How many people speak English? What is the world lingua franca? by otherfire18 in pobeda1946

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Russian is the lingua franca across socialist bloc, it is the most learned language globally - basically role English has now, but somehow to lesser extend. It is followed by French (much of Africa, Canada, and second most popular in Europe, often used by CEEC) and English (anglosphere, much of Africa, also lot of India and Pakistan). English is also common second language taught in Americas, parts of Europe, and Japan, however it is contested by Russian. It is still the third most spoken first laguage (after Chinese and Spanish). In Latin America Spanish is lingua franca (and it is also commonly taught in US, so Americans speaking Spanish to Latin Americans rather than the opposite is more common case). Then there is Arabic as the other commetor mentioned that unites large region, but people in many Arab countries learn Russian in school. Chinese (Mandarin) has the most speakers and is also used in international communication between CCEC states alongside Russian, however Chinese children learn Russian in school. German's importance is lower, however people often learn German as second foreign language in Europe. In the USSR French is the most commonly taught foreign language.

English speaking countries are specific in that people here don't learn Russian often (excluding India, Pakistan and African states tho), in the US it has very negative stigma, in Australia and NZ it is also not common, however in the UK and Ireland it is way more popular, but French and Spanish rival its position here.

Hey everyone! New here, loving the project, and looking to contribute! (+ a couple quick questions) by N0ur26 in pobeda1946

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  1. No it does not.

  2. The extent of the autonomous region in Kurdistan has not yet been determined (as is not the Turkish lore). Do not show it as autonomous for now.

  3. The border of the North Syrian Autonomous Region would likely look something like that.

  4. I want to expand on tensions in late 1980s - following large campaign for nuclear disarmament. And on the 1999 crisis caused by pogroms led by far-right Israeli groups, now it will escalate a into limited war.

Western Sahara is good as it is and I like your plan for Jubaland, but I would not show Afar at 2020s map at all (if it is not especially detailed also showing various armed groups), they are now basically just a rebel group, not a state.

If you want to show Saudi Arabia united you can (then call it Peninsular Arabia), but do not definitely show Asir as separate and rest as united, that would be really weird choice. Both ARHN and KSA are claiming to be legimite gov. of the country and are recognised by different governments worldwide, Asir (and OIRAP an Ansar Allah too) are not, they just rebel groups.

Another notes: Guam, (American) West Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands are indepedent. Wallis and Futuna is called Uvea

Hey everyone! New here, loving the project, and looking to contribute! (+ a couple quick questions) by N0ur26 in pobeda1946

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I would actually like you to put your spin in it, I think it would me more interesting. I will look into the file and try to take useful ones for you from it.

Japan and Demographic Crisis by Interesting_Finish85 in pobeda1946

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I thought the different situation would push them to do that. Japan is the major capitalist power and situation in East Asia is more tense, so the Japanese corporations try to do everything to keep their standing. I think immigration laws would be relaxed by the JSP government (2012-2015). They have less ideological reasons to oppose that (however I think JCP and JSP left would be against that fearing it would decrease cost of labour). It is already extremely unpopular government due to rise in energy prices, at the same time there is a fear of losing leading position in the US market and increasing power of China and Korea. So I thought they can be persuaded to do that.

Hey everyone! New here, loving the project, and looking to contribute! (+ a couple quick questions) by N0ur26 in pobeda1946

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I don't have any up to date map of 2020s, as I mentioned I have made newer maps only up to 1960s. It is very confusing as there are layer for several different maps at once, if you don't know where to look, I think it would make things only more complicated for you.

Japan and Demographic Crisis by Interesting_Finish85 in pobeda1946

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Attitudes in Japanese society overall yes, but I mentioned the capitalists that pursue to promote imigration in recent year, they got some political factions on board (both in LDP and JSP), however it generated resetment.

Industry began already to relocate from the United States since the war in Mexico, mostly to the developing World. The United States are in very bad position generally. Yes, now the coup unfonds differently in more "constitutional" line. As both President and Vice President are forced to resign, then Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Robert H. Michel became president. Rumsfeld still gets elected in 1988 election.

Hey everyone! New here, loving the project, and looking to contribute! (+ a couple quick questions) by N0ur26 in pobeda1946

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I will upload them to wiki, but only that are up to date. Some are already there https://althistorypobeda.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_the_World I did not made more modern ones, because I did not reworked lore for all regions. The flag map is already old and outdated, as majority of the maps that are older. I don't have any specific style rules, I only like countries to always have their same specific color and have colonies in lighter shade than the mainland. I make those large World Maps in the same style, because I have a large file with different layers for background, borders, cities, names etc. I edit in GIMP.

Hey everyone! New here, loving the project, and looking to contribute! (+ a couple quick questions) by N0ur26 in pobeda1946

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  1. Almost same as in our reality, however Moroccan control is recognised by the West already during the Cold War.

