1989

Let's take a detour from European history and look at some PoDs and possibilities in Asia. Many had theorised about modern Chinese history without Deng, most notably had the Maoist Gang of Four or Hua Guofeng prevailed over the reformists. That is not our main point of discussion today, however...

Hello person, well, this is my first trend in AH, and to start I decided to make a series of trends about the Brazilian presidential election of 1989, where Collor was elected, but as it is about alternative history, I decided to put to debate how it would be if other candidates had been elected...

The 1989 Brazilian Election was IOTL a very close one, and it could've very well resulted in a Lula victory. Now, you must try to predict how every post-Lula Election would've gone after 1989. (For TTL, I assume that reelection would've been allowed by Lula, and that, even with a Congress that...

While many English-speaking Dragon Ball fans will debate over whether Ocean or Funimation did a better job at dubbing the series, they weren't the only English dubs of the franchise. There are, of course, the notoriously terrible AB Groupe and Speedy dubs, but there's also an even more obscure...

Going back to 1989, what's a plausible action the West and the United States could have taken in response to the Tiananmen Square Massacre that would've had the most significant consequences for China-Western relations today? Could the massacre have shaken the U.S. foreign policy establishment...

It is December 1989 and Nicolae Ceausescu, the former Romanian leader, has just been captured by the new authorities. The authorities are planning a show trial and quick execution. Of course, Mikhail Gorbachev hates Nicolae Ceausescu and probably doesn't feel sorry for him personally. Let's say...

Was there any scenario where the CCP either loses its hold on power (For instance, if the army refuses to fire on the protestors in Tiananmen Square)? Any chance that the CCP loses its grasp of the situation in the late 80s/early 90s in China? Is this feasible at all? (Don't have a POD too...

Alright so I got this scenario. We know that the USSR collapsed because of the events that occurred in 1989. Revolutions, Berlin Wall, etc. But it still managed to hold on till 1991. But for this scenario, let's make 1989 even more dramatic and have the USSR collapse by the end of that year...

In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a judgement (fatwa) that sentenced author Salman Rushdie to death for his controversial book "The Satanic Verses". Numerous threats against the writer (who was living in the UK) and the bookstores selling the book followed...

What if the USA did not ban importation of “military style assault weapons” between 1989 and 2004? We are primarily discussing how this ban affected civilian gun-owners.

Today, 30 years ago in 1989 during the Anti-Communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe, Romania was the only one that took a violent turn. Nicolae and Elena tried to flee Bucharest on helicopter but were captured, lynched and killed by protesters in scenes that reminded those of...

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was the speaker of Iran's parliament as well as one of the main leaders of Iran in the 1980s. He even acted as the commander of Iran's armed forces for a short time in 1988. IOTL, when Khomeini died in June 1989, Rafsanjani was supposed to have orchestrated the election...

Some of the issues in the former GDR today like unemployment, rising political extremism etc. This is by some attributed to that re-union of the two Germanies went to so fast, that some especially those who weren't well educated couldn't find their footing in the new re-united Germany. So my...

A simple challenge, find a way to keep Czechoslovakia united after the Velvet Revolution. With a POD preferably around that time.

So earlier this month was the 30th anniversary of the first free elections in Poland since the start of the communist regime, which led to the end of the communist regime, and there were a bunch of articles about it. One of those articles...

I know, it seem unrealistic to assume, but what if the street protests that were enveloping the Warsaw Pact in 1989 weren't shot at?

With no PoDs prior to 1982 (so events of December 1981, including declaration of martial law, are as OTL), how can the PZPR fail to win (or "win") a majority in the following legislative elections (in 1985)? And how does this change things in Poland, in Eastern Europe, and in the wider world?

Let's say Gringo Honasan's Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) alongside other rebellious soldiers managed to overthrow Corazon Aquino in December 1989. This would mean no U.S. involvement. What happens next? Post your thoughts here.

Is there any way that the protests at Tiananmen Square could escalate into a full blown revolution a la Romania or East Germany? What would be the effects of such a revolution? Would it even succeed?

Hi there! Maybe the other German ußers can help me here. Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the first free elections in the GDR in 1990, several new parties formed, among other the Alliance 90 (an alliance of the former opposition groups in the GDR). In the elections they received...