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    Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    Some AH Armored Vehicle mirth...
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    Names for emperors in a post-Qing dynasty?

    Bump! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. 🙂
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    Names for emperors in a post-Qing dynasty?

    POD: the Taiping armies somehow take Beijing and massacre the Emperor and most of his near relatives in 1861. After subduing the rebels, Zeng Guofan becomes Yiyong (1), the first emperor of the Yan Dynasty. (I know it's a fairly unlikely scenario, but roll with it.) What are some potential era...
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    Was Operation Barbarossa a preventive invasion?

    Again, you really do not have to take Nazis at their word.
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    Was Operation Barbarossa a preventive invasion?

    True as in the Nazi general said those words, yes, but as others have pointed out in this thread, Germany started planning for the war in December of 1940. And expansion into the 'lebensraum' was a major element of Nazi long-term strategy, regardless of what Stalin might have intended to do in...
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    Was Operation Barbarossa a preventive invasion?

    I think we can safely discount the verbal flatulence of someone who explicitly denies Nazi racism.
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    Russia's potential

    what
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    40 years since the Stanislav Petrov incident - where were you on Sept. 25/26, 1983? Would you have survived if the nukes were launched?

    I lived (and still do) about 40 miles away from Niagara Falls (major power station and an Air National Guard base that had combat units at the time) and ~12 miles from Buffalo, so I'd probably survive the initial strikes, but my odds after that... not good.
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    Flag Thread V

    man what That's brilliant work.
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    Flag Thread V

    Hey all - I'm looking for a sci-fi flag for a polity called the Folkric, a loose confederation of English-speaking worlds. Something with the colors red, white and blue, maybe? (More than a decade ago, I did this request, but I can't find the file and the upload in the old thread is long since...
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    Development of Vietnam in a world without the PRC?

    I admit I haven’t explored how the Pacific War played out ITTL, but I figure it might have ended a year or so early with the US not involved in Europe. Downfall 1944? But you’re right, they probably mapped closely to the real post-war Japan; then again, maybe without the 1950s re-armament...
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    Development of Vietnam in a world without the PRC?

    One thing that wasn’t clear enough in the OP (apologies) is that this is a Nazis Win TL, so France is largely off the board, too. The Nationalists win the Chinese Civil War, the Soviets are trying to hold the Urals and not worrying about anything else, and the Americans don’t get involved (or at...
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    Pop Culture Timelines Go-To Thread

    The first in a series of articles about the best Xena knock-off that never actually existed: https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-adventures-of-aella-the-amazon-part-1-overview
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