zesamofdepast
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You need to take your current country of residence and create a timeline where it split into two nations, like what happened to Germany, Korea and Vietnam.
Challenge: Split the Vatican into two globally recognized sovereign states.
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After the second World War, shit hits the fan in Italy after the monarchy/republic referendum is even more closely contested than in OTL; both sides accuse each other of vote rigging, a civil war breaks out, and the peninsula is split in two: a monarchical south that soon becomes a de facto neo-fascist state, and a republican north that falls under the thumb of Moscow and the PCI; South Tyrol is annexed to neutral Austria, while Trieste survives as a neutral microstate sandwiched between capitalist, communist and non aligned powers.
Why South Italy would become fascist only just while after defeating Italy in WW2? It probably would be democratic nation at least not surely any kind of fascist nation.
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There were CIA-backed attempts at a neo-Fascist renaissance in OTL, with a communist northern Italy they'd waste no time in dusting off the fasces.
Do they both have to hold onto land, or can one of them be like that Sovereign Order Of Knights Of Jerusalem Whatever group?
In any event, Vatican II might be the best prompt for a Vatican seccessionist movement in the 20th Century. Though I have to think that if it had been possible IOTL for one of the right-wing schismatic groups to make themselves into a country, they would have done so.
The CIA prevented a neofascist coup in Italy in the 70s.
By which point the possibility of a Red electoral victory had all but vanished.