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On the 31st of January 1919, up to 12,000 English troops were sent to Glasgow, Scotland to put down what the Scottish Secretary described as 'a Bolshevist uprising.' This is the largest deployment of British troops within the Isles in history.

William Gallacher, one of the leaders of the 60,000 workers and trade-unionists on strike and later the last British Communist Politician, claimed that the rioters should have marched to Maryhill Barracks and persuaded the disgruntled troops to join them in the revolution. Had this had happened, the troops would have met the English soldiers and tanks on the streets of Glasgow, resulting in violence.

This timeline will explore the possible results of such an event, which would lead to further escalation and eventually a revolution within Scotland. This would lead to an autocratic and authoritarian, communist regime existing on the British Isles, heightening tensions during the Cold War, before it's eventual move to democracy alongside the Warsaw Pact regimes of Eastern Europe.​
 
This regime will likely follow the path of other communist nations in Europe: suppression of personal freedoms, autocratic state socialist only in name, a puppet of the USSR, and a move towards the EU after the end of the Cold War.

Overall, I am still wondering how a larger Battle of George Square could lead to a revolution, so I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions!
 
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