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I've been reading this TL for some time, but it's my first comment here. As I don't know much about pop-culture of those times, it'll be about politics: UN and Taiwan (Republic of China) - there's a mention of ROC no longer in UN Security Council, but nothing is said about it being kicked out...

Sun Yat-sen died in 1925. Nazi came to power in 1933. It's a no go. Besides I don't think that Guomindang can get substancial support in 1920s from somewhere else than USSR, so cooperation with Chinese communists is a must-have if Guomindang wants to have power to take over China.

Wouldn't increased trouble with DC-10 make McDonnell Douglas in even worse condition in 1980s than OTL and thus unable to even start with TTL MD-12? Also, why would MDD start with MD-12 program instead of MD-11? Er. Boeing 767 and Airbus A300 were meant for different markets, y'know. It was...

Mutual defence treaty against USSR. Signed in 1921. In case of USSR attacking one the other state was obliged to declare war on USSR.

Sorry, ASB. 1. Foka engine - it was planned to have it 450 HP, but OTL it only reached 300 HP. It was also hopelessly over-engineered. There's no way for that engine to reach 800 HP. Counter-proposal: instead of Foka Nowkuński builds Double Mors. Mors was a 9-cylinder radial equivalent of P&W...

Salonika could work as a capital of late Byzantium - if Palegoloi took back the rest of Greece while losing Asia it'd be in a very good position, better than Constantinopole. IIRC there were some proposals OTL to make such a move, but after the Zealot Revolt city was too damaged to make it worth it.

I assumed that at first W.Poland government would expect unification to happen soon, so at first all offices would stay in Warsaw. Only later they'd realise that situation isn't going to change soon and having Ministry of Military Affairs in range of enemy artillery fire is not a good idea. But...

Interesting follow-on: OTL there were talks between Entente and Japan about war against USSR. Considering that Japanese still were smarting over the Ribbentrop-Molotov Act, if Operation Pike or sth similiar went in, we may end up with France-UK-Japan vs. Germany-USSR.

This is getting ridiculous. Assassinations. Why not bats from outer space? The main problem poland faced was money and cadres - i.e. there was shortage of aircraft engineers and all supporting staff, which resulted in Polish design bureaus being on average of 1/3 size of British ones IIRC...

I'm sorry, but NONE of the proposed partition lines make ANY SENSE. You completely disregard the terrain - rivers, mountains, lakes etc. My division proposals: 1. Wisloka - Vistula - Narew rivers (basically late 1944 OTL frontiers) 2. Vistula all the way With western border being 1938 with...

What pocket battleships? Those ships were to be normal battleships, with 8 343mm cannons each. They were anything but "pocket". maybe you mistaked them with pre-WW2 projected battlecruisers (with 9 280mm guns each and 34 knots speed).

Why? To whom Poland could lose Mazovia anyway? Now about Prussia - with no Teutonic Order there's still Mazovian expansion north (TO was supposed to conquer Prussia for Mazovia in the first place), and Pomerelia may also expand on the right bank of Vistula (they were doing it OTL before TO...

If any king would try repealing it he would end up facing against united szlachta & aristocracy. Failure assured. And what's that talk about getting used to Nihil Novi? It wasn't given out of kind heart by a monarch, but made by Sejm...

It seems there's an assumption that Lithuania and Poland can be only enemies OR allies, which is false, as OTL shows. And there easily might be a timeline in which - with surviving Piast dynasty - Lithuania & Poland crush Teutonic Order, and then Lithuania being conquered by Muscovy-Poland...

Oh, the butterflies are being wiped out... Now to the point: with a negotiated peace there will be no demilitarising Rheinland, and much of the OTL Versailles restrictions won't come into being. And no German politician would be able to demand Sudetenland as ITTL it'd most likely stay...

Exactly. Even if you moved the POD to 600 AD, Morocco and the rest of North Africa would be Christian. All that needs to be avoided is the Roman-Persian War of early VIIth C.

Elective? With POD before 1370 there's no elcetive monarchy there.

I often wondered what would be a chance of Bornu remaining independent in case of large European war in late XIX C. After all, IIRC, it was conqured only in... 1902? Anyway it was far away from sea and at the point where different colonial interests met (UK, France, Germany), so it may have...