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| ====== Central Powers victory clichés ====== | ====== Central Powers victory clichés ====== |
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| Alternate history is often built on working with a result that is opposite to the one from [[OTL]]. in OTL, [[pods:WWI|World War I]] was won by the Entente, leading to many amateur and professional alternate history writer | Alternate history is often built on working with a result that is opposite to the one from [[OTL]]. in OTL, [[pods:WWI|World War I]] was won by the Entente, leading to many amateur and professional alternate history writers doing the exact opposite. I.e., that the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) won the first world war. |
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| Unfortunately, plenty of writers get wrapped up in some... //rather questionable// notions of what the aftermath of a Central Powers victory in WWI would be like, what it would mean for European politics, society, economics, culture and science. Often, authors forget that scenarios within a realistic framework need to keep that level of realism for good and bad, and engage in either overly dystopian or nakedly wish-fulfillment outcomes, with little logic or facts behind either. | Unfortunately, plenty of writers get wrapped up in some... //rather questionable// notions of what the aftermath of a Central Powers victory in WWI would be like, what it would mean for European politics, society, economics, culture and science. Often, authors forget that scenarios within a realistic framework need to keep that level of realism for good and bad, and engage in either overly dystopian or nakedly wish-fulfillment outcomes, with little logic or facts behind either. |
