So, what campy faction ideas would the Roman Alliance, UAR and Odessa have in this Red Alert equivalent ?
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The Roman Alliance could be obsessed with Ancient Rome, the UAR could be like the Assyrian Empire reborn, and Odessa could be like the Nazis from Wolfenstein?
Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini photographed in Rome during foundation of Roman Alliance in 1942.
Several European democracies establishing European Treaty Organisation (ETO) in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1947. On next year United States and some other non-Euroepan nations joined to the organistion and it changed its name as International Treaty Organisation (ITO). ITO is still markable power for defending democracy and freedom of recognised nations.
Stalin giving speech in Stalingrad during foundation of Stalingrad Pact only couple months after foundation of ETO.
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King Peter II of Yugoslavia, the last King of Yugoslavia, photographed in 1940. On November 23, 1940, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrendered to the Roman Alliance, thus the kingdom was disbanded, the Third Balkan War ended the Yugoslav Royal Family fled to exile in London, England and then to the United States.
King Peter II of Yugoslavia as an adult, photographed in 1966. After years of suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, he died in Denver, Colorado on April 7, 1973. He was interred in Saint Sava Monastery, Libertyville, Illinois, USA, the only monarch to be buried in the United States of America. His remains were moved to the Royal Family Mausoleum in Oplenac, Topola, Serbia in September, 2018.
The flag of the Chetniks, formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerilla army that was active in the Serbian State of Milan Nedić and other parts of ex-Yugoslavia, such as the Independent State of Croatia, the Italian Governorate of Montenegro, Kosovo in the Italian Governorate of Albania, Hungarian Vajdaság/Vojvodina and Bulgarian Macedonia. The Chetniks were led by the Yugoslavian Serbian general Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović, although the movement not homogenous. The enemies of the Chetniks were the Independent State of Croatia and the Croatian Home Guard, the Royal Italian Army, the Hungarian Army and the Bulgarian Army. The Chetniks both collaborated with and fought against the government and armies of Serbian State. The Chetniks were secretly supported by the British MI6 (until Italy entered WW2), hoping to secretly weaken Roman Alliance influence in the Balkans, as well as the government of the Kingdom of Romania, which wanted to weaken Hungarian influence and the Balkans and annex Serbian Banat.
That Chetnik Insurgency lasted from the end of the Third Balkan War in 1940 until 1950, shortly after the end of the Croatian-Serbian War. In the modern day, the Chetniks are seen as heroes by many in Serbia and by many amongst the Serbian diaspora. The Chetniks are especially revered by Serbian ultranationalists and right-wing extremists which desire an immediate return of ancestral Serbian lands to the Republic of Serbia.
Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović (April 27, 1893-October 24, 1949), the Yugoslavian Serbian general and de-facto leader of the Chetniks. Not long after Tito's rise to power in Serbia, Mihailović was captured and arrested by soldiers of the Serbian People's Army near the Serbian-Romanian border on June 25, 1949. Four months later, he was tried for being "an enemy of the people", "reactionary terrorism" and for collaborating with the Nedić regime, found guilty and executed in Belgrade. After his death, the remaining Chetniks rebels were defeated by the end of 1950.
Miroljub Labus, President of Serbia after the death of Slobodan Milošević from a heart attack on November 11, 2002. Labus is known as the "Father of Serbian Democracy" for his overseeing the re-introduction of democracy into Serbia in 2003, although right-wing and nationalist parties still have most of the influence over Serbian politics.
Photographs from the funeral of Winston Churchill in London on December 21, 1963. On December 3, 1963, Churchill fell into a comma, and died nine days later on December 15, 1963 at the age of 89.
Famous attendants of the funeral included Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, President Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., General Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Charles De Gaulle, Duce Italo Balbo, Kaiser Ferdinand V, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Caudillo Francisco Franco of Spain, Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the monarchs of Hungary, Romania, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, among others. It should be noted that the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom was the only Soviet delegate to attend the funeral, and this mostly as a token gesture, as relations between the West and Stalingrad Pact had degraded to the point where no major Soviet leader would be accepted at such an event.
The last publicly taken photograph of Sir Winston Churchill, taken after his farewell to the House of Commons on September 9, 1963.
