https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...rowns-the-world-of-imperial-socialism.414041/
they should go this route.
I hope so; but That's for Maponus to decide. I hope that the issues about fate of monarchy would be on next chapter.
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The Way the Wind Blows: The Collapse of Western Capitalism and the Second Cold War
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I hope so; but That's for Maponus to decide. I hope that the issues about fate of monarchy would be on next chapter.
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ew ew ew ewhttps://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...rowns-the-world-of-imperial-socialism.414041/
they should go this route.
When did the good ol' guillotine fall out of favor?
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White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
The President of the United States, an office whose holders had once held the unofficial title of "Leader of the Free World", had entered the fourth mouth of hiding from his own people. He'd not been President for very long either, his predecessors term cut short by the assassins bullet, and he as Vice President had taken up the solum duty of leading America out of crisis. He'd failed.
It had all started out so well. The victory in the Presidential campaign, while not necessarily a landslide, had been a terrific political upset, defying conventional political wisdom and a sometimes sneering, sometimes hysterical Press to take a stand against the radicals who sought to undermine American political life. Everyone had said they'd lose, but by hell they'd fought that election campaign and won it. He was almost as proud of that memory as fighting the Japs. They'd stolen votes from right under Goldwater's nose, they smeared the Democrats and pulled no punches against that pinko third party candidate who was splitting the left vote. They'd flanked Goldwater from the right on the racial question, and the Democrats from the left on economics. They'd been called racialists, nut jobs, Fascists and warmongers - but they'd taken their message to the decent people of America and been listened to. People who were tired of Washington pussyfooting around the Soviets and Red China, fed up of Negro agitators and hippie students causing rouble, of crime and public disorder, of drugs and pornography corrupting the youth. People who demanded the war in Vietnam be won, that the economy be put back on track, that law and order reign once more. Reluctantly perhaps, maybe even with guilt in their hearts, those people had swept their new political movement to victory in 1968 as a last resort, as an act of desperate outrage against the crowds. It had been a grand gesture, a defiant stand against the tide, America going right when the whole world seemed unable to halt the march of the radical left. Paris and West Berlin burning, strikes and protests bringing great Western cities to their knees while across Africa and Asia Marxism advanced bloody handed beneath the banner of "Third World Liberation" and "anti-Colonialism" openly challenging American military power upon the battlefield. The fell hand of the Kremlin clearly behind it all. He'd stood by his President in the internal and external war against international communism, and they'd gone further than any of the Democrats and Republicans before them in displaying what they were willing to do to save the Free World from the Soviet conspiracy. They'd been ready. Ready to crack down on the radicals, ready to bomb Vietnam and anyone else who dared stand with them to the stone age, ready to stand by any leader with the same vision and strength of will necessary to keep the Communists and their allies out of government, no matter what their crimes.
But it hadn't worked, they'd failed. They'd probably only made things worse. Now he was here, hidden underground in a secret bunker that lay underneath Greenbrier Resort, waiting for the Communists to find him and what remained of Congress. This was technically the Congressional Bunker, not the Presidential one that lay under the White House, but it's location was too obvious. And we could all thank Hollywood movies for making Offutt Air Force Base the first place they'd look for a cooked up President and what remained of his administration awaiting armageddon. No, this place wouldn't be found for a while, but eventually it would.
He'd nearly be ready to unleash nuclear hell on the Reds for what they'd done, brainwashing and subverting the American youth, riling up the Negros against the government, sabotaging the world economy. Surely it must have all been their plan. But in the end he didn't have the stomach. Maybe the spirit of the America he grew up, believed in and had served in wartime would be reborn one day. The hippies and their Soviet and Red Chinese puppet masters would surely only last for a few generations. Blowing everything up merely took away that chance.
Better dead and than red, what a hollow slogan that had always been.
President Curtis Emerson LeMay, formerly Vice President to President George Wallace, was the 38th President of the United States of America. 38th, and the last. He informed one the last of his loyal staffers to inform the last of Congress of his resignation. Resignation, without a successor. A solider knew defeat when perhaps a politician wouldn't. Wallace might have never given up, but he'd died, the first US President since William McKinley to die at an assassins hands, and the first whose death had been so openly celebrated by the enemy within. No, it was over.
The America they'd tired to protect was dead.
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Do you mean George Wallace? Because Henry Wallace died in 1965. And he would've been 80 in 1968.
Whoops.
I type faster than I think. For some reason I called LaMay "Charles Curtis LaMay" first time round too.
Hmm
The British seem much more civilized about this. Parliament was stormed and all, but the Royal Family seem to be ok, even if abdicating. The Cabinet is obviously on the way out but they aren't hiding in a bunker.
The British seem much more civilized about this. Parliament was stormed and all, but the Royal Family seem to be ok, even if abdicating. The Cabinet is obviously on the way out but they aren't hiding in a bunker.
That should be interesting. The Italians still have their original constitution, so they largely the same government, only with the communist in power.
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Hahahahahahaha
Get fucked imperialist scum. Someone who legitimately wants to bomb the hell out of Vietnam and such gets no sympathy from me.
Get fucked imperialist scum. Someone who legitimately wants to bomb the hell out of Vietnam and such gets no sympathy from me.
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Well the British home islands didn't have an entire nation of people (let alone several) with a huge percentage of the population that were being specifically targeted and oppressed and such.
The US did.
I find it hilarious how the West is falling to socialism, but the Soviets, rather than cheering, are shitting themselves in terror.
The real question here is the third world. The update seemed to imply that it had fallen before the West. There should be some interesting interactions between groups like the ANC that went left because anti-colonialism and Shining Path type true believers.
And of course Tito is literally in heaven.
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True, true... I kinda fear for Peru if Shining Path ever took power, I'd prefer the Tupac Amaru guys, or even better the Hugo Blanco-type Libertarian Socialists.
Oh yes, he must be creaming himself. Hoxha would also probably not be sure how to react to this, likely torn between a Marxgasm and abject horror.
I actually wanted to play wth a Similar Scenario for a Post WWI world myself (And fiddled with it on Polandball), only it has more varied strains of socialism, and not all the "good" type (For every Tito, Hoxha, Trotsky, Mariategui and/or Luxemburg, there's a Mao, a Stalin, a Castro, a Kim and/or a Strasser), only held together because the remaining Capitalists powers (And their Fascist & Reactionary Allies) are their collective boogeyman.
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Tito was not a good man, he was capable of terrible things. But he's deft enough that he can probably worm his way into the...Marxist-Trotskyist(?) side of things by presenting himself as a precursor to the Revolutions of 1968(?) with his split with Stalin.
Hoxha is probably playing Oprah but with accusations of revisionism.
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