Probably. Although I think Mel is Cuban, so he probably doesn't star in film.
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Well,there could be communist sympathizers in there.My ATL character is also like that,in Indonesia.
Yeah, that's what the character is supposed to be. He was raised by an Aborigine father, who turned to socialism after his and his family's experiences under the Australian government, and a white mother who had been active in college Communist groups. Hence, the name indicates his Australian origin and socialist sympathies.
And now, it's time for Mr. C's harrowing hour of headcanon:
- West Germany still maintains a guest worker program in the 50's and 60's like OTL, but the most common applicants for the program are North Africans instead of Turks.
- Chinese cinema and pop culture will undergo a renaissance in the post-war years.
- The UASR's dealings in Africa include securing the independence of Western Sahara.
- While a majority of Jews are socialist, even in the FBU, there is a tiny minority of Revisionist Zionist groups (or "neo-zionists", as they're often called) in the capitalist zone who believe that socialism is incompatible with Judaism, and believe that the majority of Jews who are socialists are heretics. The rest of the Jewish community hates them, mostly because of their friendly relations with far-right groups.
- Speaking of the far-right, there will be a major split between pro-capitalist rightists ("national liberalism"), neo-Stalinists/Strasserists ("national bolshevism"), and "traditionalists" who just want a proper aristocracy and monarchy.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe will go into politics in West Germany. God help them.
- Donald Trump is a politician in Cuba...and he's mostly a laughingstock who's only supporters are Trump Organization higher-ups and really old people. A common joke in Cuba is that the only reason he's still around is so that more competent racists don't get seats in Congress.
- Speaking of Cuban politics, political party lines are...fluid, so to speak. The major political parties began as rival splinter groups of the National Salvation Front, and could now best be described as political machines. The minor political parties are typically defined by a single issue, and are often run by business families or even celebrities. In the 50's, one of the most common joke in Cuba was "Did you know that Cuban politicians can levitate? That's how they can stand without a platform!", which got so widespread that the term "levitating politician" is now a term in the Oxford English Dictionary for "a politician or other public figure that manages to stay in power despite not having much to offer"
- West Germany still maintains a guest worker program in the 50's and 60's like OTL, but the most common applicants for the program are North Africans instead of Turks.
- Chinese cinema and pop culture will undergo a renaissance in the post-war years.
- The UASR's dealings in Africa include securing the independence of Western Sahara.
- While a majority of Jews are socialist, even in the FBU, there is a tiny minority of Revisionist Zionist groups (or "neo-zionists", as they're often called) in the capitalist zone who believe that socialism is incompatible with Judaism, and believe that the majority of Jews who are socialists are heretics. The rest of the Jewish community hates them, mostly because of their friendly relations with far-right groups.
- Speaking of the far-right, there will be a major split between pro-capitalist rightists ("national liberalism"), neo-Stalinists/Strasserists ("national bolshevism"), and "traditionalists" who just want a proper aristocracy and monarchy.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe will go into politics in West Germany. God help them.
- Donald Trump is a politician in Cuba...and he's mostly a laughingstock who's only supporters are Trump Organization higher-ups and really old people. A common joke in Cuba is that the only reason he's still around is so that more competent racists don't get seats in Congress.
- Speaking of Cuban politics, political party lines are...fluid, so to speak. The major political parties began as rival splinter groups of the National Salvation Front, and could now best be described as political machines. The minor political parties are typically defined by a single issue, and are often run by business families or even celebrities. In the 50's, one of the most common joke in Cuba was "Did you know that Cuban politicians can levitate? That's how they can stand without a platform!", which got so widespread that the term "levitating politician" is now a term in the Oxford English Dictionary for "a politician or other public figure that manages to stay in power despite not having much to offer"
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Fred Trump was a vicious racist. I can see him being a NSF lackey, and since he would be a victim of the Red terror, I can also see him fleeing to Cuba, with Donald being held up by the Cuban nationalists as a symbol of capitalist white privilege. Levitating politician may describe Trump and Hillary perfectly.
In the modern day, has Cuban society liberalized to a certain extent?
What direction does China go in: social democracy, junta nationalism, pseudo-Maoism?
I think UASR-American intervention in Africa could lead to some disastrous blow-back.
China probably goes in a "matryoshka republic" direction.
Cuban society is more liberal after MacArthur (it's been hinted that his successor makes reforms that try and bridge the gap and gives up their claim to the mainland), but there'd probably still be some holdouts, and there'd still be a noticeable gap between the Cubans and the exiles.
Cuban society is more liberal after MacArthur (it's been hinted that his successor makes reforms that try and bridge the gap and gives up their claim to the mainland), but there'd probably still be some holdouts, and there'd still be a noticeable gap between the Cubans and the exiles.
Well, not really, since Jello said that the Cuban elite would include plenty of native-born Cubans.
So, I think this might enter in as one of the classic Universal Monster, given it was written by a radical leftist:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Werewolf_of_Paris
Let's see...
In the 30's, baseball was one of the most popular sports in China. With China's development going a different path ITTL (possibly starting as early as the 50's), I could see a friendly baseball rivalry between China, Korea, Japan, and the UASR. The World Series might truly be a World Series.
In Russia play baseball too. My question is - Americans really so fond of baseball? Just when my father and I watch movies where the action takes place in the states, he casts doubt on the significance of this strange sport.
Soccer football is another sport, thanks to China, USSR and Latin America and I'm sure that the UASR will make it the second most popular sport after baseball. Basketball will catch up too and make it third place, but I still think that the UASR lead in that sport is still going to be significant if African Americans still embraced the sport wholeheartedly.
