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The Soviets decide to keep the capital in Saint Petersburg seems like the easiest POD, it was a fairly heated debate swung mostly by a military situation which could be changed.

Evil is not an actual thing, and honestly of the two times where communists could plausibly take power in India it would likely be either the CPI under MN Roy, an anti-Stalinist who eventually abandoned Marxism for humanism. Otherwise the Indian communists with ambitions of state power were Maoists.

Because the western emperor is the equal of the eastern emperor. A puppet is still an emperor, and for the eastern empire it also effectively undermines any claim to the west.

A significant problem is that downsizing the empire onto more compact defensible borders and the necessary restructuring of economies and supply chains wouldn't be acceptable. Conceivably, a far sighted emperor could build up powerful fortifications along the Italian alps, and sufficiently...

It would likely not effect the overall course of politics or the gay rights movement. Stonewall had much more to do with explosive anger at mistreatment by the cops.

Ultimately Zhou Enlai didn't even have enough authority. To institute a better policy on gay rights when he was probably a gay man himself.

How does Rome maintain those borders while still being divided in two?

The tartan Tory claim is pretty outdated at this point. It mostly refers to back when the SNP wasn't the main left wing party in Scotland. The fact everyone uses Tory as an insult speaks to exactly how hated the Scottish conservatives were. (Which was probably going to start turning around...

We're also not talking about classical Greece. There's plenty of continuity there through the Byzantine empire. It's the Bronze Age Greeks. Which is really more proto Greek and which underwent a massive shift from era to era.

Using that standard they have in the form of the Kurds. Even Egyptian copts are culturally Arab Christians at this point.

Red Toryism is a thing in Canada where it refers to a school of thought among the conservatives.

There's fewer great anecdotes about snarky Chinese politica figures.

I think that in a situation where India is united communal tensions are less likely to be an overpowering political issue. There's no longer major wars happening every few years with the "muslims", which means that the Hindu right could well be on q path of long term decline ITTL.

A united India radically changes Indians position in the Cold War. A United Indian subcontinent has the ability to end up a major figure in the Cold War on the same level as China. So I'd say arguing about Islamic terrorism in the modern day is probably a weird and esoteric concern compared to...

Are they? I actually read Telesur fairly often (reading propaganda is useful knowing its propaganda, you get an idea of what they're trying to say), and the US is rarely the target of blame compared to Venezuelas own rich, who were accused of price speculation on basic goods and artificially...

Those aren't even issues in the past. Monoculture economies are still very common in Latin America. With the exception of Argentina none of them ever had diversified economies, and just saying "keep up what you did before too" doesn't really work. The agricultural sector did continue, but it had...

The key question. I doubt there was a serious option, personally. It's very hard to break out of a monoculture. One thing that could conceivably work is to branch out into the industries adjacent to oil. Things that could provide an economic bedrock even in times where the price of oil is low...

Things have also gotten much worse in the last few years as oil prices have declined in Venezuela. From what I understand things weren't nearly so bad a decade ago. Or even four years ago. The price of oil just keeps going down which just increases the cost of things. Not helped by endemic...

Venezuela is worse off than the gulf states economically because its population is larger and less able to rely on only the oil money which would distribute in a comparatively lower concentration. Thus the oil money ended up subsidizing social programs, which was good, but with the price of oil...

I was going to go more in my own direction because Latin America in his stories is very Catholic and I was thinking more of a traditional leftist disdain for religion. I have read it though.