The Death of Russia - TL
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Hmm i thought the Far Eastern Kingdom took this years quota of miraculous interventions.
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So will Russia turn into a giant girl made of tang?
Admitelly a better fate than TTL
It's referring to the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, which by 1995 would be just debuting to critical acclaim and would pretty much define the mecha genre alongside the Gundam franchise.
I'm only familiar with Evangelion through osmosis but the general reputation is that it's rather psychologically dark. That's the general gist of it.
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It is a very obscure niche reference, and scarcely relevant to the storyline.
That said - nothing can top the Russian Civil War though, not some producer's depression being projected onto a humungous mecha anime with teenage pilots (or can it? Well, I won't be surprised if the current developments will affect Anno's rewriting of the later episodes and EoE, however).
Again, I don't know too much about NGE but what I do know is that Anno was already depressed after some prior projects he was in charge of under performed IIRC. Evangelion could potentially be darker if the 2RCW affects his mental wellbeing, the total collapse of a world power isn't really something one can just tune out ya know, and it might affect Evangelion's direction even subconsciously.
That said, pop culture doesn't seem to be too radically different if Berserk still goes into the modern day (and Miura's untimely death might be butterflied but its impossible to tell from his brief mention) but with the NSF's rise and the 2RCW, you still see Russians being the bad guys for the most part. From the top of my head, pop culture wise you got small things such as Air Force One possibly being retooled to at least not have the main bad guys being Kazakh commies, to moderately sized butterflies such as STALKER taking place in the ruins of Moscow instead of somewhere in Ukraine. There's definitely more though, but nothing too extreme IMO.
In a kinda related fun fact, Tetris is actually a-ok. Pajitnov's been living in the US since 1991.
That said, pop culture doesn't seem to be too radically different if Berserk still goes into the modern day (and Miura's untimely death might be butterflied but its impossible to tell from his brief mention) but with the NSF's rise and the 2RCW, you still see Russians being the bad guys for the most part. From the top of my head, pop culture wise you got small things such as Air Force One possibly being retooled to at least not have the main bad guys being Kazakh commies, to moderately sized butterflies such as STALKER taking place in the ruins of Moscow instead of somewhere in Ukraine. There's definitely more though, but nothing too extreme IMO.
In a kinda related fun fact, Tetris is actually a-ok. Pajitnov's been living in the US since 1991.
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Both Star Trek Undiscovered Country and The Next Generation had a message of hope - that rivalling powers can mend their rivalries and cooperate. That's why they had a Chornobyl-like accident with the Praxis moon, Starship captains interfering in the election of Chancellors. ATL, the rivalling power fell and destroyed itself in the most horrendous ways imaginable in the late 1990s in the developed country. At least Star Trek would be changed, as the message of hope just got crushed by genocides and war crimes.
Also, Stargate's Colonel O'Neill will be more anti-Russian than OTL.
Also, MegaTraveller or Traveller The New Era could be more popular, with the whole dissolution of a once mighty empire.
