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  1. WI: Khalkin Gol and Marco Polo incidents dates switched?

    Well, the Chinese scenario is impossible after 1922, when Japanese troops left Russian Far East. The Sino-Japanese war started as a gradual encroachment from the Kwantung Army's leadership, and you can't have this encroachment without troops already stationed on the ground, without a "seed of...

  2. WI: Khalkin Gol and Marco Polo incidents dates switched?

    1939 was THE pinnacle of Soviet pre-WWII war machine. T-26s, BTs tanks, I-15 and I-16 fighter planes, the SB bomber were either thoroughly modern or just started to fade, Soviets produced enough tracks to sustain cargo movement across the Mongolian steppe on the massive scale, and tankers and...

  3. Effects on Canada if the UK never enters WWI?

    Well, Montreal would remain THE center of everything to begin with. Toronto would never raise. You see, old "British" (in fact, mostly Scottish Presbyterian) families, who ruled Canada since Colonial times, sent their younger generation off to war, to lead attacking rows of Imperial Infantry...

  4. Better Fate for Russia and China: The Romanovs or Bolsheviks, The Qing or Kuomintang?

    I'm not sure that Romanovs vs. Commies is so clear-cut. Bolsheviks did cost a lot in terms of concentrated human suffering, but Romanovs could've been a case of "suffering by 1000 cuts". Just look at today's Russia. It reached the Soviet life expectancy less than 5 years ago, so it took almost 2...

  5. East Front Wacht am Rhein

    IOTL 6th Panzer escaped relatively unscathed from the Bulge - and Soviets mopped the floor with it in Hungary. End of story. As it should be in every story which uses "1:10 losses" BS.

  6. What if the UN "annexed" failed states?

    Iraq was, for all intents and purposes, "annexed" by the US with the stated goal of rebuilding the state infrastructure and establishing parliamentary democracy. Same thing happened to Haiti approximately a century ago. We all know how good it went. UN would, in all likelihood, be LESS effective.

  7. Is it possible for Canada to go communist during the Cold War?

    Left social democratic along the lines of Norway or a bit Left of it? Possible. Communist as in "Cuba"? No.

  8. WI: Igor Sikorsky never immigrated to America

    Well, considering that designers' prison was established ~10 years after Sikorsky's immigration, I have no doubts that the prison is unrelated to his reasons. To tell you the truth, I somehow doubt the story. Sergei mentions the Red Terror, which did not start for 6 months after Igor left...

  9. WI: Igor Sikorsky never immigrated to America

    Would you mind to share a source confirming that there was a warrant? As far as I remember he left quite early, before the Red Terror started. At this point Bolsheviks were quite content with letting their enemies go in exchange for a promise not to resist "The revolution's authority".

  10. WI: Igor Sikorsky never immigrated to America

    Sikorsky was a pioneering airplane designer before WWI and was well-known and greatly respected in Russia. Would he stay there after the revolution, he would probably be what Tupolev was IOTL. The Great Daddy of everything flying and having more than one motor. Sikorsky's IOTL forays into flying...

  11. Do away with cars

    Yes, but load would be much lower (hence somewhat lower maintenance cost), and commercial fleet tends to be much more tolerant to road imperfection, so many of those roads can be gravel. I didn't say it is too realistic, I've said it is POSSIBLE. Yes, so pre-1900 POD. However, a lot of Europe is...

  12. WI: Japan Goes for USSR instead of USA + some more pods.

    The easiest part would be ridding Japanese of the "oil curse". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daqing Oil Field has more than enough dino juice to cover Japanese needs, it is within territories Japan controlled from 1920s, it can be developed using pre-WWII tech. They just need to know where to look.

  13. Do away with cars

    Well, ComBloc countries mostly did that (a car was a luxury, not a necessity). It wasn't as convenient and comfortable as a Western car-based society, but it was livable. So, drawing from the experience, here's how you should do it: 1. Commercial fleet stays. Trucks, delivery vans, different...

  14. Alternate national anthems

    Back in 1970-s, growing up a kind behind the Iron Curtain, I thought it actually IS an US anthem :) OK, my lists: Tongue-in-cheek: Belarus: https://youtu.be/fA3tp32S-XM "Be well, live a wealthy life" Ukraine: https://youtu.be/D-uO6WqiChU "Unsaddle (your war mounts), guys" Russia...

  15. Would a sucsessfull polish space program be possible?

    He was not a Soviet citizen after 1945. Wiki says: "After the incorporation of former Polish territory into the Ukrainian SSR at the end of the war, what was left of Hermaszewski's family were deported to Wołów near Wrocław, where he completed elementary and high school. In 1965, he graduated...

  16. Would a sucsessfull polish space program be possible?

    Sources? Thank you in advance.

  17. Was the .45 ACP M1911 inevitable?

    They had a lot of experience with 7.63 Mauser and liked it. Basically, Russians were looking for flat trajectory and killing power, not stopping power. The idea was "you have to be able to kill a horse charging at you by pointing and shooting, without thinking of compensating for bullet drop and...

  18. Would a sucsessfull polish space program be possible?

    Poland does not have sufficiently-sized economy to support such an endeavor on NASA scale. However, it might have something second-tire, akin to, say, Israeli space program. Or, in a universe where it remained part of surviving Russian Empire post-WWI, it might be an "aerospace capital of the...

  19. Wi Austria Hungary opposed Russia intervening vs Turkey in 1876-77

    Russian elite of 1876 has VERY unpleasant memories of a war against a European power (or coalition thereof), wounds of Sevastopol are still fresh. It is unlikely that they would risk "Crimean war 2.0". So, would Austrians firmly object, Russians would not cross Danube.

  20. SS men refuse to carry out Final Solution

    Well, the road to the Final Solution was actually pretty long and curvy. The Nazi leadership didn't order executions before they were absolutely sure they have enough volunteers to man the extermination squads...
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