Recent content by warsfan

No more interest in this scenario though? Manchuria (an industrialized region with 100 million+ people) being Russian? Warlord China in 1860? Any takers?

Eh, don't think it would be quite that bad. Stalin (and the USSR in general) loved drawing "ethnic" republics that made no sense-witness Kazakhstan, almost half Russian-speaking, the largely Rusophone Crimea being in Ukraine, the "Circassian" republic that's majority Russian, the "Jewish...

Hmm...I wonder if there could be a way for Russia and Britain/France to overcome their mutual suspicion of each other long enough for Russia to be a full belligerant in the Second Opium War (maybe the Qing mistreat some Russian diplomat). Russia occupies Manchuria, and sponsors independence...

Are we talking a democratic ex-USSR here? Because the USSR's constitution, pretty much from the beginning, established a right to secession for the republics. Sure, this was solely theoretical up till 1989 or so, but once the USSR starts democratizing and actually following its own...

Georgia remained independent that long because it is inside a mountain range, and thus rather easy to defend from outside invaders. Khazaria is not.

Your challenge: with a POD after 1820, have Russia aquire the entirety of Manchuria, including the parts that are Chinese IOTL. Bonus points if you can make OTL Chinese Manchura majority Russian (considering that this area didn't become majority Han until the later half of the 19th century, I...

Degermanizing Berlin! I think that's a bit far even for Stalin. I kind of had a medieval POD in mind...after all, Poland at one point looked like this. What if Piast Poland hadn't broken up, and instead expanded westwards?

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with a world where: 1. The Polabians remain Slavic speaking, and are the majority population in the area they inhabit. (Assimilating them into another Slavic ethnic group, like the Poles or Czechs, is OK.) 2. As a consequence of...

Most of the area along the northern border, especially in the east. Yugoslavia seems to have also eaten small parts of Romania (the area around Temesvar/Timisoara) and southern Austria (Klagenfurt).

That seems like a good idea actually-maybe he initially misses Greenland and gets to Labrador, then explores down the coast until he eventually finds Newfoundland. At least on a map, though, Iceland-Newfounland looks about twice as far as Iceland-Greenland. Would the Norse be comfortable...

Well, they don't build a viable colony at first-they build a small village which gradually turns into a viable colony through trade with (and immigration from) Iceland. Basically, I'm trying to create a situation where the initial settlement is forced not to make the mistakes the Norse did...

Just read through this, and its got to be one of the more interesting threads I've seen here...thanks guys! The only attested Viking settlement on Newfoundland is at L'Anse aux Meadows, on the very northern tip of the island, which makes sense as the Vikings were coming from Greenland. However...

This. In my experience, most self-described "moderates" tend to be somewhat right-wing on economic issues and somewhat left-wing on social issues. Santorum is going to turn these people off. He's going to turn Ron Paul supporters off. Basically, white, conservative evangelicals are going to go...

I think we might have had some discussions on this before, but I wanted to ask the board, once and for all-is there any way Trotsky could have won WWII? Yes, I know he was fighting the entire rest of Europe and that, after the Soviet intervention in the German Civil War went pear-shaped, its...

This. The entire Afrikaans ethnic group orginally came from something like 1000 people, and I don't think its totally implausible for that many people to come from Scandinavia. Once they had a firm foothold on the island where they could build farms, the population will grow rapidly. Beyond...