The Death of Russia - TL
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Then again, it is not like Anpilov had any more positive views on both of them with the former doing de-Stalinization and the latter's role in the collapse of the USSR.
McCain would be indeed seen more suitable for 1996 candidate than Powell. And IIRC Powell was bit relucant to run anyway. Powell probably could anyway serve on McCain's cabinet perhaps as secretary of defense or secretary of state.
Well, the desire isn't that strong, to be honest. Is there something wrong with this idea?
Not really, though yeah, just a little surprised you're planning to send Alksnis this TL to see what he'd think of it.
Ah, yes, the man made horror beyond recognition continues full steam ahead.
Though one silver lining for me is that the Yakuts managed to struck a decent deal. They do not achieved independence, but at least they got the next best deal. Gotta be honest, I'm on the more sympathetic to them here. Feels bad for the Buryats for having much worse deal on their hand.
Though one silver lining for me is that the Yakuts managed to struck a decent deal. They do not achieved independence, but at least they got the next best deal. Gotta be honest, I'm on the more sympathetic to them here. Feels bad for the Buryats for having much worse deal on their hand.
Probably treatment of Buryats is small backlash for Aksyuchits. Not serious but many are not seeing that positively either.
Sakha hardly would had been very viable as independent nation in long term anyway so joining to Siberia was probably good option.
Especially as Lebed's secularism made him a more appealing option than the very Christian FEK.
I wonder if this TL version of CoD or Battlefield would have games with settlings based on the war later on. Considering how epic and bloody it's become so far
Not totally true. Sakha sits on a ton a diamond deposits so there'd be a good chance a Yakut nation could've existed, albeit probably as property of De Beers or something.
Normally I would agree but when you are dealing with such people as extremist shamans it is really hard to see independent Sakha being success story. And even at best it would be under thumb of foreing diamond and oil companies like Iran was during shah's reign.
Any reason why Medvedev is with Nemtsov and not with Stalingrad or Petrograd, considering the fates of Putin and Lavrov ITTL?
On that time Medvedev had close connections with Sobchak. Perhaps Sobchak went to Kaliningrad and Medvedev went after him.
Or perhaps Medvedev just didn't feel NFL regime being his thing.
Probably the latter, since Putin was also close to Sobchak, yet he stayed behind and sided with Anpilov
Also, you wish Russia was taken over by the National Football League. That would be a crazier, but at least less bleak timeline
And there's that "very horrifying" thing. Looks like it's basically "use every weapon we have and RUN to Stalingrad".
I think it's more that Putin didn't want to leave Mother Russia for dead more I'd think.
Having the NFL take over Russia would be a funny asb tl.
This is going to interesting places. The fall of stalingrad being a likely catalyst for a nuclear exchange, albeit a hopefully limited one due to the utter disrepair of the soviet nuclear weapons and launch systems. It does give a slight bit of hope that a ICBM has a lot of points of failure. I expect some to not launch, plenty to miss their targets completely or blow up in the sky and a good number to be duds.
As for Babchenko, I think the disparity between how he claims to be totally dehumanized and how he brings up moments of despair can be explained by his memoirs being written much later, with him either embellishing some things, focusing on certain memories or misremembering some things. I do hope that section eventually involves a certain vladimir dieing a completely pointless and amusing death at some point though.
As for Babchenko, I think the disparity between how he claims to be totally dehumanized and how he brings up moments of despair can be explained by his memoirs being written much later, with him either embellishing some things, focusing on certain memories or misremembering some things. I do hope that section eventually involves a certain vladimir dieing a completely pointless and amusing death at some point though.