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No. The French government never outlawed communism. Never. They outlawed the French Communist Party and everything associated to it. Never did the Parliamentarians who denounced the MR pact renounced communism. Maybe Trotsky if he wasn't assassinated in this TL. i don't think pdf27 adressed...

I think he was more speaking about how having a strong (and the French one was probably one of the strongest if not the strongest outside ot the USSR) Communist party independent of Moscow could have influenced the communist movement post WWII. For example, trotskyist could come back to the...

There were communist in the National Assembly between september 1939 and June 1940, so no, communist propaganda wasn't banned. And what you suggest is actually the best way to ensure part of the 15% of people who voted for the communist actually turn on you, while "promoting" an anti-USSR...

IOTL, most communists in France started a passive resistance well before 1941 (and actually some communists deputies left the communist party in 1939, and i think the arrested communists deputies would be offered a deal by the french government to denounce Stalin and be freed and reinstated if...

The push to convert northern Europe was a result of Christianity getting eaten up in the south. Without Islam, there would be far less missionaries north and probably a less powerful carolingian state, which mean that christianity wouldn't have that much prestige up north, providing less...

Yeah, but it would have a 3 men turret with a 75mm gun !

The various evolutions of the S-35. Until they met the Soviet tanks, the germans even planned to restart the production with the S40 turret at some point IIRC. The FCM turret with the SA35 was a two-men turret, the one with the SA37 was a three men turret. But both the S-40 larger turret and the...

Actually, autoloader mean that there is a machine to do the work of the loader, like on the Leclerc and T-72 where the reloading is done automatically, or like on the HS-129. What i'm saying is that semi-automatic in the antebellum French military lexicon concerning canons mean that the breech...

Good, good, but are you sure that the G1R was supposed to have an autoloader ? It was supposed to be a semi automatic canon (maybe like on the De Dion Bouton Autocanon, 20 rounds per minute, but i'm not sure that it was an autocanon given the bumber of people it needed to operate), but i don't...

Why ? Even with the better elationship they have with India, India won't stay in the empire, and even if it stay, it would be an INDIAN hyperpower (something the british wouldn't want so they would kick tem out gently). Outside of India, the other powerful colonies are already almost independant...

Actually yes, you can. The soviet defended themselves against pretty much everyone after the Revolution (French in the South, British in the North, Japanese in the far east, and even Americans IIRC). And Poland attacked them. Then a paranoid nutjob took power. Building up your army in these...

1. Even the citation you provide don't actually say that Zukhov wanted to attack Germany. It says that Zukhov thought that if the war was going to start (ie if Germany was making offensive preparations), they should start first. 2. Soviet strategic planning at the time called for immediate...

Holy butterfly genocide Batman ! Seriously, if you want to ignore every pretense of alternate history and only dwell in you nazi victory fantasies you should post in ASB.

Have a Persian craze (or ottomanophilia, or arabophilia) happen in early 19th century. Khol for men come back in fashion for a few years and then reappears every few decades and stay for one or two each time (fashion is mostly cyclical). Going from Khol to other king of makeup is then an easy step.

The Thai were actually better equipped in tanks (20 FT-17 for the French vs at least 60 Carden loyd tankettes and 30 Vickers 6 tons), in aviation (the best plane the French had were 9 MS406, vs 25 Hawks 75, the French had at most 60 planes that were Front line and the Thai 140). Yeah the...

No armistice. It was one of the two conditions which were required by Pétain during the armistice talks (the other one was not to give any colonies to Italy).

French troops in Indochina were first line. There was 1 regiment of the Foreign Legion (5th), 2 regiment of Colonial Infantry (French troops, all volunteers, 10th and 11th), 3 regiments of mixed colonial infantry (French and local troops, 10th, 16th, 19th), 3 regiment of Tonkinese Tirailleurs, 2...

The French army would have had no problem holding Algeria longer OTL, the FLN and Algeria wasn't the Viet Minh and Indochina. The terrain isn't really guerrilla friendly (not enough air cover), the French army basically invented COIN there, but no really wanted to fight the Algerians over...

The war years were the coldest of the century in Alsace IIRC.