One overall divergence in sports might come in the form of an earlier, stronger emphasis on and pooularity of women's presence on the field/in the arena. If not in the immediate years following the UASR's formation, then certainly in the 1950s.
Don't forget the rivalries with White Cuba and Venezuela.
Meanwhile, the UASR will have an earlier large-scale influx of cultural exchange with Mexico and other Comintern-aligned nations in the Western Hemisphere. And that can result in soccer becoming more popular north of the Rio Grande. Meanwhile in South America, the legacy of WWII will make the Brazil-Argentina rivalry much more heated on the soccer field.
As for China's sports scene? Soccer can still end up being popular, since 蹴鞠 (Tsu' Chu) was pretty much an early form of the game.
Yes, baseball really is popular and significant here. The current top leagues first started in 1876 and 1901, similar to when many early association football leagues began. While no longer the most popular American sport, it continues to attract high attendance and television views. The most recent baseball championship games were won by the Chicago Cubs, a team which last earned a championship in the year 1908.
Don't forget the rivalries with White Cuba and Venezuela.
Meanwhile, the UASR will have an earlier large-scale influx of cultural exchange with Mexico and other Comintern-aligned nations in the Western Hemisphere. And that can result in soccer becoming more popular north of the Rio Grande. Meanwhile in South America, the legacy of WWII will make the Brazil-Argentina rivalry much more heated on the soccer field.
As for China's sports scene? Soccer can still end up being popular, since 蹴鞠 (Tsu' Chu) was pretty much an early form of the game.
Yes, baseball really is popular and significant here. The current top leagues first started in 1876 and 1901, similar to when many early association football leagues began. While no longer the most popular American sport, it continues to attract high attendance and television views. The most recent baseball championship games were won by the Chicago Cubs, a team which last earned a championship in the year 1908.
Comrade Smith Goes to Moscow (1938)
A 1939 American-Soviet comedy-drama, starring Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur, reprising their roles from the famed 1937 film "Comrade Smith". This sequel, filmed in Leningrad and Moscow, was produced as part of an attempt to promote friendly Soviet-American relations, at a time when they had begun to cool significantly. The film was co-produced in part by the "Soviet-American Friendship Association", sponsored by pro-Moscow Worker's Communist Party members (not, contrary to popular rumors, by the Soviet government.) After the brief split with the Soviet government, it feel out of favor. While it regained some favor post-war, it is now regarded as a terribly antiquated piece of American pro-Stalinism, an overall embarrassment.
Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart) and Claudette Sanders (Jean Arthur) are now well-respected members of the Congress of Soviets, and the two are invited to join a large Congressional delegation to the Soviet Union. There, Smith meets with Joseph Stalin himself, as well as Premier Molotov and other distinguished figures, and learns more about the inner workings of the Soviet government and the . The USSR is portrayed as a democratic society in the works, one which is taking the American example of creating democratic communism. While the society is seen as imperfect (at one point, someone is falsely accused of a crime, and only Smith pointing out flaws in the investigation led to his acquittal), it is seen as slowly transitioning. People are shown as generally content, and more knowledgeable in Marxist governing than the recently socialist Americans. The Moscow Trials are portrayed, but are shown as being towards pro-Fascist agents (the Purge trials are not mentioned), which plays into the plot, as Smith must uncover and foil a plot by German backed fifth columnists to kill Stalin, and give Hitler more land in Russia.
A 1939 American-Soviet comedy-drama, starring Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur, reprising their roles from the famed 1937 film "Comrade Smith". This sequel, filmed in Leningrad and Moscow, was produced as part of an attempt to promote friendly Soviet-American relations, at a time when they had begun to cool significantly. The film was co-produced in part by the "Soviet-American Friendship Association", sponsored by pro-Moscow Worker's Communist Party members (not, contrary to popular rumors, by the Soviet government.) After the brief split with the Soviet government, it feel out of favor. While it regained some favor post-war, it is now regarded as a terribly antiquated piece of American pro-Stalinism, an overall embarrassment.
Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart) and Claudette Sanders (Jean Arthur) are now well-respected members of the Congress of Soviets, and the two are invited to join a large Congressional delegation to the Soviet Union. There, Smith meets with Joseph Stalin himself, as well as Premier Molotov and other distinguished figures, and learns more about the inner workings of the Soviet government and the . The USSR is portrayed as a democratic society in the works, one which is taking the American example of creating democratic communism. While the society is seen as imperfect (at one point, someone is falsely accused of a crime, and only Smith pointing out flaws in the investigation led to his acquittal), it is seen as slowly transitioning. People are shown as generally content, and more knowledgeable in Marxist governing than the recently socialist Americans. The Moscow Trials are portrayed, but are shown as being towards pro-Fascist agents (the Purge trials are not mentioned), which plays into the plot, as Smith must uncover and foil a plot by German backed fifth columnists to kill Stalin, and give Hitler more land in Russia.
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So when does this movie become a historical controversy? Considering ITTL, the US endured the political counterpart to a McCarthyist purge, what will cause that and other examples of Soviet cooperation to be huge embarrassment?
Well, there is the brief split the two have after Molotov-Ribbentrop, which would lower the opinion of the Soviets in the eyes of many Americans. After the war, there will be some reconciliation, and the film will be seen as a good example of Soviet-American cooperation. After the "Cultural Leap" in the USSR, I suspect any film with sympathies towards Stalin and Stalinism will be viewed in suspicion.