Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

[Captain Reynolds]

A picture of US Navy Seal Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri. Born to a family of Iraqi immagrants, al-Badri is best known for leading the rebellion against MSU (Mormon State of Utah).

This makes no sense whatsoever. first, the Mormons would have been moved to the Sandwich Islands to keep them from causing too much trouble and there there is hte fact that a Muslim would be leading the rebellion in the first place.

 

[racefan31]

Betweem 1914 and 1925, nearly a quarter of Mount Lebanon's population perished. Most of these deaths were due to disease or starvation, but thousands more were killed during the Ottoman Civil War of 1919-25. In this photo, a group of German diplomats overlook a pile of human remains from the Jounieh Massacre of 1922.

Why are there skulls?

EDIT: Didn't see the picture itself.

 

[racefan31]

In 1922, demonstrators largely from the United States' multiethnic immigrant communities lead a march through the streets of Philadelphia, calling on the U.S. government to take action against the Ottoman Empire for its mass murder of Armenians in the years following the First Great War. Many Armenian refugees would seek asylum in the United States, where they tried to engage in political activism to convince the U.S. and Germany to intervene, in the process gaining the support of other Americans descended from immigrant groups who knew ethno-religious persecution, such as Russian and Polish Jews.

Unfortunately, neither the U.S. nor Germany would respond. Both superpowers were distracted by military matters close to home (the United States by Canada, Utah, and the Confederate border; Germany by their new African colonies, their expanded border against France, and their satellite kingdoms between them and Russia). Furthermore, the Ottoman Empire was an ally to them in the First Great War, making alienating them a geopolitical inconvenience.

Ultimately, nearly two million Armenian men, women, and children would lose their lives in Turkey. The inaction by the world superpowers would be a constant source of guilt, especially following the Second Great War, when the Confederacy's Population Reduction (once again exacerbated by U.S. apathy) was exposed. To this day, the Ottoman sultan denies that the Armenian genocide ever happened.

Great picture.

 

[racefan31]

A picture of US Navy Seal Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri. Born to a family of Iraqi immagrants, al-Badri is best known for leading the rebellion against MSU (Mormon State of Utah).

Except that the Mormons are NOT in Utah after the 1940s.

 

[racefan31]

Covered barrel near Pittsburgh, taken June 1943.

 

[VidaLaVida]

Great picture.

Thanks.

The city of Richmond's statue of George Washington that survived the devastation heaped upon the city during both Great Wars. Unlike statues such as Jefferson Davis and other famous Southerners it was not destroyed by the U.S. occupation forces as part of the de-Freedomization movement.

Washington's reputation amongst his countrymen fell into decline amongst both American nations following the War of Succession. U.S. citizens came to negatively view him due to his Virginian heritage and thus U.S. citizens and politicians put more emphasis on Founding Fathers from the North such as Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Benjamen Franklin. Confederate's respected him more but more love was shared for Confederate and other Southern Founding Fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and James Longstreet. Many in the Freedom Party however disliked Washington due to his being President of the U.S. as part of the anti-U.S. rhetoric and platform of the Freedomites.

Descendents of the Canadians have a mixed-to-negative view of the man due the attempted and aborted invasion of Canada (then still just mostly Quebec) during the American Revolution.

Following the Second Great War and the re-absorption of the Confederacy into the U.S., Washington's reputation began to improve, helped with new books by historians, as he became seen as a great unifying national figure for the still devastated and culturally divided nation. He is a central figure in the "New South" movement which emphasizes figures such as Washington and Andrew Jackson [1] as true figures of the good portions of Southern heritage and culture.

In the 2005 special, The 100 Greatest Americans [2], Washington was ranked #1 for his war service, Presidency, and supporting a strong national union.
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[1] Washington always saw himself as American fist and southerner second. The same goes for Andrew Jackson who I also believe would became a more popular figure in this timeline due to threatening to go to war with South Carolina when they threatened to secede during his Presidency.

[2] Equivalent of the 100 Greatest Britons.

Another great one. I can easily see Washington becoming a rallying figure who all Americans can get behind.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Illegal propaganda commonly used by various modern neo-Freedom Parties.

Thanks.



Another great one. I can easily see Washington becoming a rallying figure who all Americans can get behind.

Thanks. He probably is the only President pre-Second Great War who all Americans (from the region of OTL U.S. not Canada) can agree on.

 

[VidaLaVida]

Charles Maurras, chief advisor to King Charles XI of France, reviews war news and documents alongside other Action Francaise officials in the early stages of the Second Great War in 1942. Long the primary political organizer and ideologist of Action Francaise, Maurras's views on right-wing political strategy and agitation served as one of the earliest influences on the reactionary ideologies that arose in the early 20th century; Jake Featherston and Oswald Mosley both would take certain techniques about propaganda and organization from Maurras's ideas (it has even been rumored that Action Francaise's Camelots du Roi were the initial inspiration for the Freedom Party stalwarts. However, it is just as likely that Featherston thought up the concept independently).

When Action Francaise seized control of France after the onset of the Great Depression, the new monarch, Charles XI, appointed Maurras his chief minister and advisor in regards to political affairs. Although the king was the nominal absolute ruler of the re-established Kingdom of France, it was long suspected that Charles Maurras was quite literally the power behind the throne. The truth is still ambiguous, but considering the fact that the king would initiate policies long advocated by Maurras in the decades prior (persecution of Jews, Protestants, and Freemasons; using the restoration of local decision-making freedoms to compensate for the concentration of authority onto the king on the national level; and ultimately, going to war against Germany), there is at least a grain of truth to this.

