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A still from the Chinese donghua (animation), “Journey of Three Knights” (JTK).​

JTK is a Chinese animated series starting in 2008, and still on going, that is based off a manhua (Chinese manga) of the same name that is an offshoot of the Italian space opera classic Galactic Conflicts of Sergio Martino. The girl in the still above is a squire of the Cosmic Order of Light named Yin Padmelli.

Taking place one thousand years after the Great Clone War and eighteen hundred years after the “Great Celestia Schism” — an event which led to the Order of Knights Celestia splitting in two; those who embraced “Light Chi” becoming the Cosmic Order of Light (who structure and style themselves after the Knights Celestia) and the Dark Sedi Inquisition who embrace “Dark Chi”. The Schism also led to the collapse of the Galactic Imperium and the galaxy becoming a massive sectarian battlefield between the two successors of the Order of Knights Celestia as well as falling prey to warlords and criminals.

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Xia Da, the woman behind Journey of the Three Knights manhua and donghua, circa 2016.​

Both the manhua/donghua and their creator Xia Da (Chinese manhua author and animator) along with her animation studio, Studio Crane, were criticised by Galactic Conflicts fans as “non-canon” in the most polite terms and far worse, though Sergio Martino had come out both times to ferociously defend the work and creator(s) saying that he read the JTK manhua and seen the donghua series and that both are canon as far as he is concerned, for most fans that decidedly shut them up.

Both the ongoing manhua and donghua have grown in popularity in Europe and already has a monumental cult following in China, Korea, and Indochina though in Japan and America it only Starting to rise in popularity. They (the manhua and donghua) are also credited with giving a name to the mystical power of the Knights Celestia which Sergio Martino has gone on to say is canon.

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Jacale Sedi, recurring big bad of the series and Grand Inquisitor of the Dark Sedi Inquisition and whose actions led to the “Great Celestia Schism”, prepares to launch a dark chi technique called “Thundering Palm of Illuminating Death” against Yin’s master Aleelia Shasea (top). Yin’s master Aleelia Shasea, it is foreshadowed throughout the manhua and donghua that the 20 year Aleelia and 15 year old Yin have more than just a master-squire relationship going on (bottom).​
 
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Strom Thurmond was one of longest served senators in American history. He is too saw as one of most markable senators in post-WW2 USA. He was originally Southern Democrat and he begun already in 1945 campaign against president Henry A. Wallace. This campaign led to dissolution of Democrats when Thromond and many other southern democrats founded Freedom Party,, which soon rose as notably big party. Thurmond too supported impeachment of president Wallace.

Despite some disagreement with George S. Patton Thurmond relucantely supporter Patton's president campaign on '48 election.. On foteign politics Thurmond supported anti-communist activities and CHinese War. He anyway opposed Patton's Civil Rights Act. But in other hand he supported Pattons' decision to declare Ku Klux Klan as terrorist organisation. In 1956 Thurmond seeked presidency as candidate of Freedom Paty. Him managed to capture Deep and Upper South but not nearby enough for victory. In 1958 Thurmond negotiated Arlington Agreement which ended violence in Southern states and helped less tensions altough it too allowed segregation continuing in some form.

Thurmond continued as one of key leaders of Freedom Party and senator several years. He supported Freedomite presidents Corley and Robertson and changing Freedom Party as more of party of Christian values instead continuing as segregationist party. Personally Thurmond never fully abandoned his racist views altough some months before his death he admitted him having already mid-aged daughter with black woman.

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Jesse Helms was elected to US senate in 1972 election. He was strong supporter of conservative values and he was even called as one of last Old Freedomites. In 1970's he experienced strong support for fascism and even demanded that USA should support Italy on Ethiopian war. Helms too was worried about rise of moderate socialist parties in many European countries and warned about threat of neo-communism and anti-Christian values. When Edward Brooke became first black POTUS Helms warned him being closet socialist and was worried that he is going to ruin southern system and lifestyle. Presidential election '80 becmae quiet firece and Helsm as candidate blamed Brooke as closet communist and being too close with liberal regimes of Europe. Helms even stated that Balbo's biggest mistake was that he didn't execute Berlinguer who was recently elected as PM of Italy. Helms lost narrowly to Brooke on the election.

Through 1980's Helms was strong supporter of South Africa and its Homeland War. He was one of few senators who opposed enacting strict trade blockade for SA. Helms stated that South Africa is one of last hopes "free world and white race". During 1990's he didn't changed his politics and even news from Bantustans didn't affect his views. Helms even said that proving how unable blacks are to rule themselves altough pretty much all others said that being pure nonsense. Helms too opposed allowing of homosexuals for serving in US army wanring that damaging morality of great army of the nation. Finally even many Freedomites were tired to Helms. He lost 1996 senator election for more moderate Freedomite.

