TLIAD: Meet The New Boss

Course I did mucker. Nice twist on the whole thing and an interesting idea that if the Russians had just kept going West, things would've gone a bundle better for the Reds! Also the Kaganovich love :D He was a real hardass IMO. Much more adroit than that buffoon Khruschev
 
Interesting stuff, Meadow, and this is getting spooky. I swear to God, I did not read this before making Fifty Glorious Years. As the Gottlieb Daimler of AH.com that's just how I go about things.

1977-1981: Nile Kinnick (Republican)

A Christian Scientist President? That's going to be interesting. I mean, imagine the repercussions on healthcare policy.
 
Interesting stuff, Meadow, and this is getting spooky. I swear to God, I did not read this before making Fifty Glorious Years. As the Gottlieb Daimler of AH.com that's just how I go about things.

I will admit I assumed you were inspired by this - it spurred a couple of other ideas when it first came out. I'm glad you liked it - any particular highlights?
 
I will admit I assumed you were inspired by this - it spurred a couple of other ideas when it first came out. I'm glad you liked it - any particular highlights?

Powell would be one - it wouldn't have occurred to me at first, but after the fact it makes a large (and frankly terrifying) amount of sense. I do hope he went down with a pint of gin in his hand. I'm also a fan of Livingstone's (we used to have a mayor here in Karlskrona who operated and thought in an unnervingly similar manner), so it's nice to see something become of him.
 

Meet The New Boss is now available on Kindle!

Featuring:
  • New content and graphics, including a map of Europe by Lord Roem
  • Appendices including the national anthem of the Commonwealth of Great Britain
  • A brand new ending, featuring a new leader of the CGB
  • An afterword
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Just giving this a cheeky weekend bump to ask anyone who's bought MTNB if they'd be willing to leave a (hopefully positive) Amazon review of the book. It's selling quite well, but it would probably reach more people if it had some nice star ratings.

Either way, thanks to everyone who's bought it so far, and indeed to all who helped by reading it the first time around.
 
Waiting until I get paid to buy the rest of phase 2 - will hopefully get round to reviews in short order. Couldn't resist this one though. Nice work on the appendices.

Question: Is that a nod to Zonen I see in Appendix B?
 
Waiting until I get paid to buy the rest of phase 2 - will hopefully get round to reviews in short order. Couldn't resist this one though. Nice work on the appendices.

Question: Is that a nod to Zonen I see in Appendix B?

Excellent!

And yes, I think Jack (who did the map) made a cheeky redrawing of the border that is a nod to another 'Black book'.

Glad you liked the slight rework, hope the new last chapter was up to scratch.
 
Good TL, but you should have replaced Tajikistan with Iran.

The Tajik SSR was sufficiently integrated small (less than 3 million pop. in 1960s) Soviet republic where half of the territory is barely populated.
The Soviet government would neither request support from Soviet client states nor need any support from them to deal with any unrest there or other Soviet territory.

Iran would be a very different case where assistance from Soviet client states and Britain in particular would be welcome plus the AH-irony that an Anglo-Soviet invasion and subsequent occupation of Iran still happens despite very different circumstances.
 
In the hope that this stunt of mine doesn't earn the eternal ire of Meadow, I'll use the the chance offered by Grand Prince Paul II. bumping this thread back to the first page for a little bit a shameless self-promotion for To Discover a flaw in Nature - A "Meet The New Boss" spinoff-TL, my first complete timeline on this site. As the title probably gives away, it takes place in this little gem of a timeline's world, focusing on another corner of Soviet-dominated Eurasia: that characteristically boot-shaped peninsula known as Italy. Just like this one, it's structured in updates detailing each of the country's (effective) leaders' tenures in office, though it's doesn't undergo the usual constraints of TLIAD's.

Here's a link https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...nature-a-meet-the-new-boss-spinoff-tl.397276/ and hope you take a moment to visit it! ;)
 
While sadly ITTL, Max Levitas is dead, IOTL he is very much alive at 101 years old. It has been 80 years since he participated in the Battle of Cable Street, and he spoke on Radio 4 about his experiences.

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The General Secretary speaks!
 
While sadly ITTL, Max Levitas is dead, IOTL he is very much alive at 101 years old. It has been 80 years since he participated in the Battle of Cable Street, and he spoke on Radio 4 about his experiences.

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The General Secretary speaks!

I was literally about to post this.

I'm going to Cable Street on Sunday for the memorial event.
 
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