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  1. Challange: Prague Spring

    Just have a factory committee intellectually shank him in public. for freedom of manoeuvre you need the Party to call out the Army against the Soviets (peaceful surrounding) early. As in Poland 56. Or Yugoslavia 47-9. and you won’t get liberal capitalism. The factory committees will out...
  2. Umayyads manage to take Rome and Constantinople. Could the Umayyads take the title of Roman emperor

    I'm not sure they would -- unlike the Ottomans (who based their Empire in Roman lands; the heartland of their state was Rumelia, and their place of origin was Rum e.g. Anatolia), the Omeyyades had an empire beyond Roman lands stretching to the Caspian. Moreover, the Omeyyade heartland was Syria...
  3. Imperial Cult remains Rome's official Religion

    The best way to keep Christianity out of the majority of Europe is to prevent Rome's dominance of the Mediterranean. I suspect it would have a much harder time spreading from several states, who have varying degrees of infrastructure and tolerance to the faith.
  4. Vainglory and death: Kurita continues

    There were pretty slim pickings in Leyte Gulf as most of the transports and landing ships had already left. I have seen numbers between 20 and 30 ships left. I also think it would have been an either or choice of pursuing the other two Taffy groups south or turn west to enter Leyte Gulf.
  5. wcv215

    AHC: Stop the Confederacy from seceding

    An opinion which Taney also wrote. Almost like there was some kind of a common factor in these decisions. But guess what, that's not what precedents not written by Taney said. In Winny v Whitesides, which was ALSO in Missouri the court held that, in taking her slave into a free territory...
  6. WI: extinct Celts, extant Goths

    The Goths, some of whom were still maritime at that point (Gotland, Götaland) expand into the North Sea like the Vikings, developing somewhat similarly to the OTL Norse-Gaels. The Goths take over islands like Orkney, the Hebrides, Mann, and Anglesey, using them as pirate bases to invade Roman...
  7. Mr_Fanboy

    Imperial Cult remains Rome's official Religion

    FWIW, it is not uncommon to see scenarios where Christianity remains dominant in the Middle East, and perhaps points eastward, but never really takes off in Europe itself.
  8. Imperial Cult remains Rome's official Religion

    Definitely not every corner of the globe, but it's near impossible to keep it from spreading through the Roman Empire.
  9. GrandMaster

    The Reform Party: 20 Years of History

    He was also the Senate President pro tempore for a period of time.
  10. The Sudeten War: History of the World after an Alternate 1938

    Do the Allies seriously hope to reconquer (and hold) Indochina, Singapore, Malaya and Burma ? Or the concessions in China ? Like, even if Stalin loses, THAT won't happen ever.
  11. Georgepatton

    How would Kennedy, Khrushchev, and their governments be remembered if the CMC went hot?

    Robert L. O'Connell's "The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust," as collected in the 2003 anthology What Ifs? of American History.
  12. Feeble Constitution - A Red-and-Green Russia 1917 Timeline

    Well, the trick in this case is that they don't know the Saudis have oil yet--those fields weren't discovered until the 1930s, and they certainly won't be discovered in the middle of a war. Of course, the Iranians have oil, which the British are well aware of at this point, and keeping the...
  13. AHQ: Stable succession system in Byzantium

    In a system where all power, de facto and de jure, lies in a single office, there can never be a truly stable succession. Even in the ERE we clearly have a trend of dynastic emperors getting more and more autocratic, after which they reach a point where no other position actually has any power...
  14. Virginia Liberal

    If not Russia what would have been the most likely state to have been the first to turn communist?

    France is a good bet. America is too if things she can't roll the straight sixes like we did otl. There are a couple of critical point where the right man was in the White House that kept the land of the free moving along its level track. Minus a Lincoln and TR here, and FDR and LBJ there things...
  15. Imperial Cult remains Rome's official Religion

    I don't know if that's inherent, though, or the result of "absolute power corrupts absolutely" (in so many words). If Christianity remained, for example, a minor offshoot of Judaism instead of becoming a world religion, Christians would essentially have to play nice with their neighbours for any...
  16. The Reform Party: 20 Years of History

    Right! Honestly, even if I probably would not have voted for any of these Reform Party candidates, except maybe Heckman, it makes our democracy look a lot healthier. Yeah! It's unfortunate we don't get that meme ITTL, but at least John Binkley understands the Internet better. These are great...
  17. AHC: Harold Stassen elected President in 1980

    Hard to say without fully threshing out the timeline. IOTL Stassen apparently expressed some support for the idea of a Universal Basic Income later in his life, so I could see achieving that being one of the principle goals of his presidency. On foreign policy I would expect him to...
  18. Imperial Cult remains Rome's official Religion

    Mainly because Christianity was one of the earliest religions adamant on proselytization and conversion. As long as it endures, it will constantly try to recruit followers, and Church leaders will utilize local infrastructure to spread their message even further (in this case Rome's massive road...
  19. how different would world war two be if the Soviets lost the Russian Civil war?

    The first is true but the second isn't. The RCW lasted quite a while, which it wouldn't have if everyone just flocked to Lenin. The problem with the Whites is that they were very disunified consisting of both those who wanted to reinstate a monarchy and socialists who disagreed with Lenin.
  20. Liam Johnson of The Army

    The New Order: Last Days of Europe Thread II

    The US and Japan would at first celebrate in private the destruction of one rival before focusing on each other again,carving up spheres of influence within the rotting carcass of northern eurasia. Italy would either help either the OFN or Sphere or go on its own in trying to expand their own...
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