Recent content by Kippari

Taaleri would become Taala in no time, which is a bit awkward as it has already been the colloquial word for (US) dollar for some time. I don’t think Skilling would be that problematic, as no one would use the official name, but instead, as usual, develop abbreviations such as kili, skili &...

Umm… wasn’t Gladio a stay behind military op to organize a resistance movement in potentially occupied countries? While that sort of thing is very prudent, the fact that it was used to surpress e.g. communists beforehand is not unquestionable. Some of the more unsavory people involved might...

Soviet troops were already inside those countries, and were then reinforced by other forces from around WP. After the uprisings, Hungary and Czechoslovakia were unquestionably occupied for a time.

Gomulka was also ousted in 1948 by Stalin and his lapdog Bierut, and put into prison. De-stalinisation gave Polish communists more leeway though. Gomulka got his reforms in 1956, but the Soviets forces would still do what they wanted in Poland, despite any treaties. Gomulka had to actually...

No? Crushing of Hungarian revolt in 56 and Prague spring in 68 were just internal matters or what? Soviets could change the leaders of their satellites at whim if they wanted to, and often just dictated policy to those countries’ leaders. Yugoslavia and Albania were the exceptions in Europe, but...

Perhaps not always de jure, but let’s not kid ourselves by thinking that there wasn’t a Soviet ambassador or general who could impose his will on the country he was in. Soviets had a lot of troops in many of the WP countries. Combine that with the fact that they directly occupied e.g. Baltic...

Have Soviets taking a lot more vengeful approach to dealing with people in recaptured and captured lands in the Eastern Europe. Finns then invite a small number of British and American troops into the country in late summer of 1944, mostly out of fear of a genocidal Soviet occupation. Have...

Mexico supports Spain (for some reason) in Spanish-American war. This turns into a borderline genocidal treatment of Spanish speakers in US (again, for some reason) with bloodthirsty propaganda conjured by radical christians. The now megalomaniac US goes full racist and proclaims the whole...

Ah, my fault. It appears that I misread your post. :) You are right that the edict was mostly against heretics.

I’d agree that christianity was ”winning” to become the most popular religion in 380, just by having support of the augusti. However, imagine Theodosius losing to Arbogast and his puppet. They had restored the tolerance of Valentinian and even put the altar of Victoria back into Curia Iulia...

It certainly possible that some sort of unified religion could be carried by the Arabs if they spread out like in otl. It could, and probably would be somewhat different. Religions, afterall, tend to be products of the prevalent culture and certain time, colored by later additions and local...

What the edict of Thessalonika did, was to outlaw heretics and non-nicene forms of worship, including pagans/traditionalists. With that, it was harder to maintain traditional or Arian christian religious beliefs and have a great public career, especially in the East. That meant that magnates...

Would U.S. even join the European war without Barbarossa? I mean, if there’s no active wars for Germany except the one with Britain, then why would they declare war to a country with the second largest navy. That would be perhaps the most counter productive move one could make.

Indeed, Soviet troops, even the “elite” ones were meant to be used constantly and not sparingly. VDV was meant to capture key locations such as crossroads, destabilize defences and tie troops to non-essential fights ahead of mechanized echelons. It would have probably been very effective as long...

Ah, I remember when this timeline started and how exited I was. And I still am, this is excellent!