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Lenin will probably be a powerful voice in shutting down Russian left-nationalists who might balk at the idea of surrendering leadership of the revolutionary movement to Germany.

Lenin also expected and actively wanted the USSR to become a junior partner in revolution to a red Germany, or less likely a Red Britain or America.

Trotsky wasn't necessarily the only other option besides Stalin. Stalin was able to take power because of his assumption of many unglamorous but important bureaucratic positions behind the scenes and the diplomatic isolation of the USSR making his "socialism in one country" thesis the only...

Most of these revolutions are more or less spontaneous. I don't think Germany really has all that much control over them.

When the dust settles, I'd love to see Gramsci, Lenin, Rosa, and whichever revolutionary becomes predominant in the corpse of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire come together at a table and discuss things, both personal and political; as friends and as allied heads of government. Once Europe...

I'd like to see some correspondence between the German, Italian, and Soviet revolutionaries.

Military circles tend to be very wary of efforts to render MAD obsolete because it will give the first person to set up a functional SDI system a free hand to nuke whomever they please without retaliation.

Unilateral nuclear disarmament is a big "nuke me please" sign to your geopolitical rivals as MAD does a lot in making the option to wipe your enemy off the map in the press of a button seem much less tempting. Outside of countries with no enemies who would like to blast them to Kingdom come...

Unlike Venezuela or the 70s and onwards Soviet Union; the UASR isn't an export commodity economy whose economic health is tied to the price of oil and as the largest economy in the world until the Chinese and Soviets catch up; couldn't care less about whatever sanctions the Western Europeans...

Just show the backbreaking number of hours of thankless work that go into collecting largely useless shiny gizmos like a human magpie that do little to actually guarantee long term happiness. If I remember correctly, the average citizen in America works significantly shorter hours than their...

Consumerist culture is largely driven by advertising. It's pretty easy to kill off by nixing advertising culture.

Renu from SV. Also check the new thread. It's shiny.

Rubyverse Character profiles: (Picture related) Mekmenschen: First seen in the 1940 film "Blood and Iron" , the Mekmenschen are a pair of robotic supersoldiers created by the German war machine to serve as the basis of a mass produced army to crush the United Nations. Unlike most robotic...

Yes. This way we can show approval of god by threadmarking posts we like.

I suppose it's fair enough. Anyway, now that this thread has reached 350 pages me, Jello, and Mr.E have decided that it's time to close it and open a new threat that we can threadmark and curate.

I'm personally not fond of the term "Judeo-Christian" as it immensely exaggerates the degree to which Judaism has had power in western society and was largely concocted to exclude Islam which already is included in the term "Abrahamic".

I suppose we'll just have to wait until we have an incident with a cult that becomes memetic in-universe.

"Drunk enough of the kool-aid" kind of sucked me out of the immersion due to how rooted the expression is in OTL circumstances; namely the existence of a kool-aid brand and the Jim Jones cult.

OTL British nuclear weapons are entirely up to the discretion of their immediate commanders to use. If a submarine captain tomorrow decided to burn down the planet, all he'd have to do is turn some bike locks and the missiles would be good to go to launch. No command codes needed, no...

Anyway, on this note. One possible rendition of Siegfried and Columbia's second and final fight in the first film (though obviously the actual film wouldn't be so focused on the two's duel to the exclusion of all else). ....................... Tibet, 1939 A thrown tank plowed through...