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  1. No Korsun Pocket

    The Germany was critically short of manganese in 1944. Nikopol mine have produced about 40% of manganese for German war effort, and without it the armor plate quality has greatly suffered (German engineers resorted to increased carbon alloying to keep same hardness, but it resulted in...

  2. FDR lives through all of 1945, test-explodes atomic bomb off Japanese coast.

    I referred to Japanese-Korean settlement in period of 1991-1999. Any demands after settlement are classical feature of racket. I may have not experience with wartime (coerced) prostitution, but racket behavior is clearly recognizable in more recent South Korean actions, acording to my...

  3. WI airline classes were divided left and right?

    1) Overweight saloon 2) Roll trimming required during cruise, therefore reduced speed and range 3) Longer boarding time 4) Difficulties with emergency exits 5) 1st/executive class layouts are more constrained. Overall, really bad solution.

  4. FDR lives through all of 1945, test-explodes atomic bomb off Japanese coast.

    Plans may be. Production plans are quite loosely connected to reality. Actual production was 2 additional plutonium bombs until end of 1945. And i do not believe the Manhattan project resource allocation was reduced at end of war. It was rather increased as conventional weapons production...

  5. FDR lives through all of 1945, test-explodes atomic bomb off Japanese coast.

    I do not believe many people immediately postwar, including judges of Tribuanal of Far East, were concerned much about justice (or retribution). Immediate and lasting peace was a priority. To put very simply, the choice was between armed Japanese guerrilla and noisy Korean/Chinese. US...

  6. FDR lives through all of 1945, test-explodes atomic bomb off Japanese coast.

    Well, how it possible to acknowledge Unit 731 after US government have hired the top scientists of it after war? Regarding comfort women, the story is close to current politics, not the WWII history. Japanese government have publicly apologized for the practice (by the way, not criminal during...

  7. FDR lives through all of 1945, test-explodes atomic bomb off Japanese coast.

    It is called Americanism. Thinking the world is rotating around Washington D.C. Emperor Hirohito logic behind the surrender of Japan was roughly following: 1) The war with the US and British was started to counter military and economic interference against fledgling Japanese colony of Manchuria...

  8. FDR lives through all of 1945, test-explodes atomic bomb off Japanese coast.

    You should understand the surrender speech of Hirohito was a declaration of fait accompli, not an argument for the debate. It neither intends nor actually outlines the motive forces. The motivation for surrender in speech is just 4 phrases, two of which are concerning nuclear bombing (likely...

  9. FDR lives through all of 1945, test-explodes atomic bomb off Japanese coast.

    1) Bombing of Hirosima and Nagasaki was unnecessary anyway. The ~90% of motivation behind Emperor`s decision to surrender come from rapid defeat of IJA in Manchuria, not from nuclear bombing. 2) Stockpile more chocolate. Animosity toward US from adults have lingered for many years, but children...

  10. Japanese colonial population in Taiwan not expelled after WWII

    Japanese government actually in initial post-war years did encourage emigration (to South America in particular) - the influx of Japanese refugees (mostly from Korea) was such what famine on Home Islands was seriously feared (although luckily no famine happened IOTL).

  11. Japanese colonial population in Taiwan not expelled after WWII

    The pattern would be similar to Palau islands - i.e. Japanese minority largerly assimilating, but people of Japanese descent still having disproportionately large to their numbers influence to politics due better educational background. Japanese community survival will require direct US or...

  12. AHC: Aleutian SSR

    From records of how Soviets have managed Kuril islands captured from Japanese, i suspect the 199x population of Soviet Aleutian islands would be close to 4,000, most of which is going to be a military personnel. Too much problems with motivation and resources allocation for civilians to live.

  13. WI: No Rasputin

    Rasputin got attention of Imperial family because he was somehow able to control the condition of (haemophilic) Alexei - heir to imperial throne. And the illness of heir Alexei was much more damaging to image of Russian imperial family compared to even Rasputin - it was widely attributed either...

  14. AHC Make modern Russia have the same territory as the Soviet union.

    Well, if you can permit some of Russian territories to be temporarily occupied by foreign powers, when the OTL Russia is already have the territory of former Soviet Union.. at least in the minds of Russian fervent nationalists.

  15. What would it take to keep American clothing norms more modest?

    Hippies/free love was the inevitable consequence of the spread of hormonal contraceptives. The peak of lax dress codes has happened in early 198x, just after birth control pills become popular but before HIV pandemic become known. More HIV-like sexually-transmitted maladies appearing earlier...
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