The replacement 'pułkowników' means 'colonels' in polish, and can be used to specifically mean the colonels of Piłsudski, who helped Piłsudski to rule Poland when he was alive and still continued to rule Poland after Piłsudski's death.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C5%82sudski%27s_colonels?oldformat=true

Update: 20 Apr, 2019 @ 6:24am

-Decapitalise all letters in French party names except the first letter of the whole name. One affected party is the French democratic party Radical Party, now it's called 'Parti radical' instead of 'Parti Radical'
-Replace the French fascist party with Parti populaire français (PPF), see explanation below
-Change the name of Mongolian communist party to MPRP (Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party), see explanation below
-Rename Tannu Tuvan's ruling party to its abbreviation


Explanation on the decision to replace French fascists:

The vanilla Mouvement franciste was the least popular fascist party during the period among the three main collaborationist parties in Vichy France. PPF was possibly the most popular and influential one among French fascist parties at the period and thus could best represent this ideology in France. There are two problems concerning PPF though. First, Petain was never their leader, but neither he was the leader of Mouvement franciste. Second, PPF was not founded until the mid of 1936. Considering it's still close to the early 1936 game start, we may still ignore such a problem.

See https://www.wikiwand.com/en/French_Popular_Party


Explanation on Mongolian ruling party:

The name of Mongolian communist party in vanilla is MAN (Mongol Aradiin Nam, Mongolian People's Party). Yes, it's not a joke, it's called MAN. This was indeed the party's original name when it was first founded in 1920 but it was then renamed to MAKhN (Mongol Aradiin Kubiskalt Nam, Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party ) in 1924. However, this party again changed its name back to its original one, removing that 'revolutionary', in 2010. But that was much later in our modern time, the vanilla name should have 'revolutionary' in it. Finally, the reason why here I use MPRP, the abbreviation of its English translated name instead of MAkhN is because I want to make it look more consistent with Tannu Tuva's party, which is also an English translated name. I personally prefer to make Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party has its native name but I couldn't find a properly romanised native translation by searching English Internet.

You can see how Mongolian communist party changed names twice in this timeline: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15466133

Update: 18 Apr, 2019 @ 8:36pm

-Fix an issue where the polish fascist party name is still shown in the inaccurate one
-Change the name of non-aligned polish party from the English translated 'Sanation' to its native version 'Sanacja'

Update: 18 Apr, 2019 @ 8:18pm

Change the thumbnail

Update: 17 Apr, 2019 @ 2:11pm

-Add dash on top of 'o' in Japanese parties' names, which is more accurate
-Rename Manchukuo's fascist party with a more recognisable one--Concordia Association
-Change the abbreviation of the Chinese communist party from 'CPC' to 'CCP'
-Replace the democratic party of the Communist China from 'KMT-RC' to 'China Democratic League' as same as China's democratic party
-Add a long name for Austrian fascists


Extra explainations:

1. Regarding to adding dash on top of 'o' in Japanse party names. Becasue I do not know Japanse, I did not see there was a necessity until I read this: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110822082519AAJ9gqD&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWNvc2lhLm9yZy8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHI4mO81-Alxu_aqx-NKwplJIl6dmvTrOSSQxbyBTWIh2z5A-bE_N_fVs-fTHdNdAM_N7JcxGE_6iBWWw4y5p7ZJM-oLBRGJK-j1O1Ruaf-8SSNoe-1kTmRGPmaoCbmQJ1DIZxKAmk3wLjyvrR5D2j2KJEoxqg4CsD3UoXsqkTmn

2. Although CPC has been an official translation for the Communist Party of China today, CCP seemd to be more often used by Chinese communists during the game period. Here is one example of a proposed flag for the party at the end of WWII, which showed 'CCP' instead of 'CPC':
http://www.rmzxb.com.cn/upload/resources/image/2016/07/14/754523.png

3. The China Democratic League was a coalition of the pro-democracy parties in China and it even had some influence in the early PRC period therefore it would be proper for them to have the seat of democratic party in Communist China. PDX chose the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, which was essentially a group of communist sympathisers within Kuomintang, a fifth column you may say. They were more left than China Democratic League. I can't really see their connection to democratic ideology.

Update: 16 Apr, 2019 @ 8:42pm

Change the mod name. Now it's short and clean!