Tough on the Norwegians. Always a bad sign when there is a map based on the plans of a supremely powerful dictator for moving massive amounts of water and dirt. With your own dirt being noticeably absent...
Map of the Soviet land development projects as planned by Stalin. The canal you see coming from the Amu Darya destroyed the Aral Sea.
Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread
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Translation of the top, from Russian:
Armenia--Country of gods, country of Adam, Eve, and Noah. Armenia is eternal like the Earth.
Armenia--Country of gods, country of Adam, Eve, and Noah. Armenia is eternal like the Earth.
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6/10. What a low effort Armenia. Sure, it has Cyprus, but does it have Gibraltar? I don't think so. Does it have Alsace-Lorraine? Wouldn't count on it. I bet this sorry excuse for an Armenia doesn't even have a trans-continental railroad.
1. Wouldn't this be very bad design? Despite them being in a union, IMO it is an awful idea to have each country control a long strip of land when it is not necessary, due to administration issues. Wouldn't it be better to have many centralized blobs?
2. That flag is giving me flashbacks to that horrible EU flag proposal...
Also, I want to congratulate the genius that thought that a Serbian-Albanian Union would be just fine and that, while Thrace is too much for Greece, they can reclaim Magna Graecia.
How exactly are they determining the ethnicity of each canton? It makes no sense to me.
The ethnicities are already there. It is not as though this is some ASSR which is made to have 98% of one group. Here everyone lives in peace and harmony as arguments are made over why Vienna is named after the patron Saint of Hungary, and why Jews are all deported (yet still a part of the union) and how Sicilians and Appulians (or the ones form the toe, rather than heel) count as Greeks. And is that Spanish Sardinia? Alright, I can see what some of the many problems you had were. The bloody buggers even took Bornholm from Denmark. And I just realized The Hebrew Reich is classified as Slavs.
I recall some images being posted five or six times, a few within days or pages of each other. I think for ones like the one above we can let it slide, as it is a good one we can get discussion out of. I would say most of the current maps from Strange Mapss have already been posted, though. Certainly would like to see some of the old ones, though. Form before they moved to Big Think.
No I mean those colored artillery pieces. I can’t seem to make sense of them.
Aren't these the supposed ethnicities of armed forces, acting in these cantons?
Yep, that would fit the key. Never noticed that was the purpose before.
Also, it seems that the whole proposal is basically to get everything Deutsch ever controlled into one big conglomerate, with some military frontiers in Russia to apparently protect against them, and buffer states against Muslims everywhere. Including the oddity of the Serbian-Albanian thing that has almost no Serbs. And oddly enough, there is no key for the pink color showing the English, Scandinavians, and Balts. Almost a shame there aren't more Military Frontiers, as it seems like the map is inspired by some loony mixture of Austrian natoinalism and Revolutoinary French Ratoinalism. Of the sort which makes the pro in all map a checkerboard and makes the calendar metric.
If I remember correctly, they aren't. The reason the 'kantons' are all long strips of land is because they aren't meant to be based off of ethnicity - the creators (who were pacifists, which makes the presence of what seem to be armies puzzling) thought that this would help create peace.
I may be misremembering, though.
