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Not to mention that the legacy of the OPEC oil embargo and other factors would all but assure a similar economic meltdown to what happened under the Carter administration IOTL. Whoever has the White House in 1976 is holding a poisoned chalice.

I wouldn't think it entirely impossible for, as the now-departed OP stated to have nudity be much more acceptable while sexual mores are fairly conservative. It's a fairly puritanical view to suggest that nudity automatically leads to a degradation in sexual morality or whatever, quite the...

Beria is still in Georgia in 1935, while it isn't impossible to suggest that his talents in counterintelligence wouldn't at some point get him inducted into the NKVD, prior to that he was a fairly obscure Georgian politician who Stalin deliberately elevated into power precisely because he was...

Actually, a quick look at something as simple as the Wikipedia page for the Russian Federation (if you want to go more in-depth, I would recommend the CIA World Factbook and the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation for starters) is more than enough to disprove this...

Also, comedy actors are typically seen as the kind of dregs of cinema, which is a very unfair assessment. Making people laugh and doing so consistently is actually one of the harder things to do in the performing arts. Leslie Nielsen might not necessarily be a great Tywin just because of the...

Who would be the Red Woman? Oh wait...

Honestly there is no film Sean Connery has been in that he hasn't made better because of it. Ned Stark wouldn't be a good role for him though, he might be a good shot for Maester Luwin (Pycelle doesn't quite seem fitting since we aren't meant to like Pycelle and even Connery's villains are...

The Polish law on the issue revoked the Polish citizenship of people who had been living outside of Poland for I want to say something along the lines of five years. You are right in that it did not mention Judaism or ethnicity, but it didn't have to, and the law's passage disproportionately...

Honestly, had it been someone less crazy than the Nazis, it is quite possible that Interwar Germany and Poland, in spite of differences, could have done fairly well for themselves. They both had quite a common cause in containing the Soviets and both sides had a reasonable amount of trade goods...

I don't know that I am entirely in agreement with that. Sure, history has ultimately proven that this decision was a critically-flawed one, but that is something we can only say now that we look back with all the benefits of 60+ years of history and a bevy of research, documents, and evidence to...

Hitler actually cooperated with the Poles on the Memel issue. In other words, two repulsive right-wing antisemitic dictatorships with ferocious ethnic nationalist ideologies found unlikely common ground.

Not to mention the enormous growth of antisemitic policies in economics, politics, and society that came about after Pilsudski's death. Cook could explain it better than I, but suffice to say these laws against the rights of Polish Jews became so widespread and so pervasive that many Polish Jews...

Having done some studies on the Resource Curse in college, I find it to be a really interesting phenomenon. It is sometimes played straight, other times, however, it is averted. I wouldn't describe the Pemex example as a case of the resource curse (i.e. natural resources hindering economic...

Oh, there's nothing you said I disagree with in the slightest (the Iberian Peninsula always did seem to have trouble catching the trends that spread to the rest of Europe, and when it did get them it got them all-at-once and amidst total chaos), and of course, the Spanish colonies were, as you...

Even before that, if one finds a way to peacefully bring about an end to the hacienda economy and the other unsavory remnants of Spanish colonial rule in Mexico.