Things that look like alternate history but aren't

[Meadow]

A fine idea for a thread on the other place, I thought we had one here but the search found nothing.



"The initial successes of Operation Unimaginable gave way to the same mud and ice that had slowed Heidler just four years prior. Propaganda visits from the Stuart and Bourbon monarchs proved unable to rally the increasingly restless Entente armies, and the clarion call of Makhno's deftly-written pamphlets and speeches would eventually render the situation impossible. The Odessa Mutiny was initially dismissed in London, Paris and Jefferson, but within a month, it would have put Charles IX in the same company as the first of his name..."

 

[Thande]

Good to bring this back.

Here is one I found a while back, which feels very like something made up for a Paradox game.

 

[Charles EP M.]

White guys with a Confederate battle-flag who aren't just far-left but in a coalition with the Black Panthers of all things

 

[Thande]

Captured repainted aircraft and other military equipment are also a great source of this - add an AH caption about how Japan is lend-leasing Zeroes to the embattled US or Germany sending Me 109s to Britain or whatever.

 

[RyanF]

Re-run some of the classics:

 

[Ncw8]

Great idea! I’ll shamelessly repost this one:

The Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Kings Guard, Brigadier Sir Nils Olav, has been held captive in Edinburgh since 1972.

 

[Time Enough]

Good to bring this back.

Here is one I found a while back, which feels very like something made up for a Paradox game.

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If you ignore the Headquarters being in Chicago it looks like a wiki page about the Leftist Clique of young officers who took over the Confederacy in a coup.

 

[Meadow]

If you ignore the Headquarters being in Chicago it looks like a wiki page about the Leftist Clique of young officers who took over the Confederacy in a coup.

Well, that just means the Confederacy won.

 

[MAC161]

If you ignore the Headquarters being in Chicago it looks like a wiki page about the Leftist Clique of young officers who took over the Confederacy in a coup.

Magnolia/Dogwood/Camellia Revolution, against authoritarian "New Dixie" or "New State(s)" regime??

 

[Lilitou]

A fine idea for a thread on the other place, I thought we had one here but the search found nothing.

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"The initial successes of Operation Unimaginable gave way to the same mud and ice that had slowed Heidler just four years prior. Propaganda visits from the Stuart and Bourbon monarchs proved unable to rally the increasingly restless Entente armies, and the clarion call of Makhno's deftly-written pamphlets and speeches would eventually render the situation impossible. The Odessa Mutiny was initially dismissed in London, Paris and Jefferson, but within a month, it would have put Charles IX in the same company as the first of his name..."

I genuinly had this thought today while reading this!

White guys with a Confederate battle-flag who aren't just far-left but in a coalition with the Black Panthers of all things

As I recall from reading up on them a while back, there was an implicit understanding from the Black Panthers leadership that the Confederate flag was a "symbol of white working class identity" or something such; very weird!

 

[Arthur_Phuxache]

Captured repainted aircraft and other military equipment are also a great source of this - add an AH caption about how Japan is lend-leasing Zeroes to the embattled US or Germany sending Me 109s to Britain or whatever.

My psychiatrist: The MiG-28 doesn't exist, it's entirely fictional, just in a film.

Me:

 

[Hendryk]

An obvious one, but German occupation of the Channel Islands provides alternate historians with nice illustrative material:

 

[Alexander Rooksmoor]

I genuinely had this thought today while reading this!

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As I recall from reading up on them a while back, there was an implicit understanding from the Black Panthers leadership that the Confederate flag was a "symbol of white working class identity" or something such; very weird!

Yes, it is fascinating watching him speak German: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-65118773 His accent is passable and I do hope it will do a little in rebalancing the aversion to learning languages that so many Britons, even in the upper classes, have these days.

Apparently his father was fluent in the language, though having been part of the Greek royal family imported from Denmark, I guess multi-lingualism went with the 'job'. I know Queen Victoria spoke German with family members even when in Britain, and in theory Charles could reclaim the chunk of Germany which was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and have some claim on Han[n]over too.

 

[Charles EP M.]

An obvious one, but German occupation of the Channel Islands provides alternate historians with nice illustrative material:

There was a 90s Doctor Who book set there, with the blurb including: "The Nazis occupy British soil and British citizens are being deported to European concentration camps... this isn't a parallel universe, it isn't an alternate timeline; and everything is running according to schedule."

 

[napoleon IV]

A classic of this genre, the 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally:

 

[LSCatilina]

I see your American nazi rally and I raise with my American Communist rally.

 

[Warthog]

Sounds like it should be from the Ugandan occupation of Ireland after WW3

 

[Warthog]

That time two Bantustans went to war with each other, which reads like an entry someone wrote in a timeline because they just wanted something more interesting in South Africa than year, and couldn't be bothered to find out what could have occurred

 

[Mumby]

 

[napoleon IV]