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First of all, there was never "official state atheism" in the RSFSR or USSR, only the separation of church and state. In fact, the only state in the history of the world that has ever been "officially" atheist was the Albanian People's Republic. Second, the configuration varied, including the...

Pretty much. One of the old coat of arms of the RSFSR was even adorned with fasces. They are, pretty much, simply a generic State symbol (and often, more specifically, republican).

Orrin Hatch — Former Utah member of the US House of Representatives (1980 - 2006) and frequent presidential candidate for the culturally conservative, fiscally leftist Farmer-Labor Party (1996, 2000, 2004). Norman Thomas — Perennial Socialist Party candidate following the murder of Eugene...

Alexandra Kollontai — Soviet Ambassador to the Finnish Socialist Workers’ Republic (1924-1930), the Kingdom of Norway (1930-1936), and the CSA (1944-45). Chairwoman of the Free Soviet of People’s Commissars (1951 - 53) following the death of Lavrenti Beria. Her mild two-year administration was...

Things wind up worse for Russia.

The United States of America c. 2000 in a timeline without an American Civil War.

"Welcome Comrade to the Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of Diskovija, the world's largest closet...."

The PRC does not qualify as an atheist state according to the premise of this post. Consitutionally, the PRC promotes the freedom of religion: "Article 36. Religious freedom Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief. No state organ, public organization or...

Actually, early Christianity was remarkably more egalitarian when it came to relations between the sexes. In many orthodox Jewish communities men and women do not pray together. And you are right about Paul. It was Paul who told women that if they had a question regarding doctrine they should...

What would have happened if the English had established an American nobility in its North American colonies in the years just prior to the American Revolution. Provided that the revolution still happened, what would the reaction have been like?

Pssst ... both Hitler and Stalin were agents of the British Empire. Must go now before the Crown's secret police discover my location.

ATL: The Supreme Soviet and Chamber of People's Deputies survives the "Constitutional Crisis" of 1993, re-establishing the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1994 under the new regime of freely contested elections.

The tribes which made up the Kingdom of Israel worship El, paying less regard to the Midianite Baal, Yahueh, which becomes the Baal, and patron god, of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. The worship of El and Yahueh continues in all the tribes of Jacob regardless, and the distinction between the two...

Flag of the ruling party!:D

Communist Party of the United Federation of Planets?:D

"Introducing a more perfect union of vanilla and blueberry cream!":p

A flag of the United States of America in an AH I'm working on....

Afghanistan is land-locked.:eek::D

When I wear a blue shirt I am not the same entity I am when I wear a red shirt. I am a few seconds older now than I was when I started this post, therefore neither the same nor different. Christian theology ... splitting heirs.

Why not: Kaplan never shot Lenin and Sverdlov never got sick and died?