Recent content by Don Draper

Why not just skip past incompetent and go straight to the outright treacherous? In that case the answer is Vlasov.

Contrary to popular belief Carter and his administration were not doves or anti-intervention. The defense buildup commonly attributed to Reagan began under Carter, as did the Afghanistan intervention.

Absolutely, and I do wonder what effects the success of a revolutionary communist party with strong ties to Italy would have on the PCI itself- maybe it could help avoid the post-Berlinguer decline and collapse? Greater trade with East Africa through Somalia would help the USSR somewhat...

First of all, I just finished listening to the songs you've been posting and they're great! My point was more that it's an example of good relations between communists in two countries that have a brutal colonial legacy, so if the SDR doesn't do what Siad did they could have a good relationship...

Reminds me of how the DPRK to this day is home to a small community of ex Japanese Red Army members.

Fantastic. Absolutely inspired choice for a TL. Watched and looking forward to more!

As if they didn’t discredit themselves enough OTL haha.

Seriously, if Radek or someone tried to do this to Rosa he’d get the firing squad or the noose and deservedly so.

This is OTL and it’s called the City of London. British imperialism today takes the form of finance capital rather than classical colonies (though of course finance capital was present in the previous incarnation as well), but the British Empire survives to this day.

"Tech" (I agree it's a vague term) is pretty big in the Boston/Cambridge area OTL.

Khrushchev would be at a major disadvantage in 1941 compared to his position in 1953; first, it was the war that really solidified his relationship with Zhukov which multiple times would prove to be his trump card in the 50s power struggles, and that might well be totally butterflied. Second...

Well, besides the ones you mentioned there was/is the Texas "Silicon Prairie" that first arose in the 1980s, the TV series Halt and Catch Fire was a dramatization of it.

Khrushchev's main "case" against Beria at the time IIRC didn't really revolve around rape charges at all, they charged him with various counts of treason, ranging from the dubious to the obviously absurd (being a British spy). Malenkov was at best a reluctant participant in the anti-Beria...

Same goes for Sverdlov who would also have been a contender for succession had he lived. Sverdlov's one disadvantage was that he wasn't much of a theorist (which did matter). I believe Kaplan's assasination attempt predates the POD, and in any case Lenin had other serious health issues.

Well, not exactly get rid of- even today China has a state monopoly in over thirty key sectors, and SOEs control over 50 percent of the country's industrial assets, ie the state to this day controls the "commanding heights" as it were.