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"I can't believe they almost blew up the planet because of a f**cking sky rock!!" - Anonymous Internet Commentator, 2014 THE IRON CURTAIN METEOR AND THE SIX-DAY WAR BACKGROUND Despite the collapse of the National Socialist Regime and the 'democratic turn' after 1990, Germany has retained over...

Thank you both very much. Before starting this new timeline, I read through a lot of Soviet historical textbooks to get a feel for the tone they used; you're right in that it almost sounds like a text generator programmed by Lenin. I really hope to continue capturing the authentic language of...

SELECTED TRANSLATED TEXTS FROM CONTEMPORARY HISTORY A SECONDARY SCHOOL TEXTBOOK FINNISH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC, 2020 ----- INTRODUCTION The history of our modern world is the history of the fraternal advance of socialism and the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism. From the time of the...

"In 1992 a good friend of mine, the Swedish historian Søren Raaby, declared that the 20th century was the "greatest era of of human dissonance ever experienced by man". Whilst this charge was later dubbed the 'Era of Contradictions', it still describes with great accuracy the feelings of rage...

Say the Soviet Union and its satellites reform to some degree in the 70s and 80s and remain a stable and reliable rival (at least on paper) against the United States on the world stage. How would this effect the development of neoconservative thought in America? It's been said before that the...

And here's an electoral map for a South Africa which maintained the United Party post-1948; the bars showing a breakdown of the seats won in each province. You can see the infobox and some surrounding information for this alt-1968 general election here.

SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTION OF 1968 Going into the 1968 general election, many South Africans felt that radical change was in the air. For the previous 34-years the United Party government (also known as 'the Regime') presided over a rapidly evolving society; the development of the welfare state in...

A commission I made for a friend; in a world where Sultan Abdülaziz's reign ends with great success (1861 to 1900 in TTL), this surviving Ottoman Empire continues to exist into the 21st century as a semi-centralised state with a strong Islamic identity, though a secular Ottoman identity survives...

How would you get them to 'mindlessly adhere' to the Turn of the Century alliance system though? The Great Powers of the day were never really concerned with them, and they amounted to nothing more than bluster in the end. If you somehow get them to put great importance into these really loose...

For the majority of the 19th and 20th centuries, rulers in the European empires had an almost neurotic fear of a pan-European conflict breaking out once again; a 'world war' in the same vein as the Great War¹, and other conflicts in the Early Modern period. Whilst there have been some apparent...

Was it really that irrational for Saddam to go after Iran when they did? I mean, the country was still in the midst of their post-revolution violence and uncertainty, inexperienced militias took the place of the standing army (which included the purging of many of Iran's experienced pro-monarchy...

WI: No October Coup? Originally posted by ShrapMetal on Oct 8, 2016

Thanks, I guess, considering this was a one-post, one-response timeline. In any case, I'll write up a brief history of the Nazi German regime sometime later on, but till then, here's a basic list of German leaders from 1933 to 2000; Fuhrers 1. Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1948) - January 30, 1933 -...

Well, I thought this was dead and buried. Apparently not! I've got to say sorry again, but after attempting to write two updates (amounting to ~10,000 words), and losing both due to the reply function refreshing before I was able to finish them, I've practically given up trying to continue this...

Well, I have some good news if anyone is still interested; news that I'll explain below... Since my computer decided to wipe itself, I've been trying frantically to recover most of what was lost, and since then I've discovered a lost (backup) USB that has some of the lost files on it, in...