Thread:Phiniksa/@comment-3429794-20170622045710/@comment-27800635-20170622234453

Rhalitra wrote: Vannesira Smith wrote: To be fair to Rhalitra, it really does depend upon how you use the symbols. Eg. Using a Totenkopf + Black Sack Coat would be fine if the unit is based on the Black Brunswickers or Prussian Deaths Head Hussars, but not if they're based on the SS.

Or it would even be fine if you have antagonistic group using over the top dictatorship style tropes ala the People's Republic of Tyranny, but if you start acting like they're the good guys it becomes rather obscene.

Also, personally, I've always seen Alterac as a mix of Switzerland and Austria due to the mountains and Swiss Cheese. You could even give a fanon explanation for Alterac as it being a corruption of Altereich or "Old Realm" in German, like how Austria is Ostereich/Eastern Realm. There was a good dictator and he freed his nation from the communists. He was looked at as evil because he looked and sounded like a dictator. Not all dictators are evil some not all. This dictator's name was Sir Augusto Pinochet (big hero). The reason we use some symbols to represent industrialism and soverignty.

Your hero and selected dictator is a man who is accused of human rights abuses and violations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_in_Pinochet%27s_Chile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet#Human_rights_violations