I'm not from Latvia and I'm so glad ISP cited my kind on the intro It's so rare to hear people speak about non-Latvian, you clearly earned a subscriber
The unique thing about the Latvian focus tree is that going Democratic does not lock you out of going down the Pagan path, so you can get the absolutely bonkers bonuses democratic Baltics get and then say "we changed our mind we're doing Baltic conquest now"
Not just a poet, famous novelist and leading political figure within the USSR. Started of as just a poor fisherman/dock labourer and refugee, was even liked by Ulmanis and some of his works had capitalist undertones. He’s very interesting
you know i think Latvia historically definitely had one of those op modded focus trees and the current one is Swedish propaganda to keep us Latvians down and contained, les we unleash our power upon this world.
The Finnish word (nowadays a swearword) Perkele is likely to have come from Perkūnas/Pērkons, a baltic thunder god and has been claimed to be Ukko overgods name before it came to the Finnish mythology.
If you sided with the soviets or just are in the faction while you do the Belarus SSR focus, they can actually promise to give you your states after they divided Poland with Germany.
They did quietly announce that Italy was *finally* on their list of countries to get a brand new set of ahistorical focus trees. Hopefully that _will_ come in a bigger update, maybe one that deals with the african front, or something.
Well, the Soviets would have given you all of Belarus (including Molotov Ribbentrop land) if you would have joined them as a puppet. Interestingly enough, when the Soviets beat Germany they straight up gave all the land to me in the peace conference (like as in went ahead and used up their war score to make sure I got that missing Polish land).
How aren't you gone insane already from these lots of hoi4 videos? I mean you already insane but keep doing these videos for us so we can watch you suffer-i mean have *fun* playing
the videos give him money for schizo pills.... so its an endless cycle of going insane from making these hoi4 videos then purchasing schizo pills using that money... to then make more hoi4 videos....and going insane again
Valmiermuiža. It's the same as place-hof in German. Fun fact: it's probably really good because they have a German brewmaster with serious accolades. We have a thriving brewery scene, Valmiermuiža is essentially a mainstream beer, but a really good one.
@@joujou264 when I was in Latvia a Latvian guy told me Valmiermuiza was the only Latvian beer in supermarkets not owned by big international companies like Heineken. So if that's right it is mainstream but the best mainstream beer there is in Latvia, both in taste and locality
@@wyomingisfake4813 Interesting, all the big supermarkets have the local beers front and center, usually, with the international stuff scattered around. I'm not sure which of the local ones are owned by "Big Beer", however.
Well get ready to give up those lungs because I find the Latvians to have the funnest focus tree among the 3. Lithuania's problem is if I wanted to do the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth I would just play Poland.
I'm pretty sure Stalin didn't notice the loss of Belarus since it's still basically the same color as the USSR! In fact, I'm sure he thought he gained Latvia instead and no one around him wanted to correct him.
Words could not express my disappointment when paradox announced that the Baltic States would get full focus trees while Finland, a country that actually fought in WW2, would only get an event and national spirit.
Hi ISP, when you get to Yugoslavia I humbly request that you do the devolution route and puppet-slavia. Reason being that it's neat but also it is bugged so by the time you reach Yugoslavia, and if the video goes out, if it isn't fixed, I'd like it to be fixed so maybe you'll bring attention to it.
So what’s your opinion? Mine is Lithuania>Estonia>Latvia
Allah>everything
Play Hearts of Iron 1
Mine is ISP>everything
I think italy is better than all of these combined
Ecuador facist way focus rework > everything else
For a country that had no potential in WW2, this is actually a decent focus tree.
Are tou Turkish South Persia Rifles
@@Gotcha1 it had more potential than turkey
Sad Italy noises
@@per4n bruh i didn't mean it his profile pic is from a famous Turkish series 😂😂
@mr nobody thank u, i shall bomb the US embassy tomorrow while listening to this
I'm not from Latvia and I'm so glad ISP cited my kind on the intro
It's so rare to hear people speak about non-Latvian, you clearly earned a subscriber
He truly cares about us minorities, ISP is such a great guy.
