Gutrum Vagner (born 13th October 1938) is a Russian warlord and self proclaimed "Aryan," who is the leader and founder of the Aryan Brotherhood. His former name was Alexey Dobrovolsky, but he took a German name for ideological reasons and he is one of the many potential leaders for Russian unification, although one of the hardest ones at best.
History[]
Early-life[]
Alexey Alexandrovich Dobrolovsky was born in the former Soviet Union in the city of Moscow, now controlled by Reichskommissariat Moskowien, a puppet colonial state established by the Greater Germanic Reich. It would only be a very few years until the Reich would strike at the USSR, and as a small child at that time, he could not do anything to stop the advance, only retreat alongside with his family and people who taught him about the values of socialism. However, this would all change in the West Russian War.
West Russian War and defection[]
At first, near the end of his adolescence, he joined the Red Army of the West Russian Revolutionary Front to fight against the Germans, and while the Front managed to break the A-A line, retake territories and weaken them as a whole, they would be beaten again. Being shocked by the terror he saw, he suffered some form of mental trauma, from which that point would lead to his insanity, quickly defecting from the Red Army and was not seen again.
For a while it seemed he was missing, but in reality, he was trying to reconcile with the situation on how the Germans won. Due to his trauma, he developed a rather insane interpretation of German National Socialism.
Cult formation[]
The way of how he founded the ideology somewhat remained a mystery. But a most plausible way of how it happened was how he researched Russian history and found about Russians importing certain cultural customs from Germany, thus pseudo-intellectually concluded that Russians were inferior in all ways, until they become Germans, that is "Aryan" culture into their life, an actual state of mind Russians could achieve.
Following in (what he believed to be) the footsteps of Peter the Great himself and educating himself in German and the Aryan ways from any scrap of literature he could find, the self-proclaimed Fyurer of the Aryan Brotherhood, now having adopted the Aryan name of Gutrum Vagner, attracted a loyal following to his mission, which he saw in the reclamation of Russia from the supposed "Zionist degeneracy." His men swarmed the anarchic city of Perm and declared it the site of Aryan revival, where they indulged in the imitation of the ways of the superior race and brought terror upon the Slavic population.
Present-day[]
Holding up one of the most merciless and terrifying forces of Russia with a firm hand, Vagner gazes into the farthest reaches of Russia, seeking to return it to the cradle of Aryan civilization. However, the task seems to be almost impossible, and it would take a lot of luck to win this supposed one million dollar lottery, as their state is, while mostly merciless, is also the most incompetent.
In-game[]
Vagner will be available at the start of the game to a player, and will pose quite a challenge to play as him. In the beginning, he really does not have any form of heavy industry, machinery, nor do they even have tanks or planes at their disposal, entirely relying upon either pure "Aryanized" Russians or slaves commanded by those same "Aryans." But through his focuses, the player will be able to solve the issues of the military and slave industry, either by small concessions or force. A special mechanic for the Aryan Brotherhood exists that generates manpower, and that is the imposition of an Aryan Cult upon the population, which in the process, depending on which route the military shall be composed of, will generate either a small or large number of manpower.
After all that is complete, they will initiate final raids once the bombers stop bombing the areas due to the German Civil War that inevitably happens after Adolf Hitler's death. At this point, the only thing left to do is to reunify the west Russian region through force only. After that, taking back Onega might pose a challenge unlike for most West Russian leaders, as the Aryan Brotherhood suffers from a technological disadvantage, but with a good amount of troops prepared and trained, as well as with good strategy, player can easily take back Onega and even reclaim back Karelian territories taken by Finland.
At the regional stage, Vagner will proceed to implement his policies through brutal force, as he enslaves most of the population living in those regions, as well as starts the eradication of the Russian language, in order to be replaced with a bizarre variant of German called "Deytch." But it is at this stage that a power struggle begins between the faction of reformists within the brotherhood, led by Zigfrid Shultz who believe that Slavs are true Aryans and that the Germans are controlled by Zionists. The player at this point can take routes that favor either Zigfrid's reformists or Vagner's followers, so if the player takes focuses that favor Vagner, Vagner will sentence Zigfrid and his followers to death for being "subversive traitors," and after that, Vagner will finally finish implementing his reforms.
The economic focuses imply that Vagner uses a modernized version of an ancient pre-feudal system of slavery, similar to those of Germany, with things inherited from parts of capitalism like paper money and technology being present, although only available to "Aryans" and not slaves that make up the vast majority. For the military, he can either reform it to resemble the Wehrmacht, or he can make his own variant that suits the needs of the region they are in. And lastly, in his diplomatic focuses, he decides to contact the Reich for a special Pan-Aryan congress, to which he explicitly either gets mocked, confused or outright disgusted by whoever won the German Civil War.
At the super-regional stage, he continues and tries to contact the Germans, with no responses to be found in any way. However, instead to finally acknowledge that they do not see them as allies, Vagner and his leadership conclude that the reason why they did not responded to their messages was because the Zionist spies intercepted and broke the communications. After all that banter, they keep on adding more slaves to their disposal, implement their culture upon newly conquered lands.
Vagner is one of the hardest warlords to play, not only does he not have a proper industry in the beginning, he neither cannot reunify with any other warlord, nor he can amass a very large army even with a constant enforcement of cult dominance upon the population, and combined with a fact that coring times for the newly conquered areas are the longest out of any warlord, it is not recommended to play as him, until the player knows how to reunify Russia with the other warlords.
Quote upon unification[]
"In a hundred years time, perhaps, a great man will appear who may offer them a chance at salvation. He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the course I have charted."
—Adolf Hitler
Trivia[]
- Vagner is the second youngest leader in the mod, the first being Valery Sablin.
- The language Vagner constructed, "Deytch," is spoken very similarly and shares a lot of words with Yiddish. Ironically, Yiddish is a language spoken by the Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire and is often called "Judeo-German," due to its High German influence.
- While idealism is not a strange thing within far-right ideologies, if one were to compare Vagner's interpretation of National Socialism in contrast to what actual German Nazis believed, one would find that actual National Socialism takes somewhat of materialist approach to race (in a pseudoscientific sense) that can be to one extent compared to Marxist method (though obviously Marxism dismissing their analysis as pseudoscientific as well and not actually materialist), while Vagner's method is entirely idealistic, as the subject (the Aryan will) is more important than the actual race of an individual (the object).
- This method unfortunately, when actually put into practice, is nothing more than a justification for torture and slavery of other Russians, allowing mass murderers, rapists and the mentally insane to operate their society, as evident by the in-game events.