What is this?
This is a TLIAF (Timeline in a Fortnight) or so, to be honest, which is about a history of the Independent State of Croatia (yes, the Nazi puppet state) if the Lorković-Vokić plot had succeeded and a pro-Western, anti-Communist democratic government took control.
Wait what, how???
Well you'll have to follow to find out.
Wait, this isn't some sort of Neo-Nazi wish fulfillment exercise, is it? I'm not signing up for a fortnight's worth of nationalist dick-waving.
No, don't worry. The funny thing is, I'm actually a Titoist, if anything, and pro-Yugoslav. I did come across a wikipedia article on the plot though, and it got me thinking. So in a sense it is a Yugoslavia-screw and an arguable Croatia-wank (depending on what your view of Tito, Communism and Yugoslavia is). Even though a lot of the time Yugoslavia is depicted as having been torn apart by centrifugal forces along nationalist lines, I'm going to explore a lot of the other tensions that would be unique to Croatia in the post-war period, like how to deal with its collaborationist past, as well as the role of the Church, of the military, and its relations to the rest of the Western world. Also I'm going to have a look at Slovenia too.
Okay, I'm listening. But one other thing: don't you have two other TLs that you're supposed to be committed to, namely 'Stars and Sickles' and 'In the Arms of Papatuanuku'?
Yeah... about that. Whilst I'm not going to be able to contribute to Stars and Sickles for a while, I will... eventually. About ITAOP, I am definitely still interested in it and want to continue with it, but to be honest since losing my old laptop and the (very long) update I had written from it, I just need a little break from it because that really pissed me off. But I will contribute to it, presumably after I finish this, which I've already planned out quite a lot of.
Alright. Well get on with it then...