@mr nobody No, it is, in fact, here:
czcams.com/video/6n3pFFPSlW4/video.html
Fun fact about latvia! In italian it is called "Lettonia", which can be interpreted as "BED LAND"
in Spanish it is also called "Letonia"
yeah..and no..Lettonia comes from the tribe that lived in that area that we call Letgalli
1 like for enthusiasm
Thats because its as boring as a dreamless night
I mean, by Italian standards all land east of Rhine is just a barbaric wilderness
The unique thing about the Latvian focus tree is that going Democratic does not lock you out of going down the Pagan path, so you can get the absolutely bonkers bonuses democratic Baltics get and then say "we changed our mind we're doing Baltic conquest now"
Yeah the Latvian Communist tree is decent if you go with quickly annexing the other Baltic states but the Belarus tree is absolutely awful.
The communist tree is the same for every Baltic state
I didn't even know they added a Belarus tree lol
@@Georgian502 They did not, he meant the part of the communist tree that lets him go in an union with belarus
@mr nobody shut up bot
@@ortherner he’s everywhere… annoying
Fun fact, Vilis Lācis is known as a very controversial poet in Latvia fue to being a leading communist figure in the Latvian SSR
Not just a poet, famous novelist and leading political figure within the USSR. Started of as just a poor fisherman/dock labourer and refugee, was even liked by Ulmanis and some of his works had capitalist undertones. He’s very interesting
@@dandun3244 seems like you might be a fan of communism
@@christianhathaway5423 not really, I mean he specifically referred to the fact that it had some hints of capitalism
Yea. He was a dirty traitor to Latvians.
4:35
Ah, the good ol' Panteleimon Ponomarenko, the leader that has been here since the very first videos of hoi4 on this channel.
I completely forgot he was called that
When ISP wants to meme about how uninteresting Latvia is but then hits us with the hilarious fact that they were a colonial power
we have da bigger colonies n shieet than sweden n austria
And it was incorrect bc courland wasn’t independent but a polish puppet state
@@janisosins7084 no they formed the f***ing commonwealth and they aren’t the puppet
@@janisosins7084 but a Latvian did the exploration and put Latvians on an Island
@@nein4013 We are a mixed spieces of Latvian xd
Fun fact: all of the baltic countries have the same communist focus tree
you know i think Latvia historically definitely had one of those op modded focus trees and the current one is Swedish propaganda to keep us Latvians down and contained, les we unleash our power upon this world.
@mr nobody I murdered 17 women in 1984, they are all buried in concrete in my basement.
@@per4n same
@@per4n As one does
dont we all have at least 10 women corpses in our basements
@@melcknis poor people having only 2
Remember that Slovakia is a starting nation in the 1939 scenario
The Finnish word (nowadays a swearword) Perkele is likely to have come from Perkūnas/Pērkons, a baltic thunder god and has been claimed to be Ukko overgods name before it came to the Finnish mythology.
If you sided with the soviets or just are in the faction while you do the Belarus SSR focus, they can actually promise to give you your states after they divided Poland with Germany.
Ah isps signature saying
“Hellooooo my gravy babiessss”
When he says that I feel wanted
@mr nobody i wish you were in a barn in washington enumclaw being filmed for something with a horse
This begs the question....
What happens when you start a HoI4 game where every nation has 0 stability?
Civil war in france lead by communist
Civil war in communism led by france
no more political power, that's for sure
when I did the other path as Lativa they give you the polish land in the molotov pact.
Why do I imagine that Italy is going to get a massive focus tree, and paradox is just teasing us until HOI 5 is announced?
I think you may have been sniffing the fungus a bit too hard.
