Sorry, TB, but to what should I reply? Whether Crimean independence was remotely possible, or was anything else asked by K aka MsWhatsittoya?
Hammer's, Sickle's, and Mushroom Clouds. the Story of the Reverse Cold War
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Was this Guy IIRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose
A Question: Is still Pailin our Mendelev Analogue? is not a insult to either person but Mendelev Analogue should be i don't know..more prepared? Dmitri was maybe one of the best lawyer in russia before becoming Putin Loyal Right Man Hand(heck he even help putin with law homework in Moscow) or thing is different? and why Alaska is not part of America? that should be their Kalingrad....
And Romney is still a Mormon? that would be interesting to see too.
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Ironically i was reading it: a Female Kohl...not seriously.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=8012647&postcount=680
Okay... I can wait for that (or can you spoil it to me by PM?). No spoilers needed.
However, sorry for being repetitive once again, but what about the two issues that were unresolved from my questions? Could we, together in close cooperation, solve those issues?
1. I would think Councillor and/or General Secretary would be a good name for the leader of the CoN. Had you had anybody in mind for this post at all?
2. Everyone here is for Gerhard Schröder as Chancellor...
Umm How Russian Bush Analogue will React when Romney Decided to Expand the Pacific Fleet?
Baja California work pretty well, even better because they've an all year warm port in the pacific(instead the easily frozen Baltic Sea)
we want Merkel as Cameron Analogue if Schoroder is Blair Analogue.
Not that any of the Pacific ports have to worry about freezing except maybe some in Alaska. but it still works.
Merkel is a cheap choice, we have someone else in mind.
And when that is revealed, you will no longer grumble about "cheap" or so.
By the way, very many thanks for resurrecting Tunaspedia and it's a good German Empire infobox! Well, now you just need to upload all the other infoboxes that you have posted in the normal Wikipedia thread (Saxony, Basque state...) to the TUnaspedia thread.
It is turning out ever better, your TL!
“I believe this new International venture, this plan for a International Space Agency, will definitely be good for the world, it can help forge a common bond among humanity, repair relationships, as humanity can turn to the stars and the future to end it's quabbling.”
Yuri Gagarin, 63, most famous for being the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20th, 1969 , is shown above speaking about the International Space Agency, the newest arm of the Council of Nations formed by treaty on January 15th, 1998 by it's founding member states.
Chapter 30: January 31st, 1997 (Moscow, Russia) - January 15th, 1998 (The Hague, Netherlands)
Second Cold War
Caught With You're Panties Between You're Ankles
Second Cold War
Caught With You're Panties Between You're Ankles
Another Year Had once again passed and not much once again had changed once more, the world was a beast, it didn't overly change unless circumstances forced it too, people still fought each other, backstabbed, the game of politics was not one to be messed with, however 1997 was about to shine a small light of hope, as the 5 superpowers met in Geneva for one of the biggest conferences of World History.
African Problems
Congress troops patrolling a ravaged town in Central South Africa, circa 1997
The Civil War in South Africa continued as the New Year began, both sides stayed in a stalemate for the first few months of the war, exhausted from the previous years campaigns, they mainly prepared to launch a new offensive against the other as they raided each other's territory and launched artillery fire across the frontlines at the other's troops, a break came in June however, as the SADF after several months of careful planning launched a offensive against the ANC positions on June 19th, the offensive's proved to be a initial success, with the main brunt of the offensive in the Natal province, ANC forces were seemingly overwhelmed by the fresh SADF troops who led the brunt of the offensive, and were forced to retreat 256 km south to a more defensible line in the South of Natal, resulting the capture of the Natal provincial capital, Pietermaritzburg, which was captured by Afrikaner forces on July 1st, 1997, the city's black population was systematically exiled by the arriving SADF forces, the government in Pretoria ordering the men out so plans to colonize the city with Afrikaner settlers could go through without problem, further west of the SADF-ANC frontlines, SADF troops made a breakthrough near Bloemfontein, the city, which had been under siege by ANC forces since March 26th, 1991 when ANC forces reached the outskirts of the city and blocked it off from most SADF reinforcements, where attacked when the main brunt of the SADF offensive reached Bloemfontein, the overall numbers of the SADF forces led to the siege finally being broken as the SADF eliminated the ANC elements outside the city on July 4th, 1997, finally breaking the 6 year long siege of the city, but at the high cost of 1.2 Million Bloemfontenian's lives, making the Siege of Bloemfontein even deadlier then the infamous French siege of Raleigh during the Second World War, despite all of this, as fall approached the ANC launched it's own offensive in the west, making gains against isolated SADF troops and Communist insurgents in the Western half of South Africa, however the ANC advance was halted around the outskirts of Cape Town again as November passed, the SADF managed to rollback many of the ANC's gains close to Cape Town, resecuring the city from direct attack for the time being as the New Year approached and both sides prepared for another day to fight in 1998.