The last photograph of Winston Churchill, taken privately on his 89th birthday on November 30, 1963. His last words were; "I grow bored of it all."
Famous attendants of the funeral included Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, President Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., General Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Charles De Gaulle, Duce Italo Balbo, Kaiser Ferdinand V, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Caudillo Francisco Franco of Spain, Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the monarchs of Hungary, Romania, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, among others. It should be noted that the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom was the only Soviet delegate to attend the funeral, and this mostly as a token gesture, as relations between the West and Stalingrad Pact had degraded to the point where no major Soviet leader would be accepted at such an event.
The last publicly taken photograph of Sir Winston Churchill, taken after his farewell to the House of Commons on September 9, 1963.
The last photograph of Winston Churchill, taken privately on his 89th birthday on November 30, 1963. His last words were; "I grow bored of it all."
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George Corley (originally George Wallace, 1919 - 2003)
George Corley was promising rising star of Southern conservatives already in 1940's. He begun as Democrat but joined to Freedom Party immediately after its establishment. Similarly he changed his last name from Wallace to Corley due infamous president Wallace. In 1950 he was elected to US House of Representatives and 1960 to US senate. Already during 1950's he showed beign good orator and really promising politician. Even Storm Thurmond noted that him will have great future ahead. On 1964 presidential election he was Barry Goldwater's running mate but couldn't win White House for Freedomites altough they managed expand outside of traditional South.
On 1968 Corley became Freedomite president candidate. During his campaign he adopted "Northern Strategy" which with he managed win several Mid-Western states by toing down racial things and focusing to conservatrive values and economic based populism speciality promising tax cutting. And strategy was succesful and Corley was elected as US president. Corley had strong anti-Communist views and he too had old segregationist views. Corley was too strong supporter of conservative Christian values and him had good relationships with fascist nations and was speciality close with duce Balbo altough the president was enforced to condemn nuking of Addis Abeba in 1970.
Early 1970's saw massive political change in Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia when communist bloc collapsed. This helped make Corley quiet popular altough his role was quiet small on the event. His presidency too saw rising economy and more aggressive war on drugs. But civil right issues remained very stagnant. Corley served as president until 1977.
Corley has quiet controversial reputation and is very divisive character. In other hand he is praised from strong anti-communist views but he is too critised on his views over segregation and conservative values.
The 2019 Lisbon Pride.
Since the independence referendum from the Lusitan Kingdom, Portugal has become one of the most socially liberal countries on Earth. Polls show that on average, 93% of the Portuguese population finds homosexuality as normal. Same-sex marriage and adoption are viewed as something normal as well. Portugal is a common destination for Lusitanian LGBT youth whom wish to escape the religious fundamentalism of their places of origin.
A propaganda poster for the re-unification of the Azores with the Republic of Portugal, 2020. While still a part of the Holy Kingdom of Lusitania, the Azores have become more and more distant from the rest of the kingdom, with the population of the islands becoming more liberal and looking more towards Lisbon. The Portuguese government in Lisbon and the Lusitanian government are expected to meet over the matter in French Gabon sometime in 2021.
A mixed-race or mestiço family from the Holy Kingdom of Lusitania, circa 2015. In spite of its rigid social conservatism, the society of the Holy Lusitanian Empire is largely permissive of interracial marriages and relationships, with marriages between white Europeans and black Africans having existed for several decades in the old Portuguese colonies. Many have speculated that this attitude is because and not in spite of the nation's religiosity, with most Lusitanians considering all their citizens regardless of race to be all the children of God.
Flintheart Glomgold, a Disney cartoon character and the South African archenemies of Donald Duck's uncle Scrooge McDuck. Originally created by cartoonist Carl Barks in 1956, Glomgold is one of the earliest examples of the "Afrikaner villain" trope. He was one of the main antagonist of the successful animated series Ducktales (and its 2017 reboot), which coincidentally was released in September, 1987 during the Homeland War in South Africa. With South Africa becoming even more of a global pariah at the time, the idea of a South African villain in a children's cartoon was seen as all too appropriate. The cartoon and all comics with him as a character were banned in South Africa as a result. The ban was only lifted in 2012.
Ulysses Klaue, a villain from the 2018 Marvel film Black Panther, another example of the "Afrikaner villain" trope.