No, he has a point
HOI5 Will release after Victoria III
@@johnsteampunk6408 She*
They did quietly announce that Italy was *finally* on their list of countries to get a brand new set of ahistorical focus trees. Hopefully that _will_ come in a bigger update, maybe one that deals with the african front, or something.
ISP finally locking down that ever-important Latvian CZcams focus group.
ISP the recorder, we must all remember this
Well, the Soviets would have given you all of Belarus (including Molotov Ribbentrop land) if you would have joined them as a puppet. Interestingly enough, when the Soviets beat Germany they straight up gave all the land to me in the peace conference (like as in went ahead and used up their war score to make sure I got that missing Polish land).
How aren't you gone insane already from these lots of hoi4 videos?
I mean you already insane but keep doing these videos for us so we can watch you suffer-i mean have *fun* playing
He already was
the videos give him money for schizo pills.... so its an endless cycle of going insane from making these hoi4 videos then purchasing schizo pills using that money... to then make more hoi4 videos....and going insane again
You can't go insane if you already is. Checkmate.
@@electrikality yeah you right
You should take a look at vittoria è nostra. It adds an actual good Italian focus tree. It’s quite fun!
Mods no work :(
Latvian Fun Fact: They have a beer called Valmiermuerza or something that's really fucking good. That really means something coming from a German.
Valmiermuiža. It's the same as place-hof in German. Fun fact: it's probably really good because they have a German brewmaster with serious accolades. We have a thriving brewery scene, Valmiermuiža is essentially a mainstream beer, but a really good one.
@@joujou264 damn I didn't know there was a German beer that's basically the same. I really wanna try that now
@@joujou264 when I was in Latvia a Latvian guy told me Valmiermuiza was the only Latvian beer in supermarkets not owned by big international companies like Heineken. So if that's right it is mainstream but the best mainstream beer there is in Latvia, both in taste and locality
@@wyomingisfake4813 Interesting, all the big supermarkets have the local beers front and center, usually, with the international stuff scattered around. I'm not sure which of the local ones are owned by "Big Beer", however.
As someone from Latvia, I am proud ISP hated this focus tree :)
I will bet both my lungs that no one has willingly played Latvia. The only ones who do are being held hostage.
except latvians trying to suffer as they did in the 40's
@@fatballeringg9036 can confirm i refuse to give up just yet
Please help my family is being held hostqage until i do a latvia world conquest
but I'm not being held hostage 😔
Well get ready to give up those lungs because I find the Latvians to have the funnest focus tree among the 3. Lithuania's problem is if I wanted to do the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth I would just play Poland.
"So the Polish rose up!- wait does that mean I can take Poland in the peace deal?" - Stalin 1944
as a Latvian, i'm happy to see ISP come back to my country
ISP, "somebody cut this out."
Braun, "oops"
4:36 its our boy, mr. Panteleimon Ponomarenko!
11:00 I'm laughing so hard damn it iSorrow don't make me choke on tears like that
One would think the germans and italians would pause and think after losing 4 million men attacking latvia and not getting anything in return.
Why am I scared when I see he uploaded another one
the pain
@0:51 "they've got a focus tree, no one knows why" HAHAHAHA
I'm pretty sure Stalin didn't notice the loss of Belarus since it's still basically the same color as the USSR!
In fact, I'm sure he thought he gained Latvia instead and no one around him wanted to correct him.
The leader of one of the sides of the beleroussian civil war is the legendary pantelimen poronamenko! Who even remembers that whole thing anymore?
From a quick read of the left focustree side without pausing is :merge and suck their resource
Hello from Latvia! and finally u uploaded this video
also we like potatoes >:(
10:23 Cue Nicholas and Alexandra scene.
Just like to say I thoroughly enjoy your content
I took a break from isorrow, now that I’m back my brain is already beginning to smooth again.
Yeeee!!! Isorrowproductions is the best hoi4 channel!!! we luv u!!!