Troops of the Polisario Front inspecting a barracks in Guelta Zemmur, a city within SADR controlled territory, circa 1997
Meanwhile up North, Morocco remained a flame in it's own Civil War, a conflict which started in 1990 after the fall of Communism in Morocco, led to the Polisario Front, formerly a underground Western Saharan separationist party in Communist Morocco, to come out of hiding and declare Western Sahara's independence, the war was now dragging into it's 7th year, as the conflict between Morocco and the forces of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic appeared it would continue to drag on, with no end in site to the war in the Sahara, the forces of the SADR controlled much of Western Sahara, however the Moroccans continued to control many of the most important parts, including the SADR's claimed capital of El Aaiún, many at first did not recognize the Polisario Front outright, however many African nations held sympathies with the Polisario Front and the SADR, as of today more then several nations recognize the SADR as a independent nation, including Algeria, Mauritania, Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Eritrea, and even farther off nations such as Venezuela, the Ottoman Empire, and even Brazil, most nations held sympathetic views towards the SADR, but were explicitly neutral in the Western Saharan conflict, preferring not to tie themselves up in a another quagmire of African conflicts, on the ground itself, the war had overall laid a stalemate for the past 3 years, with no successful offensives from ethier side since 1994, with this the war had grown silent as neither side was able to gain a advantage over the other, over as the fall of 1997 came around, Sahrawi's faced a possible turning point in 1997 when the Moroccan's launched a unexpected offensive in early October, the SADR's forces were caught aback by the offensive and lost 60 km of territory as the Moroccan offensive pushed back the bewildered and off guard Sahrawi troops, the Sahrawi forces managed to regroup and halt the Moroccan offensive, stabilizing the frontline north of a small city known as Boukra as alight of hope for the SADR appeared, as the Council of Nations formally passed a resolution, known as Resolution 1276, formally recognizing the Polisario Front as the sole legal representative of the Sahrawi people, and called on both parties to meet in Brussels to discuss a resolution to the conflict, the Polisario Front agreed to such a meeting, but the Moroccan government declined to such a meeting, informing the Polisario Front the war would not end until Morocco reclaimed it's rightful territory.
A Church in the Northeast Congo after it's destruction by Congolese troops, destroyed for it's "sympathies" to the BLA
In the Congo meanwhile, the newly at peace Democratic Republic of Congo suddenly found itself embroiled in a new conflict with the rise of the Beylevian Liberation Army, the BLA, formally labeled a terrorist group by several nations, including both Russia and Germany, a group formed in 1990 had ended it's passive tendencies and began launching attacks on the government in Kinshasa in the name of freedom for the "Beylevian" people, the Aka, Efe and Mbuti people who make up the Northeast of the remaining Democratic Republic, passive attacks including raids on supply lines, attacks on bases, post offices, Kongolese businesses in the Northeast and governmental offices in the region, the attacks in turn were responded by widespread crackdown in the region against the locals, this in turn however only led to further attacks by the BLA against the government in Kinshasa, this in turn led to the Congolese government ordering the increase of military presence in the region, and thousands of Congolese paramilitary and regular forces moved in to reinforce the region militarily, these troops were officially according to governmental records assigned to police the region, however these troops, many of them highly racist against the Northeastern peoples subsequently began pursuing a campaign of retribution, targeting BLA sympathizers and political opponents of the regime in Kinshasa, the CNA attacked Aka, Efe and Mbuti villages in the Northeast, pillaging food and supplies in the region, slaughtering or exiling men, driving women out or raping them, and kidnapping children for use in labor camps further South, the CNA drive and crackdowns left 1,500 to 2,000 combatants and civilians deadand subsequently led to the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees, starting a massive refugee crisis across the Congolese nations, the CoN and EATU began making attempts to try and relieve the crisis, however negotiations to allevate the crisis broke down in the late months of 1997, on New Year's Day of 1998, the BLA was de-listed as a terrorist organization by most of EATU, with seemingly no explanation, fueling speculation across Europe that a possible EATU intervention into the Beylevian crisis was incoming. as the heads of EATU's members covened in Minsk, Russia on January 8th, 1998, opening a special closed meeting of the EATU Council in the Palace of Culture in the downtown center of historic Minsk.
