Karl Marx's first alternate history novel, in which Robespierre died shortly after the storming of the Bastille. Widely considered not to hold up today.
In a TL where the Thule never migrated and went extinct while the Dorset managed to adapt to land hunting, one of those sensationalistic TV shows of the 90s and early 2000's spoke this on the Discovery Channel, Mysteries of the Americas.
An essay question in the class Science Fiction and Cultural Consciousness, an undergrad class that was Interdisciplinary between the Literature and Film Studies departments, at Yale, a major Liberal Arts college on the East Coast of the Confederated Republics of America.
News reporters asking Senator John McCain on the election of 2000 in Russia, with the election being Vladimir Putin vs. Gennady Zyuganov. McCain considered Putin dangerous for democracy and a loon (this would be vindicated later). Zyuganov was not considered much better, and had hardly any media (which is why the 2nd part of the quote happened).
Student in 1976 North America, after learning about the brief post-independence Democratic experiment from 1783-1793, before the Continental Army launched a coup and placed a triumvirate of Generals in charge of the United Continental Republic. the period was marred by civil unrest, repeated changes to the constitutional arrangement and economic dislocation. However, the generals actions were taken as a warning several years later in France, and the Directory managed to prevent Napoleon from trying something similar in 1799.
A slightly misheard quote.
The Mongol general Subotai after the Mongol Armies conquered the known world. The Great Khan would face a harder challenge: actually ruling it.
A pundit commentating on the 2012 elections for President of Russia, noting how 40% of the population voted against Putin, due to the large scandals made over voter fruad and election fruad aimed at him along with attacking opposition candidates along with his failures in handling the Great Recession. While Russian media tried spinning this off as showing the majority supporting Putin, this would backfire when Putin would be attacked by an aide and died of injuries, with associates of the aides releasing further scandalous information and Putin breaking rules, along with accusations aimed at co-conspirators.
The first quote was said by Pope Ringo I (who named himself that as a joke on the fact there was a pope john, a pope paul and a pope gregory - george), the first elected pope of the Novomundi Catholic Church, which was weird for being a combination of incredibly flippant and irreverent in how they practiced their faith, including to the point of including Memes in their scripture, but equally, rooted in a very devout approach to basic catholic teachings they believed the church in rome had squandered, though updated for the modern age (female priests, married priests, a complete restructuring of the nature of bishops, a sharing of power between the Pope and the power of Ecumenical Councils, no homophobia, etc).
Line stated by Indian army sergeant Aarav Rajkumar, who would be captured by Iranian soldiers in the Indian-Iranian war. Rajkumar would be held captive throughout most of the war, before eventually hatching an escape plan with 27 other pow's in April 1979. This escape attempt while successful Rajkumar and three other prisoners, would see the remaining 23 prisoners recaptured and later executed. Rajkumar would later be recaptured and held prisoner for the remainder of the conflict. The war would come to an end in 1982 when Iranian forces marched on Chennai, which had be made acting capital of India following the evacuation of New Delhi in response to mass bombings in 1980. Rajkumar would return to India and later go on to lead a successful career as a member of India's conservative party.
Line cut from Doctor Lovestrange or How I learnt to stop worrying and love the War describing the creation of the nuclear bomb. Movie was controversially shelved after real (but limited) nuclear war broke out soon after release.
Subtitle of the infamous fanfiction by internet user Sarah Blaine. It would become a popular meme for much of 2019 after a Reddit user found it four years after it being posted and linked it in a well-known meme subredddit. The fanfic would become subject of severe mockery due to its absurd premise and subpar writing. Eventually, its author would notice her early writing being mocked and go on to discredit the creation herself, while requesting the end of personal attacks on her.
Sikes to Picot after the Hashemites and other Arab nationalists managed to outflank the British and French by getting support for their Arab state from the Levant to Persia and most of Arabia from the Russian Republic (still led by Kerensky), the United States and from the Zionist movement. A deal was made that saw the King of Transjordan (a member state of the larger pan-Arab federation) become king in perpetual personal union, of Israel (which would also be a member state of the Federation, but with certain autonomous rights protected), which would be a welcome home to jewish settlers from all over the world, as long as the rights of local arab muslim and christians would be respected, which they were.
