A lot has happened! I successfully pushed through China and capitulated both the Ethiopians and Japanese! I also dealt with Venezuela joining the African Union, which was surprisingly easy. The final peace deal is...not great. China is split into a bunch of pieces again, with my own puppet (in two pieces) mostly in the coast line, and Communist China (in two pieces) was resurrected by the Soviets, and a lot of Central and Western China is just Soviet territory now. Xibei San Ma (in two pieces) still exists. I have puppeted the parts of Ethiopia but not all of Ethiopia. I puppeted South Korea as Stalin insisted on annexing the north.
The Soviets really liked annexing everything this game, with much of Western Europe, the Raj, parts of China, and even bits of Yemen for some reason were all annexed. There is a teeny tiny "Soviet Raj" puppet as well in one very small state, but the rest was just annexed. Indochina was also given to my American France puppet, which only held parts of northern Algeria.
The Comintern pretty much dominates the whole world now aside from Brazil and a few other places. I could go to war with the Soviets, but with they have a bajillion puppets and huge amounts of territory. no thanks. Playing until 1956 really made the game chug, my poor single fan laptop got really hot and it was LOUD. I'm going to stop playing HOI4 for a bit now, I'm tired and need to go study.
p.s. I turned to Comintern into NATO...
