Fantasque Time Line

The Russian State Duma has claimed it could defeat Lithuania within 24 hours and declared that “the Baltics should belong to Russia.”
This statement came from Alexei Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chairman ...

Leningrad was restored its original name of Saint Petersburg, but the surrounding oblast kept Leningrad as its name for some reason.

La couverture existe, sur la guerre de Corée. Je ne l'ai pas retrouvé, c'est "two fisted tales".

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Ah, ...

Timely reminder that the makers of The Apprentice were completely stunned at the depths of Trump's incompetence and ignorance when it came to business and being an entrepreneur when first meeting him. ...

Military executions, 1914-1918:

Germany 48
US (1917-18) 35*
British Empire 346
France c. 600
Austria-Hungary 754
Italy (1915-18) 729

* For non-military crimes (murder and rape); 10 were exe ...

Throw in Bashar and his extended family, as well.

They have to do something to earn their keep, after all.

Rest in peace, Mr. President. You did good.

Happy holidays everyone!

I imagine at Austerlitz, it would have been likely for the Austrians and Russians to communicate with each other in German, on account of so many Russian commanding officers being of German descent. T ...

For me, appeasement is a stereotypical male English politician/diplomat showing up with a piece of paper and saying "peace for our time."

Granted, these days not every appeaser is English ...

C'est un peu dommage dans mon esprit, de suivre le même parcours OTL. J'aurais voulu autre chose, je ne sais pas...
Parce que je pense à l'autre taré moustachu. Même causes, même effet FTL. Qu'il ne ...

PJ also butchered Denethor; in the books he only succumbs to despair at the end, while in the films he is an incompetent defeatist from the start, like some unholy hybrid of Gamelin, Nguyễn V ...

Certainly, the fascists of the RSI have reason to panic, but we see here another major difference between OTL and FTL. In the former, by the time the Gothic Line began to collapse the Soviets were alr ...

Wonder if "Lektor's" field rations include fava beans and Chianti... though the spelling reminds me of the fictional Soviet cipher machine that sets off the plot in "From Russia with Lo ...

As said a few posts above, for all that the Blue Helmets get derided for being toothless, that toothlessness is very much by design, as none of the Powers That Be at the UN want the Blue Helmets to ac ...