Images from the Footprint of Mussolini

Here is my take on anime, particularly Fresh! PreCure since in OTL, it was one of the PreCure series dubbed in Italy,

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A promotional poster for Fresh!PreCure, a joint Italian-Japanese anime series. It stars the titular PreCures (Cure Peach,Cure Berry and Cure Pine) who try to search for Infinity, a font of immense power and battle against Labyrinth, a society from a parallel universe run by a supercomputer called Lord Moebius that wants to conquer all other universes and Earth being the latest of their targets. Fresh! PreCure is the first PreCure series to be produced in collaboration with Italy and this shows in Labyrinth under Moebius being compared to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union of the past and their power up costumes and attack items having some traces of Facist iconography.

(Yep, fasces instead of your typical magical girl wands is used for TTL's Fresh! Pretty Cure as their weapons)
 
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Gulag in Komi Republic, Russian Federation. During Soviet years around of Russia and other SSRs was several gulags. Speciality during Stalin's and Suslov's years on camps was hundreds of thousands if not millions of political prisoners. During Second Holocaust hundreds of thousands Jews were prisoners and killed on these camps. After Second October Revolution in 1971 Malenkov immediately closed these camps and freed political prisoners. Nowadays gulags are well-known thing for Russians and many of them have changed as museums and memorial sites.
 
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Ikeda Shinji and his little sister Hanako watch in horror as their parents are killed by an Ainu mob as their house burns, having been firebombed by that same mob, a scene from Japanese animation giant Studio Asashi’s classic animated film “A Way Out” (Asashi means “Rising Sun”).​

Released in Japan on June 10, 1986 and international on August 4, 1986, A Way Out tells two stories about ethnic Japanese on both sides of the Japan-Ezo border after WWII (the stories eventually merge into one), the first story is of 16 year old Ikeda Shinji and his 6 year sister Hanako as they make a desperate attempt to escape the People’s Republic of Ezo (formerly called the People’s Republic of Hokkaido) in 1948 during a particularly bad anti-Japanese pogrom caused by a horrific crop failure that the dominant Ainu community and communist government (including ethnic Japanese communists/collaborators) blame on ethnic Japanese living in Ezo.

The second tells of Shinji and Hanako’s cousin Ishikawa Keiko, a 15 year old schoolgirl from Tokyo, who finds out what happened to her cousins when she and her parents receive a letter from Shinji that was smuggled into Japan from Ezo. Though Keiko’s parents want to help their orphaned nephew and niece the situation is too complex with too many variables to account for, but Keiko is determined to find her cousins and bring them back with her into Japan. With the help of her childhood friend, Sato Jirō, Keiko sets out for the Japan-Ezo maritime border.

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Keiko convincing Jirō to help her rescue her cousins.​

With the Japanese police launching a search for the presumed missing children (Keiko & Jirō) and the Ainu secret police, the NKVD-trained Ainu Cultural Preservation Committee or ACPC, hot on the trail of the Ikeda children after learning of the sent letter and the subsequent hunt for Keiko and Jirō, it is a race against time and the dangerous odds as the four children move closer and closer to one another. The movie ends with the Ikedas happily uniting with Keiko and Jirō at a small fishing village close to the maritime border, with the ACPC and Ezo People’s Army Border Guard being ordered by Sapporo to let the children go and stand down.

The film was notable for being a heart wrenching tale of the experiences, albeit in this case partially fictionalised, of ethnic Japanese refugees fleeing to Japan to escape Ainu discrimination, or worse, in Ezo and is among the most popular of the Asashi films.
 
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Poster of success movie Forrest Gump (1994) starred by Tom Hanks. It tells about Forrest Gump named man who is born in Alabama in 1928. Movie shows his harsh schooltime but is anyway helped by schoolgirl named Jenny and they form lifetime friendship. Gump is too young to participate to WW2 but he is allowed go to Chinese War.

When he returns home he meets president Patton in White House. Gump too witness violent civil right movement and last stand of Ku Klux Klan. During 1950's he too faces his war time superior lieutenant Dan Taylor who lost his leg in China and is enforced retire from army. Together they found small shipping company which transport stuff between United States and Cuba and they too help bring military suppies to Fidel Castro on his fighting against fascist dictator Batista.

