Hopefully it ends up like Taiwan or South Korea thanks to Entente investment.
But with casinos and mobsters!
Hopefully it ends up like Taiwan or South Korea thanks to Entente investment.
But with casinos and mobsters!
Eh Samsung is basically monsters anyway.
But with casinos and mobsters!
On the Asian mainland, China will have its triads to deal with just like OTL. The continued presence of the ROC government might give more space for them than OTL's PRC under Mao. But with most of China's capitalists getting the shaft as IJA collaborators, their most friendly contacts in officialdom won't be around.
OTL South Korea has its own casinos and mobsters (Jo-Pok) alongside the shiny new industry. Gambling is banned in Taiwan except on offshore islands (where casinos have yet to be built), but Taiwanese gamblers can just make do with Macau. And the Triads are of course present on the island.
Speaking of which, I wonder how organized crime will develop ITTL beyond the previous discussion of the Cuban Mafia and its US exile influx. IOTL, the Yakuza gained a large boost in the immediate post-WWII years as a stand-in for the weak government in many areas, and also due to occupation forces letting them do the dirty work against Japanese leftists. But in a world where Japanese capitalism is vanquished? They'll still be around, but won't as strong as they are in our world. Some of them will likely follow whatever Imperial Japanese holdouts there are in Southeast Asia (mainly Thailand as T_R_S_R mentioned earlier), and possibly find a niche in the Japanese-Brazilian community.
On the Asian mainland, China will have its triads to deal with just like OTL. The continued presence of the ROC government might give more space for them than OTL's PRC under Mao. But with most of China's capitalists getting the shaft as IJA collaborators, their most friendly contacts in officialdom won't be around. Likewise, Korea and Indochina's criminal enterprises will, at their strongest, be roughly comparable to the Russian mafia in their origins and functions. And even then, the more open trade with other Comintern nations kinda cuts into the smuggling/black market economy which OTL Second world criminal outfits managed.
Not sure how the global attitudes to narcotics will shape up here. Prohibition didn't become nationwide in TTL's US, and I presume the banning of marijuana didn't happen either. But that might not stop other Comintern countries from having their own harsh drug laws. China, Korea and Japan's laws IOTL are influenced by the experience of the Opium Wars, so they'll probably still be tough on such substances as anti-imperialist measures.
For capitalist regions? The Italian Mafia will remain, and certainly be friendlier to the FBU-aligned Kingdom over the Comintern's northeast occupation zone/government. Likewise, a stronger Brazil may lead to the Brazilian mob gaining prominence of its own in place of the OTL Colombian/Mexican/Central American drug cartels.
The Red Dragon (the ITTL AH poster) has confirmed that China's drug laws are much less lenient than America's.OTL South Korea has its own casinos and mobsters (Jo-Pok) alongside the shiny new industry. Gambling is banned in Taiwan except on offshore islands (where casinos have yet to be built), but Taiwanese gamblers can just make do with Macau. And the Triads are of course present on the island.
Speaking of which, I wonder how organized crime will develop ITTL beyond the previous discussion of the Cuban Mafia and its US exile influx. IOTL, the Yakuza gained a large boost in the immediate post-WWII years as a stand-in for the weak government in many areas, and also due to occupation forces letting them do the dirty work against Japanese leftists. But in a world where Japanese capitalism is vanquished? They'll still be around, but won't as strong as they are in our world. Some of them will likely follow whatever Imperial Japanese holdouts there are in Southeast Asia (mainly Thailand as T_R_S_R mentioned earlier), and possibly find a niche in the Japanese-Brazilian community.
On the Asian mainland, China will have its triads to deal with just like OTL. The continued presence of the ROC government might give more space for them than OTL's PRC under Mao. But with most of China's capitalists getting the shaft as IJA collaborators, their most friendly contacts in officialdom won't be around. Likewise, Korea and Indochina's criminal enterprises will, at their strongest, be roughly comparable to the Russian mafia in their origins and functions. And even then, the more open trade with other Comintern nations kinda cuts into the smuggling/black market economy which OTL Second world criminal outfits managed.
Not sure how the global attitudes to narcotics will shape up here. Prohibition didn't become nationwide in TTL's US, and I presume the banning of marijuana didn't happen either. But that might not stop other Comintern countries from having their own harsh drug laws. China, Korea and Japan's laws IOTL are influenced by the experience of the Opium Wars, so they'll probably still be tough on such substances as anti-imperialist measures.
For capitalist regions? The Italian Mafia will remain, and certainly be friendlier to the FBU-aligned Kingdom over the Comintern's northeast occupation zone/government. Likewise, a stronger Brazil may lead to the Brazilian mob gaining prominence of its own in place of the OTL Colombian/Mexican/Central American drug cartels.
Given that the red scare is particularly intense in Canada I can't quite see someone who identifies as a democratic socialist becoming prime minister.
Perhaps the USSR aligned states, being more authoritarian, would have harsher drug laws.But that might not stop other Comintern countries from having their own harsh drug laws
I think there's likely to be at the very least a Keynesian consensus that a welfare state that is active in the economy is necessary in order to protect Capitalism from its usual cycles of boom and bust and to minimize the tensions in society by providing a safety net for the poor. Partly out of altruism and partly out of a cynical desire to prevent people from getting desperate to the point where rocking the boat with a revolution seems like a preferable alternative to a comfortable status quo.He didn't manage it in OTL either, more's the pity. Does he manage to get healthcare going though? I mean, politicians come and go, but universal healthcare is an eternal legacy.
*Snerks*"Hrm, I believe the wife of the designer must be a very unsatisfied woman." - Second Commando.
Let's see....Primary Armament: 17 cm KwK 44 L/55
Hitler was a very forward thinking man who armed the Panzerkorps for the very real possibility of Godzilla joining the Comintern as well as possible Autobot intervention.*Snerks*
Sorry, I was honestly expecting a comment like this, because seriously, that big a tank is ASKING for it.
Let's see....
*Googles image*
Hoh boy.
And here I thought it was just him compensating for that missing nut.Hitler was a very forward thinking man who armed the Panzerkorps for the very real possibility of Godzilla joining the Comintern as well as possible Autobot intervention.
Sweden and Finland deciding "fuck this shit I'm out" as the last of Germany's allies who weren't a puppet state is about when only the most delusional of Nazis hold out for any hope of victory.So when do the Nazis start to realize it will be all over for them ITTL?
To be fair, that should've been a red flag, Italy swaps to whatever person offers them the best deal.Italy changing sides and requiring a German invasion to install the social republic following Italy's defeat in the mediterranean theater and the fall of Nationalist Spain to the Entente is when the doubt can be said to begin.
Swedish occupied territories.Nice maps. It seems that comparing the invasion to OTL, the Nazis were more successful TTL though they have failed to take Petrograd.
Speaking of which, are those blue around Petrograd and in Denmark/Norway constested territories?