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Doesn't matter, as that claim is equally ridiculous. Gibraltar was about the end of the world for these people. They weren't about to say: "Oh, golly, wonder what'll happen if we just keep sailing south along this coastline" That would have them sailing via Gibraltar, all along the coasts of...

As has been pointed out: A democratic Russian state (a democratic Soviet Union that's still recognizably communist is an oxymoron) would've butterflied the nazis entirely, meaning that there'd be no Nazi Germany to make the pact with.

But they were still, to a degree, French. There are dialects and regional differences almost anywhere, even in Denmark, small as it is, there are people that I cannot understand if they speak their own dialect. But they're still Danish. Not so in the case of the Russian Empire, which was...

Yes, and what kind of SU will we see under Trotsky's leadership? Will it become a nightmare like Stalin's rule OTL, or slightly less so? We cannot know, of course, because Trotsky never got the chance. But one thing we can be pretty sure of, is that the SU would continue to be an oppressive...

A "democratic Soviet Union" is a construct of the same kind as a "democratic Nazi Germany": A wholly artificial mirage, that cannot exist anywhere in the world of reality. Gorbachov made miniscule steps towards liberalization and democratization....and it caused the collapse of the Evil...

The only time in which I could see this being even CONSIDERED, is the time of the crusades, to try to wipe out islam at its roots. I can't really see how, though... I can definitely see the "why", but not the how. Getting to Mecca required a LOONG walk through some of the most inhospitable...

"Our Kingdom is whole again" - King Frederik IV of Denmark-Norway at the central square in Malmø, Skåne, after Skåne, Halland, Blekinge and Båhuslen was returned to Denmark-Norway as a result of total Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.

That's "a truth with so many modifications, it must be considered false" (read by me in a textbook, on a whole other matter). The great Christological disputes had been over for almost 3 centuries. For sure, there were still gnostic heretics scattered here and there, but the "Who are...

I think Hinduism is too "Indian" for that to happen. True, Christianity started among the Jewish people, but, unlike Christianity and islam, Hinduism isn't missionary as such, in the sense that it doesn't have ambitions of converting the world. So I have a hard time seeing how Hinduism spreads...

Fall? As in the same kind of fall that happened to the Evil Empire? Not happening. Yes, the West will have to yield more of the field to China in the coming decades, but it'll take ASBs to make that kind of an "occident-screw" that you're proposing.

Why? AFAIK, France's heavy involvement in the ARW took an equally heavy toll on France's coffers. And since cutting down on the luxury for the Court and the nobility wasn't going to happen, the ARW definitely contributed to the emergence of the French revolution, in so far as the economic side...

How do we get around the "One man's dystopia is another man's utopia"-question? Unless, of course, we're talking about the kind of dystopia that's born out of a couple of thousand mushroom clouds, but that's pretty unlikely with that POD.

In the same way as some people claim it does so (suppress civil rights (the definition of which vary) and democracy) today? Because if so, then I'm highly sceptical as to the validity of that claim.

I think it depends on whether you by "fascism" mean the ACTUAL ideology "Fascism", or what some people on the left refer to as "Fascism", which is "Anything I don't agree with". In case of the latter, the examples are legio. In case of the former.....not really happening. Fascism, as with...

Wait, what? Italy warned a sworn enemy of the West? And....nothing happened? Another example of how rotten Italian politics are... This is one of the reasons why geopolitics and justice have so little to do with eachother. We could've been rid of that pig (Gadaffi, should anyone be confused)...