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Can be seen here. As with most of his maps on DA, @MisterP does a fantastic job building up the background from all angles.

The prequel, Central Powers victory is pretty conventional, though I do find it interesting that he describes a Soviet Union as indebted to Germany, and thus a pseudo-client state. Dunno who the Belkies are, though-

The Bolshies and Belkies could do what they wanted on their side of the border, and probably get guns 'n' training

Dug the idea of a German-approved Belarus-Ukraine "republican Intermarium", as well.

What I like about this CPV WWII map:
  • France is essentially intact after the Germany crushes the leftist revolutionaries. Sensibly instead of pressing them further, Germany forms an European Community mini-League of Nations. Having France as part of Mitteleuropa, rather just being an embittered hotbed of revanche, feels innovative to me.
  • Mussolini's Italy is the threat to peace, but is Balkanized happens anyway, under the EC’s aegis.
  • The big baddy ends up being a fascist Britain under Edward VIII and a mad dog Churchill that’s like, really frustrated that its ambitions were thwarted in the Weltkrieg. They don’t even get crushing war debts or made into a puppet like France, yet they want to start a new war. This characterization I have not see in alt-WWI very much. I know far right UK is an aggressor in Timeline-191, but they were at least egged into it by Featherston’s Confederacy and suddenly monarchist far right France.
  • Trotsky alive and well in control of the Soviet Union.
  • Germany mucking about spreading influence in Latin America.
  • 2nd Weltkrieg ends up being fascist Britain + post-Trotsky USSR vs. the Kaiserreich and their pet semi-fascist France. Also Britain teams up with Imperial Japan in China. I don't think I've ever seen those sides in an CPV WWII, at all.
  • France still ends up hating the hell out of Germany though, hah.
  • Concludes with a stalemate and ceasefire, colonialism intact, racism not discredited, and the U.S. still isolationist and not part of any Cold War.
His concluding comments:
thinking on this I may've created a reverse-Orwell: rather than James Burnham's three social-fascist bureaucratic systems increasingly coming to mirror one another through warfare, we got a bunch of democratish,
un-nationalisti, incorporation-happy systems converging; OTOH I have no idea of the postwar world's ideology or political structure (no Inevitable West European Parliament here!)

it's different from the other AHs lacking big, sweeping changes emerging from obscure cults and leaders: I seem to have barely mentioned real developments here

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