21: 1992-2013 (A Collaborative Timeline)

[Mako-Chan]

A collaborative timeline based on the 1990s Dystopia thread. Basically, the premise is that the George H.W. Bush Vomiting Incident had been a sign of something far more serious. So on January 8th, 1992 a very overwhelmed J. Danforth Quayle assumes the Presidency after his predecessor's abrupt death...

 

[Mako-Chan]

January 8th, 1992: George H.W. Bush abruptly dies while visiting Japan, after a prolonged bout of illness. There is some speculation he may have been poisoned. Dan Quayle takes the oath of office shortly after, becoming the 42nd President.

November 23, 1993: Archers of Loaf's debut album Icky Mettle unexpectedly goes platinum. This signals the beginning of the rise of the Chapel Hill indie music scene (aka "Seattle's Rival"), and is noted as part of the "2nd Golden Age of Rock" in the turbulent 1990s.

 

[Kolade]

April 29th 1992: Riots break out in Los Angeles after three LAPD officers, who were accused to beat Rodney King and taped it on video, were acquitted by a Grand Jury

April 30th 1992: Members of the LAPD beat up an unknow rioter so badly that he dies in custody. The outrage of this brutality sparks violent outbursts in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Washington D.C.

May 1st 1992: Californian gouvernor Pete Wilson declares martial law for the entire state of California. President Quayle holds an Address on national television. Altough he wants to calm the situation things, go horribly wrong as CNN airs some racist remarks made by Quayle before he goes on air.

May 2nd 1992: The riots spread across the entire USA.

May 3rd 1992: Bill Clinton is invited to speak on NBC's Meet the Press. He uses his interview to urge the rioters to stop the violence. Clinton promises a "Fair Deal" for all Americans.

May 4th 1992: In most cities, the riots calm down except Los Angeles. It will take another week before order is restored. Over 112 people died in the riots.

 

[vultan]

May 1st 1992: Californian gouvernor Tom Brady declares martial law for the entire state of California. President Quayle holds an Address on national television. Altough he wants to calm the situation things, go horribly wrong as CNN airs some racist remarks made by Quayle before he goes on air.

Pete Wilson was Governor of California at this time. Brady was not governor at any point.

 

[Red Arturoist]

Shall it be a dystopia, Stalin?

EDIT: Then I can contribute the following

June 20, 1993: The Philliipsburg NPP suffes a super maximum credible accident, 650 000 people need evacuating. This is the first time a V-Fall, a "Defence Case", is invoked.

 

[modelcitizen]

Pete Wilson was Governor of California at this time. Brady was not governor at any point.

I imagine he's basing it on events depicted in the TL he referenced in the OP. I could be wrong.

 

[Mako-Chan]

Shall it be a dystopia, Stalin?

EDIT: Then I can contribute the following

June 20, 1993: The Philliipsburg NPP suffes a super maximum credible accident, 650 000 people need evacuating. This is the first time a V-Fall, a "Defence Case", is invoked.

By all means! Also I was thinking for ideas on how to make the LA Riots massively more destructive for the US. I know someone's already posted one scenario but I was thinking we could wank it up a bit...

 

[Kolade]

Pete Wilson was Governor of California at this time. Brady was not governor at any point.

I edited it...

 

[JSmith]

Daniel Quayle

Its J. Danforth Quayle actually.

 

[Mako-Chan]

I edited it...

I doubt even Quayle would get caught saying something racist. But I could see some other disaster at the press conference. What if the President gets attacked by protesters or an angry mob on the way there?

 

[President Al Bundy]

February 21st, 1992 - The resolution to send peace troops to Yugoslavia fails because of Russia's veto. Russia's veto comes largely because of the missing coordination between Presidents Quayle and Jelzin. However, some far-right Republicans start accusing the Russians to secretly support Yugoslavia.

April 5th, 1992 - The day of the infamous "Sarajevo bombings". On that day, the Yugoslav air force dropped bombs over the capital of the freshly proclaimed republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The infrastructure of the city is significantly damaged, and 5.000 people died in the immediate bombings. Afterwards, the Yugoslav army seals Sarajevo completely off from the outside world. Thus, no humanitarian aid can reach the city, which is now on the brink of starvation.

May 19th, 1992 - The beginning of the "ethnic cleansings" in Bosnia. Bosniaks are rounded up in internment camps, which however turn out to be extermination camps run by Bosnian Serbs. Soon approx. 100.000* Bosniaks are inside these camps, and probably dead...

July 1st, 1992 - After roughly three months of siege, the city Sarajevo surrenders to Yugoslav forces. As a result of the siege, most of Sarajevo is destroyed, with roughly 25% of the populace dead because of disease, starvation or attacks by the Yugoslav armed forces.

August 22nd, 1992 - Begin of the "Rostock Riots". Neo-Nazis assemble in front of the asylum-seekers homes, and start throwing stones and molotov cocktails towards the homes. The local police forces are too overwhelmed with the situation, which give the Neo-Nazis free hand in their pogrom.

