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Ever since 1919, there have been plans to build a subway line on Manhattan's east side under Second Avenue. But each time that funding was obtained and/or construction began, the line was cancelled. Current work on the line finally began in 2007, with phase 1 planned to open at the end of this...

If that movie is made by Hollywood ITTL, it'll likely seek out actual Egyptians (or at least people of Egyptian/Arab ethnicity and heritage) for the roles. It depends on how Egypt turns out in the Cold War and on how Hollywood politics develop, since the movie IOTL is emblematic of the...

Probably in Cuba for the capitalist side, with a name like "Havana 49" as a call-back to the 48 states.

Back in the 1910s, the city of Cincinnati began construction on a subway system as a means of supplementing its streetcar network. But due to budget shortfalls, changes in city leadership, the Great Depression, and the post-WWII shift to car-centric development, the subway was never completed or...

Where would the Imperial remnant reside? Unlike how European Fascists have possible refuge in post-war Brazil and Cuba, or have the chance to worm their way into the DNVP and like-minded groups, the Japanese Empire's die-hards have no real place to escape to. Plus, any resistance they'd put up...

I have no doubt that any confederate monuments will at the very least be reworked, if not mostly bulldozed. From the revisions segment on the First Cultural Revolution:

I'll repost my earlier list of "where are they now" people to talk about: And a few more: George H.W. Bush Wallis Simpson (does she still marry King Edward VIII according to this post in the first draft?) Daniel Inouye Betty Grable Sukarno Gene Roddenberry Nelson Mandela Mary Morello Eva Perón

Whatever happens to Roddenberry's cult, I wouldn't expect him to be all that interested in trying a filibuster. At least not with the likes of those featured in the linked TL.

From what I recall throughout these discussions, the map looks something like this: North America: UASR is OTL USA plus Canada minus Newfoundland. Mexico and Central America are all in the Comintern, possibly aside from Belize. Cuba under the US government-in-exile and ex-colonies in Caribbean...

Impossible! Haven't you heard of something called human nature?! /s But more seriously: there are a lot of systemic issues plaguing Eastern-bloc style communism that make scenarios of its success more challenging to pull off. The lower overall GDP of the USSR compared to the USA right from the...

Do recall that in our timeline, Elon Musk was born in Apartheid-era South Africa, and his mother was from Canada. In the world of Reds, he and his family might end up moving to the FBU or Australia when Canada and South Africa break away from the capitalist sphere. One update mentioned that...

It's-a me, Marx-io!

One reason why drive-ins have lost ground to multiplex theaters is the fact that they have a much narrower timeframe of daily operations. Compared to regular theaters which can show all the movies they want at any time of day, drive-ins can only really operate at night. And even then, there...

Turn the Cold War-era US down a path similar to what happens in statichaos' A World of Laughter, A World of Tears. In that timeline, the Us goes on a right-wing authoritarian direction in which the civil rights movement is much more heavily suppressed. By the time of the TL's second part, the...

There are a few ways: 1.) While Kim Il-sung is on a visit to Moscow in 1956 or '57, some more reform-minded segments of the WPK move to sideline the Kim Dynasty. Inspired by Khrushchev's secret speech, they move to a policy of de-Kimization. Something similar could still happen at a later...

Gonna have to agree with others about the PoD being way late in the game. For an alt-Warsaw Pact to make it into the 1990s and beyond, there can't just be a brutal crackdown on opposition. A prime reason for the loss of faith in the Moscow line in Eastern Europe was the weak economy of the 80s...

Before the Nazis took over, Germany was home to the world's second-largest film industry. All that changed from 1933 onward, as the Nazis jailed/drove out many of the top contributors to this industry. And after WWII and the Cold War division of Europe, Hollywood's dominance in global cinema was...

She took her username from the lead singer of The Dead Kennedys. Jello Biafra is a punk rocker who became a prominent Green Party member, and is who spiderduck1985 refers to in the OP.

By the 1970s, Americans' trust in their government had taken a massive hit with the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal. So when the claims of G-men covering up an alien spaceship's existence started to become more prominent, people were a lot more open to the possibility than before.

This post would be better suited to pre-1900. IIRC the original May Day protests in 1886 were a campaign for an 8-hour workday and 40-hour work week.