Gump too meets his childhood friend Jenny who has fallen to drug circles. They soon get one son. On early 1960's Jenny dies from drug overdose and Gump surrendly becomes his son's single parent. The movie ends in 1972 when Gump is watching news about fall of Soviet Union.
 
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One of the ringleaders of the Second Russian Revolution which overthrew the Soviet government, Boris Yeltsin oversaw the 1990s in Russia when the country finally recovered from Communist rule and began to pick itself up again. He is widely regarded as Russia's best president to date, narrowly surpassing his predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Former Russian chief prosecutor and president Dmitri Medvedev, pictured alongside FSB head Vladimir Putin. Medvedev rose to fame when he successfully prosecuted notable communist Gennady Zyuganov and notorious antisemite Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He succeeded Boris Yeltsin in 2004 and served until 2012. Vladimir Putin, as head of the FSB, is part of the "Six Eyes" organisation, along with the heads of the CIA, MI6, BIS, DSGE and BND, dedicated to hunting down Nazi and Communist war criminals as well as maintaining global security.
 
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Poster for the movie Exodus (1954) considered one of the greatest classic Hollywood films.

The film begins with the chaotic scenes of the expulsion of the Jews from Hungary and the protagonists trying to reach Italy by all means.

In a refugee camp near Lubiana Miklós Farkas (Kirk Douglas) a Betar leader meets the actress Judit Korda (Gabor) and her father Janós (Otto Preminger). Upon learning of the German invasion of Italy and a bombing of the camp, the crowd desperately flees towards Trieste.

While Judit helps the children and other women board the rescue boats, Miklós assembles a unit that includes the fraudster Béla Polanyi (Peter Lorre), Professor Imre Garas (Ernest Borgnine) and Judit's father, Janós. Interspersing the intense fighting against the Nazis with the few pauses in combat, the members of the unit talk about their past lives, their human defects and the future they hope to have.

Down in the harbor Rabbi Abraham Pfeffer (Edward G. Robinson) helps care for the increasingly numerous injured with the help of prostitute Eva Teller (Lauren Bacall) who identifies as an atheist having numerous discussions about the human condition and God .

In the city, Miklós's unit suffers losses to the Germans, including Imre who dies in a mortar attack and Janós who, wounded and unable to be evacuated asks Miklós to take care of his daughter, being left behind, commits suicide with a grenade belt killing a German platoon.

At the peak of the battle, the Italian reinforcements arrived including Brigadier General Pietro Favre (Frank Sinatra) who, with the help of the Hungarian Jews, managed to repel the Germans from Trieste and the invasion of Italy.

As the protagonists recover from the battle, Miklós decides that he will rejoin the forces to liberate Hungary. Judit wishes to follow him but manages to convince her to embark for Libya, promising to meet her at the end of the war. Béla decides to join Miklós promising himself to lead an honorable life from now on.

Rabbi Abraham and Eva now friends embark one of the boats to Libya, although Eva decides that she will go to Palestine to live with a cousin in Netanya but they promise to stay in contact.

The film culminates with the arrival and speech of General Orde Wingate (Paul Newman) and the departure of the Anglo-Jewish army ready to liberate Budapest and beyond.

During the premiere of the film the Gabor sisters (Sári, Eva and Magda) cried openly, in particular Magda who was among the Jewish refugees who fled to Italy.
 
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Soldiers of Polish Liberation Army photographed in 1949 or 1950. When Poland fall at end of Second Polish-Soviet War in 1948, Witold Pilecki rapidly organised remnants of Polish Armed Forces as Polish Liberation Army which operated on Carpathian Mountains. PLA was probably best organised anti-Communist resistance movement in Soviet Union and its slave states. It is estimated that to actions of PLA participated about one million Poles through Soviet occupation inyears 1948 - 1972. The organisation practised several military strikes against Soviet Red Army and Polish People's Army, sabotages, assassinations of Soviet officers and their Polish collaboratists and sharing several pamflets around the country. Well-organised and highly effective PLA caused great fear in Warsaw and speciality in Moscow. Its actions killed about 50000 Russians and Polish collaboratists.
 
