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JohnBull replied to the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west..A forumer adressed this earlier in this thread: it's not like the Revolution (product of Western philosophy) fundamentally changed... -
JohnBull replied to the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west..Ok, but then we have the definition problem, people using "West" meaning things like Christendom or details of the US current foreign...
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France was actually winning the Indochina war up until Chinese support came, the Viet Minh held only a narrow strip of land on the... -
JohnBull replied to the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west..And it would be much simpler and straighforward if Americans used a word other than "West" to describe their post WWII vassal states...
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JohnBull reacted to Mitridates the Great's post in the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west. with Like.
Don't forget the objective of the thread is not making Russia part of the West, but being recognized as part of the West. That is, the...
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JohnBull replied to the thread Could fascism survive to the present without WW2?.Tourism might be overstated, specially around that time. Spanish economic growth was a much more comprehensive phenomenon...
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JohnBull reacted to holycookie's post in the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west. with Like.
This is another term that doesn't make sense. If it's by religion the countries are Catholic or Protestant, if it's by color Argentina...
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JohnBull reacted to holycookie's post in the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west. with Like.
to modernize the country, thus avoiding what happened with Iberia, Poland and later the ottomans. adopting the most modern model of...
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JohnBull reacted to Mitridates the Great's post in the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west. with Like.
Correction: The "connections with the Hanseatic League" were limited to Novgorod being used as a sort of Hanseatic coaling station. A...
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JohnBull replied to the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west..Why would that make any difference? OTL Russia eventually got St. Petersburg, German czars and got completely absorbed into European...
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JohnBull reacted to Catsmate's post in the thread Could fascism survive to the present without WW2? with Like.
It has survived.
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JohnBull reacted to The Link's post in the thread Could fascism survive to the present without WW2? with Like.
Fascists do promise to take care of the country's issues, including what they believe to be poorly managed foreign policy. The point I...
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JohnBull reacted to EasternRomanEmpire's post in the thread Could fascism survive to the present without WW2? with Like.
De-colonization in the sense of what happened where in the 50s most of Africa became independent is probably not going to happen, there...
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JohnBull reacted to EasternRomanEmpire's post in the thread Could fascism survive to the present without WW2? with Like.
I don't think it would expand, the countries in which it happened were the ones more likely to become fascists, regarding the rich part...
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JohnBull replied to the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west..In this case, we're deliberately choosing to give a political conotation to the term. It's definitely not the only meaning possible...