Recent content by Sabbatai Zevi

If they were going to revive any ancient Korean "state" it would probably be Mimana, which despite its highly dubious historical authenticity was propagated by Japanese historians as an example of historical Japanese dominion in the Korean peninsula (or, viewed another way, Japanese-Korean...

Yeah, but most of those were more contingent on Soviet presence than being revolutions "from within" as he calls them, so national symbols were preserved to provide legitimacy to the new regime. In the two cases which spring to mind of countries where communist revolutions took place that were...

:o Sorry! I agree on Paradox, it can get very frustrating, and I particularly disliked the menagerie of assorted nonsenses which they threw together in DW, but oh well, they're (probably) still the best company out there.

I'd have thought it's pretty clear what he means: the game applies an abstracted and ahistorical model of political structure based on a hybrid of France and the HRE inappropriately to the whole of Christendom. Which is a fair enough observation, though I don't see much of a way to get round it...

Bremer Bürgerzeitung March 18, 1912 ... Not only is it obvious on the grounds of firm ideological reasoning - it is clear from a political perspective, that the future of Social Democracy cannot lie in the revisionism which has permeated the thought even of the likes of Comrade Kautsky. It is...

The Reconfiguration of German Politics * With a tide of patriotism buoyed by the installation of a new and hugely popular Kaiser, the prospect of change and Wilhelm's refreshing appeals to German popular sentiment, the SPD was dealt a crushing blow in the elections in January - an insult...

Well, this is my first attempt at a TL, so any criticisms or advice will be much appreciated. Hopefully the premise hasn't been done to death already; I know there are a number of timelines with similar PODs, but here goes, anyway... Im Siegerkranz Introduction The night of Christmas Eve...

The problem is that as far as I can see the bizarre premise of the game/novel completely undermines the intended emotional impact which it's supposed to convey from square one. I was originally linked to the trailer by someone who thought it was funny, I agreed, and when I showed it to some...

Agreed on Turtledove. The Russian parallels in "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" were positively painful.

Yes, and the Catholic Church has a remarkable ability to come up with law on the spot when it becomes necessary.

Unam Sanctam :p

You say it "remains" a lingua franca; when was it ever a lingua franca? I was quite sceptical on reading it and looking at the Encyclopedia of European languages doesn't seem to suggest it ever was a lingua franca (as a language of international / trade communication), even if it was at one...

I would note that even at the height of the consiliar movement there were no serious moves to actually abolish the Papacy from within. The Papacy is an office with a hell of a lot of institutional charisma, it draws itself in a succession from Christ himself. It's pivotal in the Catholic Church...