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    What would a Communist Britain name things?

    In that case it would most likely be a "Cooperative Commonwealth" practicing "Industrial Democracy," to use terminology common in the Labour movement of the day. Workplaces would be run by Cooperatives, or possibly Guilds if something unusual happens. Some on the British left hark back to the...
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    What would a Communist Britain name things?

    If we are talking about the Communist Party of Great Britain then I'm afraid it won't be anything especially unique or interesting. As the title of their 1935 programme helpfully suggests, they wanted "a Soviet Britain," and throughout the programme refer to "Workers Councils" and the "Workers...
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    AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    If Russia dramatically changes enough to be part of "the West", it will be a geopolitical turning point so big that the very term "West" will probably cease being used in the way it is shortly after it happens. Our current conception of "the West" is primarily a product of the Cold War, before...
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    WW2/Cold War if Alaska had been part of the USSR?

    Lots of replies have mentioned the problem of Anglophone workers might present for the Soviets, but for some reason people aren't clocking that this is likely as big or a even bigger problem for anyone trying to make a "White Taiwan." These workers will undoubtedly take part in the Revolution...
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    Is it possible for a French-style revolution to succeed anywhere?

    In many ways the American Revolution is the successful British Revolution. The diffusion of so many dissenters, both religious and political, to the colonies ultimately saved the monarchy at home. The many contradictions of the Reformation, the Civil War, the Restoration and the Glorious...
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    WI: An Anti-Appeasement Popular Front in Interwar Britain

    The problem here is that the National Government was very strong and very popular, and that the UK left in this same period is relatively moribund and has been devastated by a series of spilts that has seen large numbers of "National Liberals" and "National Labour" politicians peel away to the...
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    Survival of Jacobitism into the 19th Century and Beyond

    There was actually a minor Neo-Jacobite revival amongst artsy right-wing intellectual types in the late 19th and early 20th century, but it was killed off by the Bavarian claiments being on the wrong side of World War One (turns out no one wants to restore the true King over the sea if the true...
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    What if KMT China tried to make Vietnam & Laos as its "independent" client states after WW2 instead of its OTL transactional, play all sides policy?

    China is now fighting a war in Vietnam. Well done.
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    What civilization or nation deserves to have its own TL?

    The Most Serene Republic of this Kingdom of Naples of the 17th century gets surprisingly little attention on here, considering how much its success would have changed.
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    What if Hitler had been a monarchist?

    It's not a particulary outlandish idea. The Nazi Party was tactically open to restoring the monarchy before taking power and the Crown Prince of Prussia was himself enarmoured with National Socialism, so you don't really need to change anything in the parties ideology, you just need to alter the...
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    Mossadegh stays on the US' good side?

    Every possibility Britain and the Iranian elites go ahead with the coup anyway.
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    WI: Major figures in NSDAP are held to account for participation in post WW1 Soldier's Councils

    We should bear in mind that most average Germans would either know someone who took part in revolutionary councils or was involved in the Revolution themsleves, especially if they were an enlisted soldier themselves. Even some Freikorp members were supporters of the SDP and thought they were...
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    WI: Major figures in NSDAP are held to account for participation in post WW1 Soldier's Councils

    I can't speak to the others but Hitler never had to explain himself because his involvement in the Revolution only became a commonly accepted fact amongst historians fairly recently and no one at the time knew enough about this strange man who'd just emerged from total obscurity to properly...
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    AHC: USA loses war to Germany (1919 start point)

    An isolationist America stays out of the first world war, which Germany wins just narrowly enough that they are still radicalised enough to become paranoid anti-liberal authoritarians while falling short of Nazism. This is then followed by another war a decade or so later which Germany wins...
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    Jacobite UK leads to monarchist conservative US?

    It would depend on how the restored Jacobite Kingdom treats the Independents. If they continue James II/VII's policy of strategic tolerance towards the Independent Protestant Churches it might cause a divide between different Protestant denominations in the colonies that the Crown can exploit to...
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    Who would colonise a no-meji Japan?

    The Chōshū Domain started a private war with the Western powers in 1863-1874, taking the "Expel the Barbarians" slogan of the what would later be known as the Meiji Restoration a little more literally than would later be the case, ending up in a naval conflict with the UK, France, Netherlands...
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    AHC : United States Military Coup in the 80s

    I mean, you can have a merger of both extremes, a military coup that takes power supposedly to preserve constitutional order and transfer to a civilian government - only for the new "President" elected under dubious circumstances to become the real dictator. Certainly the US military doesn't...
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    Why do the Bolsheviks lose the Russian Civil War whenever the Central Powers win World War I?

    In Germany itself? Doubtful. Very possible something like it turns up somewhere else though. France would be very fertile ground, maybe even in Britain, growing out of war-time "Patriotic" Labour organisations, like the Socialist National Defence Committee, National Socialist Party, British...
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    Why do the Bolsheviks lose the Russian Civil War whenever the Central Powers win World War I?

    An alternate version of the Polish-Soviet War where the Germans are initially pushed back by a Soviet offensive supported by sympathetic uprisings but manage to eventually stop, them resulting in an awkward peace that neither side is happy could be very interesting. On the Soviet side it would...
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    Italy going with Germany and AH in WWI

    If Austria and Germany's actions remain changed then not without rioting and public disorder followed by a possible leftist revolution as neutralists and interventionists alike are pushed together in opposition to the government instead of apart like they were OTL, no.
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