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The Chinese in Indonesia are hated by all Indonesians - by the Islamists as "kafirs", by the nationalists as "collaborators of the colonialists", by the rightists as "communists" and even by the communists as "capitalists" - the overseas Chinese are overrepresented in the economy of countries...

According to historians, the persecution of Christianity in the Soviet Union and by the Communists as a whole was the bloodiest in human history - in fact, according to some historians, more people died for the Christian faith in the 20th century than at any time before since the emergence of...

Presuming there is a POD sometime between 1914 and 1917, which causes the Entente to either lose the Great War with the Central Powers coming out victorious, or a peace treaty is signed with neither side coming out truly on top of the other. Either way it results in a situation like that of OTL...

Edit, to avoid confusion... POD for these yearly memorial days (whether observed or not)... Greece – some time after joining NATO in 1952 Armenia – soon after independence So for this ASB-ish WI lets say some Christian nations memorialize THE ENTIRITY of their history regardless of what Turkey...

Disclaimer: This is going to be a very dark WI involving sensitive and upsetting content, so viewer discretion is advised. ------- In the 1912 United States presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt wins the election by the landslide. After his inauguration as the President of the United States...

As the title says, make the japanese war crimes even worst with a pod after 1930´s. Bonus if the population of some ocuppied region (manchuria, korea,taiwan or other) be only 10% of the amount from before the ocuppation.

Wikipedia says that high-ranking Nazi official Otto Bräutigam claimed in his book that he had the opportunity to read a personal report by quartermaster-general Eduard Wagner regarding a discussion with Heinrich Himmler, in which Himmler had expressed the intention to exterminate about 80% of...

Disclaimer: the usual blah blah blah, views of characters in timeline doesn't necessary reflect the author's views in a meta sense and all that jazz. If all goes well this timeline will cover a thousand years over the span of an entire solar system and more... (also if this ends up still...

OTL, the International Military Tribunal had 24 accused persons and 7 organizations. Of course, as it often happens, absent persons were involved in the crimes, leading to them being used by some accused to reduce their own guilt and responsability, as Justice Robert Jackson complained on July...

Between 1755 and 1758, the Qing dynasty and its Uyghur allies perpetrated a brutal genocide against the Dzungar people. What if this genocide had never occurred?

In 1835, some displaced Māori of the Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama iwi living in what is now Wellington invaded the Chatham Islands using a hijacked European ship. There, they began a genocide against the indigenous Moriori people. What if this didn't happen?

If Tito's dream of an SFR Yugoslavia that contained Greek Macedonia, Thrace, Albania, Bulgaria, Carinthia, and Friuli Venezia Giulia had come into being, what effect would it have on the Yugoslav Wars (ignoring all other butterfly effects). The Yugoslav Wars of this timeline would probably be...

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Although these events may seem implausible, all you need is a certain intangible spark in the past - call it fate or call it chance - to set off a chain of events that will unfold into an entirely different timeline. As you shall see, I will keep as close to reality as possible (no ASBs...

What if after a Czech revolt by a nationalist terrorist group in Bohemia in Austria-Hungary in the 1910s the Dual-Monarchy responds by ethnically cleansing them by pressuring them out of 'Germanic Bohemia' into hungarian slovakia. How does this effect world history? How does this affect Austria...

June 10, 1990 Prachtallee, Welthauptstadt Germania, German Reich 30 year old Ernst Gellman was a man of two minds: one seeking to serve the Reich, the other seeking its end. His teacher, his Hitler Youth commander, his parents, his training adviser, all told him that if he fought for the...

Reading about some interesting and lesser known Nazis, made me think about a "smarter/more intellectual Nazi party". The age old trope of smarter Nazis. I can't promise that I will ever do a full timeline but there is some thought behind this. The premise basically is: The Nazis actually seize...

Here's a link to an online copy for those who want to read it themselves. Given that it was published in 1910, its more of a Future History novel than an Alternate History novel but whatever. I'm not here to try to seriously discuss this story, so much as I am here to just... complain about it...

When you write TLs, how do you handle genocide? Do you try to make it go as in OTL? (So, for example, your WW1 POD might still lead to the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust.) Do you include genocides but with other nations involved? If so, do you deliberately try to reverse things (e.g...

We are aware that after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, the native landlord population to a large extent was pushed beyond the Shannon River into Connacht, and much of the population caught up in the wars were exported as slaves to the West Indies or killed. However, much of the poorer...