The Middle East will be a bit more active than OTL. To help make up for the war being quieter elsewhere.
Interesting ideas. it’ll be more of a slug match, with both trying to get the Big Battle.
The Anglo-Japanese War will act as a prelude to WW2. Kind of like how the Second Sino-Japanese War...
Thank you for the feedback! I’ll definitely try and refine Stalin to make him more nuanced, less propaganda-ish like.
As for Hitler, glad I’ve avoided the carpet chewing madman trope with him. Perhaps when he’s Führer of the Austrian State he pushes through a health program to limit...
No, there are no camps yet though the prisons are getting a bit crowded. While Austria so currently ruled by fascists, it is technically a democracy still. There are various parties, even Social Democrats and Communists are still around, but they have to walk carefully. They aren’t being...
Thank you!
Simon is fine for now. He has a job, he has his family and the Sozinats are the junior members of a fascist coalition. In OTL Dolfuss’ Federal State of Austria didn’t really harm or persecute Jews from what I gather other than pretty standard casual 1930s antisemitism.
Hope you...
Chapter Forty-Five
Yaroslavl, Russia
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
May 1932
The morning sun turned the snow littered land red. To Andrei Fyodorrovich Kolganov, it looked as if blood had been spilled across the ground.
Will it be our corpses that will make it so? He shuddered at the...
Ivan Chernyakhovsky could be a good viewpoint character. His youth and rapid rise could help. Could serve with Zhukov originally in Siberia but gets transferred to the Eastern Front and does incredibly well there. Kirponos surviving would be neat. A lot of the OTL USSR generals will get killed...
Huh, I hadn’t heard of him. Read up on him a little bit and liked what I saw. Could be the main commander of the USSR on the Eastern Front until Zhukov and others replace him.
He and Zhukov might tag-team smashing the Axis in the later years of the war, replacing Govorov to a General Staff...
I have not thought of anyone to be the main Soviet commander. They need to be apolitical or a committed Sverdlovist, good at their job but not good enough to stop Axis forces from getting fairly deep into the USSR (though not as far at OTL). Any suggestions from y’all?
The original goal was to...
Next update will be released no later [and probably on the day of] Monday 5/06/2024 by 11:59pm. The big chunk I've been fiddling with is done, now just need to add two sections then it's done.
There might be one or two that get the treatment, but will be similar to OTL. The UN will be similar...
Blitzkrieg, and the term, will exist. Germany’s civil war will show some inklings of that and as the restored German Empire resumes its place as a great power it will have much influence and sway, with the term blitzkrieg being adopted as time goes on. Stoßansturmen will be the Austrian version...
I’ll need to trim up some of the names a bit. Went with Pinscher because it’s a dog breed in Austria. Wolf being the too little too late makes a lot of sense.
Thirty days or less is fine. I’ve been working on the next chapter every other weekend so it should have been out by now but go...