Without resorting to genocide, I'd imagine that the worst would be a response by the British authorities akin to that seen in Kenya. The IRA is reborn in the early 1970s, as per OTL, and London falls back on the strategies employed against the Mau Mau - namely interning the entire Catholic...
Which one? The Caliphates, in various forms, existed as pan-Arabic bodies for centuries. Even with the Turkish Ottoman Empire the Arabic world remained unified to a degree simply unimaginable in Europe. The fragmentation of the Arab world is no more than a century or two old... its been 1500...
And where was the European equivalent central authority to the Caliphate or Qing Dynasty? That's what you should be looking to address. To give an idea of the scale of the problem - in 1789 half the population of France, obviously a much smaller geographic region than Europe and with a...
Nah, Santa Anna was cool. Besides the combined might of every writer on this board couldn't produce a political demise that the man couldn't recover from :cool:
On a more serious note, I'm of the opinion that Santa Anna was a symptom of Mexico's ills rather than the cause. Obviously he didn't...
Not much. Unless of course Hitler's absence means that Germany suddenly does not become a seething cauldron of hatred and the many factions fundamentally opposed to the Weimar Republic (DNVP, KPD, and Hindenburg spring to mind, there were many others) experience an equally sudden admiration for...
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Germany is relatively easy. There were a number of points during the German Revolution of 1917-1923 which could have resulted in a council republic or other form of communist state. The biggest challenge would be overcoming the SPD and its alliance with the...
Nope. Hitler becoming a crazy communist is just bizarre (oh look - there's Stalin the liberal hippy) and I'm not sure why he's in this picture at all - Hitler was not a member of the KPD at any point and the Communists did not come 'under Moscow's control' until Thälmann took the reigns in 1923...
Out of curiosity, why did Bismarck historically choose AH over Russia when the relative strengths of both were apparent even then?
And just to touch on one or two points that can be overlooked in the 'grand diplomacy' picture...
Eh... no. The Revolution of 1905 was caused by a whole range of...
Much more important than the Russian people, a return to the Tsardom (assuming a real claimant could be found) would be completely unacceptable to the Soviet bureaucracy that formed the backbone of the new Russian state
You are denying the existence and propagation of German expansionist and racial supremacist theories (explicitly formulated in proto-Lebensraum terms) that date from the late 19th C and increasingly found favour amongst German intellectuals and politicians?
That was my first thought. You do have to ask however to what degree did Rome itself contributed to the standing of the Papacy and its evolution. Certainly much of the initial appeal of the Bishop of Rome was that he was the Bishop of Rome
But that perfectly demonstrates the collective decision making abilities of the Politburo. If we assume that the threat of German victory is not enough to force them to work together then an arrangement would very quickly be arrived at whereby one figure/camp (most likely Beria again) is...
Like that of Nazi Germany? ;)
While the death of Stalin would obviously be a blow to the USSR I don't see it being a decisive one. Unlike the infamously fragmented and byzantine Nazi Party, the CPSU was a much more structurally sound and monolithic organisation. If there was a degree of...