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  1. How would a modern 21st century Nazi Germany look like?

    An effing nightmare that I'm happy not to contemplate, tbh.

  2. Why do people on this site unanimously agree that a Nazi European victory via defeating the USSR in Fall Blau and ceasefire with west is impossible?

    I think they could do better but not win - maybe aim for Leningrad as a logistics base with shipping and be at least slightly less genocidal especially with minority nations etc. But being Nazis the room for rationality would be very limited. My ideal scenario for WW2 would be for both terror...

  3. Robert Kennedy is not assassinated...

    I remember once upon in time reading about this from various sources- and my recollection is that the consensus was that Humphrey was likely to get it but that it was by no means completely certain. In any case it was such an awful tragedy for the US, him surviving (even if maybe turning out to...

  4. Most Decent Contenders To Not Become POTUS

    Adlai Stevenson, George Romney.

  5. (Potentially) Famous people who died in WWI?

    There would have been quite many who were not known at all but who would have been hugely talented. Someone who was known was Charles Sorley - his few poems were full of promise, but it's more his wise and balanced letters and diaries that show his nature, not moved by the intense hatreds of...

  6. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    It would undoubtedly be very punctual and orderly :)

  7. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    Did I say that? No, they are not the same at all. Still, overwhelmingly the most concrete, overwhelmingly the most important historical interpretations of Marx were either Leninist or revisionist. And whatever directly developed from them. Marx used the term quite vaguely indeed leaving it...

  8. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    I'm tempted to give an impolite answer - but won't. In history, first come is rarely first served, and Lenin grabbed the copyright. Ruthless bugger. The question has been resolved over a century ago.

  9. Alternate ways to start World War I

    But likely not WW1 as we know it - the time and context might have been slightly or even much different, the personalities involved would not be identical, the various domestic situations would have been different etc. There would have been a score of potential butterflies. I don't think that...

  10. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    Then there would have been like three "real communists" in the whole word and the whole term would be largely meaningless. In history communism has come to connotate the gigantically influential Soviet experiment and model and its direct offshoots. Who moreover called themselves communists and...

  11. Alternate ways to start World War I

    I think an interesting question would also be if there wouldn't have been the crisis of the summer of 1914 - I guess there must be several timelines about such a situation. My guess is that there would have been a some kind of of general conflict but maybe not at all like what we had iotl. But...

  12. Optimize German army for the ww2

    I think in these kinds of threads the most important thing is to distinguish between realistically optimize or optimize with the full benefit of hindsight. The first option is usually much more modest than the latter, but maybe more interesting...

  13. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    I think the SPD handled things badly in 1919 but what could you expect in the Wilhelmine context when they had been kept totally out of power and the power structures being to a large part absurdly archaic? I still can barely fathom the extraordinary cowardice of Ludendorff and Hindenburg to...

  14. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    Nopes, I think that was finalized by Stalin. Very conclusively.

  15. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    Yeah, obviously you can, you just need to have a rather lengthy explanation about it - as in this empirical world most everyone else thinks about communism as, basically, well, Marxism-Leninism. I'm not a very devout Evangelical-Lutheran myself, but I think I could call myself catholic if memory...

  16. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    Yeah, that's my understanding too, a fierce anti-communist. No great wonder actually, the Finnish post-war Social Democrats were also extremely hostile towards the Communists - largely for the simple reason that they would have been among the first to be liquidated in any take-over. "Social...

  17. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    Good answer. But with such a blunt instrument the important nuances tend to disappear... As a Finno-Ugric I have always had a certain sympathy for Hungary. I guess the Transylvanian question was always destined to be decided unfairly whichever the direction. Though I gather Hungarian...

  18. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    We have in Finland a well known Left Alliance MP who defines herself as a communist. And when endlessly asked about it, always kindly explains that not that unpleasant kind of a communist, not Soviet, not Maoist, not Khmer Rouge or whatever, but some sort of an ideal communist that basically has...

  19. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    I suppose you are right in the sense of those early 20th century events being more a concequence of Finland being inherently Western than any particular cause of it being such, they were way too late for that. Those things usually followed in Western Europe (though not everywhere, Spain and...

  20. Most vulnerable Western European states to communism?

    Well, due to long time as an integral part of Sweden, all the deep structures of the society, laws, and thinking were largely inherited from them. Also the riksdag - and of course then we had the first truly democratic suffrage in Europe in 1907. In many ways the Civil War was the aberration as...
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