So what shape is the U.S.S.R in on the socioeconomic level & is it a global superpower in 2016?
Also what nations are TTL's ''Japan & China'' in terms of booming economic growth? Korea & Vietnam don't seem quite big enough to fill those vacuums.
Just one more thing: is Yugoslavia still a...
So, how the hell does Suslov (of all people) take power in the U.S.S.R & has this TL butterflied Krushchev's rule? Also how has the U.S.S.R survived until 2017, (that seems to have been implied) is it a more hardline version of OTL's China an Authoritarian state with reformed economy.
Also what...
Whatever the truth Rennenkampf and Samsonov were either luntics, selfish glory-hunters or Cadorna level incompetents, given that they truly did refuse to communicate, let alone coordinate tactically.
There must have been some sort of feud (which apprently no-one in St Petersburg thought was a...
If Stalin hadnt been around at all then the Bolshevik party would have lost/never had one of it's best terrorist commanders. So there are quite a few butterflies in that sense...
If he died in the 1920's after the U.S.S.R was already founded then millions of people who died OTL survive, the...
The Byzantines also need to avoid the OTL civil wars that turned ''decline'' into ''fall''. In the 14th century.
Shifting focus to Europe isnt a problem in itself if the small Greek states fold soon after the retaking of the capital with little real fighting as the Despotate of Epirus did OTL...
Read a couple more pages and I take it back, except the Yeltsin getting what he deserved bit. Because frankly his misrule was realistically among the worst things that could've happened to Russia.
Recreateing the cluster-f**k that was the Russian Civil War in the 1990's is a little ASB but...
Could still turn out much better than OTL which was a RL dystopian Russia-screw,
At least the OTL epic disasters ushered in by Yeltsin and his equivalents in the non-Russian SSR's. Has been butterflied by ole Boris getting a well -deserved bullet to the head.
OOC: Frankly the PRC would be burned utterly off the face of the earth if they nuked the Soviet Union no matter what the US goverment said.
China's stockpile of nukes was tiny compared to the U.S.S.R, their rockets were far less advanced & their launch sites were too easy for the Soviets to...
You doubt the mighty powers of Comrade Stalin's magical mustache?! Thats a double death sentance & 9999 years in the camps you anti-Soviet Nazi-Fascist-Trotskyite-White Guardist-Imperialist Agent!:mad:
Seriously the IJA would get ripped to shreds, unless the Red Army simply refuses to even try...
Having watched Culloden 1746 starring BRIAN BLESSED! Yesterday, I was wondering about the prospects of the Jacobite cause post 1746, if for example the French could carry out an invasion plan they'd been considering in 1759.
Would there be any prospect of a thrid Jacobite rasing given that...
If the U.S.S.R did better than OTL it wouldnt fall apart. Still your best bet would be avoiding WW1, the Russian Civil War, High Stalinism & WW2.
Pre-WW1 German fear of Russia bcoming stronger was one of the main reasons they chose to go to war in 1914. Maybe having Nicky the Fool getting...
None of which fixes the basic problem with KMT misrule or Chaing's inablity to get a handle on his regime's internal corruption, rampant factionalism and brazen disloyalty. Mao for all his faults as a ruler was a genius at guerrilla warfare & subversion and the CCP was well-led, disciplined and...