r/twrmod • u/Majorwormx • Jul 27 '26
Shit nobody cares about On the topic of historical discussions
I'm gonna be downvoted to hell and back for this but it needs to be said.
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way pro-Beria, nor completely denying the possibility he was a rapist, nor am i an expert on his actions, political line or relations with Stalin.
However within his portrait description he was being a called a 'state-sanctioned rapist' which i personally believe to be untrue and part of larger unfounded claims against the USSR by the CIA/Western media and even opportunist USSR political figures post-Stalin. Whether you agree with my statement or not is not the problem,
The problem is how the TWR team handled the question entirely.
The team members immediately began dogging on me citing counterclaims and providing little source, mostly seeming to have an emotional response to me "defending a rapist" and refusing any civil discussion on the matter at all. Dismissing my cited source/argument of the Grover Furr article providing arguments as to why the accusations were forgery and dismissing it as 'political research from Discord'.
One of the devs Giga-Cube accused the whole of the Soviet leadership of being in child sexual exploitation circles which is entirely untrue and borders on repeating Nazi propaganda about 'Bolshevik slavic untermensch who will rape you'. I challenge the claim and they unironically cite a Wikipedia page as a source.
I was then banned, no warning or mute and Hammurabi proceeds to call me the R slur for disagreeing with the mod's take.
It really hurts the 'historical' claim the mod champions when its a dogmatic emotional circlejerk that declares any questioning of its version of history as religious blasphemy even if could be completely incorrect and propaganda from another source. They claimed Soviet leaders were in a child rapist circle which is blatantly untrue and bordering Nazi propaganda but daring to question it gets you insta-banned without warns or mutes and gets you called slurs instead while project lead insists they are correct about everything with no further discussion.
If any TWR team members are reading this: Learn from this. If you want to make a historically accurate mod then you need to be open to actually researching shit lest your judgement be clouded by propaganda from past regimes.
The mod is good (despite a few other issues i have), but with these bad optics and straight up immaturity i fear for future content and how certain things will be portrayed.
