Good morning, everyone.
I was there lurking for almost two years (I once discovered this forum while chewing through TV Tropes pages) and, ofc, this timeline instantly mesmerized me with it's sheer readability and vivid psychological portraits.
I also see you still doesn't have any Eastern Europe- or USSR-related branch of this TL. So I'm planning to write a bit about Gorkiy city (now Nizhny Novgorod) and it's backwater classified little town of Arzamas-16 (now Sarov). Both places were (and, nominally, still are) farced with a lot of military-complex and scientific industries, so, their fate is sealed. But there still would be some relatively safe patches of countryside in Gorkiy province... so maybe not every of my characters will end in ashes.
I can remember my father speaking with me in my childhood, while we were walking along the NITEL (Nizhegorodsky Televisionny Zavod, Nizhny Novgorod Telemechanic Industry) fence: 'So it goes, son, I'm working on the aircraft factory, your aunt are working here, and surely she is making not so many TVs, but radar stations, we do have one of the biggest auto plants in our city... And if the world will one day go nuclear, you can be a bit proud about the fact there is 5 or 10 warheads targeted on our city'.
Other part of my family worked in the Arzamas-16 and was related to the nuclear weapons development process. So we all were surely doomed in this TL and I think this thoughts were especially depressing sometimes.
Title of TL: So nearby yet so distant.
Brief Description: Daily life of two towns, populated (eight in the top 10 of Soviet cities) Gorkiy and peaceful yet purposeful Arzamas-16 during transition to war and brief war period of 'Protect and Survive' TL.
I was there lurking for almost two years (I once discovered this forum while chewing through TV Tropes pages) and, ofc, this timeline instantly mesmerized me with it's sheer readability and vivid psychological portraits.
I also see you still doesn't have any Eastern Europe- or USSR-related branch of this TL. So I'm planning to write a bit about Gorkiy city (now Nizhny Novgorod) and it's backwater classified little town of Arzamas-16 (now Sarov). Both places were (and, nominally, still are) farced with a lot of military-complex and scientific industries, so, their fate is sealed. But there still would be some relatively safe patches of countryside in Gorkiy province... so maybe not every of my characters will end in ashes.
I can remember my father speaking with me in my childhood, while we were walking along the NITEL (Nizhegorodsky Televisionny Zavod, Nizhny Novgorod Telemechanic Industry) fence: 'So it goes, son, I'm working on the aircraft factory, your aunt are working here, and surely she is making not so many TVs, but radar stations, we do have one of the biggest auto plants in our city... And if the world will one day go nuclear, you can be a bit proud about the fact there is 5 or 10 warheads targeted on our city'.
Other part of my family worked in the Arzamas-16 and was related to the nuclear weapons development process. So we all were surely doomed in this TL and I think this thoughts were especially depressing sometimes.
Title of TL: So nearby yet so distant.
Brief Description: Daily life of two towns, populated (eight in the top 10 of Soviet cities) Gorkiy and peaceful yet purposeful Arzamas-16 during transition to war and brief war period of 'Protect and Survive' TL.
