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Prelude, April 1913 Generaloberst von Moltke, Chief of the Great German General Staff, sits at his desk sipping a steaming mug of soothing herbal tea to calm his nerves. An intelligence officer has just brought him the message that France has approved an offensive war plan. Details are not...

Ever since Peter I rights of the Russian serfs continuously degraded and eventually boiled over in 1773 when Yemelyan Pugachev claimed to be the deposed Peter III and promised land redistribution for the peasantry. What if he succeeded? On the one hand, he seemed to be genuinely intending to...

Friderick II of Prussia is accidentally killed in August 1759 during the battle. Prussia is completely demoralised and begs for peace, and eventually ends up being reduced to Brandenburg and Pomerania, with Russia taking East Prussia and Austria taking back Silesia. I seriously doubt it would...

An interesting point in history, is that our Courland's colonization efforts. The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (Modern-Day Latvia), which was a vassal to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, under Duke Jacob Kettler, made attempts in colonization in the Caribbean and Africa. The Duchy of...

my idea is that instead of dropping the A-bombs America Britain and Russia proceeded with operation downfall there were heavy casualties on both sides Russia decides to focus on Germany which leads America and Britain to occupy japan however Britain leaves only leaving America and in 1959 japan...

WW1 concluded with a negotiated peace in late 1917/early 1918. In the peace treaty, neither side was required to pay any reparations/indemnities and both sides pledged not to introduce new punitive tariff barriers post-war. The US never entered the war and never provided unsecured loans to...

I recently came across this althistory page: https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Russian_Confederated_Union_(Inverse_Spectrum:_Chaos_&_Resolve) In the post, the creator turned Vladivostok into "the world's most modernized city", and Vladivostok became one of the major tech hubs of the world...

During the Congress of Vienna, the Polish-Saxon Crisis threatened to throw the great powers of Europe into war again. Prussia wanted to annex the Kingdom of Saxony and Russia wanted to annex the Kingdom of Poland. Austria opposed the annexations because they wanted to position themselves as the...

This subject has been plaguing my mind recently so I've decided to ask. The use of the anesthetic gas (from most sources I've read it was some sort of fentanyl derivative) was the cause of most of the casualties of the Moscow Hostage Crisis in 2002. What if the gas was never used? Would the...

Hello everyone! I have a challenge for you. Make Kaliningrad go independent following the collapse of the USSR while still being Russia majority, and being part of the russian SFSR prior to that.

what if Polish Uprising in Prussia not Russia " Napoleon was never born". Toulon is not captured Coalition invades France from it failing Flanders Campaign due to diversion of troops. France is returns to pre war broders because high involvement of french dissidents in Coalition , Louis XVII is...

This is a fairly short challenge. With a pod after 1500, how can we get a Russia that by 1900 doesn't treat Jews like servants of Satan? Were there ever any influential Russians who went "Maybe we shouldn't be murdering our Christ's people" or was the Christ-killer accusation (along with the...

I'm working on a story that takes place in an alternate timeline where the Bolsheviks never rose to power. I have a lot of questions regarding what this would alter about the world. What are the consequences of this change? What does Europe look like? Is Ukraine independent? Does World War II...

(reviving an old thread) By the late 1950s to early 1960s (after the repatriation of ethnicities of the Caucasus that were deported to Siberia due to Stalin's orders), re-organize and re-draw the SSRs, Republics, Oblasts, Okrugs, and other divisions of the USSR to diminish ethnic tension the...

EDIT: The extended version of this timeline is now available on Amazon. The Death of Russia All is Well Extract from ‘A Continent of Fire’ by James Melfi Those heady days of 1989, 1991. We thought we’d escaped it. Escaped the third and final cataclysm of the Twentieth Century. True, we...

In the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev suggested that the Lithuanian SSR should annex Kaliningrad oblast. Irl, Antanas Sniečkus declined this offer as it would give Lithuania a massive russian minority. But, what if he accepted? Would Lithuania be subject to the same colonization by Russians like...

What if the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, created by the Soviet Union as a tool to show religious tolerance and respect of minorities turned into a prosperous jewish majority region and became basically like a second Israel? What would need to be changed for it to happen? (Removing Israel isn't...

Let us suppose that Fanny Kaplan assassinates Lenin in August 1918, and Trotsky captured and executed by the Whites early in 1919, as he nearly was. Without Lenin's political or Trotsky's military leadership, the Red Army ends up losing the Russian Civil War. How would the White Army have ruled...

(quick word of warning, i have literally never posted to this forum before so if i've done anything wrong, please let me know, thanks!) (also, big thanks to RaptorNM for getting me into this, i'll be running this thread alongside his) The year is 1965. After a successful streak of dominance...

I feel this is an important question given how the fallout of the War has negatively impacted us ordinary folk here in the West; folk who more often than not have no great political investment or interest in what happens in the East. I'm not really raising a question here about racial or...