I was wondering if you are in 1950s in eastern block, you should also make some stalinist architecture (like hotel international in prague or lomonosov university) or skyscraper in warsaw, palace of culture and science. It would be interesting to see this in modern part of the city :3
I went to Prague last week and it was almost like I had already visited it before. The old city wall, the bridges of which the steel train bridge was the newest, the gatehouse in front of the oldest bridge, the islands, the quay with an upper and lower level, the parliament buildings, the trams which often travel on absurd inclines, the palace on the hill, everything was there! Absolutely beautiful to see the comparison with my own eyes.
The tanks statues are also quite a common thing to find in western europe, especially where there was a big battle :) For example, in belgium and luxemburg where the battle of the bulge took place, you can find quite a lot of town and even villages with a tank, a artillery gun, or something else from both side (in La gleize, in Belgium, there is a kingtiger from the germans)
I really like this series, especially when it enters post-war times. Seeing commie blocks popping out at the suburbs or beautiful places like this gate with tram lines or park on the island being destroyed, is from one perspective brutal but from the other amazing- the lore and history just makes it deeper and more interesting. And one thing I have to mention about future episodes- when you will be building communist residential areas, please remember about outstandingly good city planning, they have achieved. One example of this is the LSM borough in Lublin, Poland. Commies have build there tens of blocks with many little curvy streets and parkings, they have planted lots and lots of trees and even constructed entire stadium. All fo that only for the ressidential district. Despite the ugly architecture, being there is lot more pleasant than in modern districts. Mainly because of infrastructure, amount of space and greenery.
wow akruas if you weren't talking about something so interesting i would've never been able to watch how you detailed the tiles in front of the monument, it looks so tedious!! youre a genius..
Everyone's history is important and every era has it's good and bad points. They shouldn't be ignored. A great city, been very much enjoying it and looking forward to the future. I admire your skill and enthusiasm.
What you're discussing about Altengrad being in the soviet union but not a place on the map makes perfect sense. This is a work of historical fiction. And an innovative media to use to tell such a story at that!
Suggestion - when adding new statues (or anything new for that matter) - paving style (or just color) should differ slightly. After all, it's impossible to lay identically same pavement as was done hundred years earlier. This would also help to sell the look fo new statues as "out of place" (which they were most of the time).
Really nice, the memorial remembers me of the Napoleon memorial on Korsica. Im really curios how this series goes on, its really great to see all Episodes and i find myself coming again and again to rewatch them.
You mentioned ways different “soviet/eatsern bolck” countries dealt with soviet monuments and leader statues: you should read about Lenin’s bust in Cavriago (Reggio Emilia). It’s amazing that a country as Italy, that wasn’t even “liberated” by soviets, has a bust of Lenin that, in Cavriago, is literally worshiped. (Not to mention that, in general, the city of Cavriago is full of soviet named streets, squares and buildings)
growing up there was a statue for all the dead soldiers from my state(i'm in the USA) from WW2 that was a decommissioned tank that had been put on a plinth near this graveyard that was near the army base. Some idiot got really drunk one day and went and started up the tank drove it around town destroying things. The tank ran out of gas about an hour into the rampage and the dude was arrested. The tank was drove back to the plinth put back up and then drained of not only gas but they took out the engine. People do crazy stuff sometimes.
Top work as always. Would you consider doing a video on graphics settings and maybe an in-depth video on PO? I struggle with both, PO is so powerful and probably a lot of us have barely scratched the surface of it.
Very interesting video, your series has inspired me to start learning to 3d model, this summer while taking a break form my course I'm planning on learning how to use Blender, already made a few models :), thanks for such high quality and interesting content love every minute of it!
There is nice story behind one of the tank monuments in Poland. It's (it's still there) in a place where Red Army crossed the new Polish borders for the first time in 1944. During the darkest times of communist regime local villagers had taken the tank down from postument and put it back but pointing the USSR. They did it using the horses. They did it using the horses. There was a big investigation, luckely leading to nothing.
I prefer your shinier stuff, but this is going to be very interesting to follow too. Also, I thought I spotted something that you didn't mention in the video; did you increase the total number of cars in the city?
I like the placement of the big monument. Changing the defining landmark of the monastery island is I think something a Socialist Goverment would have done, too. Just to deomstrate how muich mkore mighty the workers movement is that the church.
