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Was having a read over the Ostpolitik article on wikipedia and came across the CDU's attempt to bring him down via a constructive vote of no confidence. The attempt failed by only 3 votes, with much whispering of Stasi involvement in bribing CDU members to keep Brandt in office. What if the...

Since we have had a run of WWII posts recently thought I'd pose this question. While Ireland was "officially" a neutral nation,Dublin (and other parts of Ireland) would suffer some bombing from Luftwaffe bombers gone astray https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dublin_in_World_War_II...

The much unloved UCUNF was by any metric a failure, driving away the UUP's sole MP (Sylvia Hermon) and throwing its weight behind independent Rodney Connor in Fermanagh and South Tyrone didn't succeed with Sinn Fein's Michelle Gildernew winning by only 4 votes. But was there a chance for more...

In OTL the referendum was very narrowly defeated with 51% voting No, but what if the referendum passed and the Republic of Ireland moves to FPTP? We are just off a storming Fianna Fail win in the 1957 election and while they would lose 7 seats in 1961 they would still retain a majority. Does...

I've an amateur interest in NYC at its nadir in the 70s and 80s and a large part of that is the grindhouse scene on 42nd Street and Times Square. A den of XXX cinemas, live sex shows, pornography stores and crime. One of the most fascinating and elusive characters from that era is Hardcore...

I put successful in quotes because I have my doubts that destabilising the Jordanian state would work out well for the PLO even short term but what happens should they succeed in overthrowing the Monarchy or at least carving out a viable state within a state? It seems obvious that Israel is not...

So today is the 82nd anniversary of the Xi'an incident, in which Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek in order to persuade him to call off his campaign against the Communists and align in a United Front against the Japanese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Incident From the article...

The Left SR were one of the few Left Wing groups the Bolesheviks invites to join their Government following the overthrow of the Provisional Government in 1917. They were given some measure of responsibility, with 4 Commissar positions and influence in the Cheka. However they were bitterly...

I asked this originally in the other place but it got lost in the shuffle and I think it's an interesting period in Chinese Communist history. I've been reading recently about the beginnings of the Long March, the collapse of the Jiangxsi Soviet and Mao's rise to power after the ousting of Bo...