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Fascism and communism are intrinsically opposed as ideologies. It's simply natural that a fascist Germany would be used against the USSR right from the start. I think you would probably see a WW2 which involved the allies (Britain, France, Italy) side with Germany and go up against the Soviet...

It's not the Welsh's fault that the English and the Scots buddied up to fuck the world. What would you prefer? Anglo-Scottish?

If we're going to consider the Holodomor a genocide, let's not forget the genocides of the English: Bengal Famine of 1770 (~10 million), the Orissa famine of 1866 (4-5 million), the Great Famine of 1876-78 (~5 million), the Indian famine of 1896-97 (~1 million),the Indian Famine of 1899-1900...

I know exactly what she's talking about. Though I think "Always they justify my point of view" should be something else.

The TV series "Twin Peaks" becomes very popular, heavily supported by studio execs goes on for ten mind-numbing seasons and has numerous terrible spin-offs. In the end, it is remembered as a commercialized piece of crap. Rage Against The (Cotton Weaving and Spinning) Machine

A particularly nasty case of biological warfare targeted at the northeastern native Americans tribe in the 1760s kills not only over ten thousand native Americans, but also several hundred whites. The newspapers seize upon it, and a Christian backlash against treating natives as subhuman...

Yeah, it's possible, even probable that the industrial revolution could've started somewhere else in Britain. But it didn't. It started in Manchester. In the proverbial "sooner or later," Manchester was the sooner.

Yeah, but which is more important: jump-starting the industrial revolution, or being a key element in a bunch of slapfights between European imperialists?

Nah, I'm thinking of the cotton factories, which provided the model for the development of the industrial revolution elsewhere, and started in and around Manchester. Yes, sure, in the entirety of history, that becomes a "meaningless statistic," but doesn't that also go for pretty much every...

Wasn't Manchester, in addition/due to being the great Cottonopolis, also the origin of the industrial revolution? I'd think that would give it such a lead in terms of historic import that it's actually more important to Britain than London.

Not really possible. The closest thing might be a Japan-backed state in the far eastern reaches of Siberia, but even that's rather unlikely. If the capitalist powers could've gotten away with splitting something off from the Reds, they would've. A Red Russia would not let the country be...

1917: February, October Revolution, as per OTL. In addition to last-minute addition of a peasant to the Russian delegation to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a prominent leader of the Left-SRs is taken. Over the course of negotiations, it becomes clear to them that they can't win the war, and...

You're still going to see a hell of a lot of reds in Eastern Europe, to be completely honest. The Soviet Union played no direct role in the rise of communism in Czechoslovakia, for example, and Yugoslavia and Albania made it all on their own. Post-war Europe was a place where the communists...

Yeah, Yeltsin barely pulled out a win against Zyuganov in 96. I really doubt him/his successor could've done the same in 2000.

Actually, the Bolsheviks were pretty popular. The day of the planned coup, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets - and don't let anyone tell you the Soviets weren't important to the development of the early post-Tsarist Russian state - was convened. It had 649 delegates, of whom 390 were...

The Matthias Rust Affair - one random West German taking a flight right into Red Square - resulted in the reorganization of the Soviet cabinet, with the biggest military turnover since the Great Purge. Given that the new Marshal of the Soviet Union (Dmitry Yazov) had been selected by Gorbachev...

This is also true. Brezhnev left old factories standing and tried to improve them rather than building new factories, due to various social issues and the fact that Brezhnev was an idiot.

The primary factor of Soviet economic growth from 1928-1970-ish was urbanization. Soviet economic policies allowed much more rapid urbanization than other historical countries: in fifty years they had urbanized as much as the United States had in a century. By process of rapid urbanization...

Oh, is this a DBWI? In what alternate universe was the provisional government democratically elected?

Political guesstimate: Stalin, followed by Khrushchev, around (maybe a little after) his historical demise. No WW2, so while the party ranks are rotating, there is no equivalent to the Great Purge. But Khrushchev was fairly close to Stalin pre-1934 and an extremely capable politician, so he...