Across the Marshy Jungles
a Burmese troop seen here in combat against Thai troops, circa 1997
Over in Asia, the Thai-Burmese War dragged into it's third year as the New Year passed, the Thai Army had made massive gains in Burma in the first few years, but Thai overextension coupled with growing Burmese experience, aid from Russia, the unwillingness of Thailand's allies to intervene militarily on it's behalf had led to Burma regrouping and pushing back Thailand along the Northwestern frontline, Thailand's Karen allies also were overextended and overwhelmed and were receiving pressure from the Burmese, the Burmese were fighting in there own backyard, and had slowly regained the advantage against there Thai enemies, the Burmese advances in 1996 had pushed the Thai 29 miles back in the Northwest, as the year began, floods in the South of Thailand and occupied Burma ended up killing 8,000 Thai troops and 5,000 Burmese civilians, seriously dampering Thai operations in the South of Burma, and it turned to another momentum shifter in Burma's direction, in February of 1997, Burma launched another series of offensives against Thailand and the Kayin State, this time with monumental success, as the Burmese Army broke through Karen and Thai lines in the South and overwhelmed there forces, Burmese forces captured the Kayin capital of Pa-An on March 16th, 1997, forcing the Karen government into exile to Bangkok, as despite all attempts to stop them, the Burmese Army pounded through the Thai lines and pushed them hundreds of miles down the Kra Isthmus, the Burmese government also began supporting Islamic Patani seperationists in South Thailand, who began diverting some of the Thai army's attention away from the Burmese.
Elements of the Royal Thai Army move to engage advancing Burmese troops in Southern Burma, circa 1997
with the majority of the Thai Army tied up dealing with the Burmese in the South, the Northern elements of the Thai Army were isolated, and the Burmese took advantage of there isolation and attacked the Thai armies in the North, the overall number of the Burmese forces completely overwhelmed the Thai troops in the North and not only pushed them out of Burma completely in the Burmese June Offensive, but even pushed them back into Thailand itself, as the Burmese forces crossed the Burmese-Thai border on June 17th, 1997, launching a attack on Thailand itself, the Thai managed to stabilize the lines temporarily in the North, 23 km away from the border, as troops were relocated from the South to stop the two pronged Burmese attack, but mostly to no avail as the Burmese troops were not only in better morale, but in greater numbers, and better Russian equipment and the Thai Army and it's leadership was in complete collapse and disarray as the Royal Thai Army suffered defeat after defeat, a Burmese July Offensive broke through lines in the South and the Burmese neared 238 km from the Thai capital of Bangkok, however the Burmese offensive would be halted when the Thai Military with support of the Fascist Party's People's Guard reluctantly launched a coup d'état against President Prem Tinsulanond and installed General Chuan Leekpai as Thailand's new president, whom also reluctantly sued for peace with Burma the next day, the two sides accepted a Council of Nations proposed ceasefire on July 29th, 1997 and proceeded to meet in Geneva to discuss peace, The Treaty of Geneva was signed on October 18th, 1997, the borders between the two states would return to the pre-war status quo, and the Thai government would pay 5.5 Billion in American dollars in reparations for the unprovoked attack on Burma and the damage it caused, the Treaty thus ended the three year long Thai-Burmese War, the war ended in a humiliating defeat for Thailand, and many in China regretted not coming to the aid of there allies sooner, but many looked upon the situation, thinking that this was not probably the end of hostilities between Burma and Thailand.
