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It's said that the AK47 is nearly a copy of the German StG44 or Sturmgewehr, also called the MP44. which originated during the Second World War. If you take a look at the latter assault rifles they very clearly resemble Kalashnikov's rifle. One could postulate that if the Soviet Union were...

Read this series of posts I made earlier here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=17676&page=2&highlight=slavery

The whole affair with Mr. Walker (I forgot his first name) took place in 1856 or '57, awhile before the Civil War. If you're going to make such an alternate history don't forget to note that when you decide your point of departure. I could say much much more on everything else but I'll posted...

A post-unified Germany wouldn't be too bad without Bismarck. His skill and ability were needed to complete the hard task of unification. Afterwards, any relatively competent Chancellor would've been fine for the job. Allow me to refer to our history, where after the resignation of Bismarck...

Here's one noteworthy consequence: In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, which in our history was the war that led to German unification, the new German state included the territories of Alsance-Lorraine which were annexed to Germany. This created French national animosities against the Germans...

November 34, 2109, Trisystem Standard Calender -- The first black freedman is elected president of the Confederate States amid white uproar. The live head of Nelson Mandela preserved in a special jar is elected Vice President. Among the administration's first acts is to press for the passing of...

And so this is my response. It is impossible for us to ever really get hold of an accurate measure of how such an alternate history would take place. Any such history would be purely speculative, because the differences we are talking about here would be very radical and the effects thus...

Your linguistic alternate history is not as far-fetched as it may seem. Linguistic constructivism and at the far edge of the spectrum linguistic idealism do exist as serious academic positions within the Structuralist and Post-Structuralist schools of linguistics. Those two positions incorporate...

If the copperhead states (Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio) somehow all rose up and seceded to form their own state(s) and join the Confederacy, I can suggest who their leader might be: Clement Larid Vallandigham. During the war he intentionally wrote a inflammatory anti-war article in order to get...

I'd surmise that the brass disagreed with it on the issue of delivery systems. The Civil War took place prior to the development the self-contained cartridge, where the powder and round were are placed together in a single handlable case. Thus, Civil War artillerymen had to manually and...

Added Later: (These first few paragraphs argue why the European powers would've supported the South if it had ended slavery but kept blacks as second-class citizens. There's a condensed summary of my argument that the South would've voluntarily ended slavery on its own at the bottom of this...

This is my first post. I must say I never thought an Alternate History community as large as this existed anywhere. Well it's great to see some amazing posts and several not-so-amazing ones. Anyways he are the two cents I'm going throw into the fray. (1) The Slavery Issue The mistakes that...