TL Help: Unnamed TL with Timespan of 1879-2005

Sternberg

Banned
Yes, I'm still fighting back against a combination of boredom and depression for the sake of my creative drive.

Anyways, I've been thinking of starting a new timeline since I either have no creativity left for my other timelines and stories, or I absolutely loath them and the idea of continuing them. However, I'm not sure what sorts of things I could do with the timeline and its history, nor can I even come up with a good point of divergence. All I know is that the point of divergence is August 17th, 1879, and that I'm covering the timeline until September 17th, 2005.

This is where I would really like some help. I've got some ideas floating around in my head, like a communist Germany and a Nazi-analogue Russia, but I can't really pull them any further out. Therefore, I really do think that I need some collaborative brainstorming and discussion in order to flesh out my ideas for this possible timeline.

But either way, I'm stumped on how to get my creativity back. I want it back, I really do. It's just that I have to get out of this goddamned rut where I can't work on anything efficiently and finish it.
 

Sternberg

Banned
I've got an idea for this that I might want to develop.

Since I'd like Germany to go communist and Russia to take a more fascist-like path, what if I could take it one step further and have Russia and Germany swap the historical niches that they filled altogether? Like for example, in the 1930s, Germany could end up being something like a USSR analogue, and Russia could end up becoming something like Nazi Germany, complete with the Russian race being promoted as the Eurasian master race or something like that.

What do you guys think? Any other ideas that you might like to see in this timeline?
 
I've got an idea for this that I might want to develop.

Since I'd like Germany to go communist and Russia to take a more fascist-like path, what if I could take it one step further and have Russia and Germany swap the historical niches that they filled altogether? Like for example, in the 1930s, Germany could end up being something like a USSR analogue, and Russia could end up becoming something like Nazi Germany, complete with the Russian race being promoted as the Eurasian master race or something like that.

What do you guys think? Any other ideas that you might like to see in this timeline?

Well, you could definitely gave Pan-Slavicism in the Russian Empire develop in such a way, with the right push, I suppose. Have the Fascist Russians go out of their way to unite all Slabs under a single government, and push out the Germans, and other peoples, who have infiltrated the 'slavic rodina'
 

Sternberg

Banned
Well, you could definitely gave Pan-Slavicism in the Russian Empire develop in such a way, with the right push, I suppose. Have the Fascist Russians go out of their way to unite all Slabs under a single government, and push out the Germans, and other peoples, who have infiltrated the 'slavic rodina'

Reading on Pan-Slavism, it sounds like a good idea. Just means that other Slavic groups would be oppressed in an attempt to homogenize the Slavic peoples under the Russian language, but hey, it's alternate history. Who said that alternate history had to be hugs and cuddles? :p

Another concern of mine before I start this timeline off is an alternate scramble for Africa, since it'll play a very important role in forming this alternate history in the first 6 years from the point of divergence; 1879 to 1885. Basically, how could the colonization of Africa in the early 1880s turn out differently? Maybe with a Russian possession on the African continent as well, maybe.
 
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