In Hearts of Iron IV Czechoslovakia gets a full overhaul: new ahistorical trees, beefed‑up monarcho‑fascist expansion/diplomacy and a tougher "Divided Nation" mechanic, removing it is now way harder 🤯

The Bohemian‑Slovak Kingdom can press claims from Austria to Danzig, back Poland and Hungary, spawn and absorb puppet states; the fascist/monarchist paths offer flexible alliance play, while the communist route leans into bloc...

#SteamAndEpic #Czechoslovakia #Bohemian #Divided #Kingdom #Austria

⬆️ @CStamp @lisamelton

This lady is from a different era.

She was born before #WWII even started.

She's lived through it all, including the #Anschluss of #Austria into the #German Reich, #NevilleChamberlain's appeasement of #Hitler, and latter's annexation #Czechoslovakia.

She thoroughly deserves rest now.

However, looking at her laid-back life, it seems she will see the beginnings of the next World War as well.

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/police-visit-91-year-old-woman-who-missed-check-in-calls-only-to-find-her-playing-video-games-in-her-bedroom-and-trying-to-beat-her-record/

Police visit 91-year-old woman who missed check-in calls only to find her "playing video games in her bedroom" and "trying to beat her record"

The game is on

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⚡️Hearts of Iron IV gets a new focus pack, Peace for Our Time, an alt-history take on Czechoslovakia.

Releasing 22 April 2026. Made with modders: players can cancel the Munich Agreement and REWRITE the nation's fate via branching scenarios. Included in the Expansion Pass or available standalone for 339 ₽

#SteamAndEpic #Czechoslovakia #Releasing #Agreement #Expansion #Included

⬆️ @Geri

>> #Israel requiring extra territory… like #GolanHeights and Southern #Lebanon, is the same sort of demand #Stalin asked for with #Poland, #Hungary, #Czechoslovakia, #Romania et al at #Potsdam.

It is also what drove #Nazi #Lebensraum ideology to establish a Greater #German Reich with territorial expansion into #Europe.

They said it was necessary for their survival, and existing populations would have to be removed permanently through mass #deportation, #extermination, or #enslavement

Herní Archiv: We digitized journals of the Prague Hi-Fi club. “Some time ago, we received on loan for digitization journals of the Prague Hi-Fi club from 1972-1997. Although not directly related to games, it is still interesting and rare material. Thanks to its focus on consumer electronics, it occasionally contains interesting observations about computing technology, and the club also played […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/01/herni-archiv-we-digitized-journals-of-the-prague-hi-fi-club/
Herní Archiv: We digitized journals of the Prague Hi-Fi club

Herní Archiv: We digitized journals of the Prague Hi-Fi club. “Some time ago, we received on loan for digitization journals of the Prague Hi-Fi club from 1972-1997. Although not directly rela…

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🚨 NAZI GERMANY OCCUPIES CZECHOSLOVAKIA
March 15, 1939 — Hitler's Wehrmacht marches into Prague Castle as swastika flags rise over the Gothic towers. The Munich Pact lies in ruins as Czech civilians watch in silence from the shadows. This betrayal marks the end of appeasement and the final step toward war.

This post is 100% AI generated.
#z_image #AIart #GenerativeAI #LLM #CinematicRealism #AtmosphericArt #OnThisDay #WW2History #Czechoslovakia

"Russia needs a military alliance" says Russian paper
by #SteveRosenberg #Readingrussia
04:03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jClWRnSic

An opinion piece in Moskovsky #Komsomolets calls for Russia to form a military alliance.

Remembering the Warsaw Pact, the writer claims that Moscow was “restoring constitutional order in #Hungary in 1956 & in #Czechoslovakia in 1968,” a sign of how Russia in 2026 is reinterpreting history.

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Steve Rosenberg is the #BBC editor for #russia

#Ukraine
#Ukrainerussiawar
#NAFO

"Russia needs a military alliance" says Russian paper.

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In 1990-95 4 all of #USSR, #Yugoslavia, #apartheidSouthAfrica and #Czechoslovakia dissolved during the transition TO the #unipolarmoment. It's symmetrical to imagine 4 parallel states all disappearing as that moment ends. Or fight a full #WW3 as #AntonyBlinken wants or limited as #NarcoRubio wants.

"They survived the #Nazis, were confiscated by the #communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded, bound in red tape, by a #museum in the #CzechRepublic. Due to the attentions of an overzealous #Czech customs guard and the vagaries of the #British weather, a happy conclusion had been in doubt to the very end.

But last Thursday a small suitcase filled with 681 #drawings, love #letters, #poems and #manuscripts created by the #Jewish #artist and #poet #PeterKien in the #Theresienstadt ghetto in #German-occupied #Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1944 finally made a blustery landing at Heathrow.

From there, the treasures were transported to their new home: the Wiener #Holocaust #Library in central #London, where #JudyKing, 66, was anxiously waiting for them. She was keeping a promise she had made to her mother, #HelgaWolfenstein, beside her deathbed in 2003."

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/26/jewish-art-letters-saved-from-nazis-peter-kien

‘I will finish your work’: one woman’s fight for the Jewish art and letters her mother saved from the Nazis

Exclusive: Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have a new home in the UK, thanks to Judy King

The Guardian