European Gambit
The Crimea crisis had begun in late 1996 when the long disadvantaged Crimean Tatars formed the Crimean Tatar Liberation League and began attacking against the long time discrimination against the Tatars and the Crimea by the Ukrainian government in Kiev, the Crisis escalated in the weening months of 1996 as the CTLL increased it's attacks against the Ukrainian government, attacking Ukrainian businesses and governmental offices, the Ukrainian government saw a no confidence vote in it's current government as the Rada in Kiev voted to oust the previous Prime Minister in favor of ushering in a new government led by new Prime Minister Volodymyr Lytvyn, the new government in Kiev, noting calls from the International Community weighed it's options, the government in Kiev decided to open talks with the CTLL, along with representatives of Ukrainian and Russian Crimean's, the three parties met in Kiev in early 1997, after several months of talks, the two sides agreed to a deal in which the Crimea would get autonomy, as a Autonomous Republic within the Ukraine, with it's own President, Legislature, and the ability to make it's own laws, with laws protecting the rights of all three major ethnicities in the Crimea, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea would hold it's first Presidential elections a few months later, when Gabdulkhay Akhatov was elected as the First President of the Crimea.
A shot of the Port of Marseille, circa 1997
Elsewhere in Europe, the last stages of the Black Scare began to pass, as life most in all returned to normal across the continent, the occasional Riot still happened, but things had calmed for the most part, overall, things were quiet across Europe, in the German Empire, the new economic policies implemented by the Herzog Chancellorship saw a growth in the German economy in 1997, the policies were working to restabilize the German economy, which had stagnated in the early years of the 1990's slowing economic growth in the Reich, however Herzog's policies appeared to be setting Germany on the right direction, elsewhere in Europe, the French government continued it's investment into the less developed South of the country, and many areas were finally starting to be brought up to the standard of the former North France, including Marseille, in which a 6 year restoration and modernization program in the city had repaired much of the decaying infrastructure in the city, Bordeaux and the South half of Paris also saw massive investment poured into it, as did many other areas of Southern France, a lot of which was extremely underdeveloped compared to the North, this development did put on a strain on the French economy due to all the money being poured in to the South, but it also gave the French economy a boom, and the French economy continued much sustained growth throughout 1997, elsewhere in Europe, many other nations saw economic growth, including the Ottomans
who had rebounded from the slight recession of 1996, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and others.
who had rebounded from the slight recession of 1996, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and others.
Never Trust a Secretary Around Your Wife
Mikhail Kasyanov, most famous for being the lead investigator in the Paul Jones case and the Karina Petrova affair case against President Zolnerowich
The Year of 1997 in Russia began with the second inauguration of President Alisha Zolnerowich on January 20th, Zolnerowich had easily won a second term by a commanding margin in the polls in November of 1996, and as her second inauguration neared her popularity was at a all time high in Russia, however, this did not stop the Russian Independent Counsel, a independent prosecuting department of the Russian government from investigating into several matters regarding the young President, the Independent Counsel, led by Mikhail Kasyanov, was investigating Zolnerowich on several matters, including the Kremlin Travel Office controversy, President Zolnerowich and her husband Matvey's real estate investments from a failed business venture conducted by the Zolnerowich's in the late 1980's. and the Paul Jones lawsuit, the most famous one, in which the American born Journalist had accused the President of sexually assaulting him during a interview conducted during her first term in early 1993, these investigations however serious they were, did not hurt Zolnerowich's popularity or hurt her chances at re-election during the 1996 election campaign, however in late 1996, rumors began circulating that the President had engaged in a inproper sexual relationship with a female secretary who had formerly worked at the Kremlin under the President, one 22 year old Karina Petrova, who had been subsequently transferred to work at the Defense Department in mid 1996 after several people held concerns that she spent too much time with the President alone, the rumors began circulating when Petrova's Defense Department co-worker, Nadya Yershova, had told a literary agent about Petrova's affair with the President, who in turned informed the Russian media about several tapes, these tapes were secretly recorded on the literary agent's suggestion by Yershova, as Petrova confided in Yershova about the exact details of her sexual relationship with the President, in one of these conversations with Petrova, Yershova convinced her to not dry clean a red dress Zolnerowich had bought for her, which would later become a key piece of evidence in the case against the President.
Russian President Alisha Zolnerowich is seen above photographed walking in downtown Moscow to her second inauguration ceremony on January 20th, 1997, a inauguration that preceded 11 days the breaking of her sexual affairs with her female secretary, Karina Petrova, to the Russian media.
