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I don't know if I'd go that far, I mean it may not have been the defining struggle of the Cold War but nationalism, cultural assimilation vs. pluralism, the construction of identity etc. have been important issues along with economics in our world. They aren't totally alien to us (nor is...

That I totally the point (or a point) of LTTW as I understand it. I saw an opinion column recently about how the new big issue in US politics is divides over identity instead of economics (as the Democrats are no longer the white working class party), and it was like "oh wow, we're turning into...

So less "1984" and more "BBC taping over old Doctor Who episodes" ;)

Well, it's kind of the equivalent to our world's post-WWII adoption of containerized shipping, which was a huge deal for global trade. It means that LTTW's late 19th century globalization could be more powerful than OTL.

Sounds kind of like a "bench-clearing brawl" in baseball, plus soccer hooligans.

Argh, all the format wars in a Diversitarian world, it's almost enough to make you want to move to the Combine! Yeah it's 1984 but at least I can get my bicycle I bought from the next province over fixed.

I guess if you're already doing carpentry you have a ready surplus of sawdust.

AFAIK they did pack ice in sawdust for long-range transport, back when ice was taken out of New England lakes and sold around the world. Which created sort of a low-grade pykrete layer on the outside of the ice blocks. So the basic concept was known.

Such is the lot of the small nation, unfortunately.

If China still splits with the Soviets ITTL, the US government is still going to want to get the PRC on-side at some point.

And you definitely don't have people melt down their hoes, shovels and cookware to meet a "steel" quota.

I wouldn't go that far, after about 1965 I think the US government was aware that a nuclear bomb could be snuck in by the PRC, a "rogue general" or a terrorist group, and would wait a little bit before just nuking the USSR. With the USSR already at war with the US though, this is crazy. I...

Well, in this scenario a conventional WW3 has already begun. Which makes this an exceedingly dangerous thing for the Soviets to do.

Unless the PRC had a full-scale civil war, this wouldn't go well.

I think he would in the short run keep good relations with the USSR, for pragmatic reasons. In the longer run, ideological differences and China being tired of always being the junior partner will probably lead to some sort of Sino-Soviet divide.

Given that Chinese birthrates were 1. encouraged to skyrocket during the Cultural Revolution and 2. Were declining quickly before the One-Child Policy, I don't know if China would have that many more people ITTL. Even if it hits a wall in the late 70s, uninterrupted socialist development and...

Nobody cared about millionaire Payola, we were too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of the just-ended Summer of the Shark.

Well, if they can survive the first couple years when everyone is starving, I imagine the post-apocalyptic world would have plenty of people ready to trade some potatoes or scrap iron for some weed or opium. Poor peasant and proletarian masses have paid for drugs before after all.

Though historically, invasions of Italy from the north have gone much better than invasions from the south.

Obviously he goes to either the North Pole to enter the portal to the secret Nazi bases inside the hollow earth, or he goes to the hidden Nazi bases in Antarctica ;)