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Cover art for the recently started alternate history timeline, “The Grey Wolf Howls” by user DuceImperator56 (who also made the cover art).​

The timeline is telling a story beginning with a POD of Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari not having a falling out with Mussolini and eventually succeeding him as Duce of Italy (initially anyway as he opts for the title of Prime Minister as he views Mussolini as the only one worthy of the title of “duce”), with Italo Balbo named as Ciano’s successor should anything happen to him.

Ciano then goes about reforming fascism, giving it a human face (including economic reforms and slight political liberalisation though the National Fascist Party still retains control of Italy), he even plans to give a better deal for the Ethiopian natives – stating that, “Treating them (the Ethiopians) better will diminish the chance of a revolt or worse.” Thus far in the TL things are going well with the Roman Alliance steadily reforming (the rest of the bloc following Italy’s lead either willingly or begrudgingly). Unfortunately for Ciano, and his renovations to the fascist system, events beyond his control are starting to emerge in Ethiopia and grumblings in Italy don’t help much either.
 
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One of last known photos of Lenin's family's house in Simbirsk, known as Ulyanovsk in years 1924 - 1972. Soon after dissolution of Soviet Union and communism in Europe, president Malenkov gave order to demolish the place so it won't become place of pilgrim for neo-communists. Nowadays on the place is memorial site for victims of communism.
 
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Andrei Vlasov (1901-1983), Russian general who was captured by the Nazis and set up the Russian Liberation Army during the Second World War. After the war, he would go into hiding until the early 1950s where he would reemerge into the spotlight, becoming a major leader in the Russian emigre scene until the fall of communism, when he returned to Russia along with many emigres who escaped the Soviets and while his collaboration with the Nazis remains a black stain on his reputation, many Russians have a view of him (and of emigres who joined the Nazis including Evgeny Messner, who's ideas shape the Russian Federation's military) as a man who joined the Nazis out of naivete, not out of treason to Russia.
 
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Sheet music for Anthem of Free Russia, written as the unofficial co-official anthem of the Russian Provisional Government in 1917 and adopted by the Russian Federation as its national anthem after the fall of communism.
 
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Mohammed Daoud Khan, prime minister Kingdom of Afghanistan and then only president of short-lived and unrecognised Socialist Republic of Afghanistan. During his premiership Khan committed several reforms speciality regarding rights of women. In 1973 king Mohammed Zahir Shah was getting medical treatment from foreing nations. Meanwhile Khan with support of left-wing politicians and several officers took power and declared Afghanistan as socialist republic. Any nation didn't recognise Khan's regime and declare the nation to total trade embargo. Khan's several socialist programs caused much of frustration and there was several mutinies against him. Only four months after the coup Turkey, Iran and India invaded Afghanistan and ousted Khan's regime. Later Khan, several members of his administrations and many high-ranked officers were hanged.
 
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Astana, capital city of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is clearly most prosperous former Central Asian SSR altough it is still pretty poor nation compared to Europe, North America and many East and Southern Asian countries. Kazakhstan has got some investiments due its fossil fuels, mines and agricultural products. But it is still far behind of Turkey, iran and China, which have more influence in Central Asia. Kazakhstan ist oo pretty corrupt and authotarian nation (altough more democratic than OTL Kazakhstan).
 

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One of last known photos of Lenin's family's house in Simbirsk, known as Ulyanovsk in years 1924 - 1972. Soon after dissolution of Soviet Union and communism in Europe, president Malenkov gave order to demolish the place so it won't become place of pilgrim for neo-communists. Nowadays on the place is memorial site for victims of communism.
I see the TTL parallel with how Spandau Prison was demolished in order to avoid becoming a shrine for German neo-Nazis because of Rudolf Hess' time there in OTL.
 
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President Albert Einstein giving speech in January 1952 where he gives support for banning and dissolution of Israeli Communist Party soon after revelation of Second Holocaust orchestrated by Stalin.
 
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