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I don't think it's possible without total state control. The Internet is too useful for people to willingly give up on it, once they get a taste of it. I mean, the thing is, if the technology exists, somebody is eventually going to figure out a way to scale it up and make a worldwide network out...

Most of the monarchs involved in WWI were one big happy family, so blood ties mean nothing anymore in the 20th century, this is not Crusader Kings 2. You're gonna have to think of a better reason to involve Spain in WWI - decrepit, weak Spain that could barely beat an insurgency in the Rif a few...

The greatest effect would be that it would make selling the "stab in the back" myth harder (though not impossible).

Yeah, well, what's with the obsession of creating 100% homogenous nation states? In what way is this world better than the one we had? Trying to create such perfectly homogenous nation-states will just lead to more bigotry at the few minorities that do mess up the plans. I have no idea why the...

What other political ideology would the People's Democratic Republic of Korea pursue aside from democracy?

Unlikely. Will not happen in the East for the obvious reason that the two areas are geographically disconnected. In the West, post-war policy with Germany was still, for a while, "let's keep those Germans down", so NATO wouldn't approve. It could only happen, in my opinion, if the split happened...

Please, think of the

Would anyone in 1920 have thought that the rest of the century would see a genocide against the Jews and various other groups, spearheaded by a man whose rise to power anyone here would have discredited as ASB, Russia's turn to communism taking a tragic turn that leads to many millions of deaths...

With a POD no earlier than 1849, the defeat of the Hungarian revolution - how would it be possible in a reasonable timeframe (at most 1 century) to create a republic (socialist or capitalist) that encompasses basically all of the territory of the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary in this era, or...

The thing is, the Western and Eastern Allies were... well, allies in the war, who had pledged to fight together and accept only unconditional surrender from Germany. They will not leave the Soviets alone to fight; even if it makes sense from the perspective of the class war, much of the West had...

I think it's simple - what would need to happen is that the leadership realizes the USSR is going to collapse (possibly a failed Perestroika that, instead of plunging the country into chaos with the events of 1991, just fails and the country slowly continues to spiral into decline, at the...

I think this is impossible in a literal sense, but almost OTL in a metaphorical sense. Just have the USA go a little nastier and the Cold War intensify a little. The key is that the Soviets and Chinese should actually have an economy that rivals that of the USA, even separately - and for that...

I realize that this is supposed to be a Romania-wank, but I still hope that the war against the Ottomans will have a realistic result, and Romania won't just suddenly reconquer all of Alexios Komnenos' empire because nationalism str0nk. And that nationalism won't just erupt literally everywhere...

If you're unsure about anything regarding Hungary, feel free to PM me with any questions. If nothing else, then to avoid cheesy Google-translations.;)

Even if international treaties and relations did not make this impossible, it is not worth ruining your relations with Ukraine and establishing a reputation as a scavenger for those tiny, largely worthless and symbolic scraps of land.

Who is to say that it will even end peacefully? The West would have propped up Francoism indefinitely, and would have been fine with a fascist Juan Carlos. They would not do anything to bring Mussolini down, and would want to keep him strong lest his communist opposition spearheads a revolution...

It is quite generous to call it a nuclear "exchange" - China barely had its first bombs out and the USSR managed to recover after the war. In contrast, China imploded and has been a failed state ever since (or rather, a number of failed states). Avoiding it would probably be easy, I don't think...

This is the kind of question which everyone is just going to answer according to their personal political convinctions in a black-and-white manner.

Don't bloat the sequels with unnecessary, uninteresting characters. Merovingian? More like Meh-rovingian. Never understood why I should care about him, or the Keymaker, or any of the other weird people Neo met in the Matrix, or how giving someone a cake-induced orgaism is supposed to make a...

It has been. Too lazy to dig up threads, but the general consensus is that it would have been a disaster for Franco (though probably not for Spain, since they'd have been rid of their dictator a few years later), Spain was completely unready for a war so soon after their civil war, they would...