Stalin is actually alive. He's back in Georgia and leads the Georgian Bolshevik Party.
Mao hasn't really done anything of note.
The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus
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Mao hasn't really done anything of note.
I could see Mao being a KMT guerrilla, if the KMT is still active in China that is.
“… Adolf Hitler was previously as an otherwise unremarkable artist specializing in paintings of local architecture. Following his death and how it became embroiled in the Austrian Crisis the rare surviving specimens of his artwork increased in value drastically. In the end Adolf Hitler became another example of the maxim that the best thing an artist can ultimately do for the value of his work is die.”
Guess we better be careful what we wish for with the idea Hitler dies an unremarkable artist who succumbs to political violence. And speaking of architecture, what would be an interesting idea would be Le Corbusier and Albert Speer reverse historical trajectories ITTL, with Le Corbusier being infamous as the chief architect of Falangist France (he certainly had dodgy political views IOTL) while Speer is someone who is seen as one of the great architects of the 20th Century even with how divisive is his work on urban planning and buildings,
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The old tried and true maxim about dead artists and the otherwise unremarkable Hitler getting killed in a period of political strife seems like a perfect recipe to ironically give exposure to whatever work he did before he died ITTL. Though, to be thankful, it likely only give whatever works he did make the status of being an artistic curiosity or something. And even then it’s probably less due to quality and more due to the circumstances of Hitler’s death making the paintings conversation pieces.
From what I've heard his landscapes were passable (not groundbreaking but not nearly so dismal as people assume) and apparently he was fairly good at drawing Disney characters
Come to think of it, Ho Chi Minh's life is likely to have a very different trajectory.
Yeah, i don't think any of his paintings stand out much, but they aren't ugly. If he made a painting the day of his death, that one would probably be of most interest to collectors who like interesting historical connections.
Very true. I can see him being very intrigued by TTL’s America…
Guess TTL's version of Plan Voisin would be Falangist France's equivalent to Welthauptstadt Germania.
I vaguely remember it being mentioned that some of Falangist Britain's closest allies are Catholic states. Is there not a risk that oppressing the Irish could alienate these nations?
If not, then I can only imagine that the IRA and other republican paramilitaries would come to be dominated by socialists, and would likely end up being funded by the ASU potentially even see Irish Americans volunteering to join them.
Depending on how these Catholic States develop, including any Falangist Ideation, they could easily be lumped in with the Jews, Socialists, and other scapegoats. Heck, I'd argue it might be worse for the Irish in those states because they 'betrayed the faith'...somehow.
I still need to figure that one out. There is some tension between Falangist Britain and their Catholic allies, with some of the more hardcore Catholic Falangists believing that Catholicism and Falangism are inseparable and that they should not be allying with non-Catholics at all (which would also exclude Russia). These voices, naturally, will be harshly suppressed, especially as Britain is the most powerful Falangist nation. It probably won't go all the way, but there might be some discussion about a reconciliation between Rome and Canterbury, possibly by creating a separate "English Rite" allowing the Anglicans to keep their own practices.
For diplomatic reasons, obviously, Britain will not be implementing any policies that target Catholics on the whole. The oppression of the Irish will, inevitably, be more ethnocultural, possibly based on some idea of English supremacism (in other words the Scots, Welsh, and Irish Protestants may also be screwed).
Most likely, by WW2 the IRA will be a mostly socialist organization operating at the behest of their Wall Street paymasters.
Very possible. I'll be exploring how this conflict affects the Catholic Church, especially as Catholics in the New World are largely socialist. Who knows... we could even get a modern day antipope...
It still tickles me that Wall Street is a synecdoche for revolutionary socialism TTL
That alone was worth destroying D.C.
Falangism still places a strong emphasis on the Church. Enough, I think, that a "Catholics only" interpretation could emerge.
Speaking of alternate economics is their anything interesting happening with Freiwirtschaft @Meshakhad? Given the fact that the ASU has preserved market relations it seems like the sort of thing they might look into down the line 🤔 Gesell OTL became the economic minister for the Bavarian Soviet Republic for a bit, so an offer to immigrate to America to try out his ideas wouldn't be out of the question.