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Germany concentrates entirely on knocking France out and Austria is left to take the brunt of the Russians offensive for a little while. The chances for the Germans taking Paris increases , while the French General Staff demands that Russia move on the Eastern Front. If the Russian Army does...

The Russian Communists always claimed to be internationalists while never relinquishing real power. As my Soviet History professor used to say, according to Soviet propaganda, "Russians are not better than Kazakhs or Georgians, but as the first people to embrace Communism, they're the older...

With a PoD of 1920, it is possible. Red Army wins at Warsaw in 1920 and by the 1921 the Red Army is joining with the German Communist Party in Berlin. War-weary France, Austria, Italy and Hungary fall to native Communist Parties allied with the Red Army. Not even Switzerland escapes the Red...

The scenario is obviously well thought out and well-researched. So many people just dash out PoDs without proper research and seem to operate along the lines what-they-wish-had-happened instead of historical trends and actualities on the ground. Personally, I've been thinking about this heavily...

Thank you. I always planned on continuing the TL and even put lots of thought into it and had some interesting ideas; mainly dealing with the economic dislocation caused by the US' division, the mass migration between North and South that would dwarf the 62,000 British loyalists that left the US...

I know its been a while, but here's the next part. I plan to at least finish the parts about the war, time permitting me. Events To Wilmington Peace Conference President Fillmore designs upon coming to office were very clear; to end the war preferably with the southern states returning to...

canals, maybe, that's what the US did at around the same time and AFAIK the US was not as wealthy as Russia at that period. Then again, 1810 was towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars and Russia needed most of its wealth to maintain its army. Of course, Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the...

True, but local government is strong as well and has more of a say at what is taught at schools then the Federal government. Even in states with a strong religious-right, most people don't believe that local churches should dictate school curriculum. If they do they send their kids to a Catholic...

Gunpowder is fairly simple chemically and I've heard its actually quite strange that it wasn't discovered earlier then it was. Once you've have gunpowder it isn't too long to discover that it is good in battle for scaring enemies (especially horses) and that if you stick in a hollow top with...

I can answer this with a sold no. Oi was a revolt against art school graduates that had taken over punk and - earlier - pub rock. Bowie was a part of this and his politically ramblings would have been considered in the same way that Strummer's leftist politics were looked upon. Not favorably. It...

Or have someone, maybe one of those men he shoot, say he said something racial. That works just as while without changing Goetz's personality.

Anton Von Arco-Valley was a Bavarian aristocrat who had connections with the proto-Nazi Thule Society and shot the Bavarian Communist leader Kurt Eisner in 1919. He later spent five years in prison for the murder and the Nazi's decorated him as a "hero of the movement." Here's the challenge...

From wikipedia's article about Mississippi. "Until about 1940, blacks made up a majority of Mississippians. Due to the Great Migration the state's black population declined, but it has recently begun to increase, due mainly to a higher birthrate than the state average."

Austria-Hungary and Prussia will be pissed, but I don't think they can take more then borderlands and, once the situation comes down, have problems holding on to these. In OTL, Russia was the linchpin of absolutism because of its power and Austria is too weak to try to play that role in Russia...

If we go with the Swiss Council thing, maybe each state or state governor picks a representative to set on the US-version of it and there's a revolving yearly Executive Councillor, or something. That would make small state's happy, but there's still the appeasement of the large states. Maybe due...