Recent content by Uber_Amoeba

Napoleon is seriously overrated by people for reasons I have trouble comprehending. I mean, he was thoroughly and totally out-smarted in grand strategy (you know, what generals are supposed to do) by Russians, for Christ's sake. Why the hell is he on this list when the people who managed to...

I like Trotsky and all, and the simplistic analysis of his complex and often contradictory positions on most matters of import to the Union do him a disservice, but of all the available leaders of the 20s, Bukharin is by far my first choice. Trotsky was despised too much by the Politburo and had...

To be fair, the PoD of this thread would lead to quite a different outcome. If Stalin had died before the war, not only would morale be a lot higher than if he died immediately after it started, but certainly any changes in Soviet preparations in the last week before June 22 could only be to the...

Ref; Philip Zimbardo, Stanford Prison Experiment. Modern people like to cling to aphorisms like 'I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees', but both historically and psychologically, when people think they have a knife to their throat, they'll suffer just about any oppression...

Lenin; the only true Soviet to lead the country.

What if Abimael Guzman and Sendero Luminoso had achieved political victory and overthrew the government of Peru during the early Eighties?

The ending was changed for good reason - one, the squid is only a pay-off thanks to the long subplot involving comic book writers, the secret island, and a boat exploding, an extra subplot which just wouldn't have worked in a movie that was already pushing it as far as time. Secondly, frankly...

Dozens of complicated reasons, from Germany's catching the Union in the middle of a major military reform to the time it took for Soviet production to re-assess and gear up behind the Urals and the various failures resulting from Stalin's incompetent micro-management, none of which have anything...

Tally ho, gents! I've only just gotten on-line; I was helping to crush the rebellion on Prince Edward Island, and the reception there is fucking AWFUL. On the bright side, I collected twice my quota of insurgent islander scalps and I'll wot that I'm moving up in the ranks! Leftenant, here I come!

I'm very interested and impressed with this TL. Keep on, good sir!

Stalin moved from target to target with startling alacrity. I've looked through the relevant claims, and as far as I can see there's not nearly enough evidence to support the idea that he wasn't 'satisfied' by the 1945-1949 pogroms against Jews in the Soviet Union. If he lived to 1963 I can see...

He wasn't stupid, but he was insane. Of course, he also wasn't particularly aggressive, so I doubt he would really stand up all that hard to NATO. At the time of his OTL death he was becoming paranoid of all the doctors and seemed to be considering a second Great Purge - the deleterious effects...

Stupid medallions with skulls and thunderbolts on them?

If anyone can hear this, this is Bob Anderstein. My family and I have taken refuge in a drainage chamber not too far from a radio relay tower outside of D.C. My boy is very sick, needs medical assistance. Please help if you can. We're listening for your response. 3950 kilohertz.

If anyone can hear this, this is Bob Anderstein. My family and I have taken refuge in a drainage chamber not too far from a radio relay tower outside of D.C. My boy is very sick, needs medical assistance. Please help if you can. We're listening for your response. 3950 kilohertz.