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  1. What really is the future of the CSA?

    They did, indeed. Correct me if I'm wrong, for this isn't an area of history I can claim great familiarity with; but I'd heard that the industrial goods produced by slave labour in Nazi Germany's factories was generally of low quality and rife with sabotage (as the enslaved non-German workers...

  2. Reactionary dictatorship takes over Weimar Germany

    Do you think it's possible, really, for our reactionary-nationalist Germany to treat France as an enemy while avoiding making an enemy of Britain? I totally buy that they would want to. Any sane German leader would have learnt the lesson from Imperial Germany's First World War experience—the...

  3. Reactionary dictatorship takes over Weimar Germany

    It has long been well-understood that the Weimar regime in Germany was remarkably unstable, and it's often proposed that if the Nazis didn't take over, the Communists would. I, and many others, disagree. Given the power-structures present at the time -- an authoritarian presidency with immense...

  4. The Glowing Dream: A history of Socialist America

    No need for the hurry. This is more interesting than the overly-America-centric stuff. There are plenty of excessively USA-focused "the rest of the world? I hear that's a place that exists, as a side-note" TLs out there. It makes the TL more enjoyable when you show a broader range of the world.

  5. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    In fairness, Germany is very clearly the attacked party here. The Polish are very obviously the aggressors, to anyone who's even pretending to be faintly unbiased. They've invaded what's universally internationally recognised as German territory and the Germans have done no such thing in return...

  6. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Stalinist Russia was terrible, but that's no excuse for Tsarist Russia being terrible. And the Tsarists didn't "only" persecute Jews, though even if that was true, it would be hardly a defence—or does it stand in praise of OTL Hitler's regime that "only" Jews, gypsies, homosexuals etc were...

  7. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    For the first time in this story, I agree with Ernst on something. (Though not with his decision that the response to it should be to flee like a coward.) One-man rule by decree is what we call "dictatorship". The fact that it's being done when the government's supporters have a legislative...

  8. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    It's funny and slightly grim how easily deluded Marinetti & co. are about their real status as useful idiots. Yes of course all of these ignorant country-bumpkin reactionaries (who are surprisingly ever-present in the regime which they support) are merely tools, echoes, relics of the past, while...

  9. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    If I recall correctly, wasn't the planet Kamino of Episode II located in a satellite galaxy of "the" Star Wars galaxy? So yes, actually, they probably do.

  10. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    I see that Hitler has his Reichstag Fire.

  11. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    I know this is just the quotation and isn't the main point of the chapter, but I could not help but be immediately struck by this statement and consider it in light of what we know, and Mao did not, about China's future. Looking at 2020 China—unmistakeably "bourgeois capitalist" (indeed one of...

  12. The Glowing Dream: A history of Socialist America

    Before our speculation goes too far, it's worth noting that we have no idea what the situation in Britain will be like in ATL 1919. That's not to say you're wrong, nor is it to say you're right. It's to say we are uncertain. we know, maybe TTL will have a socialist Britain and a thoroughly...

  13. The Glowing Dream: A history of Socialist America

    Let's not be hasty. We don't know almost anything about the international political context when Red America becomes a thing. There's any number of possibilities, and we shouldn't be quick to assume a USSR-Poland dynamic between Socialist-USA and Canada. Yes that's one possibility, but there are...

  14. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    Gosh. Very creepy. In its own faux-normal, unassuming way, that's one of the eeriest things I've ever read. Having such blatant propaganda even in children-learning-to-read books sounds too insane to be OTL-esque, even for totalitarians like the Nazis and Stalinists, but sadly that's not true...

  15. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    I'm not familiar with @Praetor98 's exact chain of citations but a brief search yields this: If there is one place where a start can be made to arouse Europe to revolution, that place is Germany… and victory of the revolution in Germany will guarantee the victory of world revolution. STALIN...

  16. The North Star is Red: a Wallace Presidency, KMT Victory, Alternate Cold War TL

    It feels like a natural consequence. In OTL Britain was sensible enough to withdraw from a lot of places, under threat of a violent collapse like this. In TTL Britain hasn't. Instead it has tried to keep control, or at least substantial political influence, over vast tracts of the world, from...

  17. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Ehhhhhh, I'll withhold judgement on that. In OTL there have been genocidal acts in communist countries too. Let's wait and see what happens to the "Rhineland bastards" and "rootless cosmopolitans" (remember the scene with Hitler and the French Senegalese bloke? and Marxism-Leninism-Hitlerism's...

  18. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Oh Ernst. :biggrin: The shameless weathercock of Germany. "Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat."

  19. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Is Ernst going to tell him the truth about that, though? I'm doubtful. From a Doylist point of view, I doubt The Red would have mentioned those two Labour parliamentarians if he meant them to be a narrative dead end. And from a Watsonian perspective, deceiving his allies for political...

  20. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Those Italians have really messed up, haven't they? If they hadn't done anything, the regular army would have sided with the fascist coup d'état and helped them overthrow the democratic socialist government. Instead, they invaded, so the Italians (allies of the fascists) found themselves...
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