Photograph of a protest in Syracuse, New York in favor of the divestment by American companies from South Africa during the Homeland War, 1987.
Edward Brooke became president after assassination of his predecessor George H.W. Bush in 1977 becoming first black president of the United States. Domestically he made several social reforms altough he didn't touch very much on civil right issues altough he tried encourage southern states abandon Jim Crow laws. Many begun anyway moderate their segregationist legistature. He too cut down US military budget. His second term saw beginning of HIV epidemic and managed give money to research of HIV and AIDS.
On foreign politics Brooke encouraged fascist nations transfer to democracy. He too took harsher politics towards Suth Africa and put several sanctions to the country. These sanctions are still nowadays on effect.
Nowadays Brooke is saw pretty good president altough speciality right-wing conservatives are critical towards his social efforts and liberal politics.
Former US president Pat Robertson photographed in 2006.
Robertson was quiet notable television evangelist already on 1970's. He often commented political issues and preached about Christian values. On early 1980's him became notable person on Freedom Party. Him had big influence for the party and it begun change its focus from racial questions to moral questions like abortion and homosexuality. In 1984 he was elected as president of United States.
During his presidency (1985 - 1993) his politics was very much based to Christian moral values. He too cancelled some social programs started by his predecessor president Brooke. Robertson too spoke strongly against abortion and homosexuality. He too tried pass legistature which would had banned abortion and marital legistature which would had stated marriage being between male and female. But on both things he was unsuccesful. He anyway managed stop all attempts allow homosexuals serve on army.. Robertson was too pretty critical on rising feminism. He too limited greatly immigration and managed change immigration legistature so that it would had favored Christian immigrants.
On foreign politics Robertson created close relationships with Lebanon and since his presidency United States and Lebanon had special relationships (bit similarly like OTL USA and Israel). Robertson was too critical for "lack of true moral" of Euroepan countries and warned them being too liberal. The president too adovacated Christian missionary activities to several countries in Africa and Asia.
Robertson still nowadays comment much about US politics. Robertson's heritage is quiet mixed and opinion pretty much depends whom you are asking. Conservatives see him being great president ho defended Christian values and liberals see him being ratherly too conservative if not outright reactionary who is ratherly stopping any progress.
Pencho P. Kubadinski (July 27, 1918-June 26, 1993), the leader of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party who was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Tsardom of Bulgaria in 1982.
Dobri Dzhurov, Bulgarian Field Marshall and Minister of Defense during much of the Cold War and the Cool War, talking with infantrymen of the Bulgarian Land Forces, circa 1965.
Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria upon the end of the Bulgarian Regency in 1955.
Ivan Todorov-Gorunia (January 5, 1916-September 21, 2010), a general in the Bulgarian Land Forces. His appointment to the army was highly controversial due to his prior membership in the Bulgarian Communist Party, which he left after the nuking of Warsaw in 1948, after which he condemned Communism, Stalin, the Second Holocaust and the Soviet government. Nevertheless, he proved to be a loyal member of the Bulgarian military until his retirement in 1995.
Sekula Drljević (September 7, 1884-Janaury 29, 1952) a Montenegrin jurist, politician, orator and theoretician who became infamous for his role as the President of the Governing Committee of Italian governorate of Montenegro. He is a controversial figure, as his collaboration with Italy allowed for the preservation of much of Montenegrin culture and traditions, but it also paved the way for Italianization within Montenegro, leading to increasing Italian settlement in Montenegro, Italian becoming dominant over Montenegrin for several years and Italian names becoming popular in Montenegro, as well as the deportations of Montenegrin Serbs to Serbia. After his death in 1953, Montenegro was annexed into Italy on February 1, 1952.
Shefqet Vërlaci (December 15, 1877-July 21, 1946), the first Prime Minister of the Italian protectorate of Albania, also known as the Albanian Kingdom or Greater Albania.
Mustafa Merlika-Kruja (March 15, 1887-Febraury 6, 1960), the second Prime Minister of the Italian protectorate of Albania.
Ibrahim Biçakçiu (September 10, 1905-Janaury 4, 1976), the last Prime Minister of the Italian protectorate of Albania when Albania was annexed into the Kingdom of Italy on December 31, 1949.