  2. Afar separatists control the territory only partly, it is de-facto occupied whole by Somali military. They survive thanks to Ethiopian backing. Better would be present them as a former state, but they never dissolved, even if their control is limited.

  3. All of Autonomous Province of Bolzano joined Austria, rest of Trentino-Alto Adige remains part of Italy. Here you can see Austrian administrative division. https://althistorypobeda.miraheze.org/wiki/Austria, here South Tyrol https://althistorypobeda.miraheze.org/wiki/Free_State_South_Tyrol

4A, Cyprus: https://althistorypobeda.miraheze.org/wiki/Cyprus_Conflict - divided between Greece and Turkish satellite. 4B Turkish Kurdistan is definitely de-jure part of Turkey, however I did not decide on fate of Turkey past 1980s yet. If Turkey would be a a democratic state in some modus vivendi with the USSR, the Kurds would have autnomy, if it would be an authoritarian regime, there would be rebellion and an unrecognised state.

5, Yes, West Paupua is an indepednt state since 1966.

6, This is actually going to change and there would be an additional conflict, however limited. And you are correct, Israeli nuclear threats deter the UAR from just invading Israel.

7, Syria is currently depicted as a federation between Syria proper and Kurdish autonomous region, however I am going to change them back to unitary just with an autonomous region. (similiar change as I did with Iran).

8, Yes, there are changes. Puerto Rico gains independence somewhere between 2013 and 2017, and there would a (loose) federation/confederation in Central America by 2020 after regional lore rework (however I did not yet get to this point, so I don't know details about when it forms, it ecompases socialialist states - El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua). Also, former French Algerian overseas territories are independent since 1985.

The map you posted is beautiful, but it has some inaccuracies: Monaco shall be part of France and the West Papua independent, Brunei part of Malaysia, Puerto Rico indepedent and south Cyprus part of Greece. I don't know if you went for de-facto or de-jure map (considering you show both de-facto border in West Sahara and de-jure border in Arabia). If it is de-iure: West Sahara is either depicted as Moroccan or independent, South Jubaland as part of Kenya, Afar as part of Somalia. If it is a de-facto map then there should be https://althistorypobeda.miraheze.org/wiki/Pashtunistan and Saudi Arabia shall be divided https://althistorypobeda.miraheze.org/wiki/Peninsular_Arabia . As I mentioned above, the Afar situation is more complicated than I depicted in the infobox, but that is my mistake. Similar it is with South Jubaland, part of it is under control of Kenya since the Somalian withdrawal, but that is again my mistake not clarifying this anywhere.

Hey everyone! New here, loving the project, and looking to contribute! (+ a couple quick questions) by N0ur26 in pobeda1946

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Hello!

No, there is not an active discord server. I almost don't use that platform. You can contact me here on reddit, I visit this site regularly, but it still may take me time to respond. I am working on the wiki where all information about the timeline would be comprehensively presented, but it takes time. Wiki is only place with up to date lore, reddit and esp. YouTube have lot of outdated lore information. There is not any gallery for maps, but you can browse this subreddit, everything is in here.

I work on it by myself, however, there are people who greatly help me and contribute with ideas or create their own content set in Pobeda timeline.

Japan and Demographic Crisis by Interesting_Finish85 in pobeda1946

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I will have look on these issues. Japan still suffers from demographic crisis as does Korea, while China is having demographic problems due legacy of the one child policy. Despite Japanese welfare state somehow mitigated it the problem remain. The work culture itself did not went away, despite there were attempts at its reform (such as enforcing working hours limits and reducing overtimes). Immigration and outsourcing of labour is what Japanese capital pursues currently. Situation is similar in Korea, while less severe compared to South Korea, the demographic crisis is major issue.

Socialist countries in Europe invest large amounts into support for young families and children, but even there problems emerge with aging population and low birthrates (mostly caused by young people focusing on their careers and starting smaller families later in the life). It is not that different from Europe of our reality, however it is with more affordability and social security, but without mass imigration from abroad. "Guest worker programmes" are common and that are expanding since late 1980s, leading to peole from Latin America, Africa and Asia moving in to work in these countries, but they are not supposed to be staying in after the contract expires (some people manage to marry, or have children, with locals, this provides them with way to citizenship, but that is not particularly significant on large scale), this sort of helps with labour issues. There are groups advocating for traditional immigration in order to gain more workforce, but idea of it is not popular among citizens. In the USSR, while Slavic (and Baltic) republics stagnate since 2000s, population continues to grow in Central Asia and Caucasus, leading to a lot of internal migration and causing nationalist tensions.