Good evening. Very beautiful city. I watch your series. Many thanks for the monuments to Soviet soldiers. I would very much like to see a 50-60 Soviet building area in your city. And some lines of trolleybuses.
I think it would be nice to have your "own" little Country and give it a name, so you can talk about your country as part of the USSR, you know like the ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic and all that.
Wow, the first monument you build is real from my town. From Bratislava, Slovakia, EU. The name is Slavín and is up in hill in town. Is a graveyard of Soviet soldiers, they died in WWII. It was finished in 1960. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slav%C3%ADn Great, that this monument is here in this game. And next the fountain on square looks really like Rolands fountain from Bratislava too.
If you are going to need some Help with Poland buildings i can Help you :) im polish and my grandparents told me a lot about building and everything that changed, especially Warsaw, PZPR- polish communist government didn’t want to restore destroyed buildings ( Warsaw was the most destroyed city after WW2) and they just created sooo freaking many fast build apartment buildings, soo maybe destroy some of the old town and add this awful buildings for climate :)
"Warsaw was the most destroyed city" is obviously a highly delicate topic - how, to begin with, could one measure grade of destruction, especially taking into consideration the different sizes of cities. Warsaw is one of these go-to-answers, it appears, but there are so many cities, known and less-well-known, both in Europe and in Asia, that will all claim that title - and some probably more rightfully so. Just looking at a Guardian article I found, it estimates Warsaw as 85% destroyed - compared to Jülich at 100%, Ypres at 99%; even with special troops being sent to deliberately raze Warsaw to the ground.
@@kaisattelberg5548 Yeah, but Jülich and Ypres are tiny. Even though such a "most destroyed city" discussion shouldn't be a contest. But comparing Jülich to Warsaw is absolutely comparing apples and oranges. The amount that was destroyed in Warsaw was probably equal to 15 Jülichs.
As I wrote earlier, Altengrad is my favorite city in CS. But to see a communist monument in this city, to see how the Red Army and the Soviet Union are glorified after all the horror they have done for humanity and now continue to do in Ukraine, is horrible. I'm sorry.
The Restarded tank in hungary happened during the 2006-8 riots against the ruling party wich was at the time the Socialist party. In Hungary after the 1956 revolution instead of Hardline Communists moderates came to power who allowed the most leway within the eastern block regarding censorrship and private ownership. This resulted in a particularly non violent power change in 1989 during the fall of the iron curtian. Unlike in other eastern block countries the population just wasn't angry at the communist leaders because they commited far fewer atrocities and those few were unkown at the time. Thus remnants of said communists were allowed to participate in the democratic transition. This backfired immensely, Communist and Socialist politicians controlled the transition to capitalism and they had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how to handle that and essentially ruined the economy from top to bottom. And in 2006 their incompetence and corruption was revealed to the public. Now all the anger that was restrained in 1989 out of the good will of the people to LET the communist step down peacefully erupted in mass violance, while rioters set fire to government buildings and sieged others the government shipped in ID-less riot officers from god knows where and let them loose against the people resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. During this chaos one of the riotiers who were a veteran tank commander ceased a T34 from a museum and his presence made the riot officers to retreat aldough he didn't actually do anything violent with it.
I was enjoying this series, and was looking forward to the soviet era, but I have no interest in putting up with anti communist propaganda. You've lost a long time subscriber.
Terribly sorry to hear than even lightly mentioning history offends you. Not sure exactly what you were expecting to hear in these decades if you've been following the series before.
How nostalgic... it just like East Berlin but without any USSR /Red Army Flag or Propaganda Poster.. might need Stalin or Lenin Bronze statue.
I was wondering if you are in 1950s in eastern block, you should also make some stalinist architecture (like hotel international in prague or lomonosov university) or skyscraper in warsaw, palace of culture and science. It would be interesting to see this in modern part of the city
:3
Yea no
Palac of Culture and sience would be overkill for Altengrad. But altengrad needs to have some bigger tv and radio building
@@qzg7857 yeah but i would be happy to see some skyscrapers in modern district maybe in 1990s or 2000s.
Maybe I already built that, wait and see.
