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I thought that the Trans-Polar Aleut were in Eurasia too?I couldn't upload this itself, but here's a QBAM version of my map of the world of Shadowrun in 2072Shadowrun Qbam.png
It's a nice map, with one of the crackiest ideas I've seen in awhile. Just a question or two, though!The Eastern European Commonwealth is a nation formed after the collapse of the Nazi Colonial Empire in the East during 1980s. The nation was made possible by the union of the four post-colonial nations: Ukraine, Cossackia, West Caucasia and, most importantly, Newstralia - at least 1/4 of the total population are the descendants of Anglo-Australians, resettled there after the agreement between the German Reich and the Japanese Empire to transfer white "Aryan" population of Australia to the German colonies to a mutual benefit of the increased colonization prospects for both racially-minded empires. While the resettlement was successful, Germany has never succeeded in making the settlers loyal to the Nazi cause - in fact, many Australians willingly joined the existing guerillas, which forced severe German retaliations.
(Basically, something like Man in the High Castle levels of the Nazi Victory with Germany still collapsing as in the most althist scenarios).
So the Germans didn't get at all sussy about fellow Aryans losing "their" land to presumably untermensch Japanese? The Nazis had pretty koo-koo ideas on race, and one imagines that after they both won, the war-time alliance between both nations would have broken down - though perhaps after sometime when they've finished digesting their new swole gains.
And what happened to New Zealand - are they included with the Anglo-Australians? Were they swallowed by the Japanese whole too?
For the time being, the Japanese are still the "Honorary Aryans". And the Australians were their enemies technically, just as the Japanese were their allies. While yes, the tensions are going to rise and eventually lead to the Cold War, the explanation of the "Aryan" race "losing" the continent is that it was a practical move for the Aryans to triumph in Europe, which is "more important to the Aryans' destiny" anyway. As the Cold War goes on, though, Germany would probably start to rethink this and start portraying Australia as something to be reclaimed, with expressed sympathy for the local "Aryans" plight, which sounds hypocritical, sure, considering German suppression of the Newstralian rebellions, but it is one of the ways to undermine the rival, so the Germans explain it all as just a part of realpolitik or something like that. They'd like to support the Australian resistance, though it is not possible at the moment, as they lack a reliable way to supply them with anything. Strangely enough, it may lead to a minority of Australian resistance groups adopting some sort of pro-Nazi stance.
I forgot a bit about New Zealand, but yeah, they're included too, especially as there is much less of the Anglo-New Zealanders than the Anglo-Australians. The Maori would, for a time being, ostenibly be "decolonised" and given a sort of autonomy with some port concessions to Japan.
NOTE: James Andersson is a randomly generated name I used for an election game a year or two back. The picture is Representative Jake Auchincloss but modified so it doesn't accidentally break any rules on current politics. I thought Yoo was fine since I'm using him for a different country.
Very interesting! Ukraine has more territory in the east, and several of the ASSRs are now full SSRs (Tatarstan, my beloved). I have to wonder if they wouldn't have made rump minority SSRs like they did with Moldova before they got Besarabia, perhaps making a Baltic SSR in western Ingria?
Ukraine is indeed bigger, but it's nothing when compared to Byelarus, who basically managed to keep Smolensk !
It looks like there is an independent Ukraine, too.
Or at least a significant part of an intermarine federation.
Those Bashkir-Kazakh border disputes are going to be bad once the USSR begins to collapse
I wonder if Yakov Sverdlov and Fyodor Sergeyev have taken on more prominent roles here compared to OTL?
Sergeyev doesn't die like IOTL, and this snowballs into Kirov not being assassinated, leading eventually to a less repressive Stalinist regime between 1934 and 1939, Stalin using the anschluss of Austria and the Sudeteland as excuses to begin a drift towards totalitarianism, "in an attempt to prevent and prepare for a potential conflict with the Power-hungry Fascists and the cowards Liberals"
I mean, depends
Belarus is an ASSR here, and it isn't immediately clear if there's another independent Belarus as would be likely in Ukraine's case
Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic my beloathed
fair fair, Belarus is indeed an ASSR, and yeah, the DKSR is indeed the basis for TTL's Ukraine SSR
What's happened to the rest of Ukraine, and to that bit of OTL Uzbekistan that isn't part of the SmolSSR for some reason?
I feel like that would complicate the korenization efforts in Ukraine a bit, given how heavily Lenin placated Ukrainian nationalists IOTL
Ukraine west of the Dnieper is either part of Poland, or a once Polish puppet that has by the late 20's united with the post-Makhnovist Ukraine (anarchists managed to secure themselves a state, and then anarchism died out), and by 1932 started to dislike Poland very much after a Smetona-flavoured coup. The Khanate of Bukhara managed to remain independent and resist the Soviet re-conquest of Central Asia thanks to:
1 - British and Afghan diplomatic, logistic and even for Afghanistan military support
2 - Having managed to reform itself
3 - Having managed to oof a lot of the Russians and Young Bukharans in its territory
4 - British guns
5 - British guns
6 - more British guns
7 - The British really don't want the Soviets to get closer to their puppet state in Afghanistan, nor to loose their soon-to-be puppet state in Bukhara, so they gave Bukhara guns
8 - British guns
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