TLIAW: Making Murder Sound Respectable

Looking at the map, I'm a bit surprised that the Czech republic has survived undiminished as a neutral: I'd expect them to be either Anglo-French allies or reluctant members of Berlin-Russia, with Russian pan-Slavism leading them to support their survival as a quid pro quo for backing the Germans elsewhere.
 
Looking at the map, I'm a bit surprised that the Czech republic has survived undiminished as a neutral: I'd expect them to be either Anglo-French allies or reluctant members of Berlin-Russia, with Russian pan-Slavism leading them to support their survival as a quid pro quo for backing the Germans elsewhere.

I was thinking with the absence of a Fuhrer or the Nazis in a central position, they simply wouldn't have pushed for the Sudetenland. Later on, Czechoslovakia is one of the countries which gets pushed around a lot in the games between Moscow and Berlin, but the rise of Muratov eased that off, and now Czechoslovakia is a good, neutral intermediary between the two powers.
 
Why Northern Canada is in a darker shade of brown on the map? Is Nuclear power more widespread since Arab Solidarity?

Besides, I would like to know if the "Making Murder Sound Respectable" refers to the more accepted political violence and extremism than OTL.
 
Why Northern Canada is in a darker shade of brown on the map? Is Nuclear power more widespread since Arab Solidarity?

Besides, I would like to know if the "Making Murder Sound Respectable" refers to the more accepted political violence and extremism than OTL.

Those are to show they are territories, not provinces.

Nuclear power is both more widespread, and less advanced. No WW2, you see.

And 'making murder sound respectable' is something Orwell said is what politicians are basically trying to do. It seemed appropriate.
 
Those are to show they are territories, not provinces.

Nuclear power is both more widespread, and less advanced. No WW2, you see.

I'd say that with multiple hostile great powers we'd probably get atomic weapons on slow-track development before the 1960s at the latest. Of course, one reason nuclear power developed as fast as OTL [1] was the sheer scale of the military nuclear program - with less of an atomic arms race, there will be less of an uranium/plutonium industry, for one thing. On the other hand, with a _permanent_ oil embargo starting in the 70s, there will be more incentive to build than OTL, at least in Europe, while at the same time with no actual use of nuclear weapons in warfare atomic power will have less of a bad rep than in our world. Note that due to the slowdown in building after Three Mile Island, the average age of nuclear power plants in the US is 34 years, so even if the tech were a generation behind ours, new plants probably would be more _modern_ than the average US plant today. I'd consider it quite likely that the major European powers (aside from Russia) would be meeting the majority of their energy needs with nuclear by 2015.

[1] First commercial plants by mid-50s
 
Phrosty phresh worldbuilding work here. I'm going to ask what I always ask, perhaps as a counterbalance to the "what about murica" squad: what's Finland like? I can't imagine it's a pleasant place ITTL.
 
Phrosty phresh worldbuilding work here. I'm going to ask what I always ask, perhaps as a counterbalance to the "what about murica" squad: what's Finland like? I can't imagine it's a pleasant place ITTL.

I honestly have no idea. Maybe part of a Nordic Non-Aligned League?
 
I honestly have no idea. Maybe part of a Nordic Non-Aligned League?

A nuclear-armed Fortress Scandinavia is more early 50s-punk, but works well enough. I doubt a Russia with such an active foreign policy would let Finland join such an organisation though.
 

Sulemain

Banned
A nuclear-armed Fortress Scandinavia is more early 50s-punk, but works well enough. I doubt a Russia with such an active foreign policy would let Finland join such an organisation though.

Nuclear armed Saab bombers, a thriving welfare system and the worlds best eugenics program!
 
Nuclear armed Saab bombers, a thriving welfare system and the worlds best eugenics program!

Nah, the bombers need to be Thulin and the political system needs to feature electoral mudslinging (to the tune of calling your opponents charlatans and thieves) and utter parliamentary chaos. No room for welfare expansion when you're busy preventing another Conservative/Liberal/Socialist power grab. And besides, everyone knows welfare is just a Socialist power grab in itself/a reactionary plot to keep the working class content.
 

Sulemain

Banned
Nah, the bombers need to be Thulin and the political system needs to feature electoral mudslinging (to the tune of calling your opponents charlatans and thieves) and utter parliamentary chaos. No room for welfare expansion when you're busy preventing another Conservative/Liberal/Socialist power grab. And besides, everyone knows welfare is just a Socialist power grab in itself/a reactionary plot to keep the working class content.

I would add violent crashes between White Nationalists and Arab Immigrants in the streets, but one suspects their isn't much immigration into Denmark/Sweden ITTL.
 
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Thanks to Meadow and Lord Roem's stirling work at Sealion Press, Making Murder Sound Respectable is now available as an e-book. If you're more excited than a Blackshirt on election night, I don't blame you. This edition is slightly different to the version you read here, taking in people's comments and criticism and hopefully resulting in a superior product.

So if you enjoyed Making Murder Sound Respectable why not give a hard-working salt of the earth type chap like myself a little pat on the back and buy it for a mere £1.99.

And check out the rest of Sea Lion Press' works, they are worth the wait.
 
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