I went to Prague last week and it was almost like I had already visited it before. The old city wall, the bridges of which the steel train bridge was the newest, the gatehouse in front of the oldest bridge, the islands, the quay with an upper and lower level, the parliament buildings, the trams which often travel on absurd inclines, the palace on the hill, everything was there! Absolutely beautiful to see the comparison with my own eyes.
I'm happy to see a Slovakian (my home country) structure (Slavín), love this series!
11:34 Great shot!
Would Altengrad get a trolley bus?
Because they were common in the eastern block
Yes good point
No, I don't have the DLC and don't particularly like them either.
@@Akruas sad
I'm disappointed... trackless trolleys 🚎 are so much nicer than diesel busses for a multitude of reasons
Excellent episode, the Grand Memorial really does evoke that radical brutalist streak in post war architecture that is so iconic.
The tanks statues are also quite a common thing to find in western europe, especially where there was a big battle :)
For example, in belgium and luxemburg where the battle of the bulge took place, you can find quite a lot of town and even villages with a tank, a artillery gun, or something else from both side (in La gleize, in Belgium, there is a kingtiger from the germans)
I really like this series, especially when it enters post-war times. Seeing commie blocks popping out at the suburbs or beautiful places like this gate with tram lines or park on the island being destroyed, is from one perspective brutal but from the other amazing- the lore and history just makes it deeper and more interesting.
And one thing I have to mention about future episodes- when you will be building communist residential areas, please remember about outstandingly good city planning, they have achieved.
One example of this is the LSM borough in Lublin, Poland. Commies have build there tens of blocks with many little curvy streets and parkings, they have planted lots and lots of trees and even constructed entire stadium. All fo that only for the ressidential district.
Despite the ugly architecture, being there is lot more pleasant than in modern districts. Mainly because of infrastructure, amount of space and greenery.
Yeah I have to agree communist city planners really got it right with the block layouts.
I have to agree too; the Communist planners really knew how to design pleasant communities in spite of the seriously drab "Khruschovka" architecture
Love or hate the Soviet Union, socialist realism was in a masterclass of architectural design
So glad you built Slavin monument from my hometown Bratislava!
i love seeing the city evolving
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your work is beyond amazing
wow akruas if you weren't talking about something so interesting i would've never been able to watch how you detailed the tiles in front of the monument, it looks so tedious!! youre a genius..
Everyone's history is important and every era has it's good and bad points. They shouldn't be ignored.
A great city, been very much enjoying it and looking forward to the future. I admire your skill and enthusiasm.
What you're discussing about Altengrad being in the soviet union but not a place on the map makes perfect sense. This is a work of historical fiction. And an innovative media to use to tell such a story at that!
It's not in the Soviet Union!
Suggestion - when adding new statues (or anything new for that matter) - paving style (or just color) should differ slightly. After all, it's impossible to lay identically same pavement as was done hundred years earlier. This would also help to sell the look fo new statues as "out of place" (which they were most of the time).
I can't recolor map theme (pavement) in different parts of the city.
@@Akruas Apply different map to statue pavement? Maybe edit the map outside the game, just to change the color slightly.
Really nice, the memorial remembers me of the Napoleon memorial on Korsica.
Im really curios how this series goes on, its really great to see all Episodes and i find myself coming again and again to rewatch them.
You mentioned ways different “soviet/eatsern bolck” countries dealt with soviet monuments and leader statues: you should read about Lenin’s bust in Cavriago (Reggio Emilia). It’s amazing that a country as Italy, that wasn’t even “liberated” by soviets, has a bust of Lenin that, in Cavriago, is literally worshiped. (Not to mention that, in general, the city of Cavriago is full of soviet named streets, squares and buildings)
This is how you make a city alive. Bravo.
Maybe, when you're finished, you could do a tram ride through the ages. Awesome stuff, as usual, thanks.
I hope you'll continue your work as long as possible!
growing up there was a statue for all the dead soldiers from my state(i'm in the USA) from WW2 that was a decommissioned tank that had been put on a plinth near this graveyard that was near the army base. Some idiot got really drunk one day and went and started up the tank drove it around town destroying things. The tank ran out of gas about an hour into the rampage and the dude was arrested. The tank was drove back to the plinth put back up and then drained of not only gas but they took out the engine. People do crazy stuff sometimes.
I can see Slavín memorial in Thumbnail :) So glad that Bratislava, Slovakia somehow made it to your video :) and great work, ofc
It already made it with the harbor shape.
