Okay, now that I got all three Parts of the latest “Thus Spoke Lenin” post, I am planning for the next major post for the Blog. This one is of course related to the topic of the Work-Standard and my… Read More ›
Cold War
Update (26 January 2023)
Patience does have its benefits. After spending the past day pondering over how best to proceed with Part III of “On Prussian State Capitalism,” I am immediately reminded of my past playthroughs of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. There are… Read More ›
Is Human Development Index (HDI) a Reliable Indicator to measure prosperity among Nations?
Bogumil, I was thinking the same thing as well about how Kremlingames portrayed the legacies of the Strasser brothers, Otto Ernst Remer, and Ernst Niekisch in Collapse as well as another game of theirs, Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall. In the… Read More ›
A Discussion on Kremlingames Lore
Bogumil, Have you ever wondered if other people visit the ARPLAN Blog just to gather research or historical references? Although there are people who do in fact read and disseminate your translations of “National Bolshevik Manifesto” and “Der nationale Sozialismus,”… Read More ›
Update (9 January 2023)
Returning to the practice of dedicating each week of posts to a given theme, I decided that the theme for this week should be a gaming one. More specifically, I have some interesting topics to discuss about that came from… Read More ›
New Contest from Kremlingames
Apart from running errands earlier this morning, I spent a good chunk of my day on a new playthrough of Collapse: A Political Simulator. The game is set in a fictional former Soviet Republic, where the goal is to compete… Read More ›
Philosophical Ponderings of Soviet Collapse (Pt. II of II)
Back in the previous post, I began my discussion by addressing the various interpretations that sought to explain why the Soviet Union dissolved. The three most common ones are: There is a fourth one that articulates its conclusions from the… Read More ›
Philosophical Ponderings of Soviet Collapse (Pt. I of II)
What brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union? Depending on the perspective, one is bound to come away with different interpretations. Here in America and the Western world, the explanation is purely economic and technical. I documented some of… Read More ›
Update (28 December 2022)
It has been a while since I had last written another Update post. I thought I should remind people that December 30 marks the centennial of the Soviet Union’s founding. I still have a post on the Soviet Union scheduled… Read More ›
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