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That was going to be answered as part of the next "Where are they now", but I had forgotten about it, and it has languished in incompletion. So I'll just answer it here: "The up and coming actor has put his film career on hold, re-enlisting in the Revolutionary Navy. Due to his age, education...

I remember a quote, I believe Michael Albert referenced it in his memoir Remembering Tomorrow, something a leader in the historical Black Panther Party told him during their hey day, that "Many of us went from pushing dope to pushing The Little Red Book, and we do it in much the same way." (I...

The FBU heavily uses its own licensed built version of the Bofors 40mm gun, though obviously they stopped paying the license fees when they became cobelligerent against Sweden. The UASR has its own home-brewed 37mm and 57mm autocannons, though the former is dominant for shipboard use. Lighter...

The important distinction to make is that racism holds these superficial phenotypical differences as indicators of an essential difference. Racism is a vulgar form of biological reductionist ideology. In the case of Imperial Japan, it meant that the people's under their dominion were subhuman...

What range was the Salvo fired at? Depending on the range penetration may not have been possible.

To a lesser extent. Forced labor continues as a war measure, as does the exploitation in GULAG, but the political prisoners are all quietly being rehabilitated. It's standard prison labor exploitation, and while conditions are improving from their low points in the Winter of 1941, it's not a...

While there will be some official pressure, it will mostly be self-censorship. I think the way the US has historically dealt with the news of atrocities done by its allies and vassals is instructive. For the most part, even things like dekulakization will be shrugged off as the kind of brutality...

Excerpts from the AH.com thread “WI: Axis victory in the Battle of Iceland”

Hood wasn't actually killed by deck penetration in all likelihood. While I agree the weak deck armor was a stunning liability, her engagement with Bismarck happened at too short of a range for deck penetration to be likely. They were only ~15km apart when the fatal shell struck. At that range...

The Hood killed at Jutland was Samuel Hood's grandson anyway

You have a funny reading of the Russian Revolution. The Provisional Government was made entirely of the pre-revolution Duma, with only token participation from the actual popular mass parties like the Socialist Revolutionaries and the liberal Constitutional Democrats (Kadets). The Provisional...

You have to give the Panther a ship of Theseus treatment to make it a decent tank is basically what you're saying. And here's the thing, you can't just drop a new powerpack and transmission in the Panther. It was not designed with drop in of any sort in mind, let alone the ability to swap out...

It might be most productive just to invent someone out of whole cloth. Noir influence would be quite likely. The homage was in the Foreign Affairs short story. You can be optimistic without spoonfeeding the audience. After the hardships that adults had endured in the revolution and world war...

This may be my own personal tastes in literature informing things, but I've mostly thought that the perfect spy hero for TTL's American sensibilities would be rather like the protagonists of John LeCarre's novels. Thus far no one has commented on the homage yet in the timeline yet so it may be...

I honestly haven't a clue yet. That's something that will have to be developed organically. Mainstream fashion in the 50s will look very similar to the 40s fashion as the new "mainstream". Probably simplified a bit, but it won't be so much about what is cutting edge as what the new normal is...

Wonder no more. As ridiculously convergent as it is, I wouldn't miss out on that pop culture world building opportunity

That's something I sort of touched on in the "Foreign Affairs" short story I put up in the main thread. Here's the relevant passage: In short, fashion in the 1940s is dieselpunk. It turns industrial work clothes and accessories into a sort of fashion statement, and there are undertones of...

Others have touched on the logistical difficulties already. But simply, you can't ignore Stalingrad. If the city and the area around it remains in Soviet hands, it is a dagger pointing at the German lines. The westward bend of the Volga River, itself a wide river and thus a huge logistical...

Fixed. One Estado Novo seems to bleed into the next, lol.

So I'm going to take a break from my usual literary style and just give you guys a straight up timeline for the next oh...year and a half or so. It's not meant to be 100 percent complete; as you might notice the South American theater is absent, but a broad overview of just about every other...