When Petrova signed a Affidavit in the Paul Jones case denying her sexual relationship with the President, her attempts to convince Yershova to lie under oath in the Jones case instead resulted in Yershova giving the tapes to Mikhail Kasyanov, the head investigator in the several controversy's surrounding the President, armed with the evidence of Petrova's admission of a improper sexual relationship with Zolnerowich, Kasyanov widened the Paul Jones case to include Petrova and her possible perjury on the stand, the news of the scandal first broke in mainstream press when the story was first printed in the Friday morning edition of the Moscow Press, published on January 31st, 1997, the story circulated for a few days, and despite several immediate denials from Zolnerowich, the public's desire for answers from the Kremlin about the scandal grew, on February 6th, 1997, Zolnerowich, with her husband Matvey by her side, issued a statement on the issue, a forceful denial to the rumors circulating around Petrova and her, and she said the following.
"Now, I have to go back to work on my speech regarding the State of our Great Republic. And I worked on it until pretty late last night so that it would be ready for tomorrow's address. But I want to say one thing to the Russian people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again:I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Petrova. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the Russian people. Thank you"
Zolnerowich addressed the nation during the annual State of the Republic address with no mention of the scandal, and Matvey Zolnerowich again issues a forceful denial in a interview conducted by Rossiya News Network the following day, despite the forceful denials by the Kremlin and the Zolnerowich's, For the next several months and through the summer, the media debated whether or not an affair had occurred and whether or not Zolnerowich had lied or obstructed justice, but nothing could be definitively established beyond the taped recordings because Petrova was unwilling to discuss the affair or testify about it. On July 28, 1997, a substantial delay after the public break of the scandal, Karina Petrova received transactional immunity in exchange for grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with Zolnerowich, She also turned over a dry saliva-stained red dress to the Kasyanov investigators, thereby providing unambiguous DNA evidence that could prove the relationship despite Zolnerowich's official denials. Zolnerowich, with the evidence against her denials mounting, finally admitted in taped grand jury testimony on August 17, 1997, that she had had an "improper physical relationship" with Petrova. That evening she gave a nationally televised statement admitting her relationship with Petrova was "not appropriate", In her deposition for the Jones lawsuit, Zolnerowich had denied having "sexual relations" with Petrova. Based on the evidence provided by Yershova, and the dress, Kasyanov concluded that this sworn testimony was false and perjurious, later In December of 1997, Zolnerowich's political party, the Social Democratic Party, was in the minority in both chambers of State Duma. Some Social Democratic members of the Duma, and most in the opposition National Republican Party, believed that Zolnerowich giving false testimony and allegedly influencing Petrova's testimony were crimes of obstruction of justice and perjury and thus impeachable offenses. The Chamber of Deputies voted to issue Articles of Impeachment against her on December 21st, 1997, thus beginning President Alisha Zolnerowich's impeachment trial.
Another Giant Step for Man
the head of the KDLV, Friedrich Lutz, the man behind the formation of the International Space Agency, along with it's first President
With 1999 approaching, the 30th Anniversary of the 1969 Russian Moon Landing on July 20th, 1999 was a mere two years away, and the world as a whole was looking back on it, this looking back on one of the most historic days in all of humanity's history soon brought up many questions. many related to the state of many space programs. including the Russian Federal'noye kosmicheskoye agentstvo (FKA), the German Kaiserlichen Deutsches Luft-und Raumfahrt Verein (KDLV), and the American NASA, these organizations had seen massive cuts in funding from there governments as decline in interest from people since the overall end of the Space Race in the 1970's had led to governmental cuts on the Space Programs somewhat bloated budgets, this coupled to the organizations soon having a lack of an ability to conduct major scientific study or space exploration outside of the occasional probe, these issues became a hot topic throughout the year 1997,and lead heads of several major space programs to begin discussions on this, this led to a Bilateral meeting between the heads of four of the five major space agencies being scheduled, the groups would meet in Munich, Germany to discuss the issues of funding, Space Exploration, how to generate public and governmental interest and how to revitalize themselves as major players. the meeting began on June 17th, 1997, during the meeting, the Leitherminister of the German KDLV, Friedrich Lutz, proposed the idea of the major space agencies forming a so called super national "International Space Agency" under the supervision of the Council of Nations, stating that such a endeavour would allow the space agencies to allocate there funds all together, and that cooperation between all of the organizations would help them be able to achieve advances in space exploration and commence new research and study, and even perhaps renew public interest in Space Exploration, the heads of the FKA, NASA, and the British Royal Space Agency agreed with Lutz's proposal, and the four began working towards forming Lutz's vision of a International Space Agency.
