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Kind of loving how America seems to enjoy warm relations with both India and China, even as they both thumb thier noses at Europe.
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Kind of loving how America seems to enjoy warm relations with both India and China, even as they both thumb thier noses at Europe.
Kind of loving how America seems to enjoy warm relations with both India and China, even as they both thumb thier noses at Europe.
So, would Fascism be placed on the same level as OTL Communism when it comes to how people see it?
So, would Fascism be placed on the same level as OTL Communism when it comes to how people see it?
Indeed, while Fascism is probably seen in the same light as Communism is seen IOTL.Remember in Twilight of the Red tsar when Zhukov calls Stalin “Vyrodok”? That’s how nazism and communism will be regarded in this world: Satanic abominations in the eyes of men and God.
There was no mass surrender as seen in North China - both the Ainu and Communist Japanese fought to the bitter end wherever they could. The Ainu population were quickly rounded up into ‘relocation camps’ while Ainu members of government were often summarily executed on the spot, often by sword. Ryū Ōta, the leader of the Ezo government, had harsh discriminated against the local Japanese population in favour of the Ainu despite being Japanese himself by labelling the Ainu ‘Lumpenproletariat’ that needed to be reared to power. This likely made him even more hated among the soldiers than the local Ainu, with Japanese writer Yukio Mishima explaining “An enemy is one thing - a traitor is another”. When he was caught hiding in the forests by a unit of Japanese soldiers, the unit could not contain themselves. They tied Ōta up, put him over a nearby rock and cut his head off with one clean decapitation. Though the unit was eventually put to trial, all would be released due to overwhelming public support for Ōta’s execution. Public decapitation was a common method of punishing resistors in the occupied Ainu villages of Hokkaido. It was also the common method of execution of senior Japanese members of the Communist Party who had fled Japan to find comfort up North. Among those was Inejiro Asanuma, the former head of the Socialist Party who left Japan in protest of re-militarisation to go to Ezo. His public denunciations of the Emperor and Japan had ensured he was labelled as a traitor to the Chrysanthemum Throne, leading to his being hacked to death with bayonets when he ‘resisted arrest’. With the Americans agreeing not to have any ground role in the war beyond the air force, many of Japan’s atrocities in Hokkaido were never reported until long after the fact. When Sapporo fell on January 27th, Ainu cultural festivals, expression and even language was soon ruthlessly suppressed. It certainly dissuaded many Ainu from rising against the Japanese army, as if the numerical difference wasn’t already enough. By the end of January, there were double the number of Japanese soldiers in Hokkaido than there were Ainu of all ages. Half due to the desperation fighting against the Japanese (a bizarre mirror of Japan’s own fight-to-the-death mentality in WW2) and half due to discriminatory Japanese firepower, the Ainu lost a quarter of their entire population in the three months of conflict it took to fully secure Hokkaido, which is remembered in Japan as ‘The Re-Unification War’. The Japanese had recovered their reputation as a serious military force, not to mention recaptured an integral part of their land. Japanese refugees from Hokkaido, as well as Ultra-Nationalist ‘Settlers’ who had been encouraged by the Japanese government to go to Hokkaido to solidify the mono-ethnicity of the region. For the Ainu, they would face further destitution. On May 4th 1973, the Soviets agreed to return the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan for a small payment - the Japanese government announced that the Ainu population would be resettled there ‘For its protection’. With barely enough resources to go around, the Ainu were left on barren islands to eke out a bare level of survival. Meanwhile back on Hokkaido, almost any Ainu cultural expression had been destroyed or upended, including graveyards, temples and anything else.
Communism is indeed seen as vile ideology as Nazism. But moderate leftism (social democracy and some other similar things) are acceptable when they condemned crimes of Communism.
Extract from ‘Le Roi Republicaine: De Gaulle’s presidencies and France after World War II’ by Alain Degiraud
I think the prominence of fascism ITTL will dramatically change the historiography of Napoleon, he will be seen as "the first fascist" or at least an important predecessor. His campaign in Egypt will seem like a dress rehearsal for Mussolini's Mediterranean conquests. Napoleon's reputation as an enlightened, modernizing strongman will make him seem like a predecessor to Mussolini's program of modernization, economic development, and cultural unification in Italy. French nationalists and the French far-right may respond to claim of Italian superiority by claiming that Napoleon was the first fascist, and Mussolini was just an Italian imitation.
Indeed, while Fascism is probably seen in the same light as Communism is seen IOTL.
I think the prominence of fascism ITTL will dramatically change the historiography of Napoleon, he will be seen as "the first fascist" or at least an important predecessor. His campaign in Egypt will seem like a dress rehearsal for Mussolini's Mediterranean conquests. Napoleon's reputation as an enlightened, modernizing strongman will make him seem like a predecessor to Mussolini's program of modernization, economic development, and cultural unification in Italy. French nationalists and the French far-right may respond to claim of Italian superiority by claiming that Napoleon was the first fascist, and Mussolini was just an Italian imitation.
Napoleon was Italian. His family was a group of Italians living in Corsica, and his name was Italian as well. He even boasted about it, saying that he "was part of a race who builds empires" and "considered himself more Italian or Tuscan than Corsican"I'd actually laugh if the Italian far-right ITTL respond by saying that Napoleon was actually Italian, since he was born in Corsica...
Which is why both France and Italy might be willing to claim his legacy ITTL.Napoleon was Italian. His family was a group of Italians living in Corsica, and his name was Italian as well. He even boasted about it, saying that he "was part of a race who builds empires" and "considered himself more Italian or Tuscan than Corsican"
Edit: To clarify, his family was descended from minor Tuscan nobility
However, with the Freedom Party starting out as the party of the racist dixiecrat during the worst racial turmoil in the USA, I can't see them winning a large proportion of the black populace in this timeline. I think that this may lead to very different cultural norms for the USA's black community.
So about how many Slovenes fled to neighbouring countries? Austria, Hungary, Croatia, and others nearby? Theres a dialect of Slovene spoken in Carinthia in Austria, too, were the language repressed there?
Pretty sure all of those countries were under Italian influence or outright part of the Roman Alliance. None of them would risk pissing off Italy except maybe Hungary, any Slovenes fleeing there wouldn’t stay or would be deported back to Italy by said countries.So about how many Slovenes fled to neighbouring countries? Austria, Hungary, Croatia, and others nearby? Theres a dialect of Slovene spoken in Carinthia in Austria, too, were the language repressed there?
This on the other hand is likely were they went instead, since the chapter that covered the ethnic cleansing in Slovenia mentioned many of them moving to Italy’s colonies to try to preserve their culture there.And how many moved to African colonies?
Pretty sure all of those countries were under Italian influence or outright part of the Roman Alliance. None of them would risk pissing off Italy except maybe Hungary, any Slovenes fleeing there wouldn’t stay or would be deported back too Italy by said countries.