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Maoist-wank! The two superpowers are surrounded by the victorious people of third world. Two, Three, Many Vietnams and an even greater number of Afghanistans! :p Sorry, couldn't resist.

Maybe he oversees the construction of those Bunkers for a while, before going to fight for MLLT in Ethiopia, which will conveniently be both anti-Derg and anti-Somali.

You are projecting what is essentially a 2013 attitude into the 1970s. Even non-Maoist leftists considered China to be a success story, and model for the developing world. Yes, that is how deluded the academics were. Even Today, There are people out there who deny that the Famine was...

Well I was interested in a Maoist China radical enough to export revolution and for there to be a substantial "Maoist International" of pro-China groups and regimes. It doesn't have to be most radical of all possible Chinas. The Cultural revolution will end on schedule, but will be seen as a...

Interesting discussion so far. One thing that needs to be mentioned is that Lin Biao was often at odds with Jiang Qing-- while radical when it came to his anti-imperialist foreign policy, Lin secretly had much disdain for the Cultural Revolution, calling it a "Culture-less Revolution". Another...

There are probably a lot of ways to have the radicals win out, but let's consider a POD where Mao Zedong dies in '68 or '69 and Lin Biao succeeds him as the most powerful man in China. In this case, it is more than likely that there would be no meeting with Nixon, no "reform and opening up", no...

Furries would likely support Romney, no?

hah... "Highbrow Pictures". That's what a Lowbrow exploitation mill will call itself.

we could have solidarity getting more international support in early 80s and perhaps there is no repression against it due to (Polish-)American outcry. The changes in Eastern Europe TTL might take place a few years earlier than OTL, and everything butterflies from there. Believe it or not...

I get the idea about Dress Shorts for tropical places, but OMG why is it PINK!:eek: that violates every aesthetic rule :mad: :p

or we can create counterculture that values being dressed well, like Sapeurs of Congo, or the mods before they started becoming hard edged. Problem is that they both started after two piece suits became formal, so we need a American, 30s version of the Sapeurs-- men who try to forget the...

I'd like to see Kurt Cobain maintain some underground credibility in this one.

WI Mao actually succeeds in industrializing China in the 50s and 60s, relying on Soviet and Eastern European expertise rather than his own crazy ideas?

Good idea... but I prefer my idols dead while they're pretty.:p

Charlie Sheen as Adolf Hitler