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AndrewH's Test Thread

Major World Leaders, January 20th, 2001:

Bangladesh: Sheikh Kamal (AL)
Brazil: Antônio Britto (MDB)
Canada: David Kilgour (Conservative)
China: Ni Zhifu (CCP)
France: Roger Holeindre (National Républicain)
GDR: Lothar Ahrendt (SPD)
India: Arun Jaitley (BJP)
Israel: Benny Begin (Moledet)
Italy: Silvio Berlusconi (DC)
JAM: Koigi wa Wamwere (NDP)
Japan: Yukihiko Ikeda (LDP)
Mexico: Ifigenia Martínez (Corriente Democrática)
Soviet Union: Viktor Chebrikov (CPSU)
South Africa: Chris Hani (ANC)
United Kingdom: Leon Brittan (Conservative - National Coalition)
United States: Liz Holtzmann (Democratic)
 
Time Enough said:
Love to know what has caused this here?

Excellent use of different but similar vibes here.
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Just goofing around and trying to transpose a few different things I was thinking about into one setting: first, the DDR being the state to reunify Germany (in a world where the communist project in Europe still collapses for the most part - how that works I really have no idea, rule of cool-ing it for right now), second, transposing a lot of the presents into the End of History period and lastly and semi-relatedly continuing the de-colonial process into the 90’s and 2000’s.

So you get awkward Leon Brittan getting shoved into Number 10 as a hardline internal security hawk as civil conflict rages in Northern Ireland, Liz Holtzmann getting inaugurated on a rehash of muscular Cold War liberalism as the seeming defeat of international communism was followed by the worst foreign policy disaster (Erich Honecker’s ailing yet triumphant smile at a ceremony celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall will go on to traumatize a generation of Beltway technocrats) since Pearl Harbor, neo-fascism on the march in Paris, countries from Mexico to South Africa to the East African Republic trying to recapture the spirit of the Bandung Moment some forty years prior, that sort of thing.

Really not a lot of worldbuilding here, just a vibe. an aura if you will
 
AndrewH said:
So you get awkward Leon Brittan getting shoved into Number 10 as a hardline internal security hawk as civil conflict rages in Northern Ireland
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I can see that as a vibe, would probably go hand in hand with ‘Labour oversees market liberalism in the 80s’ and ‘A Prime Minister is nearly killed by a bomb’.
AndrewH said:
Really not a lot of worldbuilding here, just a vibe. an aura if you will
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That’s fun, as someone that’s done that several times with my lists of Liberal Britain’s and all that, I always approve vibe lists.
 
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1973 - 1975: Richard Nixon / John Connally (Republican)
1975 - 1975: John Connally / vacant (Republican)
1975 - 1977: Carl Albert / Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1977 - ???: Edmund Muskie / John Brademas (Democratic)
defeated, 1976: Ronald Reagan / Gerald Ford (Republican)

1970 - 1974: Luis Echeverría (PRI)
1974 - 1976: Mario Moya Palencia (PRI)
1974: Provisional President for eleven days after Echeverría's resignation, invested as Substitute President by Congressional secret ballot
1976 - ???: Hugo Cervantes del Río (PRI)
 
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AndrewH said:
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1973 - 1975: Richard Nixon / John Connally (Republican)
1975 - 1975: John Connally / vacant (Republican)
1975 - 1977: Carl Albert / Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1977 - ???: Edmund Muskie / John Brademas (Democratic)
defeated, 1976: Ronald Reagan / Gerald Ford (Republican)

1970 - 1974: Luis Echeverría (PRI)
1974 - 1976: Mario Moya Palencia (PRI)
1974: Provisional President for eleven days after Echeverría's resignation, invested as Substitute President by Congressional secret ballot
1976 - ???: Hugo Cervantes del Río (PRI)
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These connected in anyway?

Also I have to say, I do enjoy Andrew your Mexico content, I feel like Mexico has until recently been under utilised, I’m always intrigued to see the potential figures who could have emerged.

Also the aesthetic for the poster is great, strong Mid 70s design to it.
 
Time Enough said:
These connected in anyway?

Also I have to say, I do enjoy Andrew your Mexico content, I feel like Mexico has until recently been under utilised, I’m always intrigued to see the potential figures who could have emerged.

Also the aesthetic for the poster is great, strong Mid 70s design to it.
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Yeah, just workshopping some stuff I want to get down - Vazquez and Lucio Cabanas are fascinating figures in a period of overlooked social movement history in Mexico.

Appreciate it! My focus for my Masters' is social movement history in Mexico (not to repeat myself), so it's pretty much all I've been reading about as of late outside of fiction.
 
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Chairperson of the Third International

8th World Congress (1947):
9th World Congress (1955):
10th World Congress (1965):
11th World Congress (1975):
12th World Congress (1985):
13th World Congress (1995):
14th World Congress (2005):
15th World Congress (2015):
16th World Congress (Special Session - 2023):
 
Chairperson of the Third International

8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai
9th World Congress (1955):
10th World Congress (1965):
11th World Congress (1975):
12th World Congress (1985):
13th World Congress (1995):
14th World Congress (2005):
15th World Congress (2015):
16th World Congress (Special Session - 2023):
 
Chairperson of the Third International

8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai
9th World Congress (1955): Jacques Duclos
10th World Congress (1965):
11th World Congress (1975):
12th World Congress (1985):
13th World Congress (1995):
14th World Congress (2005):
15th World Congress (2015):
16th World Congress (Special Session - 2023):
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AndrewH said:
Yeah, just workshopping some stuff I want to get down - Vazquez and Lucio Cabanas are fascinating figures in a period of overlooked social movement history in Mexico.
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They seem like fascinating figures, I should try and read more about that period I feel.
AndrewH said:
Appreciate it! My focus for my Masters' is social movement history in Mexico (not to repeat myself), so it's pretty much all I've been reading about as of late outside of fiction.
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Oh cool, sounds like an interesting masters. I feel Mexico is treated a bit like Japan in Alternate History and history generally, nothing happening till a time of great chaos but there’s all these currents that are happening that if things go slightly differently, there are big ramifications.
 
Time Enough said:
They seem like fascinating figures, I should try and read more about that period I feel.
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Highly recommend Alexander Aviña's Specters of Revolution on this score - both Genaro Vazquez and Lucio Cabanas drew their support from rural campesinos in the state of Guerrero and operated at the same time (and were both schoolteachers funnily enough), so this is effectively a case study of the respective guerrilla movements, incredibly fascinating and well-written.
 
Chairperson of the Third International

8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai
9th World Congress (1955): Jacques Duclos
10th World Congress (1965): Karl Schirdewan
11th World Congress (1975):
12th World Congress (1985):
13th World Congress (1995):
14th World Congress (2005):
15th World Congress (2015):
16th World Congress (Special Session - 2023):
 
Chairperson of the Third International

8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai
9th World Congress (1955): Jacques Duclos
10th World Congress (1965): Karl Schirdewan
11th World Congress (1975): Lin Biao
12th World Congress (1985):
13th World Congress (1995):
14th World Congress (2005):
15th World Congress (2015):
16th World Congress (Special Session - 2023):
 
Chairperson of the Third International

8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai
9th World Congress (1955): Jacques Duclos
10th World Congress (1965): Karl Schirdewan
11th World Congress (1975): Lin Biao
12th World Congress (1985): Joe Slovo
13th World Congress (1995):
14th World Congress (2005):
15th World Congress (2015):
16th World Congress (Special Session - 2023):
 
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