Excellent thought....looking forward to more like this .. 🔥
I love the history and thoughts. As an America, though we've studied the Eastern Block, the nuances of daily life were not expressed.
From the 1960s you need the düwag gt8 and from 1957 the first articulated for the tram in Düsseldorf was the düwag gt6. the gt8 drove until 2012.
I've just spent the last week or so binge watching every episode of Altengrad. And finally caught up 🙌 🙌 🙌
Can't wait for the next one.
Love this series, can't wait to see where it goes
02:26! Are you a Czech? Wow! Welcome from Hungary! :)
I must say Im a big fan of these suttle changes. They dont change much of the city but the feeling of it does change drasticly.
Thank you a lot for adding the tank memorial as I requested it ❤️
social realist statues depicting workers / soldiers / peasants would be amazing
Good content! Will be interresting to see what happens to thos monuments when you reach the '90s
i love this series, although your time and skill make me feel inadequate! looking forward to more
Top work as always. Would you consider doing a video on graphics settings and maybe an in-depth video on PO? I struggle with both, PO is so powerful and probably a lot of us have barely scratched the surface of it.
I really enjoyed the commentairy, and great builds as always!
Very interesting video, your series has inspired me to start learning to 3d model, this summer while taking a break form my course I'm planning on learning how to use Blender, already made a few models :), thanks for such high quality and interesting content love every minute of it!
Спасибо
I'm from Odessa) Saw this Dart Weider
There is nice story behind one of the tank monuments in Poland. It's (it's still there) in a place where Red Army crossed the new Polish borders for the first time in 1944. During the darkest times of communist regime local villagers had taken the tank down from postument and put it back but pointing the USSR. They did it using the horses. They did it using the horses. There was a big investigation, luckely leading to nothing.
I prefer your shinier stuff, but this is going to be very interesting to follow too. Also, I thought I spotted something that you didn't mention in the video; did you increase the total number of cars in the city?
😏😏
Nice catch! But he did mention it briefly in one of the previous videos
I like the placement of the big monument. Changing the defining landmark of the monastery island is I think something a Socialist Goverment would have done, too. Just to deomstrate how muich mkore mighty the workers movement is that the church.
Good evening. Very beautiful city. I watch your series. Many thanks for the monuments to Soviet soldiers. I would very much like to see a 50-60 Soviet building area in your city. And some lines of trolleybuses.
i love this eastern touch
I just love this series !!!
Will you eventually modernize the city? build / improve to the present day, perhaps?
If you watch the beginning of the video he explains everything
You could do like a parade plaza.... like the red square...
waiting for the soviet blocks or jrushchovkas...i love altengrad and his history
Will there be a metro/subway or some kind of S-Bahn ? They were common in eastern bloc even in not so large cities
this is great!
Perfect! 👏🏻🔥
hello where can i find all the buildings to download what you have and the map, otherwise beautiful buildings
The map is called Copper Creek, I don't have asset collections.
Whats that map theme ?
will you build something like party building?
Now you should switch game to Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic :)
It's a sad state of affairs that you had to say that disclaimer to those who might get offended. Anyway, I love this series. Keep up the good work.
found only one person offended in the comments, it was a soviet fanboy.
Once communism falls in Altengrad, Have you thought about doing something like a fallen statue of Stalin (like the metronom in Prague)?
what invisible path mpd are you using mine snap to the ground after i upgrade to invisible
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Hello Sir, you may have done this already but can you post all the mods you use? (if its not tooo much trouble of course)
Check the video description.
Jekla!
13:24 yeah, we also have a lot of this things in ukraine, but i start to spot that they all suddenly disappeared in my city :)
will altengrad get metro
no
Už tě sleduju asi 2 roky a vůbec jsem nevěděl, že jsi Čech 🤣😅
Taky :D
já pojal podezření když v jednom z dílů říkal že si bude brát inspiraci z Prahy, Hradce atd :D a celkově tohle město vypadá dost "česky" :D
Yeey, já jsem taky z Čr
Jinak skvělé video, pokračuj v tom, co děláš
Pozdrav zo Slovenska pokračuj super videá!
nice
wow nice post ww2 car tram bus truck and train
Removing statues?!? Communist Cancel Culture? :P jk Love the work, Akruas! Thank you for sharing!
and yes im from indonesia
I think it would be nice to have your "own" little Country and give it a name, so you can talk about your country as part of the USSR, you know like the ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic and all that.
and also have a flag for it that you can place on the big plazas
Altengrad is not in USSR.
