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  1. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Why the Soviets would not want a Soviet aligned Turkey exactly? Hell as an idea it predates the Soviet Union, as can be seen in the treaty of Hunkar Iskelesi. Because Greece surrounds the region? And British control of the straits through Greece is anathema to the Soviets? Are you so certain...
  2. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Let me only point that TTL Soviet Union already has the 1914 border since 1921, what it actually tried to gain back in OTL 1946. Of course Stalin can very much go and claim Wilsonian Armenia. On the other hand this depends on balancing between securing more territory and securing territory from...
  3. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head
    Threadmarks: Part 77

    Syracuse, March 1381 George Gemistos had left Constantinople to further his studies the previous year, money were no obstacle to his family after all. Following a brief stint in Adrianople where he would study under local sufis and a Jewish philosopher named Elisseus who supposedly was an...
  4. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    Florins/ducats/Sicilian hyperpyra pick your choice at this point all have copied each other and are circulating gold coins ~3.5g each.
  5. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    A bit below 600,000 thousand in 1380. The country has a primary surplus around 170,000 a year.
  6. Lascaris

    Republican Spain in WW2 and the Cold War

    The argument being made is not that Stalin would not actively react to the invasion which is a big huge signal in neon lights that the Germans want to break the German-Soviet pact but that he would agree to an invasion and sell out Madrid. Well what for? Which I find rather more likely than the...
  7. Lascaris

    Republican Spain in WW2 and the Cold War

    But Stalin at the time believed Germany was going to stick to the deal an not invade. Why in June 1940 he decides Germany will invade TTL?
  8. Lascaris

    Republican Spain in WW2 and the Cold War

    What does Uncle Joe gain by throwing the cause celebre of the left under the bus? What is the tangible gain for the Soviet Union?
  9. Lascaris

    Republican Spain in WW2 and the Cold War

    What has happened to the Ribbendrop-Molotov pact TTL? And when we say republican Spain is socialist what do we really mean here? Is it ruled effectively by the PCE and Soviet aligned? Will Germany invade a Soviet aligned state in summer 1940 wi5h the pact still very much in place? Potentially...
  10. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    Why go in such a roundabout way? If Sicily wanted Albania it has the power to conquer it, no reason to do it by proxy. Aside from his daddy the former emperor being still alive, as is his elder brother while two out of the three Byzantine emperors are his nephews? What job you'd give him and...
  11. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    It is essentially a defensive measure on the Venetian part. Venice is too weak at the moment to take on the Lascarids, even recovered it would likely have a smaller fleet that Sicily but it is recovering fast and is still a significant power on its own. Arguably neither Andronikos IV nor his...
  12. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Last I've seen the ecumenical patriarchate has primacy in the Orthodox world and the Russian try to challenge and undermine it since the time of the tsars. :angel:
  13. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    At the moment the wave function has not collapsed yet. :p
  14. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Yes :angel: That depends. One notes Rokossovsky had very similar feelings... That Duy Tan still ends in a plane crash looks to me unlikely. That said what he does in Vietnam is a more interesting question. I cannot see him cooperating in any meaningful way with D'Argenlieu. And from the...
  15. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head
    Threadmarks: Part 76

    Constantinople, April 1378 Five synods had already taken place over hesychasm. The Palamites, named after Gregory Palamas the leading hesychast, had won the first two thanks to strong theological arguments... the support of Ioannis Kantakouzenos, lost the third on equally strong theological...
  16. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles
    Threadmarks: Interlude - Where are they now 1945 part IV

    Euripides Bakirtzis ended up the war as corps commander in the Italian front, with his units reaching Munich by the end of the war. A protege of Pangalos, it's no secret Bakirtzis will likely end up leading the Greek army one day in the not too distant future... Charalambos Katsimitros, is the...
  17. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    The communists got 38.11% of the vote in May 1946 in free elections. Color me unconvinced that kind of electoral appeal was dependent on whether American of Soviet tanks got to Prague a week ahead of each other.
  18. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head
    Threadmarks: Part 75

    Syracuse, March 1376 Agnes looked at her younger brother with some concern. Louis was married to Constance of Aragon, the elder daughter of Peter IV of Aragon. Her brother had created a mercenary company during the French civil war. With Charles V of France wanting Louis and his "Navaresse...
  19. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    Who would that be? Neither Philip nor Louis have reason to follow Blanche here. Now that you mention it Louis was the one to bring the Navarrese company to the Balkans OTL... Valentina the queen of Cyprus was the sixth of the legitimate children of Bernabo. Valentina the daughter of Gian...
  20. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles
    Threadmarks: Appendix Turkish Navy September 1945

    Active Fleet Destroyers: 4 Zafer class: 4 (Zafer, Demirhisar, Muavenet, Gayret) Ships Lost in action since August 15, 1940 Armored ships: 2 Fatih class: 1 Barbaros class: 1 Cruisers: 1 Yavuz class: 1 Turgut Reis class: 1 Destroyers: 8 Zafer class: 4 Yildirim class: 4 Submarines: 11...
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