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  1. Leningrad 1943 Instead of Kursk

    Obviously, Kursk 1943 was an immense failure. The Germans attacked into the teeth of the dragon, their new heavy armor was not built for distances, and they by failing so spectacularly experienced a general collapse that ended up giving up all ground up to the Dnieper river for no gain. The...

  2. USSR Builds Original OGAS starting in 1964

    Inspired by: Using Hand Wavium, Kruschev stays in power and is attracted to the OGAS project as a technocratic means to reform the economy into true Communism. Called "the Soviet Internet" it essentially would have liked all of industry to a central computing apparatus. The projected costs...

  3. The Lost Two Weeks of Fourth Panzer Amry During Case Blue

    Quoting WIki (yeah, don't laugh, but I've seen TIK and others repeat the same thing): This permits the most fascinating POD of the Stalingrad campaign. Fourth Panzer Army IOTL lost two weeks for literally no gain (if not actually was counter-productive as they clogged roads). What if the...

  4. Challenge: Improve Kruschev Housing Without Cost Overruns

    I'm not looking to see how these houses could be made good (i.e. soundproofed or whatever). Rather, is there a way they can be configured in a more intelligent way that due to central planning was overlooked? Can their quality actually be improved (even the walls if you really want to take that...

  5. Malenkov rules the USSR until 1988

    I have seen only two threads on this in the history of AH.com, and I don't want to raise them from the dead, but I want to pose one of the most obvious, far reaching WIs of the 20th century that never gets discussed. It does not take defying the laws of thermodynamics for Malenkov, who was the...

  6. Any way for the Golden Horde to convert to Orthodoxy?

    The Mongols often converted to the religion of their subject peoples. Why didn't the Mongols in the Golden Horde convert to Orthodoxy and what conditions would be necessary for them to do so? I wonder if Kiev Rus was not fractured in many principalities, but more unified, and they more easily...

  7. WI: Russia retains Alaska, Fort Ross, and Annexes Hawaii in 1800s?

    What if a combination of PODs, starting with no Napoleon, leads to a different mid 1800s where Latin America is still part of Spain and Russia, not perceived as as powerful due to no Napoleon, does not have a Crimean War debacle and as a result has slightly more success colonizing in the...

  8. WI: Old Kingdom Egypt Breeds High-Intellect Slave Population

    This sounds like a wacky alt history, but it's not ASB. The Old Kingdom had a considerable degree of wealth and power to build the pyramids. Likewise, they must have had a lot of slaves. Let's say for whatever weird religious reasons (like the people in Central America that altered the shapes of...

  9. WI: Hey Stoopid (Alice Cooper) released in 1990.

    POD is that "Raise Your Fist and Yell" is butterflied away by Alice Cooper and Desmond Childs agreeing on an early collaboration on Poison, which comes out in 1988. Poison was a big success IOTL and Hey Stoopid, on paper, was as well (it went platinum) but apparently this had to do with "Stoopid...

  10. WI: Chernobyl disaster happens in 1995

    What happens if the Soviets do not bungle a bunch of tests in the 1980s, but the Ukrainians do in the 1990s. How does Ukraine respond? Is Russia drawn in to helping bring the resources to bear to relieve the situation?

  11. AHC: Make Tae Bo a Serious Martial Art

    Tae Bo was one of those weird fads that lasted longer than it should have. How does Tae Bo become more popular that in the USA, by 2021, the average town is just likely to have a Tae Bo place as a karate studio? Bonus points for Billy Blanks still being identified with the movement and it not...

  12. WI: Tito dies in 1970

    IOTL, Tito lived until 1980. In 1971, "he introduced 20 sweeping constitutional amendments that would provide an updated framework on which the country would be based. The amendments provided for a collective presidency, a 22-member body consisting of elected representatives from six republics...

  13. Prolonging the Futility: A WW2 European TL
    Threadmarks: Oct 42-Nov 43

    This is not going to be a fancy TL or even a particularly high quality one. Rather, it is going to tease out how Germany would fare if they rolled “sixes” (or “ones” if it is Axis and Allies) after the US is in the war. The POD is Hitler gets bit by his dog after playing too rough and dies of...

  14. WI: KISS's "Carnival of Souls" Released in 1994

    Using good ol' Hand Wavium, what if Kiss released Carnival of Souls in 1994? Pretend it is the same album, produced by Toby Wright (the same guy who was doing Alice in Chains albums). IOTL Revenge went gold in 1992, Alive III went gold in 1993, so it would seem like Kiss was still going strong...

  15. WI: Tsar Paul Lives On

    IOTL, just when Tsar Paul switched sides in the Napoleonic War and was planning a exhibition to India with France, he was assassinated. WI he avoids assassination and Russia joins France? The man does not strike me as a pragmatist, so a drop of Russian exports does not seem to me grounds that he...

  16. "Best Case" Russian WWI victory?

    Inspired by https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/best-case-german-wwi-victory.459462/ What is the best case Realistic Russian WWI victory without entering ASB or wank. Include Colonial wins, land wins, and the post war success that might occur. Just curious due to Russia's...

  17. DBWI: Is Pope Tom Cruise Really an Antipope?

    Guys, what do you think of Bishop Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, Pope Sixtus VI? I mean, a lot of priests who knew him said that he went to seminary to simply get a secular education and that for years afterwards, he essentially had common-law wives. I think this guy just got elevated due to how...

  18. WI: The Rockies signed Barry Bonds in 1997

    In 1997, Bonds signed a contract extension with the Giants that maintained (at the time) his highest salary in the game. It was chump change, about 10 million a year, which was soon eclipsed. At the time, the Rockies had record attendance and a strong offensive team. The steroid explosion did...

  19. WI: Mel Gibson Avoids Meltdown

    I searched to see if someone made a thread on this and I cannot find it. What if Mel Gibson medicated sooner, found Jesus, lost Jesus, are simply upped his phony level to over 9,000--avoiding his post-Passion of the Christ meltdown which included: -A drunk driving incident where he claimed the...

  20. Attack Them Where They Expect It! A Moscow 42 TL

    POD: IOTL, on November 24th, 1941 Erwin Rommel narrowly missed capturing an essential British supply depot by going 6 KM in the wrong direction. ITTL Rommel gets lucky and captures the supply dump. The British under Auchinleck, now denied their own fuel, withdraw. Siegfried Westphal, seeing...
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