Recent content by thezerech

You probably wouldn't want to be Jewish in the USSR IOTL anyways. I mean, von Schleicher, to my knowledge, was not anti-semitic, although he seems to be Machiavellian enough that he wouldn't care hiring anti-semites in government. I recall reading somewhere that there was a Jew involved in the...

Love that in this TL it is Alemanno who is threatening war with Russia. He's definitely a better version of himself. I know it would be unoriginal, but part of me wanted Meloni to be in charge ITTL anyways. Hope we get an in-depth look at Italian nuclear politics as well as the monarchy, at...

I wonder if Fascism's longer staying power would itself affect a significant change in Latin American politics? Iotl we saw many despotic but not particularly ideological military juntas, and some failed Fascist movements, the AIB, for example as well as some Falange copycats. I wonder if...

Even today there are some migrants to Italy from Latin America, as someone who speaks Spanish natively and then learned Italian it was very funny to hear essentially "inverse Argentinian," that is Spanish sounds and inflections layered under Italian. Much more comprehensible than Argentine...

So the Greek gov't was a continuation of the Metaxas 4th of August regime and not the three colonels? I feel like the latter was more brutal and unpopular, so probably the reputation would be a bit better, although Metaxas has the positive connotation of saying "No" to Mussolini.

While the initial premise is ASB, even the IRA wouldn't have supported it (for obvious tactical and strategic reasons), perhaps we can go further back. If we go pre-1914, maybe change multiple events dealing with Home Rule, WWI, or the Irish War of Independence, you could radically change...

That's all reasonable. On Rhodesia, 100K Jewish immigrants would be a massive increase in the white population, sure, but the white population would remain not much more than ~10% of the total populace. Could this be enough to keep Mugabe out of power? On reflection it certainly is a possibility...

I would expect Italo-British relations to get better by a certain point. Honestly, what makes sense to me is Italy, France, and Britain (with help from Spain and Portugal) teaming up to try and slow down or half decolonization. I could imagine Italy taking part in the Suez Crisis.

Rhodesia had a couple hundred thousand whites, about 7% of the total population iirc. We'd have to figure out how many Jewish refugees there are and what options they have. Rhodesia in 1950 does not have the same priorities as in 1970. Still, if there are a couple hundred thousand refugees, I...

I doubt any serious African settlement would happen, also that a Jewish state would result. Jewish settlement in Africa is, I guess possible, but would most likely concentrate in SA and Rhodesia. Some might move to other various places but Britain, by the 1950s, is well into the throws of...

Contemporary historians have emphasized that nationalism was an overrated, if still significant, factor in the collapse of the Empire. Instead they mostly now argue that the poorly managed strains of total war and battlefield failures eroded the Empire's legitimacy. If the war goes nearly as bad...

Independent Ichkeria because of Italian fascist aid is something I did not know I needed in my life, but I certainly do need it.

I would be careful in suggesting the actual Revisionist movement was fascistic. It was right wing, but Begin never tried to centralize power in Israel and Jabotinsky seems to have been committed to Western style democracy, even if he was a territorial maximalist and virulently anti-communist...

Mussolini did have links to Revisionist Zionism, but obviously was happy to send the Jews to death camps a few years later. Balbo's record is better than Mussolini's, but I'd hardly say he'd be a dyed in the wool philosemitr, but ITTL could be reasonably sympathetic generally to Revisionist...

I was referencing Portuguese Jews in Asia and India, and suggesting that if there was large scale migration of Conversos to the New World this would be a possibility and significant concern. There are the disputed crypto-Jews of the South West US, the evidence is mediocre but it hardly stretches...