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  1. Munich Shuffle: 1938-1942

    Eh, it's not much of an improvement. It sounds feminine all right, but it's not really a Russian given name either (especially for the cohort born in the early 1940s). The first article on most popular even Russian names of that period gives Tatyana, Natalya, Galina, Olga and Ludmila.

  2. Munich Shuffle: 1938-1942

    I didn't even have to guess, judging by her given name :). Still better than Tereshkova anyway.

  3. Victoria 3

    IIRC, super aggressive Gandhi due to stack overflow is more of an urban legend. A spearman defeating a tank, though...

  4. Victoria 3

    Keep an eye on Anbeeld's Revision of AI, then. I'm afraid it's too ambitious for its own good, what with covering the tail end of CK and the whole span of EU, Vicky, and HoI. Each of them has its own set of core mechanics for a reason, and if you try to extend the timeline too much you either...

  5. Victoria 3

    My impressions after a few hours: the core is good, perhaps better than II, but it needs fixing ASAP. What I liked: The concept of non-centralized states/tribal polities; The dynamic party system; Technology diffusion concept; The global market isn't an exclusive shop for the British...

  6. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain…"

    If Lenin died before 1917, he'd rather would have been remembered as a fairly minor figure only known to historians of Marxism. Up to his triumphant return to Russia in spring of that year, he was thriving on the margins of the Russian socialist movement and thought. On the other hand, compared...

  7. Reds! Official Fanfiction Thread (Part Two)

    And now this timeline has truly become an utopia. A Russian translation of The Lord of the Rings published two decades ahead of OTL, a complete animated adaptation by Bakshi, and a Guillermo del Toro's Hobbit make me feel warm and fuzzy :) I also guess that Tolkien's legacy must be less of a...

  8. Reds! Official Fanfiction Thread (Part Two)

    Don't sweat it, it's called Fanfiction Thread for a reason.

  9. Your personal pop culture dystopia timeline

    Tolkien's Middle-earth becomes a cash cow franchise written by the committee while he's still alive or shortly after his death. Bonus points if it gets added to Disney's portfolio.

  10. An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government

    Just a heads up, EBR has recreated his thread at Sufficient Velocity under the same title.

  11. Portuguese Macau expanded to Hengqin Island before Qing Dynasty collapses

    OTL, the Portuguese refused to transfer Macau to ROC in 1945, only to cave in to the PRC's pressure in 1960s. It resulted in Macau being a de facto PRCs autonomous region with the nominal Portuguese rule for 30 years. To add another layer to this theatre, the Salazar regime still refused to...

  12. When was the earliest plausible timeframe for electric vehicles to attain relatively widespread use in a major country?

    And the whole company, buses, batteries and all, was a massive fraud. These days, the bloke that ran it would be the second Elon Musk and no one would dare to ask him about things like dividends and ROI. Our ancestors were wiser than us in this respect.

  13. What if the Soviet Union never existed?

    1. The White Russian government won't have any of the non-Russian countries becoming sovereign, so that what we know as the Russian Civil war doesn't go anywhere, with the White government trying to take back as much as possible, with the Entente not eager to intervene. 2. Russia is sidelined at...

  14. WI/AHC: A Soviet Game Console

    And, given that the foreign trade was monopolized by the state and the hard currency was hard to come by, there would be no intent to buy them in substantial quantities, so the few kits that we would import would have ended on the shelves of the Beriozka stores or in the hands of some...

  15. TV invented by the time World War 2 starts, impact on public perception?

    I mean TV stations trying to broadcast for the enemy and occupied populations. I doubt that they had screenings of Deutsche Wochenschau in London or British Pathé Journal in Berlin. With the TV, though, there's a remote possibility for something like this. Upon further checking, though, the...

  16. TV invented by the time World War 2 starts, impact on public perception?

    Definitely, but I mostly mean the impact peculiar to the visual media which audio can't have. It's one thing listening to the announcer talking about thousands of dead, wounded and taken prisoner, but if they are shown to you, even in a deliberately arranged scene, it may impact your morale in a...

  17. TV invented by the time World War 2 starts, impact on public perception?

    The TV news wouldn't be much different from weekly newsreels, only more frequent and delivered directly to your dining room, given that all the belligerents, even those with the free press like the UK or the US, let alone the ones like the USSR, Germany, Japan or Italy, would have heavily...

  18. AHC: Make gyrocopters the primary short- to medium-range travel method for the rich by the late 20th century

    To add to what @andys said, you need a whole different idea of acceptable security and risk than ours, starting somewhere in the late 60s.

  19. Feeble Constitution - A Red-and-Green Russia 1917 Timeline

    Yes, I expected the Subcarpathian Ruthenia being part of the UOE Ukraine from the get-go (rather than silently annexed by the Soviets in the end of WW2 as per OTL, with the ČSl. government left to deal with the fait accompli). I should have mentioned, though, that OTL's Lednice-Valtice hasn't...

  20. Feeble Constitution - A Red-and-Green Russia 1917 Timeline

    In the case of Czechoslovak borders, there has to be a fair deal of compromise between national aspirations of the particular regions and the need to preserve connections between parts of the new state. OTL, it resulted in regions like Těšínsko/Zaolzie or Lednice-Valtice/Eisgrub-Feldberg being...
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