it might be a little cliched but i'm seeing a German backed white regime in european russia, a red siberia, and a japanese backed transbaikalian government. Wrangel, Lenin and Kolchak fighting over Russia's destiny seems like too good of a story to pass up.
To be honest i don't know much more about the weapon than it says in the article, it did best the AK in trials, with the Soviets being very conscious of realiablity this indicates it wasn't an unrealiable weapon. Whether it comes up to the leagendary standards of the AK i don't know, its delayed...
I've just checked where Kineshma is on google maps, My god man! How much Volga did you have to irradiate!
My gut feeling is that the Soviets would have denied that any such thing happened, hoping that the limited radioactivity of a 2.5kt groundburst would be diluted enough by the river for...
I expect Lloyd George and the Liberal party would be scapegoated out of existance, perhaps along with some of the leaders of the army and navy. Tory 20's?
If Britain is forced to chose between the US and Japan there can only be one winner. But if Japan manages to make territorial gains at the...
Delicious replies! I must post.
Thats what i'm counting on to bring the British to the table, Chris. The spring offensive is aimed at the French, who collapse caporetto style and BEF is left in an untenable position in a retreat to the channel ports.
Thanks for the information Antisocrates...
The AK would probably be replaced by this, which was apparently lighter, cheaper and more accurate than the AK. Pehaps Korobov would replace Kalashnikov in common parlance.
This scenario gets more 'interesting' (in the Chinese sense) by the second, thanks for the input.
As for American involvement, let’s say unrestricted submarine warfare is declared and continues but the Zimmermann telegram is decoded and revealed to the American public by the British. In a rare...
I'm having trouble thinking of what Germany and the US would confront each other over, Germany had staked her claim in europe and been stripped of her colonies. Unless Germany goes on a colonial adventure in the americas or their interests collide head on in China.
I think Germany would have...
thanks for the reply Campbell.
I like your idea but with this POD Mosley the facist may well be butterflied away, though he may come to power in a more militant Labour government (ala A Greater Britain).
I also like the idea of rebellion in India, i think the empire would almost certainly see...
A cynical British government could have cut a deal with Hitler and then stabbed him in the back, though you'd probably need a POD earlier than 1940. Though that would leave the Nazis domminant on continental europe, which is probably worse than national bankrupcy. Also Roosevelt is going to have...
Ok, this is probably ground which has been covered before (especially by people who've been on the pre 1900 forum recently:o) but here goes...
Say the Germans were able to pull the cat out of the bag and win WW1 in 1918. Possibly because of a French collapse due to a different spring offensive...
Its hard to say but i'm not sure that nihlism and fatalism would be such large factors, except maybee among the surviving intellectual elite. I think that people (in the first few generations) would strive towards normalcy and try to preserve any of the pre-war good life that they could. Later...
Didn't we already have a situation where Arab Socialists/Nationalists dominated the middle-east and north Africa? In fact we still do. Syria is still baathist, Egypt has had an unbroken line of Arab Socialists from Nasser to Mubarak. Also, i don't think it was failure to destroy Israel that...