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  1. Yeltsin appoints a communist as sucessor

    In before someone says "he did."
  2. WI: Layne Staley and Lindsay Lohan's outcomes switch?

    Then why did their greatest hits do relatively poorly? Why did their self titled album underperform? I think the mystique of the deceased staley helped the comeback when getting a gold album was very difficult.
  3. WI: Layne Staley and Lindsay Lohan's outcomes switch?

    In short, i think this screws the Black Gives Way To Blue reunion, and the band's comeback is received like Limp Bizkit or Creed.
  4. What if Germany Won the Battle of Stalingrad?

    Stalingrad can be won if the fourth panzer army was not diverted. Most likely, Germany can delay the war six months to a year. Outside chance USSR starved and makes a temporary peace, but they rejoin the war by d day
  5. Would Operation Unthinkable have been launched if it was discovered that Stalin was having his own version of the Holocaust during WW2?

    No. Holocaust was post hoc justification for the war, I really don't think stopping it was a big war priority. If Orwell knew about the gulags, everyone did... just nobody cared enough.
  6. AHQ: alternate new testament

    The ecclesiology of 1 clem probably butterflies away reformed theology if its canonicity is non negotiable. 2 clem may make beliefs in purgatory not take hold, it teaches there is no repentance after death.
  7. No Islam Byzantine dominate Middle East

    Good POD. For one, I am not convinced that an Arab invasion is imminent. Without a unifying warlord, they may keep feuding among each other. Heraclius enacted Church unions with the Nestorians and Monophysites. We can very well see a long period of internal stability.
  8. AHQ: alternate new testament

    Most of the New Testamet was quoted by the Apostolic Fathers (Clement, Igatius). The whole thing is quoted by Irenaeus, who allegedly learned under another Apostolic Father (Polycarp). So, the reality is that the New Testament was pretty much well formed right off the bat (and this includes much...
  9. Ukraine at the scene of a Nazi victory

    I'd suppose because the Nazis were not doing it because of an imminent issue (though by the pre-war standards, people were already tightening the belt big time in 1942 when it comes to food), but because of what was seen as a necessary decision in light of the near future. The Germans captured...
  10. WI David conquered Egypt

    As I said, the competing propaganda claims in my honest opinion give us a good idea of who the man was and what he meant to Israel. Does this mean he wrote every Psalm and every jot and tittle ascribed to him is correct? No. But was he probably part Moabite, did he usurp a king before him...
  11. WI David conquered Egypt

    As for the historicity of David, the geneologies in Kings and Chronicles, the existence of other kings with varying evaluations of their rule, the creation of a mythological origin for David's heritage through Ruth (which interestingly contradicts the idea anyone with moabite blood cannot be in...
  12. Doctrine of a Japanese Christianity

    My vote is Mormons or wank Russia and the Orthodox. Perhaps Japan keeps losing wars against russia, russia avoids ww1, japanese occupied korea converts to orthodox Christianity instead of presbyterianism inany quarters to flub the npse at japan, and perhaps an alt war puts japan totally under...
  13. Ukraine at the scene of a Nazi victory

    Fair enough, though going by memory the jews had less skilled workers and even then wannssee preserved the lives of skilled blue collar workers for war industry as part of the planning process, so there appears to be a malthusian aspect to it in any event.
  14. Ukraine at the scene of a Nazi victory

    There's exhibits on this in the holocaust museum in DC. They blame the western allies for not bombing rail transport to the camps and taking a mote active role in trying to stop the holocaust. Mass killings of Jews by the way began before the holocaust, but the final decision was made after the...
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