Charles Maurras died in the blast from the Paris superbomb, alongside the king he had long served. According to fellow Action Francaise minister Maurice Pujo at his trial following the war, both Maurras and the king had refused to abandon Paris, in spite of the fact that Petrograd (which Tsar Michael II of Russia had just happened to be away from) had just been superbombed by Germany. The last that Pujo saw both Maurras and Charles XI, they were staying behind at Versailles, as if they were waiting to be destroyed along with their nation.

 

[Darth_Kiryan]

One of the last known photographs of Winston Churchill before his hanging. He believed that if he was going to his death he should go well dressed.

 

[VidaLaVida]

Independently distributed propaganda poster found in southern cities in the occupied former Confederate States in the mid-1940s. Despite massive protests from the white inhabitants of the southern states, the U.S. occupation authorities were almost deliberate in their half-heartedness toward removing such posters and finding their (likely Yankee) makers.

The poster itself and the respective responses to them highlight one of the biggest cultural dilemmas facing Americans after the Second Great War: how to interpret the Freedom Party's role in the culture that gave rise to the horror of the Population Reduction. Did Jake Featherston represent an anomaly that could have appeared in any other nation, or was the society of the Confederate States of America unique in its ability to give rise to such a force for tyranny, brutality, and hatred? As can be expected, following the war's end and the revelation of the extent of the genocide committed against African-Americans, legions of white southerners began to insist that they had always been skeptical of the Freedom Party and done their best to be tolerant of black Confederates. Some of these stories were true, and there are quite a few documented stories of courageous white southerners whose conscience motivated them to protect African-Americans from being rounded up by Freedom Party guards. Thus, there are those who argue that the Freedom Party did not represent the culture of the C.S.A., and that their rise was a tragic turn of events in the history of a nation that, while imperfect, had the potential to be a better society.

However, as obviously indicated by the poster, there were many U.S. citizens who simply did not buy this. The most hard-lined U.S. Socialists railed against the Confederate people as a collective, holding them responsible for being the ones to elect Featherston in the first place and turn a blind eye when African-Americans began disappearing. They go even further to say that the Freedom Party's rise was practically an inevitability in a nation which had enshrined slavery and racism right into its own Constitution and built its entire country around the dehumanization of black slaves and their descendants. In their view, the Confederate States as a whole was a barbaric, evil nation, and, as per the image, the Freedom Party banner and the Stars and Bars were merely two sides of the same coin, and equally deserved to be dissolved and occupied by the more enlightened United States.

It was a difficult rode ahead for North America, and for decades to come, there would be an acrimonious dilemma between those who wished to unite the re-unified America under mutual understanding, and those who wished to hold the south responsible for the atrocities carried out in their society. To this day, southern American identity is divided between, on one hand, a desire to move on from the past and create a better future, and on the other hand, a shame mentality which believes that their entire region holds a permanent stain for which there can be no redemption.

 

[GriffinFTW]

One of the last known photographs of Winston Churchill before his hanging. He believed that if he was going to his death he should go well dressed.

Are you having him hanged like Mussolini in OTL?

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

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Very nicely done, good sir.

 

[Darth_Kiryan]

Are you having him hanged like Mussolini in OTL?

Mussolini was shot, execution style. the hanging part was only to show the dead bodies.

 

[racefan31]

Are you having him hanged like Mussolini in OTL?

I don't recall Mussolini being hanged.

 

[racefan31]

Charles Maurras, chief advisor to King Charles XI of France

 

[VidaLaVida]

Charles Maurras was the OTL leader of Action Francaise. He was its chief ideologist and the driving force behind it. However, since he and the rest of Action Francaise were Orleanist monarchists, Maurras himself obviously wouldn't be the king; the whole idea is that they wanted to restore the old royal bloodline to power in France. However, due to his political influence, it's reasonable to assume that he'd maintain a lot of power, perhaps in the form of a high position.

btw, the name Charles XI is one of Turtledove's bigger inconsistencies. In the 1930s-40s OTL, the Orleanist pretenders were Jean, Duke of Guise and then Henri, Count of Paris. But since the story has the French king be named Charles XI, I'm rolling with it.

Very nicely done, good sir.

Thanks!

 

[Trotsky]

One of the last known photographs of Winston Churchill before his hanging. He believed that if he was going to his death he should go well dressed.

Churchill wasn't hanged.

 

[racefan31]

Confederate barrel in New Mexico, around 1943.

Charles Maurras was the OTL leader of Action Francaise. He was its chief ideologist and the driving force behind it. However, since he and the rest of Action Francaise were Orleanist monarchists, Maurras himself obviously wouldn't be the king; the whole idea is that they wanted to restore the old royal bloodline to power in France. However, due to his political influence, it's reasonable to assume that he'd maintain a lot of power, perhaps in the form of a high position.

Now I get it.

 

[The Director]

A propaganda poster from one of the more radical wings of the Socialist Party, c. 2003.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Charles Maurras was the OTL leader of Action Francaise. He was its chief ideologist and the driving force behind it. However, since he and the rest of Action Francaise were Orleanist monarchists, Maurras himself obviously wouldn't be the king; the whole idea is that they wanted to restore the old royal bloodline to power in France. However, due to his political influence, it's reasonable to assume that he'd maintain a lot of power, perhaps in the form of a high position.

btw, the name Charles XI is one of Turtledove's bigger inconsistencies. In the 1930s-40s OTL, the Orleanist pretenders were Jean, Duke of Guise and then Henri, Count of Paris. But since the story has the French king be named Charles XI, I'm rolling with it.

Hmmm. So one could assume he was a backroom Mussolini/"Evil Chancellor" figure to Charles XI's Emmanuel II. Only that in public Charles XI appeared to be the more prominent leader.