For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL
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Well, one thing about this timeline is that TTL Communism (here Marxism, or Syndicalism, as Marxism-Leninism never took fruition in this timeline) is the discredited ideology, while TTL Fascism (here Pyrism or Integralism or Racism) is still condoned as Communism was during the Cold War and is still the official ideology of many mainstream political parties. So the Apartheid here was propelled by governements eyeing racism much more favorably, this coupled with a longer colonization (the Germans and the British sticked out longer).
As of Neo-Kemitism, you have another example here.
Yes, but this time, the Germans are good partners.
Something like 10 % White, 90 % Black, as the Rhodesian white community now counts a very sizeable exiled Afrikaner country. Not only did Rhodesia and Nyasaland managed to unite, but the country managed to get out rather smoothly from white-rule : the ceremonial Presidency is held by a White person while the Prime Ministership is by a Black person, in a manner constitent with OTL Lebanon.
Wasn't that briefly on the table in OTL? I assume a difference in public opinion just spun it out that way 🤔
I’m getting the impression that French decolonization came early (post-war?) and fairly smoothly. British decolonization however looks messy with more despotic successor states. Plus the UK appears to have taken a despotic turn leading to among other things those successor states rejecting the crown.
I think my American readers will be quite astounded by the last update...
They joined the United States in 2006 after a referendum ; due to the balkanization of Canada, the Maritimes felt isolated from Canada proper as they were separated by Quebec and Newfoundland ; given their strong economic links with the United States, they decided to take matters into their own hands.
Colonists still love straight lines !
The fact is French decolonization was not smooth at all : as you can see by the France update, Algeria is still French (with the exception of Kabylia, that is a puppet state closely monitored by Paris) and Mali only became independent in a circonvulated federalist way in 1978. As of the Brits, well, things didn't went quietly into the night.