Dude there was another famine on the way, the money was running out and the whole world thought they were fucking morons for faking the moon landing they had no other options than to fold the program.
The Footprint of Mussolini - TL
Dude there was another famine on the way, the money was running out and the whole world thought they were fucking morons for faking the moon landing they had no other options than to fold the program.
Alright a few more questions:
- Is Arabic (or rather Phoenician in Libya) still spoken in Italy's African territories or has it been largely replaced by Italian? In fact, does the current generation in Albania and Montenegro only speak Italian?
- What's the population of the US, the Imperial Federation, Italy, France, and Katanga by 2020?
- Are mercenaries still a popular Italian export?
- Is the Duce (or should I say Prime Minister) of Italy anyone we'd know?
Scattered, kicked off Hokkaido and resettled forcibly on a series of small, rather inhospitable islands as revenge for the tyranny of the minority rule government of Ezo.
1. People have already said this, but the continued relevance of Europe. Too often, it's reduced to the US and USSR squaring off with Europe as their puppets - the autonomy of actors like Britain, Belgium, and especially France on the world stage was rather refreshing to see. I also liked the moral ambiguity - apart from the Nazis and Communists, who are as morally bankrupt as it gets, nobody's necessarily evil on the face of it. Take Portugal - King Duarte seems to honestly care about his subjects in a very typical father-protector king way despite his Charles I-esque tendencies, and while you can dismiss the Lusitanians as backward, cultish boors and exalt the Portuguese rebels as civilised for their rejection of their hidebound traditionalism and embrace of democracy, you can also see the Lusitanians as far better than some of the other settler states and seemingly trying to compromise with the entitled mainlanders, who, in their hubris, reject the uppity peasants for simply not understanding the way a modern state ought to properly function. Both sides have a point, and that makes things much more fun than just democrats good, empires bad.
2. Good-great most of the time, with a few exceptions. Again, hate to echo people, but the super-long paragraphs really are a problem. Make things harder to parse.
3. Apart from the paragraphs, maybe do more of the little interludes. An in-depth look is always good, and helps shed light on events through a different lens.
Two major problems with the wikiboxes. Firstly, Frank was leftist so I'm pretty sure she was not part of Herut. Secondly, the only reason the Rosenbergs agreed to give their testimony and expose the Hiss ring was because Ethel demanded that the U.S give them amnesty, so I'm pretty sure that they would not be sentenced to life for exposing the infiltration of Communists in America.