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Development of the British Commonwealth of Nations as an international organization of economic nature, together with the UK gradually withdrawing its priviliges towards the former dominions (such as UK courts serving as a superior instance to Australian/Canadian/Indian national courts) and...

Not really. Why should it, Turkey isn't more powerful than OTL, but there are more forces at play in the middle east ITTL. Turkey is only as much of a "threat" to Germany as it is by being uncooperative with German policies in the middle east, but that isn't really a threat or even a danger -...

Yes, more less - if you count the Kurds and Armenians as the "pro-Soviet" faction. There is no NATO, Turkey isn't in it, thus the USSR has more freedom in playing the Kurds and Armenias (and other groups) against the Turks which they do. The pro-western camp is the strongest since Kemalism was...

Wars usually don't end in stalemates, especially civil ones. More likely a negotiated peace between the parties, though given the fact that both sides saw nothing less than claiming all of the territories of the former Russian Empire and more as their ultimate goal, this is very difficult. OTOH...

Nothing really special in this one; I originally intended for this to be part of another chapter also involving Greece and Cyprus (including British decolonization there and the Greeko-Turkish conflict over the island), but since I haven't posted for a while and can't say when I would be...

Next part is up The fall of the Ottoman Empire after the Great War meant the final end of Turkey’s status as a great power, the country losing its huge territorial holdings in Arabia and only barely avoiding a fate of being partitioned by the victorious powers. The fall of the Sultanate and...

Three centuries isn't really that much for something to be an ingrained part of culture - at this point what we call Russian culture was only forming. I get all the problems associated with "forcefull change of religion" but a) it did happen and worked (like in Germany after the reformation...

Okay, I buy that. There are good reasons why the Kievan Rus ought to convert to Eastern Orthdoxy (not an accurate term, but lets not dwell on those details). Hence why I suggested it changing faith in the later centuries - something like that did happen after all, in Scandinavia, north Germany...

I'd suppose because of the same reasons some people suggest it convert to Islam or whichever other religion. Were their ties with Byzantium really that strong, especially under Mongol rule? I could imagine some far-fetched scenarios where a tenth or eleventh crusade is held against the mogols in...

OTL they were divided between the Ukrainian, Belarussian and Lithuanian SSR's, in either 1939 or 1940 already. If there is no Nazi-Soviet war, this status remains.

How about just Roman Catholicism? Either Russia converting to it from the start, or later for some reason, maybe Poland/Hungary/Scandinavian influence causing the orthodox church to mend relations with Rome and reunite.

Then you need the western allies to make it really far east (remember, OTL they made further east than the iron curtain was, Patton liberating Pilzen, but had withdraw because of Roosevelt) or somewhat further east with a different Allied leadership (one which won't bow to Stalin's every whim)...

First of all, that would be another breach of Yalta and Potsdam, so if it was to happen in 1945 (when the borders were moved and delimited), then the cold war would start a few years earlier because of this. OTOH the Allies might not be too pissed about it, I assume there would be Frenchmen and...

Curious. I recall Lithuanians being specifically labeled as Balts (and Germanics) and never as Slavs. And they were concidered faithful allies and accomplices, not tools meantto be used and discarded. Then again, Nazis changed their minds about these things all the time.

Step 1) Prevent WW2 in some way with Germany remaining nazi (or otherwise being fascist). Step 2) Preserve the general Sino-German Cooperation, so that Chiang Kai-Shek strongly associates itself with the fascists, becomes one or at least his regime is seen as a "Chinese fascist". Step 3) Chiang...