Basically just Russian just denying their atrocities to the massacre of Abschwangen to the attempted mass killing of Jews in Eastern Europe by likely saying that “it’s just the Russian empire, did it not us” similar to Japan
The exterior of the Great Wars History Museum in Moscow, Russian Social Republic, c. 2017. First opened in 1973, the Great Wars History Museum was created by the Russian Government to educate the Russian people about the Two World Wars and Russia's role in them. The museum would be rather infamous, as many of the exhibits in the Second Great War would make no mention of war crimes and atrocities committed by the Russians Armed Forces, especially following the museum's restructuring and renovations between 2015-2017. Furthermore, the renovations would also frame the Russian Invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941 as "a move to protect the Russian speaking populations of the region."
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You mean Japan denying what it did in China in WW2, even to this day.
I loosely based that Museum of the Great Wars off of the Yushukan Museum
The most likely origin of the Spanish Flu was in Kansas, when a rare strain of the H1N1 virus mutated and became transmitted along avian migratory routes and via farm animals. The first known cases did appear there. With the war ending earlier, the spread would take a different route, but censorship would still be imposed, and thus neutral Spain would still report it.
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Also in the medical field, and discussed on this thread, is how pellagra didn't seemingly dwindle down CS troop numbers into signing the armistice with the US. Joseph Goldberger also wouldn't be going down south ITTL to do research in it.
This actually covers some of hte theories of where the Spanish Flu might have originated, which also includes Chinese laborers brought over by the British
Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain following the Spanish Civil War.
While the Entente supported his forces in the war, Franco chose not to get Spain involved in the Second Great War. Spain was invited to the 1945 Berlin Peace Treaties but refused to attend, fearing that the treaty would cause Spain to withdraw from Puerto Rico (more information: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...federacy-tl-191.185493/page-317#post-24147689). The treaty had recognized Alfonso XII's government in exile as the legitimate Spanish government and refused to recognize Spanish claims over Puerto Rico.
Under Franco, Spain was neutral in the Bitter Cold. Economic sanctions were put in place during the Bitter Cold, and the US (in secret) supported rebels in Puerto Rico.
During the European Spring, which saw the end of German influence in Western Europe and the fall of the Tsar's reign in Russia, Spain faced some protests, but they were suppressed quickly. Following the European Spring, Spain proposed a new faction in the Bitter Cold, the European Bloc. However, Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, and Luxembourg refused to join, fearing another war with Germany and wanting to distance themselves from their Actionist past.
In 1975 Franco passed away. Today Spain is a functioning democracy and is part of, what historians consider, the US bloc, created after the US left the Central Powers (more information: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...federacy-tl-191.185493/page-295#post-24008375).
I think that at end of GW2 Franco would had happily taken Gibraltar since Britain was losing. Yes, he was sympathic with Entente speciality with Britain and France but he was too cold blood pragmatic and would had done such thing to play nice guy and of course giving some propaganda victory to Spaniards.
Picture of the Mormon Battalion Monument, 2014.
In 1940, this monument was built to honor members of the Mormon Battalion, the only religious unit in United States military history in federal service, recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation, that died in the First Mexican War. The Al Smith administration promoted it to bring about unity between the Mormons and the rest of the country. During the Second Great War, some drunk US soldiers that were on leave destroyed it. During the Leo Enos Sr. administration, as part of his policy to make amends for the atrocities the US government committed in Utah and the American-Venezuelan War, the monument was being rebuilt and was fully rebuilt in 1996 during the Bob Dole administration.
Adding to this.
Map of Gibraltar.
Gibraltar was a British overseas territory. After Britain surrendered in the Second Great War, Spanish forces occupied the territory. However, the 1945 Berlin Peace Treaties did not recognize Spain's occupation but at the same time did not recognize the territory as British. The city was under martial law until Franco died in 1975. A referendum was held if it wished to rejoin Britain or not. Surprisingly the city voted to stay with Spain and is still part of it today.
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I think that CPs would happily recognise Gibraltar as part of SPain. Better give strategically imnportant place to neutral but weak nation than let great power which was enemy of CPs through two Great Wars keep that.
