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"Now times have changed. There is no question now of a lengthy preparation for the battle; we are now living in the period after the storm, in the period after the first great victory over the bourgeoisie. Now there is only one other problem before the working class: to finally and irretrievably...

I've edited the second post of the thread into a dramatis personae. Hope everyone finds it useful. I will also be making recaps once in a while, because I am aware that this timeline can be somewhat dense.

Thanks guys! I appreciate the support. I'm also considering making a dramatis personae to keep track of the characters. Would anyone find that useful?

Hello all. I must apologise for repeatedly disappearing. I have been getting blasted in the ass by university and so haven't been able to make any posts. However, things have eased up, and so I have some time to do some writing. I thought that I'd ease back into things with an update focused on...

"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time." remark made by David Lloyd George during the Paris Peace Conference. * * * Chapter II: Après Nous, le Déluge Part III Union of Lublin by Jan Alojzy Matejko, 1869. This painting depicts the signing of the Union of Lublin, which formalised the...

You need to refine the question. The Final Solution was, in many ways, a logical conclusion to a process of increasingly radical outcomes of violence and terror. It is difficult to imagine a Final Solution (or something close to it) not emerging as a result. The destruction of the European Jewry...

Thank you! And yes, we will continue to follow the savagery in the Baltic... But whether or not it cools down remains to be seen. The Entente will likely be far more determined to force a peace. And material support from either the Italians or Brits/French will likely be less forthcoming to the...

Thank you. Yes, I took an unexpected hiatus because classes resumed and the workload was more than I thought. Will try and have an update at least once a week from this point on, however! Thank you so much! I am really glad that you are enjoying it. The Greco-Turkish War will no doubt be...

"To force a way through the prisoning wall of the world, to march over burning fields, to stamp over ruins and scattered ashes, to dash recklessly through wild forests, over blasted heaths, to push, conquer, eat our way through towards the East. To the white, hot, dark, cold land that stretched...

"The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones." quote attributed to Roman Dmowksi, circa 1905. * * * Chapter II: Après Nous, le Déluge Part I New Planet by Konstantin Yuon, 1921. In this...

Thank you very much! The butterflies will be interesting, that is for sure. I'll have another update out soon, so stay tuned!

Even if in 1947, Aden is still being ruled from British India, it makes no sense for the British administration to package what were essentially archaic administrative conveniences from the colonial period with decolonising states. Furthermore, why would Pakistan want Aden? It offers them little...

Which Whites? And how do they win it? The outcome of a White civil war could mean anything from a reinstatement of the Russian Republic vis-à-vis Kerensky, or the institution of a brutal autocracy under Kolchak or someone, or the return of the Romanov Tsars. I think the most realistic victory...

I like this so far. I used to live in Vancouver but I don't know very much about its history in the 1910s. I think you should consider the coal refuelling situation though, because once up in Vancouver, there are very few coaling ports that would be friendly to the SMS Nürnberg. Did the...

Glad to have you on board! And thank you for your kind comment. Shit, my bad. Classic Balkans/Baltic typo, I will amend that. Thanks for pointing that out.

I just finished reading your source, and I can't find the part which mentions the Curzon Line. Actually, I would find it very strange for Lenin & co. to decide to respect the Curzon Line, to be honest, given that by January 1919, they had already broached more-or-less all of the Entente's major...

Exactly! Also, control over Poland was seen as the "key" to accessing Germany and rekindling the fires of the failed Spartacist Revolt. Lenin, Trotsky & co. envisioned that once Poland fell, Germany would too, and then the whole of Europe would quickly fall. Conversely, an independent Poland was...

In short, yes. But for the longer answer: Lenin & co. saw the reclamation of former former Tsarist territories and the Civil War against the Whites as two married objectives. This was because of several factors. First of all, a lot of White armies operated in former Tsarist territories (much to...

I used to write the Rise, Aegyptus! timelines, about a Coptic Egyptian state in the late antiquity time period. That was over 5 years ago though, back in 2013. I'm glad! I find that it can make it very difficult to enjoy a timeline if I have no reference point as to why the POD matters or what...

Thank you very much, I remember that you read my other timeline a couple years ago too, so it's good to have you on board again! Currently, I'm using bits and pieces from the following: The Poland of Piłsudski by Robert Machray The Outbreak of the Polish-Soviet War: A Polish Perspective by...