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| “ | Tsarevich Alexei, where are you? Blessed child, can you hear my prayers? I have done so much in your name. I have defied the Jews, the Bolsheviks, and the forces of Hell itself. How many lives - subhumans, traitors, heathens - have I crushed under the iron heel of the Regency? How many sacrifices have I piled up on the altar? I truly do not know. Please, my blessed prince. If you will not hear my voice, then see my words. | „ |
| ~ Sergey Taboritsky, in his journal. |
Sergey Vladimirovich Taboritsky is a character in the Hearts of Iron 4 mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe, serving as the main villain protagonist of the Komi storyline in his successful route. In his unsuccessful routes, he is either a non-factor or a minor antagonist.
Taboritsky is the leader of the Society for the Restoration of the Russian Empire, which can possibly be absorbed by the Passionarity, a far-right coalition in the Komi. Once he is chosen as the leader of the Passionarity following the Western Russian reunification, Taboritsky reveals his true colors as a madman dedicated to his goal of bringing the deceased Tsarevich Alexei back at any cost.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Was a massive anti-Semite since youth, asking the church to remove his "Mark of Cain", that being Jewish ancestry.
- Before the events of the game, he killed Vladimir Nabokov whilst attempting to shoot Pavel Milyukov.
- Collaborated with the Nazis willingly and with no guilt.
- Joins the Passionarity, and assists them with his Sturmoviki in street fights.
- Overthrows Komi's government.
- By the time West Russia is unified, Georgy Zhukov, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and many other Komi leaders have already died to his forces.
- In "The Lists" event, orders Sturmoviki to kill children in order to send a message, to burn a place down, and to hang someone in public.
- In the events "From the Mouth of Babes," "Suffer Not The Mutant," and "The Wrong Kind of Question," order Sturmoviki to kill children, with the first and third event mentioning another child and an old man dying as well.
- Installs a spy network and regular home searches to find dissidents, in addition to encouraging people to rat out others.
- Sends multiple minorities, mostly Jews and Turkic people, to the repurposed Gulags to either enslave or exterminate.
- Destroys multiple art and architecture pieces considered “degenerate.”
- Puts a bounty on Jews by paying anyone who captures them.
- The event “Yea, We Wept” implies Taboritsky kills guards who fail him due to being “sympathizers.” “Imperial Black” supports this by showing an officer reporting his co-workers for supporting Gumilyov.
- Kills his former friend Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork in cold blood, after the later rejects his dinner invitation, which likely would've resulted in Bork's death anyway. The fact Taboritsky does it personally despite being an old statesman is unique in and of itself.
- Workers are punished for extremely minor infractions, like broken tools or dropped boxes, as depicted in the “Infinite Devil Machine” event.
- Kills teachers and professors due to his fear of intellectuals holding power over him and connecting them to communism.
- Forces soldiers to prove pure ancestry to join the army, despite many already being non-Russian. Given his rule, this implies they are purged.
- Makes recruits go through harsh training, not caring if they die.
- Mandates gas use against enemy's in battle. In addition, he helps develop Taborite, a gas which melts people into slurry.
- Ends due process under the belief that God is responsible for managing the courts, killing any criminal who enters them as they are guilty until proven innocent, resulting in thousands of deaths.
- Abuses women due to believing them to be corruptible.
- Eventually “codifies” subhuman features.
- Kills homeless people by sending them to his courts.
- Murders a priest in his throne room due to a vision by bashing his head with a scepter.
- Taboritsky’s rule is so horrid that Russians flee to Reichskommissariat Moskowien in one event, and in another event, a slave is happy to die after overworking.
- Any purges not represented in events are shown through a -100% population growth, showing Taboritsky kills millions of people in under a decade with the effects shown.
- His subconscious guilt and self-hatred of having the "Mark of Cain", or descending from a Jewish bloodline, is what drives him overexert his genocidal purification campaign.
- Even after his death, his rule continues to have effects, as the Northeast in the Far East is rendered uninhabitable after gas was used on a failed rebellion (further showing the effects by it being a leaderless part of the map), various ethnic groups had their way of life destroyed, and many cruel warlords like the Redeemed Black League, Brotherhood of Cain, Dikiy's Regency, and the Holy Russian Empire remnants plague the wastes.
- While other world leaders can cause nuclear war, and some like Heinrich Himmler even euthanize children while actively seeking nuclear war, Taboritsky stands out due to having far less resources (outside of a gas arsenal), which he notoriously bathes Russia and her people in.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He is played for sympathy in two of his endings:
- In the Midnight ending, Taboritsky is shown denying he is insane, and wondering if he fears what he made while pleading for Alexei to come. After being reduced to a wreck unable to write properly, he sees the man he worshipped as the bones of a child, then dies painfully of either a stroke, heart attack, or brain aneurysm. This all makes him at least somewhat pitiable in his final few events.
- In the imprisonment ending, he is thrown in prison, where he meets Alexei and the Virgin Mary. Afterwards, he's left there, wallowing in his delusions with some level of bliss.
- His relationship to his allies in the Passionarity is presented as a redeeming quality:
- While he does exile them out of Russia, Taboritsky does miss his Passionarity allies eventually, wondering where they are and being nostalgic for them, showing that he has some care for them.
- If he loses to the Passionarity, he admits he was wrong and asks them to follow "the will of the Skein" for him instead of breaking down like Gumilyov, showing that he has a minor amount of honor.
- He has minor moral agency issues due to his schizophrenia. While he was presumably sane when he killed Nabokov and collaborated with the Nazis, by the time he rules Russia, Taboritsky visualizes divine lines called the Skein that tell him to restore Tsarevich Alexei, not helped by the Skein's seeming divinity. That being said, Taboritsky has knowledge of concepts such as right and wrong (even if his beliefs on what constitutes either are skewed), already committed bad actions before his insanity, and experiences at least temporary doubt over his actions, so this is a minor prevention.
Trivia[]
- Taboritsky, alongside Abaddon, Trofim Lysenko, Andrey Dikiy, and Adolf Hitler, is one of the five The New Order: Last Days of Europe characters to be Near Pure Evil.
- Taboritsky is a foil to Konstantin Rodzaevsky, another Russian unifier:
- Both are fascist leaders with little power in Russia, who at different points worked for different powers, such as Taboritsky working for Germany or Rodzaevsky for Japan. Both utilize Orthodox Christianity for their own purposes - Taboritsky by utilizing religious support to restore Alexei, and Rodzaevsky to uphold his fascist regime.
- However, the two have severe differences. While Taboritsky eventually stopped collaborating with Germany, but still idolizes them, Konstantin Rodzaevsky grows to collaborate more and more with the Japanese, but only out of pragmatism and with hints that he secretly hates them. Taboritsky betrayed his old allies but feels some care for them, while Rodzaevsky was betrayed by his and only arguably feels remorse and considers them traitors. Taboritsky, over his route, grows more insane, while Rodzaevsky removes his self destructive habits. Taboritsky also remains loyal to German ideals until the end, while Rodzaevsky drops his ideals of working with Germany and plans to destroy them due to them rejecting his alliance.
- In real life, Taboritsky had a wife. If this was shown in TNO, it could have presented another redeeming quality. If this was the case, Taboritsky would likely become Inconsistently Heinous due to having too many preventions for Near Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Sergey Taboritsky on the Villains Fanon Wiki
- Sergey Taboritsky on the The New Order: Last Days of Europe Wiki
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