Picture of the 1926 Portuguese Coup.
This coup had seen Portugal put under the rule of the Actionist Estado Novo and become a De Facto member of the Entente Powers due to their support. However, Portugal was neutral in the Second Great War. The regime would last until 1974.
Picture of the 1974 Portuguese Revolution
By the 1970s, massive uprisings were occurring in Portugal's African colonies. Many Portuguese grew tired of the fighting in Africa and authoritarian rule at home. The Estado Novo was overthrown in an uprising on April 25, 1974. The Portuguese government withdrew from Africa, and in 1976 the first free and fair elections since 1926 were held in Portugal. Portugal today is a functioning democracy and is part of the US bloc.
I wrote in my headcanon that Alfonso XII's government in exile was recognized as the legitimate government of Spain due to Spain cozying up to the Entente and the fact that Germany supported Alfonso XII's government during the Spanish Civil War.
Picture of Austrian Barrels arriving in Hungary to suppress an uprising in the region, ca. mid-1941.
So I don't want to get nailed for picture viloations but I wanted to post the Confederate equipment elvotion from Paths not taken here so I quoted it all
You could also paste several pics onto one pic, this way three pics become one pic, I do it all the time.
You might have to shrink the pics down a bit so they're not too big.
The Starcie: The Prelude
A map of the Partitions of Poland-Lithuania between the Empires of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
The period of terrorism, gun fights, and general sectarian violence that gripped the Greater Poland region of Germany from the 1960s to the 90s would have it's roots in the Partitions of Poland in the second half of the 18th Century, when the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were divided up between Germany, Austria, and Russia. As a result, the Polish people were find themselves divided and living under foreign rulers, which aside from a series of rebellions, would largely the status quo of the land until the First Great War. In 1916, Germany would establish a puppet state in the form of the Kingdom of Poland in the formerly Russian controlled part of the land, thus the Poles had a nation once again. However, the Poles living within the Reich were unable to have the freedom to join the newly reborn Polish state. Furthermore, since the 1870s, the Poles living within the Greater Poland region were subjected to the Kulturkampf, which aimed to Germanize them and to convert them to Protestantism. But that only served to empower the sense of nationalism and pride within the Polish population within Prussia. This policy of Germanization upon the Poles would continue onto 1931, when the policy was officially abandoned, but the situation of the Poles would not improve as they were continued to treated as 2nd class citizens.
A painting of Poles being expelled from their homes by Prussian Authorities, c. 1915.
During the Second Great War, many Prussian Poles would serve in the Imperial German Armed Forces, many serving with distinction against the Russians on the Eastern Front. Which upon the war's end, many young Poles hoped that their faithful service to the Fatherland would lead to an improvement in their conditions as well being granted equal representation. However they would encounter no real change as the German Authorities in the regions sought maintain the status quo. But as the 1950s started, the Polish youth in the provinces of West and East Prussia, Posen, and Silesia would begin to organize into activist groups and would begin their demonstrations, which either aim to achieve reunification with Poland or at least, gain representation and equal rights. But so did grew the resistance to such movements as both the local German authorities and ethnic Germans began to feel that their hold in the region was being threatened.
Polish protestors in Posen holding a demonstration in the middle of the city, C. 1956. As the 1950s went on, so grew the popularity and the momentum of the Solidarność (or Solidarity) movement.
German policemen clashing with Solidarność Protestors in Bromberg, C. 1961. Very often, the Polish demonstrators would engage in violent clashes with the police as well as local German mobs who were intent of "reminding the Poles of their place."
As the 1960s dawned, world events, namely the Decolonization of Africa as well as the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, would further embolden the Solidarność movement in it's motivation toward their nationalistic goals. So much so, that certain splinter groups of the movement would radicalize under the name of the Front Zjednoczenia Polski (or Polish Reunification Front), as the members would begin see that the only way to reunification with Poland "was through violent means." The FZP would move toward their goals by acquiring arms, training the guerillas, and plotted out their targets and potential opponents. Likewise, some ethnic Germans in the region would also form a paramilitary organization called the Preußischer Abwehrkampfbund (or Prussian Defense League) as they viewed the growing Polish irredentism would lead to an shooting war between Poles and Germans in the region. Which the PDL, much like their future FZP rivals, would ready themselves by acquiring arms and trained their insurgents. By 1966, the situation in the Greater Poland region was proving to be a growing powder keg, which the question in many minds were, when was it going to blow?