@@Akruas or like, an own state like chernarus from arma, you know
If this is a communist city now. Can you create a "panelka" type building, it means "Khrushchev"?
Or build a Soviet microdistrict
Wow, the first monument you build is real from my town. From Bratislava, Slovakia, EU. The name is Slavín and is up in hill in town. Is a graveyard of Soviet soldiers, they died in WWII. It was finished in 1960. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slav%C3%ADn
Great, that this monument is here in this game. And next the fountain on square looks really like Rolands fountain from Bratislava too.
Альтенґрад - единственньій город, где можна поставить коммунистический мемориал и его потом не снесут нахер😂🤣
If you are going to need some Help with Poland buildings i can Help you :) im polish and my grandparents told me a lot about building and everything that changed, especially Warsaw, PZPR- polish communist government didn’t want to restore destroyed buildings ( Warsaw was the most destroyed city after WW2) and they just created sooo freaking many fast build apartment buildings, soo maybe destroy some of the old town and add this awful buildings for climate :)
"Warsaw was the most destroyed city" is obviously a highly delicate topic - how, to begin with, could one measure grade of destruction, especially taking into consideration the different sizes of cities. Warsaw is one of these go-to-answers, it appears, but there are so many cities, known and less-well-known, both in Europe and in Asia, that will all claim that title - and some probably more rightfully so.
Just looking at a Guardian article I found, it estimates Warsaw as 85% destroyed - compared to Jülich at 100%, Ypres at 99%; even with special troops being sent to deliberately raze Warsaw to the ground.
Not fully true, the Warsaw old town was rebuilt by said communist authorities
@@kaisattelberg5548 Yeah, but Jülich and Ypres are tiny. Even though such a "most destroyed city" discussion shouldn't be a contest. But comparing Jülich to Warsaw is absolutely comparing apples and oranges. The amount that was destroyed in Warsaw was probably equal to 15 Jülichs.
@@samborpuskas yee but most of the building was changed, lets say that they rebuild old medieval town, not 1920~ buildings
@@bahnspotterEU Oh yeah of course, architecturally they decimated the city; but urbanistically they improved it
As I wrote earlier, Altengrad is my favorite city in CS. But to see a communist monument in this city, to see how the Red Army and the Soviet Union are glorified after all the horror they have done for humanity and now continue to do in Ukraine, is horrible. I'm sorry.
The soviet union doesn't exist anymore, it's the russian federation that is invading ukraine
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The Restarded tank in hungary happened during the 2006-8 riots against the ruling party wich was at the time the Socialist party.
In Hungary after the 1956 revolution instead of Hardline Communists moderates came to power who allowed the most leway within the eastern block regarding censorrship and private ownership.
This resulted in a particularly non violent power change in 1989 during the fall of the iron curtian. Unlike in other eastern block countries the population just wasn't angry at the communist leaders because they commited far fewer atrocities and those few were unkown at the time. Thus remnants of said communists were allowed to participate in the democratic transition.
This backfired immensely, Communist and Socialist politicians controlled the transition to capitalism and they had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how to handle that and essentially ruined the economy from top to bottom. And in 2006 their incompetence and corruption was revealed to the public.
Now all the anger that was restrained in 1989 out of the good will of the people to LET the communist step down peacefully erupted in mass violance, while rioters set fire to government buildings and sieged others the government shipped in ID-less riot officers from god knows where and let them loose against the people resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. During this chaos one of the riotiers who were a veteran tank commander ceased a T34 from a museum and his presence made the riot officers to retreat aldough he didn't actually do anything violent with it.
I was enjoying this series, and was looking forward to the soviet era, but I have no interest in putting up with anti communist propaganda. You've lost a long time subscriber.
Terribly sorry to hear than even lightly mentioning history offends you. Not sure exactly what you were expecting to hear in these decades if you've been following the series before.
@@Akruas not history, propaganda.
@@Saurion1 soviets were trash. fact.
yeah he is a fucking communist and he doesnt need to be a subscriber anyway lol
Excellent thought....looking forward to more like this .. 🔥