Remaining years Helms held several speeches in Deep South and in 2002 he published his memoirs.
 
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Rally of German Fascist Union, Deutsche Faschist Union (DFU) in Berlin in 2018. The party was established in 1948. Altough it already at beginning made clear that it is not nazi party, it faced through of 1950's serious scandals when many ex-nazis joined to the party and tried spread antisemitic and ultranationalist views. Party leadership anyway managed purge them eventually.

DFU anyway hasn't ever got much of polularity and even in best it has gained aonly about 10 % on Reichtag election. It has anyway much of support in Southern Germany, speciality Bavaria, Saxony, Silesia and some parts of Northern Germany.

Currently DFU is nationalist but cleasrly anti-nazi party. It supports conservative Christian values and it is strongly monarchist party which supports restoration of all sub-monarchies. Some too wants restore borders of "old Germany" altough it is not very common since many members not see that being realistic goal. Altough the party is strongly fascist it supports some of democratic values.
 
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Members of the Cuban Volunteers’ Expeditionary Force (Fuerza Expedicionaria de Voluntarios Cubanos/FEVC) prepare to execute a blindfolded Moroccan man, wearing western clothing, in the town of Chefchaouen in early 1957 during the Second Arabian War.​

Throughout the duration of the conflict, the FEVC mostly did occupational and garrison duties in Spanish Morocco though they did fight a low-intensity insurgency against Ba'athist guerrillas in the country (including the launching of brutal search and destroy missions in the Moroccan countryside). In a 2010 interview an elderly Morrocan woman, who was ten at the time, recalled the time that her home town of Tafraout was occupied by two Cuban battalions in August 1957 with orders to find “Ba'athist partisans” they didn’t actually find any but in the process of searching they riled up the townspeople.

The officers in charge had their men gather up most of the town and herded them into the Tafraout’s mosque then locked and boarded it up and proceeded to set it alight with any townsperson who managed to escape the flames being shot or bayoneted by the Cubans. The interviewee and her family only survived because they hid in their cellar and a Cuban soldier was called back by his commanding officer before he could locate them – this atrocity became known as the “Tafraout Massacre” in post-war Morocco.

The brutality of the Cuban volunteers in Morocco has left lasting wounds on Morocco’s national conscious with the atrocities that the Caribbean island nation visited on the North African nation being the subject of a joint Cuban-Moroccan historical drama called “¡Fuego!” winning the European Film Awards in 2009 (the film didn’t skip on the details, leaving viewers shocked and teary-eyed).

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Survivor of the Tafraout Massacre, Adilah Daoud in 2010 before giving an interview with an American journalist.​
 
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Veteran of Battle of Trieste giving interview for BBC in 2003, 60th anniversary of beginning of the battle. Most of survivors of the battle later participated to both Arabian Wars. Since 1953 Italian government has paid for remaining veterans annual moneytary sum for their heoric battle against nazis. In Israel they are still highly respected citizens. Nowadays there is still few of hundreds vetreans left.
 
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Hermann Fegelin was high-ranked SS officer and one of closest men of Himmler. After Hitler's assassinationin 1944 Fegelein became member of Himmler's inner circle. Unlike Himmler Fegelein realised that end of the Third Reich was coming to its end and just before Battle of Berlin on October 1944 he managed to get Himmler's permission to form new division for resistance. Actually his plan was escaep and establish new nazi organisation. After fall of nazi Germany Fegelein hided on Hitler's lover Eva Braun's apartment until April 1946 but left Braun and the safeplace soon after nazi leaders got their sentences on Nuremburg Trials where Fegelein was sentenced to death in absence.

Using Eva Braun as cover Fegelein managed to create network with other former SS members and he organised new nazi group ODESSA (Organisation der Ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen or Organisation of Former SS-Members). Soon after Fegelein had finally left Germany, Eva Braun committed suicide. Soon Americans realised how big fish they have not yet captured. Naturally Mossad too was intrested about him. Fegelein managed to hide in South America many years. When United Arab Republic was formed in 1951 Fegelein and his organisation decided seek refugee place there when South America wasn't safe anymore and Mossad begun to be too close of them.

