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doubt it, Ayn Rand never ran a business, and it shows

also note that the Chinese "transcriptions" of non-Han exonyms are in Middle Chinese, which is quite different from present-day Mandarin

that'd also rewrite the course of the KPD's leadership--OTL 1953 the Red Army commanders were ready to dump the blame on Ulbricht, but Beria was shot and Zaisser got bounced instead: East Germany thus never had the chance to get a Gomulka, Nagy, or Dubcek (or even a Ceausescu) of its own...

Edwin Walker's quite a figure, though he wasn't radicalized until 1957

kinkiest alternative--NATO expansion that doesn't just include Eastern Europe+Baltics, but Russia and Ukraine

really it was a very Turtledove-influenced prelude to an Orwellian one

and in Balaton's case there's also the problem of Hungary's TACO color being so dark it doesn't show up--it makes it arbitrary (I'm obsessed with fiddly details like that in my mapmaking anyway)

my guess is that it'd hinge on something occurring in Kurdistan--either we have a British/EU venture that goes better than a hundred Sierra Leones, a pro-Western liberation radiation (or so the news tells us), against both Baathists and Islamists (boosting Chris) or we have a mountain-bound...

the anti-Bolshevik White Russians (Beliye, but diminutive/disparaging)

yeah, I think I was focused more on "competent Hitler-free Germany" under a Schleicher type, and the two-way effects of an Anglo-Japanese alliance

yay, my first roast! @Strategos's risk I think the Belle Époque’s quite dead, but perhaps a Central Victory TL is much less different from the shattering changes of OTL: France loses, Germany wins, a few million fewer schoolboys are ground into meat, the Modernist trends of the 10s keep going...

yes, it's an older piece of mine (i.e., I didn't edit it!) mixed with a little Orwell (since 1984' based on We)--though it's based on realities in Mexico and Turkey (and France and America and ...), where explicit technocracies failed; technically the world of 1985 will be a technocracy, but of...

actually the REAL nuts were "Strike North": so if Japan attacks a Hitler-weakened USSR it'll really just want Malaya and Indonesia for the ol' rubber and tin; Washington isn't going to be cool with whatever puppet regime that "invited the IJA garrisons" now, remember that they got flattened at...

this was also the plot point for Kingsley Amis's Alteration: pope Martin Luther authorizes a War of the English Restoration against "Henry the Abominable's" attempt to seize the throne--Roses redux, plus More's upgrades alas the novel spirals into lunacy and ends with Harold Wilson as the Pope...

I really can't stop ... (it's noncanon, but have at it!) Atlantica I gave to François Darlan, Raoul Salan, and Pierre Laval rather than de Gaulle, who seems much too--sane--for this universe (and wouldn't go for the collective leadership Orwell's bureaucracy-states demand). As in OTL they...