Dead by Dawn: The Road to Revolution
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Heh. People talk about these miraculous smartphone apps, where you say something in English, and it translates automatically to, say, Pashto. Then you look at the gibberish that sometimes comes out of Google Translate... I cant imagine how bad those smartphone apps are if you go past a set of a dozen stock phrases.
I actually dont use an app. I use an English to Latin Translation site. It has a lot of different lnguages and when you need something close to the mark it usually works.
Do you know the translation for National Revolutionary Force?
I dont know, its not as interesting? It also doesn't use the term Revolutionary, which is big with the Holzknecht government.
But it stands for National Peoples Army, which is pretty big terminology for revolutionaries.
Well, it depends on your revolution, Peoples Army is to associated with Communism. Although now that I think of it, Volk is a BIG part of Nazism...
Well that went with Hitler in this TL, although Ein Volk, Ein Reich is probably still a motto.
Thanks to everyone for helping me get 98,000 views. I dont mean to do a meaningless bump, but Im waiting on a spark, and unless I have one, none of the facts I have will motivate me to put it to paper.
Heah just a question, I've occasionally heard some complaints that my history in this timeline is, well, ASB. Trotsky is a big one, the Franco-British War and the British Civil War being others. Now understand Im not complaining, I would just like to hear exactly why, with the understanding that once I finish this timeline in its first run, I will go back and do a Redux, including new information that is more in tune with reality. Tizoc once gave me an excellent little snippet about my inaccuracies in the Second Polish Republic, so, given outside help, I may be able to correct anything so that you, my readers, may get the best possible product. Im not going to completely change the timeline, but if a butterfly is merited I'll follow it.
But not Iancu Serban. I fucking love Iancu Serban.
Probably a long shot, but if you happen to reply to my request, I'd just like to thank you for reading my timeline. But Im repressed so I'll write it in white.
But not Iancu Serban. I fucking love Iancu Serban.
Probably a long shot, but if you happen to reply to my request, I'd just like to thank you for reading my timeline. But Im repressed so I'll write it in white.
Dict.tu-chemnitz.de
which is where i go for an online German dictionary, only gives 'revolutionär', for revolutionary in that sense.
In particular, 'Revolutionãre Streitkräfte Kolumbiens' (or something close) is what they list for FARC, the Colombian terrorists.
which is where i go for an online German dictionary, only gives 'revolutionär', for revolutionary in that sense.
In particular, 'Revolutionãre Streitkräfte Kolumbiens' (or something close) is what they list for FARC, the Colombian terrorists.
IMHO Trotsky rising to power in the USSR is far from being ASB; its wholly possible to have Trotsky succeed in becoming the head of the Soviet Union assuming that a few things go differently as well as correctly for him.
If I had to nitpick on your TL, (which is very good, regardless) I'd say its with having Trotsky at the 12th Party Congress "blowing Stalin out of the water" in a speech. Even if Trotsky did make such a speech, it is unlikely that it would shatter Stalin's reputation so badly that Stalin would have been forced to flee to Turkey if anywhere.
Also, I think that Stalin waging a guerrilla war in Soviet Georgia from his base in Turkey is unrealistic, if only because Stalin by that time had a mixed reputation in Georgian Bolshevik circles due to his actions in resolving the so-called Georgian Affair. How-and where-is he to get such support to sustain a guerrilla war especially after having been blown out of the water reputation-wise by Trotsky? (which IMHO isn't enough to keep Stalin from rising to power)
Trotsky IMHO wouldn't lead a guerrilla war from Turkey in his native Ukraine; likewise, Stalin leading a guerrilla war in Georgia is unrealistic IMHO.
Another nitpick of mine: Trotsky follows a strategy in China very similar to OTL's Comintern policies towards China; He's still supporting the concept of a coalition between the Nationalists and the Chinese Communist Party, with little changes to Comintern strategy throughout even with Stalin exiled and Trotsky in power.
Otherwise, as I'm not an expert on Franco/British relations, I can't find any fault with a war between the two nations or even a British Civil War (IMHO, people may have yelled ASB as they felt that a war between Britain and France AND a British Civil War was pushing it)
However, feel free to take your TL wherever you feel like as its your own creative ideas.
Don't listen too much to petty criticism. Hope that helped.
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