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  1. Dan1988

    What if Britain became communist before WW1

    ...context we're using- and in a system as class-ridden and tense as Britain was pre-WW1 IOTL (on top of the colonial empire, to boot!) of course it would be conducive to *a* form of Communism. Not only that, it would get to define what Communism and what it entails before Russia gets the chance.
  2. Dan1988

    US Balkanization- Long Term Russian Hyperpower

    I don't see Russia developing that far, considering how it was historically plagued with all sorts of issues, not to mention how the Tsars preferred that no political activity took place at all and the security services were doing their bit to enforce that. And that's before we get to the...
  3. Dan1988

    In a world with no WW1, could Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Turkestan, etc. ever gain independence from a surviving Russian Empire?

    Hmm, that leaves one question for me: if Finland was even remotely interested, what are the potential chances for a Fenno-Estonian union? Yes, I know, far-fetched as hell (and some could object to seeing Estonian as a Finnish dialect), but stranger things have happened before elsewhere in the...
  4. Dan1988

    What would a Communist Britain name things?

    As long as there's a place to quickly decamp, then it doesn't matter how viable it would seem to be in order to function as a redoubt. So, in that case, the Channel Islands could work out better (now just leaving the choice between Jersey and Guernsey). Canada was already getting rocked by the...
  5. Dan1988

    What would a Communist Britain name things?

    The Channel Islands and Isle of Man are right there; they might depend on the UK for a few things, but they are technically (quasi-)independent countries. So there's certainly potential for a *Taiwan analog/ues just a stone's throw away.
  6. Dan1988

    What would a Communist Britain name things?

    ...panic in the US (since it would seem threatening enough to the existing economic model in the US that groups like the Socialist Party would get *ideas*) and demands that Washington do something - with Canada as the obvious target, because there had been pro-annexationist sentiments lurking...
  7. Dan1988

    What would a Communist Britain name things?

    And if that ever happened, the US would be trying to invade Canada, Newfoundland (at the time separate from Canada), the Bahamas, the BVI, maybe even Jamaica, Anguilla, and British Honduras (yes, I know the last 4 were colonies, not Dominions, at the time - doesn't really matter for Washington...
  8. Dan1988

    What would a Communist Britain name things?

    Well, all of the exotic names all have a clear English translation in "council", so "All power to the Councils" can fit. What matters more, to me, is absolutely simple - will it remain a monarchy or not? If a monarchy, then there would be some continuity with the existing regime (so a lot of...
  9. Dan1988

    Was it possible for Portugal's monarchy to be restored in 1968 if Salazar died then itself?

    Well, it's not like Salazar could have tried - made all the more easier by the fact that there was one main pretender to the throne (Duarte Nuno) and all the other claimants (sorry, Brazilian Braganzas) were largely marginal to begin with. However, by that point, things had changed so that if...
  10. Dan1988

    AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    Be that it may, at least to me it certainly shows potential - at least for TTL purposes - to be far more than it became IOTL, hence not a dead end. Having at least one part of the Russia-as-cultural-region that is not autocratic by default, as Novgorod was, is a great start to having at least...
  11. Dan1988

    AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    My thinking is basically what if, instead of a single entity that called itself Russia, three was instead a continuation of the preceding situation, albeit a bit more consolidated, where there was more than one principality (or, in Novgorod's case, republic) that covered that same space without...
  12. Dan1988

    AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    Even if that was the case, certainly an independent surviving Novgorod Republic would have made a difference and helped shore up its connections with the European world - particularly since (as far as I'm aware) it was never subject to Mongol rule.
  13. Dan1988

    AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    ...wonders what would happen if, say, the Novgorod Republic was still alive and kicking (which would probably necessitate a somewhat more fragmented *Russia in at least 3 parts, of which the Grand Duchy of Moscow would occupy the central bit along with something else in southern Russia (outside...
  14. Dan1988

    How could've Trotsky took power?

    The one thing underlying all those options and how they would dictate how Trotsky governs the Soviet Union is path dependency and whether the Communists try to break that or find it comfortable. Many of the USSR's leaders grew up under an autocratic system until 1917, hence having little...
  15. Dan1988

    Musings on Britain holding New England during the American Revolution.

    Honestly, for me, to pull that off means having a pre-Revolutionary POD more Puritan immigration to (most of) the other 13 colonies rather than just Massachusetts (including Maine as the Massachusetts Bay Colony held that at the time) and Connecticut. One of the reasons why the Revolution...
  16. Dan1988

    The United States with a British Deep South

    The anti-slavery lobby in Britain was still a thing; it could be delayed from OTL, but at some point it was going to happen as a compromise between the slaveholding interests and the anti-slavery lobby. Of course, what made the difference was that a lot of the Caribbean colonies based their...
  17. Dan1988

    The United States with a British Deep South

    Except that similar sentiments were not unusual throughout the Anglophone Caribbean - hence compensation plus a six-year period of apprenticeship for the ex-slaves as the price for abolition, so it's a gradual process that doesn't change much in terms of the social structure, as racialist and...
  18. Dan1988

    The United States with a British Deep South

    Well, at least we know which areas will be going on a hybrid South Africa + generic LatAm historical trajectory. But since the 13 in general had overwhemlingly become prosperous through the slave trade (how else did that cotton make it to New England's textile mills?), one has to temper it with...
  19. Dan1988

    British Motor Industry plausibility check

    Just a minor quibble- Morris bought Riley in 1934, not any time prior in the 1920s.
  20. Dan1988

    US tries to win the Cold War with kindness?

    If we're going for a kinder US during the Cold War, the GMD is a big obstacle here due to Jiang 's authoritarian rule of both the party and state, so it would prefer to seek alternatives here. The main way I could see the US back the GMD early on is if somehow it and not the Soviet Union was...
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