August 24th, 1992 - Attempts by the police to calm down the riots in Rostock go completely wrong, and degenerate into a full-blown street battle between the police and the Neo-Nazis.

August 26th, 1992 - The situation in Rostock calms down, although the property damage exceeds 10 million Deutschmarks. The riots also trigger a new debate in German, about how to handle asylum seekers in Germany.

September 11th, 1992 - With roughly 70% of Bosnia and Herzegowina occupied by the Yugoslav army, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia annexes Bosnia, and reintegrates it back. However, resistance by Bosniaks still exists, especially in the northern parts of Bosnia.

November 20th, 1992 - Windsor Castle completely burns down, which destroyed countless of irreplacable goods.

*OT: Feel free to take a more realistic number. I just took 100.000 because of its randomness.

 

[jmill]

As we all know after the soviet collapse their nuclear arsenal was poorly secured, what could be the chance of one winding up in Belgrade's hands?

 

[President Al Bundy]

As we all know after the soviet collapse their nuclear arsenal was poorly secured, what could be the chance of one winding up in Belgrade's hands?

Perhaps by some "covert" support by Russia. Although I can't quite see it happening with Yelzin is power. But we haven't reached 1993 yet...

 

[Red Arturoist]

November 21, 1992: Boris Yeltsin is assassinated by a communist hardliner.

November 22-December 10, 1992: In the ensuing power vacuum, hardline communists putsch temselves into power in the Russian federation.

December 13, 1992: Russia is declared the RPR (Russian People's Republic), (we shall though use the name USSR, which is also the common name).

December 14, 1992: The new USSR invades the three Baltic states. The armies resist heavily, but are overwhelmed by the sheer number of troops that invade on December 31. All three states are annexed.

January 7, 1993: The USSR navy lands at Türkmenbasy. Also, an airlift (troops flown in by air) land near Türkmenbasy, Ashgabad, Samarkand, Duskanbe, Bishkek, Fergana, Chudschand? and other central asian cities. Kazakh dictator Nasarbajew was blackmailed into allowing the overflight with the Soviets threatening to bomb Astana and Almaty.

January 7-March 23, 1993: The Central Asian War is fought between the new USSR and the central asian states. Heavy resistance is met especially in Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan, but in the end, all Central Asian states are overwhelmed and unconditionally surrender.

April 1, 1993: In the Treaty of Bishkek, the annexation of all Central Asian Powers is declared.

May 2, 1993: Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine declare their intention to join the EU, NATO, and to build a defence wall on their eastern border.


Is that ASB? I don't think that Russia was that stable in 1992 that a resurgence of communism by a Putsch can't happen?

 

[President Al Bundy]

I would wait until the '93 coup attempt, before we get rid off Yeltsin. But I'd also stick with a Communist-Nationalist coalition, instead of a cliché USSR revival. Perhaps even a National-Bolshevist Russia by 2000?

 

[Whumbly]

I would wait until the '93 coup attempt, before we get rid off Yeltsin. But I'd also stick with a Communist-Nationalist coalition, instead of a cliché USSR revival. Perhaps even a National-Bolshevist Russia by 2000?

Let's have the army spilt during the 1993 crisis in Russia. A full blown three way running street battles in Moscow between the loyalists (Yeltsin), rebels (parilment-communist allaince), and ultra-nationalists (rouge faction of the military and ex-KGB agents) and have Russia desend into civil war.

 

[President Al Bundy]

Let's have the army spilt during the 1993 crisis in Russia. A full blown three way running street battles in Moscow between the loyalists (Yeltsin), rebels (parilment-communist allaince), and ultra-nationalists (rouge faction of the military and ex-KGB agents) and have Russia desend into civil war.

I'd probably merge the rebels and the ultra-nationalists, although the civil war sounds nice. But we should wait for o.a.musimon, because he came up with ideas after all.

 

[Mako-Chan]

I would wait until the '93 coup attempt, before we get rid off Yeltsin. But I'd also stick with a Communist-Nationalist coalition, instead of a cliché USSR revival. Perhaps even a National-Bolshevist Russia by 2000?

neo-Nazi Russia is pretty scarily plausible. Not necessarily the "Liberal Democrats" either, which a lot of people think are actually just controlled opposition. There are the National Bolshevik Party, Pamyat, Russian National Unity, etc. all operating around the same time period.

 

[President Al Bundy]

neo-Nazi Russia is pretty scarily plausible. Not necessarily the "Liberal Democrats" either, which a lot of people think are actually just controlled opposition. There are the National Bolshevik Party, Pamyat, Russian National Unity, etc. all operating around the same time period.

*Evil psychotic grin* YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!

But we shall wait for o.a.musimon. These are his ideas after all, and we shouldn't dickishly ignore them.

 

[TNF]

February 3, 1992: President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are killed when a bomb explodes at the Unesco headquarters in Paris. Members of a radical Afrikaner nationalist group claim responsibility for the incident...