A map of the Partitions of Poland-Lithuania between the Empires of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
The period of terrorism, gun fights, and general sectarian violence that gripped the Greater Poland region of Germany from the 1960s to the 90s would have it's roots in the Partitions of Poland in the second half of the 18th Century, when the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were divided up between Germany, Austria, and Russia. As a result, the Polish people were find themselves divided and living under foreign rulers, which aside from a series of rebellions, would largely the status quo of the land until the First Great War. In 1916, Germany would establish a puppet state in the form of the Kingdom of Poland in the formerly Russian controlled part of the land, thus the Poles had a nation once again. However, the Poles living within the Reich were unable to have the freedom to join the newly reborn Polish state. Furthermore, since the 1870s, the Poles living within the Greater Poland region were subjected to the Kulturkampf, which aimed to Germanize them and to convert them to Protestantism. But that only served to empower the sense of nationalism and pride within the Polish population within Prussia. This policy of Germanization upon the Poles would continue onto 1931, when the policy was officially abandoned, but the situation of the Poles would not improve as they were continued to treated as 2nd class citizens.
A painting of Poles being expelled from their homes by Prussian Authorities, c. 1915.
During the Second Great War, many Prussian Poles would serve in the Imperial German Armed Forces, many serving with distinction against the Russians on the Eastern Front. Which upon the war's end, many young Poles hoped that their faithful service to the Fatherland would lead to an improvement in their conditions as well being granted equal representation. However they would encounter no real change as the German Authorities in the regions sought maintain the status quo. But as the 1950s started, the Polish youth in the provinces of West and East Prussia, Posen, and Silesia would begin to organize into activist groups and would begin their demonstrations, which either aim to achieve reunification with Poland or at least, gain representation and equal rights. But so did grew the resistance to such movements as both the local German authorities and ethnic Germans began to feel that their hold in the region was being threatened.
Polish protestors in Posen holding a demonstration in the middle of the city, C. 1956. As the 1950s went on, so grew the popularity and the momentum of the Solidarność (or Solidarity) movement.
German policemen clashing with Solidarność Protestors in Bromberg, C. 1961. Very often, the Polish demonstrators would engage in violent clashes with the police as well as local German mobs who were intent of "reminding the Poles of their place."
As the 1960s dawned, world events, namely the Decolonization of Africa as well as the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, would further embolden the Solidarność movement in it's motivation toward their nationalistic goals. So much so, that certain splinter groups of the movement would radicalize under the name of the Front Zjednoczenia Polski (or Polish Reunification Front), as the members would begin see that the only way to reunification with Poland "was through violent means." The FZP would move toward their goals by acquiring arms, training the guerillas, and plotted out their targets and potential opponents. Likewise, some ethnic Germans in the region would also form a paramilitary organization called the Preußischer Abwehrkampfbund (or Prussian Defense League) as they viewed the growing Polish irredentism would lead to an shooting war between Poles and Germans in the region. Which the PDL, much like their future FZP rivals, would ready themselves by acquiring arms and trained their insurgents. By 1966, the situation in the Greater Poland region was proving to be a growing powder keg, which the question in many minds were, when was it going to blow?
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Whatever happened to the kid on here who said his parents thought he looked like Jake Featherston
British soldiers are marching towards the frontlines, 1916. They run into the unknown, many of them only found death in the end.
President Theodore Roosevelt (right, standing on turret) addresses the crew of USS Connecticut, on March, 1921, during the final week of his presidency.
The ruins of Louisville, Kentucky, 1943.
President Theodore Roosevelt (right, standing on turret) addresses the crew of USS Connecticut, on March, 1921, during the final week of his presidency.
The ruins of Louisville, Kentucky, 1943.
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