the Yuri Gagarin Building in the downtown of the Dutch City of The Hague, the main headquarters of the new International Space Agency
The bilateral meeting in turn led to another set of roundtable discussions between the Agencies throughout the summer of 1997, discussions which caught the attention of the Council of Nations, who agreed to sponsor the talks between the Agencies, throughout the proceeding months the leaders of the agencies met and discussed the idea of the International Space Agency, how such a organization might work, what it's duties and abilities that it could carry out would be, and what involvement the Council of Nations would have in such a theoretical organization, the talks, led by it's proposer Friedrich Lutz, carried on throughout the summer and early fall months with promising success, as the four agencies laid out the groundwork and the frame for such a organization, finally after several months of CoN sponsored bilateral talks, on October 16th, 1997, the Space agencies, now joined by the Chinese space program who was invited to join the bilateral talks in September of 1997, finished and proposed the "Official Charter of the International Space Agency", the Charter described the organization as "one dedicated to advancing Space Exploration and Scientific Study of Space, and described it's mission as the following, that being to learn about the stars, discover the complexities of the universe and learn what there is to be learned, to explore the outer reaches of space and to explore outside of the Milky Way, a mission to learn any and all that they can, by any means necessary in order to achieve the goals of Scientific Study and Space Exploration", the ISA as a organization would be put under the overall banner of the Council of Nations, it being a International, the structure of the ISA as described in the Charter, is fairly simple, the ISA would be led by a President, who would be one of the heads of the 5 member agencies apart of the ISA, the President would serve for a 2 year term, and the Presidency would be rotated between the 5 agencies every 2 years, in the case of resignation or death of a President, the other administrative half of the ISA, the Board of Directors, which would include 50 top officials from each of the 5 member agencies, would elect a new official to assume the Presidency of the ISA, the ISA would have 1 main office located in a city that would be determined soon, and then have 5 offices located in each of the member countries, specifically in Washington, DC, Berlin, London, Beijing, and Petrograd, one notable event did occur that almost hampered ISA talks, due to it's inclusion in the ISA, the Chinese government proceeded to petition the Council of Nations, to give it a seat on the Security Council, citing it's importance as a world superpower, and that it deserved representation in diplomacy's highest organ, but the Security Council, that being the Americans, Brazil, Russia, Germany and Britain, Unanimously voted against China's petition, some worried this would hamper the talks regarding the ISA or even cause the Chinese to pull out, but the talks regarding the ISA continued without impediment.
Several final formal talks between the agencies occurred throughout the last months of 1997, mainly to file out any remaining concerns or issues with the Charter and finish formalizing everything to ensure the ISA would open smoothly, the Dutch government agreed to cede a office in The Hague to house the ISA as it's main headquarters, the ISA agreed to the offer, and the building officially was renamed the Yuri Gagarin Building, after Yuri Gagarin, the first man to walk on the Moon, and the building was formally designated the overall headquarters of the ISA, in one last meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 1st, 1998, the parties involved agreed the ISA Charter would go into effect on January 14th, 1998, with it's office in The Hague to open on January 15th, 1998, with national offices in the member countries to open at a later date.
The year of 1997 proved to be a challenging one, but with many strides achieved, especially with the successful formation of the International Space Agency, which as the agencies hoped began to fuel new founded interest in Space Exploration, as Humanity began to once again look to the stars to find a sense of comfort and a goal to stride too, however Earthly problems would always seem to overwhelm any desire for greater things, as 1998 came, War would once again come to a already ravaged part of the world...
I think I might rearrange the borders of the AAR in Northern Iran just a bit and retcon in a independent Kurdistan, just because, the Kurds deserve it in at least one timeline, and it wouldn't go against anything except the maps really, and I've screwed up the maps before.
through it would be a unrecognized state like the AAR. (except by Azerbaijan of course)
through it would be a unrecognized state like the AAR. (except by Azerbaijan of course)
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