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  1. Would Beria have been a good leader for the Soviet Union?

    The reason Stalin would have been so concerned about Svetlana is that he instinctively understood a couple things: 1. Once it is done, it can not be undone, and the damage is permanent. PTSD wasn't a term back then, but Stalin had seen plenty of it in his underlings. 2. It would undermine...
  2. Basileus_Komnenos

    AHC: Unite a continent.

    Nah I don't really think it was ever possible. Canada being Francophone at the time did not like the mostly Protestant Americans. The Quebec acts also protected traditional Quebeqouis liberties such as the rights for Catholics to have freedom of worship. An alternate American Revolution where...
  3. Would Beria have been a good leader for the Soviet Union?

    Not great to put it extremely mildly. One of his sons got captured during Barbossa and initially got good treatment because the Germans figure they could work out some sort of highly favorable exchange in return for releasing Stalin's son. I believe the proposal was to exchange several captured...
  4. Would Beria have been a good leader for the Soviet Union?

    Dirlewanger because he was personally more evil and sick, his crimes were far more vicious and brutal and not to mention Beria was detached from the atrocities of the NKVD while Dirlewanger personally engaged in mass killings, tortures and rapes with his troops on a routine basis. He could watch...
  5. Was the Arab Expansion Inevitable, and Can It Happen Without A United Faith?

    Possibly less of a massive invasion of the Middle East, North Africa, etc., and more a bunch of people leaving as settlers and assimilating.
  6. Philip V Manages to Successfully Intervene in the Second Punic War

    I don't think so. The other diadochi states are fighting one another, maybe Syracuse can help but I doubt they were a match for the whole Roman fleet. They rebelled at one point against Rome and "they fought valiantly, they fought nobly and they died". Also Syracuse and the carthaginians fought...
  7. UoBLoyalist

    US recognition of Vietnamese independence

    Would that have affected the Chinese Civil War in the aftermath of WW2?
  8. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux
    Threadmarks: Thanksgiving Double Feature for 1986

    An American Tail Released on November 21, 1986 Production Company Famous Studios Distributor Universal Pictures Produced and directed by Walter Lantz Screenplay and story by Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss Story concept by David Kirschner Music by James Horner Notable Crew Sean Dunlop [1]...
  9. AHC: Unite a continent.

    Perhaps if the US had taken Canada early in the revolution the idea of Manifest Destiny would have included everything down to Panama. I doubt they would have had an easy time of it, by the time they could have advanced past Texas the rest of it would have developed separate national identities...
  10. Slave rebellion during the Mexican American war possible?

    Sooo... the issue is multi angled. First and foremost, a significant percentage of freed slaves went through the underground railroad. This would almost always take them North, where the sponsors were from, and then easily into Canada. Moreover, the US was never going to put more then limited...
  11. Would Beria have been a good leader for the Soviet Union?

    Stalin was interested in Beria’s... foibles. I’m not saying men of the NKVD/MVD wouldn’t do it, but if they did do it, there would be the risk of getting caught. Far easier to keep it limited to his dacha and closest circle of loyalists.
  12. TheMolluskLingers

    A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Sunset Puppetry sounds amazing - almost like Jim's getting back to his natural collaborative environment! Since SP is basically TTL's Henson Alternative, maybe we could see them collab with someone like John Waters or an "edgier" alternative comedian? That ending is a bombshell. Sucks Richard...
  13. Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg

    My plan back when we were first starting a USA rework back in 2015 was to have FDR be the clear united R-D nominee only to die/be assassinated in June 1936, leaving a fractured conservative establishment with moderates who believed in reform flocking to people who actually promised change (the...
  14. US recognition of Vietnamese independence

    Yet when they left (1966), NATO failed to collapse ... IMHO, post WW2, if the French are told, 'you want the Marshall Plan, you toe the line over this tiny little of no account backwater country', I can't see them either a) turning down the Almighty $ or b) turning down US NATO 'guarantee' (come...
  15. Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God: A History of the True Whigs
    Threadmarks: Zeppey

    Doblee Zeppey: 1890-97 - The Figurehead The native Liberians were not remotely the unthinking savages they were sometimes painted by the settlers. The Kru had been serving as guides on European Ships for centuries, the Vai were not only literate but had created their own alphabet and the...
  16. Sarufiyyun

    A European "China"?

    A stable Macedonian Empire would've eventually transformed into a Persianate state and most of its territory would be outside Europe. It's a toss-up between Rome and Francia.
  17. Denliner

    Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    I don't believe that Andalusi Romance is extinct, since it's possible that rural farmers and village folk still speak it after all these years, but Andalusi Arabic is by far the dominant language, especially for the urban elites and the intellectual class.
  18. UoBLoyalist

    WI: Timur restores the Yuan to the throne of China

    Were there any Yuan dynasts still with any significant influence for Timur to promote? Or do you mean Timur takes up the reins himself?
  19. Gokbay

    WIP Map Thread

    Being the first colonizer helped. Thought perhaps I need to make this clear *Virginia, *South Africa and *Gabon are Saxon colonies not Portuguese. What is basically OTL's Spanish Colonial Empire + Northwestern India + *Victoria, Congo and that bit of Manchuria are Portuguese colonies however...
  20. McPherson

    Would Beria have been a good leader for the Soviet Union?

    For a "comedic" whitewash of Lavrenti Beria, try this Lavrenti Beria solipsism. I assure you, that this portends to be a "serious" documentary to explain the "misunderstood Beria". I was disgusted. Yet, that was produced in 2010 or thereabouts. Pack of lies? YMMV. Mine does not. I note the...
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