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Croatian Poglavnik, Ante Pavelić with Mussolini in Rome upon the former’s arrival for a state visit in 1946.
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Images of the funeral of French President Charles De Gaulle on July 12, 1972, three days after his death on July 9, 1972 at the age of 81.
Roy Jenkins acted as prime minister of United Kingdom in 1970's. His premiership saw end of Cold War and Cool War. Domestically Jenkins' government commited several reforms like abolishment of death penalty, legalisation of abortion, decriminalisation of homosexuality, creation of free health treatment system, making divorcing easier for women etc. Under Jenkins' leadership Labor Party became more left-wing and quiet close with Euroepan social democratic parties.
Logo for The New Order: Last Days of Europe, a mod for Hearts of Iron IV, a World War II real-time strategy game by Swedish video game company Paradox Interactive. The mod takes place in an alternate world where Nikolai Bukharin become Premier of the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin in 1924 and Joseph P. Kennedy became President of the United States in 1933 instead of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This leads to Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan winning World War II and the Roman Alliance declaring war on the Allied Powers and also winning World War II, then leading to a four-way Cold War between the US-led Organization of Free Nations, the German-lead Einheitspakt, the Italian-led Roman Alliance and the Japanese-led Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a balkanized Russia and Kazakhstan as well.
OCC: This is very similar to OTL's TNO except with the Roman Alliance of Italy, Iberia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Israel.
Italian comic book character Giudice Giacomo Dredd (Known in English-speaking countries as Judge Dredd). Originating as a parody of the Italian Fascist Party, Judge Dredd is one of the feared Judges of Metropoli-Uno, given the power of Judge, Jury and Executioner over the common citizens. In Metropoli-Uno, crime rates have skyrocketed due to mass-unemployment caused by the increase in mechanization and rising prevalence of robots. Metropoli-Uno is a megacity, covering the entire northern half of Italy. IN the World of Judge Dredd, which is set in 2100's, the planet Earth is divided into three blocks: The Corrupt-but-marginally-free Union of the Americas (Which has expanded to cover the entirety of the Americas and the Caribbean), the Fascist-but-survivable Neo-Roma (Comprised of France, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, North Africa, Spain and Portugal) and the Communist Sov Coalition (Comprised of the former Stalingrad Pact). Minor powers include the African Union, a hypercapitalist society divided along tribal lines, and the Asian Federation, which is comprised of South China, Indochina, Japan and Southeast Asia.
The world is a dead one, ravaged by something called 'The Final War'. The oceans have become polluted beyond belief, Britain is a radioactive wasteland, and the bulk of humanity lives in overcrowded megacities. In these cities, crime is so rampant that the Judges, the sole governing authority left, can only respond to 10% of all calls. The law itself is strict beyond measure, with littering resulting in a week in the iso-cubes, and most Judges are trigger-happy and respond with brutal force to most lawbreakers. Judge Dredd is one of the few 'good Judges', in that his devotion to upholding the law is unbreakable, his will is iron, and he will occasionally be sympathetic in it's use.
Judge Dredd first appeared in print in 1977, and satirized the Fascist movement. Written by Italian writer Giuseppe Valentino, and illustrated by Spanish artist Carlos Ezquerra, it was brought to the Americas in the pages of British comic strip 2000 AD, and took off like wildfire. In Italy, there is a misaimed fandom among the younger members of the Fascist Party, who point to Dredd's devotion to duty and unshakable devotion to the state as being an ideal, while at the same time missing that the society of Neo Roma is corrupt and brutal, slowly falling apart under its own weight, and that the people are only a hairsbreadth from revolution at any time.
Panel taken from 'The Apocalypse War'. In this storyline, Metropoli-Uno is attacked by the Sov Coalition in a war of imperialism. Millions of citizens are wiped out in a nuclear first strike, with the follow-up strike by Neo Roma being largely ineffective thanks to the Sov Coalition's use of a portal device that transfers the incoming missiles to an alternate dimension. Much of the arc concerns the efforts by Dredd and the Judges to fight off the unstoppable SOv juggernaut through the urban hellscape caused by the war (Much of the storyline draws from the battles of the Second World War, with Trieste and Berlin in particular being represented). Ultimately, Dredd is only able to prevail by sneaking behind Sov lines and taking over one of their nuclear missile silos, launching a strike against the Sov capitol of Moska that removes their leadership and much of their reinforcements.
