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I would have assumed their platform consisted only of the letters ETA ETA ETA ETA repeated for several pages.

What a beautiful day when I see Beiras featured in a timeline in this site. I am trying to convey the man's awesomeness but the closest I can come up with is "Boris Johnson's communist savant galician grandfather".

No, no, no, I am not worthy. If the two candidates are who I think they are, then this is truly a dystopian TL.

Checking the man's wiki article I found this picture which is both hilarious and somewhat disturbing: I am not sure I want to find out what he's laughing about.

I hopeI am not the only one who immediately thought of Rumsfeldia when Marty showed up in the alternate dystopian 1985. Resemblances and paralellisms are uncanny.

The protestant work ethic is nothing more than socially accepted bigotry, in the very fringes of outright racism. Northern european media loved mentioning it during the worst times of the financial crisis. If you said "Of course those africans are poor, they lack my white man working ethic"...

Bear in mind it is long and unfinished: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=86718

Because those were exceptional examples, not a systematic practice. Soldiers loved Napoleon because they knew he would reward competence and loyalty in ways other nations wouldn't.

Well, it's not really about the canals, it's that the streets are to winding and narrow to allow for motor traffic.

I don't think that's physically possible.

St-Lô, Le Havre, Brest and Royan would still be intact rather than postwar reconstructions, and the american monument at Pointe de Grave would still stand (the germans blew it up IOTL): Oh, and Oradour-sur-Glane would remain one of thousands of nondescript villages in Deepest France. :(

"My correspondent insists that the Daltonian destruction of Valencia in the past Twelfth Carlist War has done little to stem the tide of tourists searching for sun and partying..."

Here's the great thing about totalitarianism: unlike your run of the mill authoritarianism, it actually rewards initiative and innovation, as long as it is in a certain direction: moving the system forwards towards that promised Utopia. I doubt Hitler ever considered medical experimentation...

I think Max Mosley may know about this. I'll see myself out.

God, those made me irrationally angry. (Then I went and wrote one where he merely had a series of strokes and became a vegetable).

Rumsfeld had it all thought out, folks. The military is going to try a coup, but it will fail since all their weapons will jam.

DER HAPPENING KOMMT!

This universe's edition of Twilight Struggle must be hilarious to play.

He was so progerman he let the British use bases in the Azores. While Salazar's regime had plenty of ideological affinity with Germany and Italy, he found fascism too progressive and revolutionary. His first priority was to keep Portugal independent and its empire intact, and british...

The favorite book of the Prime Minister of Spain at the time was The protocols of the elders of Zion. Spain didn't even recognize Israel until 1979.