The Footprint of Mussolini - TL
If this book exists, I will buy it immediately.
nice design, BTW
Thats a biiiiggg book.It'd be 69 chapters which would be, (roughly) 640+ pages.
The Nightmare State: OTL April 17th, 1976 Democratic Kampuchea ISOTed to the same date in the Footprint of Mussolini Universe
There has already been enough insanity from Himmler to Suslov, so I think saying the World would not welcome in Saloth Sâr and his killing fields regime into the World would be an understatement.
There has already been enough insanity from Himmler to Suslov, so I think saying the World would not welcome in Saloth Sâr and his killing fields regime into the World would be an understatement.
Maybe the horrors of the killing fields will be enough to strangle neo-communism? Nah.
Yes I know, I’m talking about the reveal of the killing fields and the effects that it’d have on the future ITTL.
People ITTL already found the Soviet Union and North China to be evil rogue states. So basically having one of, if not the craziest communist state from OTL come in would not only only strengthen their hate for the ideology, but also introduce a whole other level of horror to them, especially when they come across S-21, not seen since the Islamic State of Arabia.
I think that Pol Pot, on par with North Korea and/or Albania became the closest nation in OTL to fit what most people from the FoM think of when they picture communist states in their head; torture, mass murder, and the radical shift in society for the worst.
You know I’m morbidly curious what would happen if the UASR from Reds! were ISOT’d to this TL.
Bookmark1995
Banned
Pol Pot is what everybody fears socialism is.
It was a society not only opposed wealth, but ANY kind of superiority within society. Even people who wore GLASSES were shot and killed because they were seen as intellectuals. Even fisherman were barred from fishing because the Khmer Rouge hated any kind of initiative. I can't think of any example where a society basically mutitlated itself as badly as the Khmer Rouge did.
The reaction of most people would be nonchalance, followed by 'we're shutting that shit down.'
I've discussed this earlier: Red Americans might just see themselves as the chosen people, and claim they saved socialism from the excesses of Stalin.
To the rest of the world, it would be like waking up in one of those alternate dimensions where everyone you know is evil. Of course, when the UASR proves it isn't evil, people might be a bit confused to learn that it is not a nation that murders its own workers and peasants.
Alright so I'm just gonna ask, did Malenkov ever do a Pizza Hut commercial?
Bookmark1995
Banned
Uh, probably not.
Remember that post-Soviet Russia under Malenkov isn't an anarcho-capitalist basket case, but a Tolstoy style state.
I also think Malenkov is too spiritual for that kind of thing.
Is it me, or does America have a 51st state? Cause that didn’t happen ITTL, at least not to Puerto Rico. Either way, great work!
Don't forget how Pizza Hut might have been butterflied away ITTL.
I can't imaginate Malenkov doing that. It wouldn't fit to his views and he managed stay on power after collapse of USSR so him wouldn't has any reason do that.
Why did Germany keep bits of Silesia ITTL?Map I made inspired by the TL. Posted with authors permission.