Altough Aflaq and Feelein had much of ideological differences they both hated Jews deeply. And so they found useful for each others. Aflaq gave them safe haven and ODESSA had knowledge and skills to produce chemical weapons to UAR. Naturally hwole forbidden relationship was kept as secret from whole world, even from USSR, closest ally of UAR. ODESSA got building complex in Tikrit, near of Baghdad where they begun to create chemical weapons to Aflaq and UAR. Complex was guarded by UAR army which didn't know what they were guarding. Even still nowadays it is unclear who within Aflaq knew about the secret but it is generally assumed that several members of Aflaq's inner circle and some UAR military commanders knew about them.

At end of Second Arabian War some of these chemical weapons were used against Israel. Soon after UAR was nuked, Mossad revealed Aflaq's secret which led to total break up between USSR and UAR. That too probably killed even small sympathy what world had towards Arabs. Eventually Israeli army invaded headquarter of ODESSA and managed capture several members of the organisation. Fegelein committed suicide during the battle.

ODESSA practically ceased from exist after Fegelein's death. There was anyway some new-nazi organisations who declared being direct heirs of ODESSA. These were anyway dealt relatively quikcly since many countries declared ODESSA and its successor organisations as terrorist organisations.
 
Legend of The Galactic Heroes look like ITTL?

I've thought about this myself.

-Reinhard is partially inspired by Mussolini and Rommel.

-There may be an evil communist faction which splintered off from the Free Planets Alliance.

-The Earth Cult is partially inspired by the Islamic State of Arabia.

-Fezzan may be loosely akin to Katanga.

-Job Truniht, who is already an Evil Afrikaaner IOTL, is depicted even worse ITTL. Job is explicitly racist against political figures he dislikes and is responsible for several atrocities ITTL.
 
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, French nationalist politician and one of key leaders of French National Front

In 1950's Le Pen served on French Foreign Legion and served in Indochina and Algeria. Probably in China he met some Italians and was fascinationg about fascism. He joined later to French National Front and in 1960 Le Pen was elected to French National Assembly where he served ot 2010 being one of longest served politiciasn there. Le Pen became soon famous his very nationalist speeches and anti-EEC stance. He too supported French imperialism and mantaining of colonies and Francophone. There was too some rumors his antisemtism but there is not evidences about that altough Le Pen is known to liking to tell some questionable jokes about Jews. He too seeked many times office of French president but wasn't ever elected.

In 1992 Le Pen led anti-EU campaing stating that Germany is too dominant in European politics. Frexit campaign was succesful and France left EEC and didn't join to EU. Ironically this made Germany just much stronger in EU what it was in EEC. Le Pen anyway hasn't ever regretted decision stating that France should decide its own business and not allow some outsiders to tell what it should do.
 
Cars of the Roman Alliance (1950s)

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*1951 Ferrari 195 Inter (country of origin: Kingdom of Italy).

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^1956 Fiat 1100, the standard family car for all Italians from 1956 to 1980 (country of origin: Kingdom of Italy).

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^1953 Steyr-Puch U1 car (country of origin: Federal State of Austria).

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^1955 SEAT 1400 sedan (country of origin: Spanish State).

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Notes: * = Usually reserved for the ruling elites of the RA member states (majority Italian made), ^ = What the average member state citizen could afford.
 
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Free German Army personnel on guard with Panzerfausts in a photo taken after the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War 2 . While popular media both in Germany and internationally tends to depict the Free German Army as a uniformed group in appearance , actual photos show that the Free German Army are quite varied in appearance with ex-Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS personnel keeping their uniforms (minus Nazi insignia such as the Wehrmachtsadler which formed the basis of the popular media depiction of a soldier of the FGA) whereas those that joined afterwards mostly retained civilian wear with an armband signifying their affiliation to the FGA (even with Lend-Lease versions of the German M1936 Feldbluses and M1940 hosen being produced by the Allies for them , outfitting them with a regular look is a bit of an issue due to the FGA being a partisan organization ).

This photo also shows part of the demographics of the Free German Army. While also made out of defectors of the Wehrmacht, with rare cases of Waffen-SS personnel joining up with the FGA, the FGA is mostly made out of disgruntled civilians who had it with Himmler and joined up to topple him. As such, FGA personnel range from veterans who have seen the First World War with their own eyes, defected Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS personnel and ordinary individuals with a grudge against the Nazi regime.

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Jews of Trieste in 1943 , armed and ready to defend Trieste against the Wehrmacht in a photo taken from the London Times . This image of stone-faced Jews, armed with varying weaponry with the will in their faces and mind to fight against the forces of Nazi Germany (who sought their extermination) and defy their genocide proved an impressive image and helped change the stereotype of Jews from cowardly and money-minded individuals into courageous and heroic individuals who are willing to fight to defend their way of life .
 
