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  1. Save Weimar Germany as the SPD in "Social Democracy: An Alternate History", by Autumn Chen

    The day after its release, I discovered on Itch.io the video game Social Democracy: An Alternate History by Autumn Chen, a creator whose games I've already played and enjoyed. In this game, you start in 1928 in Weimar Germany as the SPD and you have to run in legislative and presidential...

  2. The Best Books Never Written

    Inspiring from the The Best Video Games Never Made about TTL video games, I want to open this thread about books which are published in another timeline. The Diary of Margot Frank (1948) TTL, in addition of the diary of Anne Frank, Miep also finds Margot's diary (Anne wrote in hers about how...

  3. WI: Additional Nazi leaders surviving to be tried at the Nuremberg Trials

    OTL, the International Military Tribunal had 24 accused persons and 7 organizations. Of course, as it often happens, absent persons were involved in the crimes, leading to them being used by some accused to reduce their own guilt and responsability, as Justice Robert Jackson complained on July...

  4. WI: Operation Green Sea a success

    On November 1970, the Portuguese Army, aided with Guinean opponents, made an amphibious attack on Conakry, the capital of Guinea, in order to capture Amílcar Cabral, leader of the PAIGC, and overthrow Ahmed Sékou Touré, the then-dictatorial ruler of Gambia, who sheltered the PAIGC. Although...

  5. TLIAY: The Separated Brothers

    What is this? This is my first TL, so it will have unfortunately some issues; consequently, feel free to correct me for issues of writing style and historical accuracy. I wanted to start with a thought experiment before making "more serious" TL. What is the meaning of TLIAY? Timeline in a...

  6. Soviet further West than OTL after WWII; what about Asia?

    Let's suppose Stalin manages to go further West than OTL (maybe the Rhine, Austria and bits of Jutland); how would the supplementary territory taken in Europe influe on the war in Asia? Would Japan surrender sooner, fearing to be invaded by the Soviet Union? Would Mao win sooner? Or will the...

  7. WI: Brezhnev assassinated on 1969

    OTL, lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Ilyin deserted with two handguns, went Borovitsky Gate, in the Kremlin, and shot at a motorcad, killing its driver and lightly wounding a passenger, one of the four cosmonauts honoured this day. However, Brezhnev was unharmed. So, TTL, Ilyin manage. to kill...

  8. Why didn't Britain execute IRA members for treason in the 1970s and 1980s?

    Until 1998, treason was an hanging offense in Britain, and although IRA member were convicted for murder and various violent offense, none was indicted for Treason even though some lawyers might argue they were waging war against the Queen in her realm, as Mssrs Justice Donaldson and Bridge...

  9. How would a surviving Admiral François Darlan influe on the WWII and the aftermath?

    On Christmas 1942 the admiral Darlan, previously PM of Pétain and designated succesor, and who had in the previous weeks rallied the Allies, and with him the French West Africa and French Algeria, was murdered by Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle. Darlan was pretty impopular with some sections of...

  10. Could Stalin take over Western Europe after WW2?

    Hello, I world like to know if a scenario where the Wehrmacht manages to be more throughtly gutted in the East, resulting in the Red Army reaching the Rhine, and emboldening local Communists to try to take over (OTL some French Communists discussed in 1944 an uprising before deciding against...

  11. WI: End of communism and no Soviet Union breakup

    On March 17th, 1991, a referendum was held in several SSR to decide if the USSR was to be broken up in its constituant or if it should be allowed to continue, to which the electorace answered "Yes" to nearly 70%; however, the Baltic, Armenian, Georgian and Moldovan SSR boycotted the vote...

  12. WI: No Soviet Union breakup AND end of communism

    On March 17th, 1991, a referendum was held in several SSR to decide if the USSR was to be broken up in its constituant or if it should be allowed to continue, to which the electorace answered "Yes" to nearly 70%; however, the Baltic, Armenian, Georgian and Moldovan SSR boycotted the vote...

  13. WI: 1991 Algerian legislative elections not annuled

    On December 26, 1991 were held the first multi-party election since independence; the Front Islamique du Salut (Islamic Salvation Front) made slighty below half of the votes. Fearing the institution of a Islamist regime, the Army cancelled the run-offs on January 11. So, the question which...

  14. Consequences of the United States executing a spy after the Cold War

    The recents events around Jonathan Pollard inspirated me about this thread. The most likely candidate for receiving the federal death penalty for espionnage would be Robert Hanssen (several C.I.A. operatives in the soviet Union ended up executed because of him), if he had been arrested some...

  15. Regimes still repressing people after defeat

    Today, seventy years ago, two desertors were shot. The kicker? The army was the Wehrmacht. So I would like to know if there is other instances of regimes still repressing people, even after a crushing defeat.

  16. WI: No Reynolds v. Sims - Effect on politics?

    In 1964, the SCOTUS ruled state upper houses had to be set up on the "on man, one voice" principle, overruling plans where senators represented geographical areas. The effect was to made the major cities have more power in the State and to lessen the power of the rural areas. So, what if the...

  17. AHC/WI: Peerage in the Commonwealth countries

    Even though each of the Dominions (Canada, New Zealand, pre-1961 South Africa, Australia) is a monarchy, the local peerage is mostly constitued of British transplants. So, the challenge is to make at least one Dominion have a local peerage. And what could be the effect of this peerage in...

  18. When did the Russian Empire went beyond the point of no return?

    As we all know, the Russiam Empire fell on March 1917, when the Czar abdicated and the Provisional Government took over, after a disastriously led war and failed expectations of reform. So, when the Russian Empire was past the point of no return? 1881 : Alexander II died murdered by...

  19. AHC: Keep Algeria French

    In 1930, after a diplomatic incident during a meeting of the French ambassador with the bey of Algiers related to Revolutionnary debts on wheat, Charles X, confronted to internal dissent, decided to invade Algeria, which the new authorities rattached to the mainland France as an integral part...

  20. Legal status of bantustan citizens (and other unrecognized states)

    In 1970, Apartheid South Africa enacted the Black Homelands Citizenship Act which made all Blacks of South Africa citizens of their "homelands" or bantustans and stripped them of their South African nationalities. These bantustans weren't generally recognized by other countries, except by...
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