Panel taken from the first major story arc of Judge Dredd, 'The Robot Wars'. In this storyline the Robots of Metropoli-Uno rise up against their human masters, led by the charismatic Call-Me-Kenneth. Call-Me-Kenneth, long abused by humanity, attempts to take over the city and, when that fails, attempts to flee from Neo Roma for Ethiopia with his followers. The storyline served as a thinly-veiled criticism of the Ethiopian War, especially when Judge Dredd leads a counter-invasion into Italian East Africa. Call-Me-Kenneth is depicted as an abused slave striking against an unjust system, while Dredd is forced to confront how his own society is responsible for the miserable state of affairs in Ethiopia. This story-arc showed that there was more to Dredd than simply being a faceless goon in the service of the state, with the arc ending with Dredd allowing Kenneth to walk free with the words 'Libre Call-Me-Kenneth!'
Yes. The Roman Alliance doesn't collapse for one thing, and also includes Israel. Unlike the Italy of OTL's TNO, Mussolini is leader at the games start. He dies in 1963, after which one of the three leaders can take power as Duce. Italo Balbo, the status quo candidate, Galeazzo Ciano, the reformist candidate and Dino Grandi, the candidate that can restore democracy. The Great Game between Germany and Italy takes place over influence over the neutral nations of Hungary, Romania and Serbia.
Also, in TTL's TNO, I imagine that aside from Tolstoyist!Men, LibDem Vyatka would probably be seen as the best ending for Russia.
Poster for Lion of the Desert, an American anti-colonial film made by one Jassem Ali Fahas, an Amero-Lybian director, in 1973. The movie, which was about the Italian colonial administration in the early XXth century and its flaws, was critically acclaimed in the USA and in a lot of African countries, but lambasted in Portugal and Spain and outright banned in Italy. Over time, the movie has however lost of its luster, as the hero, the real-life Senussi warlord Omar al-Mukhtar, was presented in an excessively positive light and seemed to imply atrocities the Italians never actually committed, such as burning mosques during the Friday Prayer or poisoning village wells; while also portraying the native Lybians not directly aiding Omar as amoral rat-like caricatures.
The movie was allowed to be screened in Italy in 2004, to the protest of many, including (and in fact especially) Phonecians.
Still from a flashback scene of Spirale di Rabbia, a 1997 Italian movie about Giovanni Taro, a Third Italo-Ethiopian War veteran who, faced with issues in finding a place in civilian life back in his hometown of Foggia, after a run-in with a carabiniere that ends with him killing the man he decides to go on the run to avoid capture, until one of his former superiors, Lieutenant Colonel Livio Fermi, is contacted and manages to get him to snap back to reality and turn himself in. The movie interspeds Giovanni's actions to avoid capture with scenes that show how he leanrt his survivorship skills and his time in the army: notable scenes include Giovanni witnessing his entire unit succumbing to either enemy forces or heroine; his fire-forged friendship with fellow conscript Ronaldo Buzzati being abruptly cut-off as the latter commits suicide after being forced to partecipate in the massacre of a village; and the overall calloussness of officers masking their zeal behind the need to protect Italian colonists.
The movie was praised by Fascist and Neofuturists groups as a reminder of the price paid by veterans (though they often ignore the flashbacks) and the need to increase their suppport network, while others praised the frank portrayal of a mostly-pointless bloody war that can be argued to have been more of a detriment than a boon for progress. However, to some people outside the country, it's felt to be excessively violent to the point of disctracting from the message it was trying to give.
A similar movie was made in Greece, under the name of Φάλαγγες του Χεριού ("Phalanxes of the Hand"), which focuses on how the protagonist, Greek conscript Elias Toccotis, goes from an average teen growing up to be a blacksmith like his father, into an empty shell of a man forced to fight a war neither he nor Greece has any stake on, until he, during a leave, goes on a rampage in Asmara and then gets killed by the police while his superior's words to him echo in him, the last shot being stock images of the Athens Riots. This is widely considered the superior film, especially since it focuses way more strongly on the psychology of the characters (it helps it had a lower budget than the Italian original).