|
Post by malika on Dec 5, 2005 19:20:50 GMT -5
German scientists travelling all over the world looking for proof of their race's history or other valuable artifacts...interesting
|
|
|
Post by baphomael on Jan 26, 2006 10:02:28 GMT -5
Hmm, if the Occult is going to have a strong presence I'd say leave the USSR away from it. If anything I'd say they would be actively trying to suppress knowledge of the occult. Communist ideology is violently atheist and if existence of the occult became widespread knowledge then it would damage the credibility of Marxist teachings - first 'magic' and all that mumbo-jumbo and then what next? Religion?! I could see secret groups of NKVD operatives rooting out and destroying anything that contradicts the cold, rational scientific atheism of Marxism-Leninism. That could be quite kool...a sort of Commie Inquisition burning books and sending occultists to the Gulags
|
|
|
Post by malika on Jan 26, 2006 14:50:19 GMT -5
That is an interesting concept indeed, however I think the Soviets would try to use the occult findings themselves, however they need a justification. Hence they will search for a scientific and ideological explaination.
|
|
|
Post by baphomael on Jan 30, 2006 21:03:51 GMT -5
That is an interesting concept indeed, however I think the Soviets would try to use the occult findings themselves, however they need a justification. Hence they will search for a scientific and ideological explaination. Yea, all the more reason for a branch of the NKVD tasked with dealing with the occult. Things they cannot 'explain away' will simply be liquidated.
|
|
|
Post by tordenskjold on Jan 31, 2006 3:30:53 GMT -5
Maybe we could have both, with one department of the NKVD being tasked to find whatever occult artifacts they can, officially to send them back to Moscow for destruction. But when the artifacts arrive in Moscow, another department will work on using them for the good of the motherland (or the good of Stalin, anyway).
|
|
|
Post by malika on Jan 31, 2006 5:59:21 GMT -5
In the background it would be for the good of the motherland of course. I dont know yet how things should be dealt with surrounding Stalin's personality cultus. Another interesting aspect might be Troskyists (sp?) as some sort of rebel communist faction within the USSR.
|
|
|
Post by baphomael on Feb 6, 2006 18:24:09 GMT -5
In the background it would be for the good of the motherland of course. I dont know yet how things should be dealt with surrounding Stalin's personality cultus. Another interesting aspect might be Troskyists (sp?) as some sort of rebel communist faction within the USSR. That could be kool...a secret order within the Communist Party that wanted to see Trotsky succeed Lenin but quickly realised that publically saying "Stalin is Good!" means you might not get Purged.
|
|
|
Post by malika on Feb 6, 2006 18:34:17 GMT -5
It might be a subplot that would perhaps emerge on a later state of the storyline, rebelling followers of Trotsky...oh perhaps a cool idea would be a pulp version of the assassination of Trotsky.
|
|
|
Post by baphomael on Feb 17, 2006 9:51:12 GMT -5
It might be a subplot that would perhaps emerge on a later state of the storyline, rebelling followers of Trotsky...oh perhaps a cool idea would be a pulp version of the assassination of Trotsky. Heheh...an icepick in the head isnt exactly very pulpy...unless its an icepick wielded by one of those super stalin monkey warriors. news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2434192005
|
|