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And a united Yugoslavia in 1954 borders with Istria ? Poland lost the same Eastern territory as OTL ? Germany keeps the Sudetenland ? Imagine you have an existential was against communism as Britain and US and France and you squander forces to occupy a conservative Catholic country like Ireland...

Did the Roman empire not have 4 temporarely (the tetraarchy) ? A good candidate would be Yugoslavia, which struggled with an arrangement which kept everything in balance after the death of Tito. They annually changed the President, from each of its six constituent parts. So six capitals is also...

There was in the beginning of the 20th century no Muslim resistance to Habsburg rule in the Balkans. The Muslims in Bosnia were loyal and considered Serbia as a threat. Croatian fascism later, the Ustasa movement, was very Catholic but considered Bosnian Muslims as allies against Ortodox...

Germans military training Ukrainians. Nice !

A zombie apocalypse ?

When is your point of divergence ? It makes a huge difference if in the setup of 1939 somehow our WWII is avoided or postponed, or if the POD is in 1919 with a hugely different Versailles.

You want Austria on the same side as Italy with the way things were going in South Tirol ? Will require some well thought out plottwists and excellent diplomacy.

The best dystopias are the ones diverging gradually and in unexspected ways, some countries being better than OTL. A shift in priorities and Gumbo: fear and loathing are a good example. I dislike stories which begin ‘ in 2033 the 4th Reich/Gilead/the New Soviet Union started killing everybody‘...

Is it even possible to get rid of a virus by carpet nuking ? And is it possible to bomb the British Isles in such a way that Germany is not damaged by fallout ? Even a Doomsday exchange lwhich would in OTL kill 95% of the population of Britain would not exterminate rats, flies, bacteria or...

Most Atlantic countries had been decimated by the disease coming in through ships and exist only in eastern parts, so they have no coastal capability left.

A ruthless dictator can still avoid a big war not because of any moral qualms but because realizing the power of the USA is vastly greater and chances of success were slim. Just like Mao, Franco, Stalin were risk-averse in some way.

Basically the difference between Franco and Hitler. Willy Knight seems to me not as genocidal and ruthless as Featherston, not the type to attack the US. Might die of old age in 1960-70, afterwards there might be multiparty elections again and even transition to democracy, depends on what is...

How goes buikding megastructures on earth ? If they have the energy to lift tremendous amounts of steel in orbit, and transport them all over the solar system, it should probably not be too difficult to build a bridge to Africa from Gibraltar, to Hokkaido, between India and Sri Lanka, over the...

WOW, good luck keeping this country together against reactionary Russia and Prussia. But sounds very original.

There was this SPD Berlin politician who died in 1964 the same date as OTL. No reason for Strauss to get a deadly heart attack 23 years earlier. Maybe the Okhrana are as proficient in poisoning aa in OTL ? Or he survives, becomes a vegetarian fitness freak, and lives to 2000.