4:40 for Panteleimon Ponomenko ex machina
11:03 I picked the wrong time to take a drink
ISP the Uploader has returned!
yes... more CONTENT FOR ME TO CONSUME! More content daddySP
Postal 1 is just what will happen to isp after he finishes the A -z series
0:23 thanks eyesorrowproductions i wouldve never known about the great latvian colonial empire
If you're serious, it wasn't. It was a polish puppet state governed by Germans. Latvians were just the serf-class.
4:44 he's back
At this point I’m only on CZcams trapped in the shorts and waiting for you to upload
I visited Latvia once. Riga is a really chill capital.
Words could not express my disappointment when paradox announced that the Baltic States would get full focus trees while Finland, a country that actually fought in WW2, would only get an event and national spirit.
My only explanation is they're doing a winter war themed dlc in the future
Finally, he called us gravy babies again
My favorite thing about Latvia is *insert Latvian fact here* isn’t that just so fuckin wild!
Those final borders look like some Hansa on steroids
Idk whenever Latvia comes to my mind I just think of a Savanna covered in Potatoes
0:33 There's a cool new name for West Taiwan. "Other."
I have a Latvian grandmother. She would be terrified at what you have done to her country
Help, I accidentally joined Anti-Comintern Pact.
11:14 he really does say that a lot
Finally Italy is not alone.
State Paganism: * Exists *
ISP: "You are beginning to arouse my... curiosity."
So if you actually play nice with the Soviets, they give you the polish states you get cores on
currently watching this through my Latvian networking equipment
Has anyone here ever gone democratic as a baltic nation?
Grandma look, funny map man is back
Well, better than the generic focus tree, right?
*Right?*
**Laughs in Minor Nations Reborn mod**
it's better than any of the trees from Together for Victory
Latvia! It exists
ISP's brain is slowing turning into a hoi4
ISP: "I'm declaring war on hungary." (Mountain General Liked That)
5:10 some might say, latvia-belarus ssr slaps balls ;)
5:25 isp losing his sanity
Latvia has Bikernieki raceway, which is unironically one of the best race tracks in the entire world.
Next HOI4 DLC focuses on anything but Italy!
Italy: no don't take that title away from me, its the one thing I have!
So happy that he didn't do ostland
Mans going mad
I think italy's focus tree is worse than a country that got randomly annexed
10:15 curses thing iran divisions in Manchuria 💀🗿
I like that they broke the Baltic Duchy decision and that they haven't fixed it since launch
The way you say "purkencrust" took me 12 years to figure out you were saying Pērkonkrusts, translating to thudrecross
Hey ISP, can you show the combat in your videos? You can fast forward it if you don't want it to take so long
Read the title and my mind went “Greece bad, or original French focus bad?”
Hi ISP, when you get to Yugoslavia I humbly request that you do the devolution route and puppet-slavia. Reason being that it's neat but also it is bugged so by the time you reach Yugoslavia, and if the video goes out, if it isn't fixed, I'd like it to be fixed so maybe you'll bring attention to it.
0:24 pretty funny cuz vassal state of Poland Lithuania had own colonies lmao
I think the AI was thinking it was going to get encircled by ISP pushing down through Slovakia but I mayyyyy be giving the AI to much credit lol
that pronounciation of pērkonkrusts tho 😂😂
Yesss i was just getting bored but not any more hahahahah
Tannu Tuva stronk
GREETINGS FROM LATVIJĀS! 🇱🇻
Nice video, but have you heard of anti air only?
Thanks!
No problem!
i wished you picked the perkonkrusts path
sad to see my country get violated like that
You should've made poland latvian vassal it would be ironic.
*Zem Mūzū Kājām" Stops*
Italy looks so different nowadays
As a Latvian. Thank you.
Isp! I'm your biggest fan! Slather me in gravy please!!!
tbh I like to borders if you had returned belarus it would've been a nice cresent