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  1. What if Germany lost all the land west of the Rhine, instead of all the land east of the Oder-Western Neisse?

    Perhaps we're looking at this question in the wrong way. The question is framed in rather brutal terms but in effect the situation in 1945 in the Rhineland was the same as in 1919. Although still part of a German state, the Rhineland was militarily occupied - the difference this time was the...

  2. WI: Communist Portugal survives to present day

    If you mean by "Communist", pro-Moscow, member of COMINTERN, Warsaw Pact troops based in the country, then, no. If you mean could a Government led by a Party calling itself "Communist" take power, then yes, after 1975 - we need a more successful and stable Vasco Goncalves administration which...

  3. Possible butterflies in a timeline that World War II never happened.

    If there is no second global conflict, the "Great War" will still pervade popular consciousness even though it's been over a century since its conclusion and no one who was involved has been alive for a decade or more. Movies about the Great War would be made well into the 60s and 70s and then...

  4. Ready for Government: A British Politics TL

    Ah, the 2010 election - I once did a TL where the LDs polled most votes and Clegg became PM even though the Conservatives won most seats. This is akin to what might have happened in OTL 1983 had the Alliance outpolled Labour. The truth though is bums on benches matter more than votes in boxes...

  5. WI: Equatorial Guinea without Macías

    Thinking this through, if Macias is killed before he can consolidate his rule perhaps two or three months after the 1968 election, his opponents in that election, Edu and Nbongo might have battled for power, Their two parties had each won 10 seats in the National Assembly election which had...

  6. In The Ruins Of The High Castle: A MITHC Story

    We pretty much know after the death of John Smith, the North American part of the Reich broke away under Bill Whitcroft. Most Fandom claims Whitcroft re-established the United States of America (Canada? Mexico?) soon after Smith's death and we can also assume the revived USA will become a potent...

  7. Rebuilding After Big Brother: A 1984 Story

    Don't worry about it - that's why this place exists. Not to be negative but to offer constructive ideas to improve and enhance the writing. The basic premise is really good and @flasheart is right on the money here. It's quite likely there would be a "dead zone" perhaps ten miles inland from...

  8. Rebuilding After Big Brother: A 1984 Story

    The Channel coast is hundreds of miles long and there are "quieter" stretches where it may be possible to launch a boat at night - after all, it was a smuggler's coast for centuries. We hear of the occasional "escape" from North Korea in OTL - in Oceania, assuming the relentless indoctrination...

  9. Rebuilding After Big Brother: A 1984 Story

    Kudos to @DrDerp - this is an excellent TL and some fine writing. It also explores the future and the past from some less well-trodden angles. I still struggle with "Oceania" being the whole of Great Britain - there's nothing to suggest this (or indeed contradict it) in any of Orwell's writing...

  10. Rebuilding After Big Brother: A 1984 Story

    There are, I imagine, plans for the "de-Juching" of North Korea once the current administration is removed. There would also be extensive plans for the normalisation of "Oceania" once the fighting was over. The first part of that would be a large UN Reconstruction Fund - one thing which adds...

  11. Rebuilding After Big Brother: A 1984 Story

    There is more than one post-1984 scenario which argues "Oceania" was just England, Wales and Scotland. It's even possible to argue it wasn't even that but just London and the South East of England and some form of "barrier" kept the rest of the British Isles untouched. Orwell's book offers zero...

  12. AHC: Axis Victory in the Second World War

    Bruce Quarrie's "The Victory That Nearly Was" is basically a TL where everything goes right for the Axis starting with a successful invasion of Malta in 1941 (Barbarossa postponed a year). That leads to a German victory in North Africa and the Middle East and forces Britain to surrender. The...

  13. AHC: Make the Netherlands a republic by 1950 in an ATL where Queen Wilhemina is captured and eventually executed by Germany in WW2

    The Germans trod very carefully with Christian X in Denmark who remained in his country throughout the war. Hitler tried to be friendly on occasion but the Danish King wasn't interested and in his own very minor way was an irritant to the Germans and an inspiration to his own people. The Nazi...

  14. What if Thatcher decides to go all out during the falklands war

    Washington would have been horrified by even the threat of the British using a nuclear weapon in Latin America (I believe Cordoba was the more likely target). Let's be honest - since Suez Anglo-French independence of action in foreign military policy was non-existant. The Argentinean invasion...

  15. WI No Nazis. Who starts World War 2?

    The various treaties which ended WW1 created all sorts of anomalies and resentments which would have sooner or later led to new conflicts in Europe. We forget there were two wars in the Balkans immediately prior to WW1 so a Europe fully at peace seems illusory. Hungary felt badly treated by...

  16. What if the Republican Russian government remained in power (to this day)?

    It's interesting to try to imagine the machinations of Constituent Assembly politics given a failed Bolshevik coup. Let's not forget the Bolsheviks were the second party having won 23% of the vote and 183 seats so the October Revolution was much less the takeover by a minority than some imagine...

  17. What if Iraq was invaded after the gulf war?

    It's an interesting scenario but it requires a very different mindset in Washington and elsewhere. For all the Americans wanted Saddam out of Kuwait, the best was to leave them in power but neutered militarily - the alternatives seemed unpredictable at best and downright dangerous at worst...

  18. Scotland, Callaghan, Thatcher and others. A timeline from March 1979

    It's an interesting scenario and I'm left with a few thoughts. First, it's hard to see the SDP coming into being at this time BUT the internal leftward move within Labour wouldn't stop with a narrow and inconclusive GE. Callaghan was 67 in 1979 - how long would he want to continue given the...

  19. Wilson’s Britain: A UK Timeline

    The NRB sounds and reads like a Cabinet Committee - I'm not quite sure why it needs such a grandiose title. Wilson with a majority of 3 inherits the same problems Wilson without a majority did in OTL in early March. First and foremost is resolving the miners' strike. In OTL, Labour offered Joe...

  20. Disaster Averted? How a single turn changed the world.

    First off, the POD is well written, entirely credible and plausible. Sometimes, events happen which are, to an extent, inexplicable. Princip "enjoyed" more than his share of "dumb luck" that fateful day. The POD as written is a more credible outcome based on nothing more than what sensible...
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