Recent content by Otis Tarda

Just two. Grant independence for Ukraine and gran land for farmers.

Still, there was no ideology suitable for strenghtening state. Franco's Spain could be a comparison (still not very good - after all, Mościcki was academic, not soldier, I'd also say, that role of Catholic Church was LESS important in Poland than in Franco's Spain) - still, it's hard to call it...

Sorry, that's not enough - in that way US presidential system is "more fascist" than, say, British. It's really hard to call Sanacja a right wing moevement. There was no pressure to put the role of state over individuals, there was - although opressed - oposition, economic freedom was...

I wonder why there is implicite assumption, that "crisis" would mean "war". If, Germany just take Danzig, Poland, without backing by western powers, could do nothing about that. The really interesting things would be Polish next move. I see three possibilities. 1) If West would make...

What society with minimal amount of scientist would do with calculus? Anyway, even if there was such knowledge in Roman Empire, it would definitely be lost during eraly Middle Ages.

Well, if by "government" you mean those red, treacherous puppets of Sweden, then, yes, they did. But Duke is still loyal to Poland, and, moreover his family is safe in Warsaw.

Possibly. IIRC, there was strong German influences on Japanese army. Just off topic: did you guys know, that Japnese introduced German Civil Code BEFORE it was done in Germany ;)?

No difference in a long run. Whoever wins, must sooner or later face the Roman Empire. And lost.

And some more, say, more or less to the Atlantic Ocean.

Revolt? None. *Slight* chance of coup d'etat, but rather disorganized and chaotic (eg. somebody shooting Hitler, without any ideas what next). Even then, there probably would have been truce, not general retreat from French teritory.

Pol Pot, then Mao.

They wouldn't introduce it before 43'. And after 43 they were winning. Just few Russian dead soldiers less. But, who would care? Stalin or Zhukov?

No. The most probable scenario in "no WWII world" would be appearing sooner or late some kind of Ukrainian and Byelorussian terrorism, similiar to Irish or Basque OTL. Not exactly. German racist teories were... uhmm... flexible, and just secondary to geopolitics. In case of, say, Polish-German...

IMHO, it could be possible, that for some reason Western Germany decided, that unification would cost too much (for example, Eastern Germany government last longer, so first effects of "shock therapy" in other ex-communist countries could be seen, or just european states are reluctant to let...

Beria seems to be nutaral candidate. What could happen? The most optimistic possibility is some kind of "perestroika", with USSR leaving it's satelites (which would lead to authoritarian goverments or some kind of liberalization, as well) and trying to regain it's power. So, "perestroika"...