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The Renovationist Movement successfully usurps power from Patriarch Tikhon of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1920s; with the Church controlled by Soviet loyalists the anti-religious campaigns of the U.S.S.R. (and it’s international flag-bearers) are stillborn. During the Japanese occupation...

Sarcastic remark by the Red Army commander in liberated Rason upon hearing a Japanese radio announcement about an upcoming counterattack on the city. With the European theatre of WW2 winding down, the USSR turned its attention to Asia and sent its vast armies to kick the Japanese occupiers out...

Caption on a popular political cartoon circa 2071 depicting the president of the Kalallit Republic kicking the Danes & Europeans out of Greenland. The island of Greenland had achieved independence from Denmark following the 2040 referendum but maintained economic ties with mainland Europe...

This is supposed to the the AH Historical Event thread, not the AH Quote thread. But I’ll try to make it fit anyway: The immortal words commemorating the first transmission received from the Peri Space Station. Envisioned as a scientific mega-project to foster cooperation across the Middle East...

Trevor Slattery’s past roles prior to the actor’s disappearance from public life and re-emergence as Aldrich Killian’s “Mandarin”.

An unlikely convergence of events (MGM Interactive successfully launches Rollerball: The Video Game in 1998, the 1999 Yeonpyeong incident snowballs into a full-scale war between North and South Korea which throws the East Asian electronics & software market into turmoil, etc.) results in the...

OK, for this one I’m going to make 3 assumptions. Assumption #1 — the following content from a Wikipedia article on Huichol/Wixárika mythology is accurate: Assumption #2 — the theory stipulating that the Huichol are an offshoot of the Guachichil is true. Assumption #3 — pre-Christian...

So I know the popularity of the MCU is down in the gutter these days and thus thread participation is on the decline as well… …BUT I can’t believe that in the 4+ years that the thread was open no one posted images based on what’s implied in this scene: The Red Skull openly rebelled against...

Sinimites Language: Sinimic (a Sino-Tibetan language with a Semitic and Indo-European substrata) Ancestry: Semitic, East Iranian, East Asian Religion: most Sinimites adhere to an ethnic religion with elements of Semitic Polytheism and traditional Chinese folk religion. Region: China Culture...

Darth Vader during his appearance at the Battle of Moscow. (O.O.C.: art by A. Egorov)

First, I’d like to leave some links to previous threads that asked similar questions (just in case people are curious): https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/favourite-obscure-civilizations.413789/...

I really don’t like replies like this — it always seems like trying to shut down the thread discussion. At no point did anyone say that creating “another Israel” would be a “fair” or “good” outcome. We can discuss hypothetical atl situations without passing moral judgement on the outcome (one...

What if the White Russian refugees fleeing the Russia Civil War were given a new “homeland” in the West by the Entente powers? Possibly carved out from the territory of defeated Imperial Germany? I know that back in the day the White movement aimed at returning to Russia and retaking power...

Quotes from Jordan Peele’s 2027 sci-if horror film Schrödinger's Box. The movie centres on two African American M.I.T. physics grad students (one a wealthy Boston urbanite, the other a devout Baptist from rural Alabama) who stumble upon a way to travel to alternate timelines. The film features...

Excerpt from a brochure distributed in Rostov-on-Don by the “Red Christian Project” circa 2029 A.D.; the “Project” aimed to blend Marxist-Leninist philosophy with Orthodox Christianity — it’s proponents believing that neither religious dogma nor secular ideology alone were capable of solving the...