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Minsk, capital of Belarus

Belarus has recovered quiet well after fall of Soviet Union and communsim. It managed develope democratic and liberal nation. There is too sizable Russian minority, biggest among former SSRs after Russia. There is some support for joining to Russia but even Russian speakers are not very favorable for the idea since living standards are bit higher than in Russia.
 
Cannoness Innya Molotova, leader of the Redeemer’s League, a breakaway group from the Holy Terran Empire. While complicit in many of the Empire’s crimes against beastmen, Molotova eventually grew so sick of her work that she rebelled against Vandire and swayed a third of its strength to her side. Nominally aligned with the Imperium of Man, she is extremely popular among Russian fans of Warhammer 40,000 due to being obviously inspired by Molotov.
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An Ork Resista. Originally the Orks were a peaceful, friendly empire in the Warhammer galaxy’s northern fringe, but that changed when the Imperium of Man conquered their homeworld of Orcus Prime and brutally subjugated them. After a long, grinding, grueling gureilla war, the Imperium’s forces were driven off-world and the Orcs were able to secure their solar system against further incursions. While Capri has officially sworn to someday reclaim it, in reality the Imperium has better things to do.
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A Cadian Shock-trooper. Cadia is a world in the Imperium of Man that is famous for it’s well-train3d, well-equipped infantry and armored regiments. Heavily inspired by modern militaries, especially Western European and American militaries, they are popular in the United States, to the extent that media featuring them often gives them American, rather than British, accents.
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An Ork Resista. Originally the Orks were a peaceful, friendly empire in the Warhammer galaxy’s northern fringe, but that changed when the Imperium of Man conquered their homeworld of Orcus Prime and brutally subjugated them. After a long, grinding, grueling gureilla war, the Imperium’s forces were driven off-world and the Orcs were able to secure their solar system against further incursions. While Capri has officially sworn to someday reclaim it, in reality the Imperium has better things to do.
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That's ironic, considering how OTL's Warhammer 40k Orks are literally a violent, 'soldier' race created by the Old Ones. This characterization makes them more like Blizzard Orcs.
 
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That's ironic, considering how OTL's Warhammer 40k Orks are literally a violent, 'soldier' race created by the Old Ones. This characterization makes them more like Blizzard Orcs.
Won’t lie, that’s kind of my inspiration. They’re also heavily inspired by the Ethiopian resistance forces in FoM.
 
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A publicity poster created by the Deutsches Reichswehrmacht and the Republic of China Armed Forces* celebrating more than 50 years of Sino-German military cooperation. Note that it is a recreation of a 1930's era poster. The final publicity poster was chosen over more fanciful candidates for it's simplicity.

*Because in this TL, the Wehrmacht have a more clean reputation thanks to the Free German Army, most countries which had training from them such as China kept more of their traditions from them such as their dress/service uniforms. And yes they also kept the Stahlhelm for military parades
 
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The Élisabethville synagogue built in 1929. The first Jews arrived in the current territory of Katanga approximately in 1904 from Belgium, the community grew in the 20's with the arrival of Jews from Rhodes and South Africa Like the rest of the Katangan population, the mother tongue of most Katangan Jews is French, although Ladino and Yiddish are still spoken within the community. By the time of independence in 1960 the community consisted of about 6,000 people, which grew during the following decades along with the prosperity of the country. Moïse Tshombe always had a friendly relationship with the community, being an occasional guest at Bar Mitzvahs and weddings.

With the beginning of Treurnicht's cleansing of non-Afrikaner minorities, many South African Jews migrated to Katanga, integrating well within the population.

Today the Katanga Jewish community consists of approximately 16,000 people which is perfectly integrated with the rest of society, antisemitism is almost unheard of and there have never been attacks against the community, many members are engaged in the diamond business or managing small shops.
 
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US Army marching through Tokyo street, 1946 (a.k.a Banwa 2)

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U.S Marines return fire from Red Guard soldiers as they fight street to street in the street of Xiamen on May 1950. Sporadic resistance would continue up until May 15.
The casualties mounted as nearly 10,000 Americans engaged in heated house-to-house fighting. Eisenhower would privately relay in his diary:
I never thought anything could make a dent in China’s population. God have mercy on us that we seem to be giving it a try.


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The Royal Hong Kong Regiment alongside with pro-Guomindang camp, Royal Hong Kong Police Force, 14K (yes, the Hong Kong triad group), citizens, United States, West Germany, and Republic of China fend off the Red Guard in the street of Tsim Sha Tsui, on January 25th, 1950.
 
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