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Likewise! A depressing, yet compelling read for a TL.

Not having watched all the series, it suggests to me that Poland might have had an under the table agreement with Vietnam to take in people who wanted to leave; maybe unemployment (unoffically, of course, since in that era Communist countries stuck to the story that they didn't have any) was...

I would actually go along with this. Say the Poles do the whole "nation bands together, all shoulders to the grindstone" for a few years. Gorbachev might still take power by 1986, but even if not, by then someone in their 40s or 50s may well have become GenSec and decided to follow the Chinese...

My thinking re: the tech level is that the 1983 attacks were so shocking that they had the effect of damping any dissent and getting Poles into the mindset of "whatever it takes" for at least a few years. Guessing that the Polish government milked that for all it was worth to get the economy...

True - I'm just wondering how plausible he could've made his conspiracy theories about Roma/Sinti without looking completely batshit bonkers. It's not like the case of capitalizing on hundred-plus-year-old anti-semitic canards in this alternate world. He would've had to "prove" his...

Aren't the Soviets basically hanging on conventionally thanks to ongoing US arms aid? Methinks this was meant to go "... between the US and Germania."

I would argue that the Soviets, in particular, embodied the human brute force method of outlasting Nazi Germany, while the USA went the distance in wartime production that easily dwarfed anything Germany could put out. https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/BigL/BigL-1.html In particular, note...

It's also one thing for Germany under Bismarck to introduce social welfare programs in an era where Germany's economy is organized fairly sensibly without specifically gearing up for wars of conquest. ISTR Bismarck even advised the Kaiser to forget colonial adventurism, reasoning that an...

Is it really possible that Hitler could have convinced himself and millions of Germans that Roma and Sinti peoples had been the ones to "stab Germany in the back"? For some context (warning: spoilers) - http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/Zigeuner_(story)

Interesting (if depressing) TL. I look forward to what's next.

Ah, hmm! I saw some grey on a map the same color as the continental grey and assumed that was Goths travelling to *England. Alas, no Gothlish in this TL then :p

Aha, I'll have to go find it. To be fair the transliteration system as conventionally given in English textbooks on the subject tend to smash together English and German orthographical conventions so that "j" is used to represent the y-sound, but "w" is used to represent the Gothic importation...

I am finally caught up! :D Some notes: 1. The use of "v" in the transliteration of the Old Gothic alphabet kind of irks me a wee bit since the letter as such didn't exist in Gothic at the time. (e.g. -vald would be -wald in that era, very likely) Also of trivia note is that some consonants...

I got caught up finally! Can't wait to see what happens next. I'm hoping the railways get linked up soon nationwide across Mexico, but question: Will the Panics of 1873 and 1893 still happen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873 The 1873 one especially could be a real kick in the...

This is an interesting TL! I'm really looking forward to seeing alt!Somalia's evolution which averts a lot of the misery faced in OTL Somalia. Incidentally, I think the Kaddare alphabet looks pretty cool and oddly kind of reminiscent of 1970s and 1980s computer fonts. :) But Latinization of the...

Can I request a map for the world of "When Smuts Goes"?

On further reading, I'm wondering how you'll deal with Shenoute's condemnation of Arianism? [Aside: I have, just out of pure curiosity, tried reading Coptic (also based on the Greek alphabet, with a considerable religious vocabulary essentially borrowed wholesale from Greek) and while the words...

As one who is interested in learning Gothic, I am pleased to see this TL! :) It's made for some intreresting reading. :) Update note: I don't know if anyone in this thread is aware, but I once saw a conlang that basically smashed Gothic into Old English with the end result that the language had...

Thanks for the updates, and hope you are doing okay! :o

I imagine there might still be a Japanese-Russian war, but maybe pushed back a few more years? 1910, 1920, maybe. Depends on how Japan takes to realizing that even absent gunboat diplomacy, it still needs to industrialize.