Weekly Infobox Challenge: Discussion & Entries
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Better question: why the fuck would Britain sell a part of the crown that they've had since the Norman conquest? It makes absolutely no sense why they'd sell it.
No, but it should be at lesst somewhat plausible. You've been on here for six years, so you ought to know that you can't just make any change, however wildly unrealistic, and handwave any complaints be saying "It's an alternate timeline, deal with it".
You don't say?
But alternate history still has to make internal, consistent logic within itself.
I'm just stepping in here,but I don't think that Vexacus was really trying to make a very serious and deep infobox that needs this level of debate.
Because the history of OTL is unwaveringly composed of 'consistent logic', of course.
We never saw an already overextended island nation suddenly and causelessly purchase a completely discontiguous island in the middle of a different continent.
I feel as though we're really avoiding the main issue here, which is how this makes a divided nation. Maybe the remaining Channel Islands remain British, and they're divided that way?
Let's end the Jersey debate. I have got a completely different question:
Does the flag have to be self-made, or can I use somebody else's flag if I give them appropriate credit?
Does the flag have to be self-made, or can I use somebody else's flag if I give them appropriate credit?
I hope more people enter; a two way is valid but boring. lol
I would immediately enter if I can use a requested/not self-made flag.
The contest is only for the infobox, not everything in the infobox need be original so far as I really see.
East Prussia
I'm throwing my hat into the ring!
At the Second World War's close, the Soviets found themselves in a far weaker position than expected, the Iron Curtain having fallen on the Vistula, and compensated by heavily industrializing occupied East Prussia, turning it into it into a major shipbuilding port. Begrudgingly it was incorporated a the Kaliningrad ASSR in 1947, and divided with East Poland. The remaining German population, around 1,100,000, chafed under Communism, and while German remained in use, Prussian culture suffered heavily due to a near complete saturation of Soviet influence. By 1982 the population was 46.9% Russian-born. Under Gorbachev's reforms in the 1980's, German culture saw a revival when travel bans inside the USSR were lifted, inspiring a large influx of Volga Germans fleeing poverty in Asia to relocate.
In 1991, as the Soviet Union began to collapse, the restless Prussians made a bid for independence and the State of Prussia was established, the self-declared successor to the original kingdom (Kaliningrad was restored to Königsberg). Reunification with Germany proper and Bavaria seemed a given, but feet-dragging by the German government over Prussia's comparative impoverishment, and Prussian worries over Germany's stunted industry, still not recovered from de-industrialization, ensured the referendum promised was suspended indefinitely by the Landtag. German suspicions that Prussia is a hotbed for Neo-Nazi and extremist activities, and the declining, yet politically active Russian minority have also ensured reunification has so far amounted to a mere customs union (Nuremberg Group). Hopes for greater integration become ever more distant, following Germany releasing its claim on Prussia in 1999, and it's EU admittance in 2005.
I'm throwing my hat into the ring!
At the Second World War's close, the Soviets found themselves in a far weaker position than expected, the Iron Curtain having fallen on the Vistula, and compensated by heavily industrializing occupied East Prussia, turning it into it into a major shipbuilding port. Begrudgingly it was incorporated a the Kaliningrad ASSR in 1947, and divided with East Poland. The remaining German population, around 1,100,000, chafed under Communism, and while German remained in use, Prussian culture suffered heavily due to a near complete saturation of Soviet influence. By 1982 the population was 46.9% Russian-born. Under Gorbachev's reforms in the 1980's, German culture saw a revival when travel bans inside the USSR were lifted, inspiring a large influx of Volga Germans fleeing poverty in Asia to relocate.
In 1991, as the Soviet Union began to collapse, the restless Prussians made a bid for independence and the State of Prussia was established, the self-declared successor to the original kingdom (Kaliningrad was restored to Königsberg). Reunification with Germany proper and Bavaria seemed a given, but feet-dragging by the German government over Prussia's comparative impoverishment, and Prussian worries over Germany's stunted industry, still not recovered from de-industrialization, ensured the referendum promised was suspended indefinitely by the Landtag. German suspicions that Prussia is a hotbed for Neo-Nazi and extremist activities, and the declining, yet politically active Russian minority have also ensured reunification has so far amounted to a mere customs union (Nuremberg Group). Hopes for greater integration become ever more distant, following Germany releasing its claim on Prussia in 1999, and it's EU admittance in 2005.
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Made a mistake while filling in Finland, I'll fix it.
PPP stands for Prussian Patriotic Party.
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Okay so the challenger (Elessar267) has informed me via PM that he will be busy tomorrow and asked me if I could set up the poll when the deadline hits. Jusrt letting everyone know now.