I don't know all that much about other Eastern bloc security services. I remember an article on Stasi opinion about their allied services and vice versa: Basically the Stasi was not very popular, too demanding and a bit extreme for the rest, but also innovative and a trendsetter for new ideas...
The two most glaring changes would be in the Stasi and the courts. Under Ulbricht and his attack dogs Erich Mielke and Hilde Benjamin both were transformed into something harsher than before:
The MfS under Zaisser and his short-term successor was pretty much a bog-standard secret police...
Paulus was still under house arrest in the USSR when the uprising went down. He also was a somewhat controversial figure in the armed forces such as they were and under constant surveillance as someone not entirely trusted even after his release for a number of reasons (his indecisiveness in...
Serious Pan-european proposals date back to the 19th century, but the relatively limited warfare of that century did not really provide an incentive for them. In the interwar years there were some stronger supporters, but they did not gain a lot of traction in the diplomatic climate, even though...
Couple of more thoughts on the airforce:
1. The vulnerability stage: otl the concept post 33 was to build a large force that looked impressive out of available types first. A Republic might hesitate to go the Risk Fleet route and try diplomatic flanking steps over buying huge ass numbers of...
I misremembered a few thinks when writing that post. Lesson don´t write stuff from memory, especially with tight timing involved. After looking again at Doyle/Jentz, Panzer tracts 1-1, which directly quotes a number of the surviving primary sources, I have to admit I misplaced some dates and...
The airforce is probably the least recognizable branch in a surviving Weimar Republic, for the plain and simple reason that the senior personnel otl was very much shaped by Görings personal contacts, nepotism and nazi ideology. Some of the otl senior officers will not get deciding positions...
The Reichswehr already had decided pretty early that the Leichttraktor looked like a dead end. Thus the order for the Kleintraktor (later Panzer I) development was placed in 1930 and a purchase of Carden Lloyd tractors was considered. By 1931 the Kleintraktor already looked promising enough and...
I guess it depends on a couple of factors:
1. Is the U-Boat campaign of the great war seen as a success? E.g. if unrestricted submarine warfare is not renewed in 1917 for diplomatic reasons and the U-boat traps for the Grand Fleet largely fail as otl, the Germans might well decide that the...
My two bits: for a late war German victory some form of naval treaty is extremely likely. For almost everybody this is in their national interest:
The UK will financially likely be in a worse situation than otl, with huge foreign debts, but no reparations or gains to offset it. Not to mention...
Poland-Lithuania is a bit of an odd case. It had strong competing Protestant movements in the 16th century that actually managed to cooperate and achieve significant political influence and a degree of religious tolerance unusual for the time - including for a few years in the 1570s full...
I don't think so, good dubbing and an acclimatised audience works well enough with live-action (and on rare occasions even improves it, the German version of the Persuaders TV series being my favourite example).
That said the impact of a stronger European film industry on Animation could be...
Not just France, a number of European countries had their movie industry cut down to size due to the world wars:
For example Austria-Hungary had a fairly well developing film industry, that even got a small boom in the first years after WW1. Otoh the war also led to a displacement for many...
I remember talking 20 years ago to one of the guys involved in evaluating NVA tanks for the Bundeswehr Post-1990 20. He told me that they went in expecting something at least equal to the Leopard 2 (which was criticised as too little to late vs New Generation Soviet tanks upon introduction - see...