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  1. The Militant Doberman

    AH Title and Description Game

    Picadora de Carne (English: Meat Grinder) is a military TL about the US invasion of Cuba in 1990s when the civil unrest and shortages resulting from the loss of the Soviet Union as its backer & trade partner spills over into an open civil war on the island. TL is told from the point of view of...
  2. The Militant Doberman

    Is there any realistic way that Anarchism could have gain a foothold in Africa.

    There have been arguments that Somalia actually does (or could) represent an Anarcho-Capitalist society as outlined in Western thought. Proponents of this claim that problems like warlordism in Somalia stem from outside powers trying to force a non-anarchist system of centralized power onto the...
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    WI: Disney’s “Mulan” (1998 version) was set in Ethiopia during the Italo-Abyssinian War?

    With Disney’s live-action Mulan remake in the headlines I thought this might make an interesting discussion. It’s inspired by posts from a few months ago: So what if the basic plot of the 1998 animated film was instead transplanted to 1930s Kingdom of Ethiopia? Thus instead of Mulan being...
  4. The Militant Doberman

    Explain the AH Quote

    Excerpt from a letter by the Kirkuk’s Council of Imams to the chief officer of the city’s Imperial Russian garrison circa 1921. With the Ottoman collapse in WW1, the Russian Empire was able to recruit the local Christians & Yezidis to create the Euphrates Cossack Host to fight for the Entente in...
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    DBWI: Hades Wasn't King Of The Olympians?

    If Hades isn’t the King of Olympus, the myth of Hades kidnapping Hera* either doesn’t exist or is much less important overall. So you wouldn’t have a strong tradition of bridal kidnapping in the West (you’re still likely to see it in places like Caucuses Mountains, Central Asia & parts of Africa...
  6. The Militant Doberman

    The Post-Apocalyptic Picture Thread

    Some photos from an article about abandoned locations in Russia:
  7. The Militant Doberman

    AH Cultural Descriptions

    The name of the main temple-lodge for the Russian-branch of the esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn. Built in 1916 on the banks of the Moskva river, the lodge was consecrated by Golden-Dawn founder Samuel Liddell MacGregor in a ceremony attended by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna herself (whose...
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    Explain the AH Quote

    Excerpt from a 2005 C.N.N. interview with “Wang Weilin”, the famous “Tank Man” protester who stood in the way of a column of P.L.A. Type-59 tanks during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. Wang was arrested by Chinese authorities following his non-violent protest and sentenced to a prison term...
  9. The Militant Doberman

    AH Cultural Descriptions

    A colloquialism roughly meaning to “flip-flop” or to “betray an idea”. The phrase stems from the actions of Sun Myung Moon, the leader & founder of the controversial Unification Church in Korea. When North and South Korea agreed to sign a peace treaty and unite as the “Democratic Confederal...
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    PC: Christian-Hindu Syncretism?

    Hm... reading that article it seems that the Syriacs adopted some Hindu customs and integrated into the cast system but didn’t really have religious syncretism with Hinduism (i.e.: Brahma wasn’t believed to be an aspect/version of the Abrahamic God, etc.)
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    PC: Christian-Hindu Syncretism?

    That sounds interesting. Do you have any links that go into more detail on these Syriac Indians & their beliefs?
  12. The Militant Doberman

    Explain the AH Quote

    Excerpt from a 2003 novel “A Train-ride to Kandahar” by Russian author Venedikt Yerofeyev. A spiritual successor to his famous work “Moscow To The End of The Line”, the novel tells the journey of a young alcoholic Russian soldier travelling on a military train from Russia to a base in...
  13. The Militant Doberman

    WI: Circumpolar Russian Empire

    If you couldn’t tell from the “:rolleyes:”, I do not agree with the sentiment.
  14. The Militant Doberman

    WI: Circumpolar Russian Empire

    We actually had people on this very subforum arguing that non-Westerners adopting Western ideas on governance constitutes pseudo-colonialism and/or internalized-colonialism :rolleyes:
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    DBWI: European Union expands into Eastern Europe instead of stretching south into North Africa?

    Back in 1987 Kingdom of Morocco applied to join the European Community (precursor to the modern E.U.), becoming the 1st Maghreb nation to do so. After much deliberation, Brussels agreed that Morocco meets the criteria of joining the Community due to historic ties and mutual influence Morocco had...
  16. The Militant Doberman

    AHC - Have another successful British Settler colony

    Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. British Empire gets the island during the Napoleonic Wars or something, then sends settlers there. Iceland had low pop. numbers IIRC and it’s conceivable that settlers could outnumber the “natives” there in due time.
  17. The Militant Doberman

    AHC - Have another successful British Settler colony

    Haven’t read through the thread so don’t know if it was suggested, but what if Iceland had become a British settler colony?
  18. The Militant Doberman

    AHC Alternate or Surviving Languages

    Thinking more about it, another interesting situation might be if the use of the French language by the Russian nobility continues indefinitely and diverts from standard French to become its own dialect akin to Québécois or Louisiana French. Not sure how this could be achieved since dialects...
  19. The Militant Doberman

    AHC Alternate or Surviving Languages

    The original Bulgar language surviving would be cool to see. And here is one I bet few would have thought about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenya It would be interesting to speculate on the development of Russian language & culture in, say, a surviving Tsarist Empire TL or some other...
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    AHC: Kingdom of Greece joins the Scramble for Africa (EDIT: fixed error in thread title)

    Thanks for catching the error. Ha! Jokes on you guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language#Latin_alphabet Hence the “challenge” part of AHC.
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