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OOC: =dbwi']This is what a DBWI is, we won't discuss it in the thread. IC: IOTL, in the early 2010s, a series of protest movements across the Arab world led to various dictatorships, once saw as stable and secure in their power, fall. Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Algeria, Yemen, and...

Okay, so, in our timeline, the term "National Socialism" is associated with the ideology Finnish nationalist rebels and the regime they managed to establish in the wake of the collapse of the Russian Tsardom. For those of you not familiar with early 20th century Finnish politics, their ideology...

So as we know, the Gang of Four seized power in China in 1977, having purged the pragmatists like Hua Guofeng and reformists like Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun a year earlier. The Cultural Revolution was still ongoing as of 1985, at the brink of the Second Chinese Civil War, and only officially...

After WW2 Hungarians were ethnically cleansed from Yugoslavia, Romania and Czechoslovakia just like the Germans were from central and Eastern Europe. Although controversial today at the time it was seen as a fair punishment for Hungary’s alliance with Nazi Germany. What if they had not been...

Today (at least in the United States) we celebrate Columbus Day, a holiday dedicated to a man who was not just a bold explorer, but also remarkably magnanimous. Of course, he wasn't perfect, but he was more than humane by the standards of his day and the more negative aspects of his legacy are...

If we believe Długosz's chronicle, at the beginning of Polish statehood a rebel of supposed peasant ancestry named Piast tried to topple Popiel II, one of the early Polish dukes who managed to establish his rule over Polands. He is ancestor of famed House of Popiel, which ruled Poland in direct...

Rightly considered to be one of the world's 8 wonders, the Necho canal has connected the Red and Mediterranean seas since it was built over 2600 years ago. How would the world look today if it had never been built? Or just built much later?

After the Berlin Wall Fell in 1989 many advocated for an immediate reunification, ultimately Helmut Kohl and the Bundestag opted for a 10 year plan to equate the East German industry, economy and society to West Germany’s standards, ultimately the country was reunited at 00:00 January 01st 2000...

I'm sure just about everybody knows about the "Big Four" Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam. Of the four, Gnosticism was probably the one that came closest to fading into obscurity. What if it had? How might history have been altered if Gnosticism had fallen from...

How could we screw Finland's status as one of the main powers of Europe alongst Germany, France and the UK?

With the results of the 2016 presidential election in showing the 22nd consecutive Democratic win in a Presidential election, one starts to wonder if this was an inevitable path for American politics. Democrats have continuously held the presidency since 1932, and, with only a few exceptions...

After WWII ended in Europe the Allies invaded Spain and topple Franco's government in order to wipe out the last bastion of fascism in Europe, and although the Republican government was finally replaced by a Constitutional Monarchy after a referenfum things turned out the be fairly well. At the...

OTL, Germany has a very similar history to other western european states of similar size and population- beat up pagans, crusade, go to war with your own nobles because they want to limit your power over your land, repeat a few times, and generally be scared of France. Now, germany has always...

In 1935, the GCW broke out between the Trotskyists, Wehrmacht, and Schutzstaffel, but how would this be prevented? And what would the consequences be?

Stanley Kubrick's "Napoleon" swept the 1972 Academy Awards winning Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume Design, and Best Actress for Audrey Hepburn - who came out of retirement to do the film. Starring Jack Nicholson as Napoleon, Hepburn as Josephine, and Malcolm...

The century long rule of the Xi Dynasty of Zhang Xianzhong and the half century of warlordism that followed it have been frequently cited as a demographic catastrophe for China, with the brutality of both the central government and the frequent rebellions devastating the country side, the loss...

1990's Captain America, directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Stan Hey, is certainly one of Marvel's classics, if not a pretty good, fun predecessor to the MCMU [1]. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a brilliant actor for Cap, accent or not, and it even inspired the film's iconic subplot of...

Right now Europe is home to 22 Monarchies, some were restored after WW2 and others after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Could Europe become more republicans with most of them disappearing?

Eighteen years ago today, a notorious crime occurred. Infamous for its audacity, it brought a wave of international condemnation down upon the perpetrators, and seemed like the return of an age we thought was behind us. I am speaking, of course, of Charles Ingram cheating on Who Wants to Be a...

In Hellas, Bulgaria, and Albania, Islam is so well-established that it’s hard to imagine a time where any other religion was practiced. However, before the Ottoman conquest of the region, the people were Orthodox Christians. However, the Ottomans also conquered Serbia, Croatia, and Romania, but...