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Who's to say they wouldn't accept us with cooked books as well, with hilarious consequences when 2008 hit? *Hordes of british time travelers start changing their time machine settings from Berlin 1933 to Madrid 1995*

This would have some side effects down the road because without Aznar's structural reforms it is doubtful Spain's economy could have made it to the Euro.

The real question here is, where is the 1982 World Cup backup location? :p Odds are at this point Yugoslavia has been given Spain's place in Euro 1980.

So, what is the Sixth Fleet up to?

Middle America is not paying any price. It is just getting what it has signed for during the past decade.

People really underestimate the speed and extent things can go to shit in a country when the institutions in charge of keeping civilization in order are consistently eroded in the amount they have been for a decade. Only five years ago Syria was just a run of the mill authoritarian state with...

The most galician nationalists claim -and then it is only a very small fringe of them- is the Eo-navia shire in Asturias and El bierzo in Leon. The justification for this is that galician dialects are spoken in those areas: I know it is aesthetically tempting to just cut in a vertical...

I could have sworn there was an obvious fictional reference. They even share a birth year.

Is that Verstrynge during his Pop Art phase? In the future, everyone will be a fascist for 15 minutes.

Thanks everyone for the underserved praise. :cool: Even though it's literally the opposite of what the OP asks for. :D, and the focus in the end was less What if Spain had avoided its civil war than What if WWII featured an allied democratic Spain and ran on Rule of Cool.

And First Lady Isabel Preysler? Strangelove posing the important questions here.

So, do people ITTL watch The Simpsons in Antena 4 during lunch? :D It is interesting that the lack of independent regional stations leads to a greater diversity thereof and to bable, extremaduran and aragonese getting greater recognition. For reference IOTL private channels didn't arrive...

I concur with Goldstein. This is so well written that it is difficult to see the changes unless you have a good knowledge of the era, but the world it depicts is very familiar and yet beginning to change in unexpected directions.

Well, shit. I applaud this recent trend.

I see what you did there. I suppose part of the mystic of OTL transition is that a spaniard of 1972 (let's not even get started with 1952!) that was able to get a glimpse of the country in 1992 would probably believe it cartoonishly utopian.

It is true that UCD was a cluster of competing personalities and currents with little ideology, taking whatever it wanted from moderate right and left. Suárez was a former falangist that ended sympathinzing with the Non Aligned Movement, etc. It is not true that all those currents managed...

This was great, and the unusual format worked very well. At some points I thought it would be a 2000's-punk timeline, which I think would be a first. :p

So, no Felipismo? Conservative 80's? Nice.

Obviously, it's going to be Aguirre who has somehow weaseled her way to the top of the PSOE. One does not simply get rid of the Aguirre. I am not sure Britain can handle the Beiras. The man is truly a force of nature. Here he is, talking shit to the President two years ago during a...

Calling it now: Soraya vs Carmena vs Rosa Diaz.