Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Historical Party Names
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Update: 4 Jun, 2019 @ 9:28am

Update for the 1.7

Update: 19 May, 2019 @ 7:25am

-Full names of Yugoslavian parties are now all shown in Serbo-Croatian instead of Slovenian since it's Serbo-Croatian as the official language for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the time
-Change the name of the Slovak F to its post-1938 form
-Full name of the Croatian F will be shown in its origional, non-English form

Update: 15 May, 2019 @ 11:10am

-Rename Hungarian N to 'The Regency'
-Fix abbreviations for both Hungarian D and the fascist Arrow Cross Party. The vanilla abbreiviations are invented by the PDX instead of used in reality and history
-Change Hungarian starting fascist party name from 'Horthy government' to 'NEP' (National Unity Party)


Explanation:

Hungarian N in the vanilla 1936 game start is the ruling party. PDX chose F48P (Party of Independence and '48) to represent the Hungarian ruling party regardless of the fact that F48P had lost much of its influence by the time the game starts in 1936. It would be much more appropriate to rename it to the ruling Horthy regency. I also considered using the Unity Party as the Hungarian N. It was after all the dominant party in the Hungarian parliament at the time and a lot of the prominent prime miniters were recruited from that pool. But for some reasons, I prefer it to become Hungarian F. I will explain it later.

For Hungarian F, there are acctually two names for it in the vanilla, and that's where things get tricky. The default name for the Hungarian F is 'Horthy government'. In 1939 game start, Hungary is fascist so it's also the name for its ruling party in the 1939 senario. If this is the only name for Hungarian F in the vanilla, things would be much easier. However, Hungarian F is renamed to the Arrow Cross Party (NYKP) after the completion of the Hungarian focus 'Strengthen Fascists' (DoD feature). The focus's description talks about the necessity for having an open platform for fascists in Hungary. And the reward of the focus is nothing more than supporting a fascist party (Arrow Cross) in Hungary. The problem is this focus or policy, even though taken as a part of the historical path for Hungary in the vanilla, was never adopted by the Hungarian government in history. This is because Horthy personally disliked fascism, which is too revolutionary from the perspective of a die-hard conservative. Instead of supporting Arrow Cross to grow, he suppressed them and even outlawed them on the outbreak of WWII. In fact, to be more historically accurate, it is even wrong to define Horthy as a fascist. He is perceived as fascist by PDX is because he was on the side of Axis in history not because of the ideology he held. Therefore, the best solution is to remove this focus altogether and set Hungary in 1939 game start as a Non-aligned instead of fasicst state. I couldn't do that for the reason I have elucidated in the mod description. This is only a mod for party names rather than parties. I can only help to increase some degree of historical authenticity by modifying localisation files.

My not-the-perfect solution is, first, renaming the default Hungarian F to the Unity Party (called National Unity Party at 1936 game start). I replaced The vanilla name for Hungarian F, 'Horthy government', because it becomes repetition after adding name 'The Regency' for the Hungarian N and it looks weird for a non-ruling party to have the term 'government' attached at the 1936 game start. The Unity Party started as an agrarian and conservative party and had become incresingly fascist-like in 1936. Therefore, it could make sense for it to be perceived as a fascist party in game. Regarding the Arrow Cross Party, I prefer not to change and thus Hunagarian F will still be replaced with the Arrow Cross after Hungary completing the focus 'Strengthen Fascists'. As have been pointed out by @aszykmarta, it's weird to have Horthy as the leader of this party since he disliked and never worked with this party. In history, when this party assumed power, Horthy was even driven out of the power centre and the leader of the Arrow Cross became the new leader of Hungary. However, the moment this non-historical focus is completed, it has become alternate history. Let's suppose this focus makes Horthy government supports the Arrow Cross Party, and in this timeline it makes sense that Horthy is still the leader of Hungary after this party becomes ruling party since they have been cooperating with each other.

Unity Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Party_(Hungary)
Arrow Cross Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross_Party

Update: 12 May, 2019 @ 9:51am

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