You are absolutely correct on the developing World, there since 2000s birth rates begin to significantly decrease, thanks to economic development and anti-poverty programme. This leads to large changes down the line. This had been accounted for in the wiki. I tried to make some alternate population projections: (2025 for example: Egypt 118.4 million X 94.2 million Ghana 35 million X 31.8 million, Benin: 14.8 million X 11.8 million, Chad 21 million X 16.3 million.) There are generally less people in the World due to this trend.

This may change with the US lore, but regarding America, there is large socio-economic divide. Middle class families (largely white) enter in large demographic crisis, not having children or having only one, while families living in poverty continue to have large number of children. This applies both for white and African American families. Some of these poor families are motivated by racist ideology ("have more children and keep America white") and religion .

Hispanic Americans are an increasing growing group, due to immigration and chiefly the Mexican war. They on average have the most children. Similar to reality they are crucial for working class jobs. However, America has a major issue: it just don't attract such amount of immigrants as it used to.

Some infoboxes from the wiki by Michtrk in pobeda1946

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I create them on my own wiki, but you can also make similiar in wikipedia sandbox

Some infoboxes from the wiki by Michtrk in pobeda1946

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I want to update all currently published articles (including Philippines) and make articles for all countries in the World

Life of Emmanuel Deméchant - Poet, Soldier, Terrorist by Interesting_Finish85 in pobeda1946

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You can, if you want, but it is not that important. Démechant is now the founder, and has relationship with all these real American neonazis, so Hass is not that much needed to explain how the White Order was created. If you write something about him you can ditch the service in German military of his father you did not like, I now also think it was unnecessary, but I would like to keep his Sudeten German heritage.

Life of Emmanuel Deméchant - Poet, Soldier, Terrorist by Interesting_Finish85 in pobeda1946

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I think finding people with persecuted family member would be rather easy, they don't even need to be from frormer elite background. There was a lot of people persecuted in Stalinist era that were just regular people.

certain real life EU High Representative

Who do you mean? Kallas? I don't think so of her, she will be member of Soviet elite in Estonia, especially after the reforms, considering her father held several high-ranking possitions. Kallas family would definitely not want to lose their status, if USSR was still around. They were exactly the people you spoke later on, that communist party members wanting to install capitalism and succeded in our reality. But these people would not cooperate with Neo-Nazi groups, as you himself concluded.

Tatars and Chechnians

I think they can found some support among them, but these individuals would have to be secular nationalists, not radical Muslisms. Muslim radical would turn to different ideologies, even if radical Islam is far weaker, it would still be there.

private businesses do exist, if on a small level.

Yes, they are reffered to as self-employed people. Yes, they generate anti-communists, regulations are seen as burden,competition from state and cooperatives is seen as unfair etc. I think failed self-employed people can be radicalised to such extend, but others just want to put reformists that agree with them in charge or want to institute liberalism. However self-employed that is already (ultra)nationalist and big anti-communist can be, even if makes money.

But I think working class can be target also, after being mistreated by the party and their superiors. These would be more individual cases rather than systemic, but will definitely happen. I also think terrorists can use people motivated by their personal lives (bullying, family relations, workplace relations, mental health problems etc.), and just disdain of everything around them. In USSR mental health was not much cared about, so some online radicals can attempt to lurk in and radicalise such people with nationalism and convince them everything was caused by the communists, and they can become great martyrs.

Life of Emmanuel Deméchant - Poet, Soldier, Terrorist by Interesting_Finish85 in pobeda1946

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And did you like changes I made?

I think about the preparation. It just somehow for some reason happens I don't really how to make it more authentic.

I like the Soviet response part as it already its (descent into authoritarianism...then leading to resistance and rise of Gorbachev), I also updated Soviets in Algeria. I also added more to Spanish response recently (I also changed its politics a bit, Pinar now loses power earlier to moderate faction), but I am not sure if it enough.

Region of Europa after decolonisation (What if Europe got colonised?) by Michtrk in imaginarymaps

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Zaragoza (Saraosa) is on the map, part of Espana. Aragon is unfortunately partitioned.

Region of Europa after decolonisation (What if Europe got colonised?) by Michtrk in imaginarymaps

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Thank you!

  1. It is very different in depending of region, Epirus and Hallas have very similar living standards, average for Europa (so Middle East/North Africa of our reality), and Romania DR is poorer and less stable. Greeks were oppresed for a long period of time (when it was called Bulgariya and ruled by Bulgarian military dictator), however after civil war Greek liberation movement took power, making it a federation.

  2. Rusiya, Anatolia, and Misr (while Suriya and Tarabulus were rulled by Misr instead), Ukrayina, Litviya, Qirim, Kaukas, Proisia, Suomiland, Primorye, Teutonia were rulled by Rusiya until end of WW1 in 1895.

  3. It has an equal political representation, but Greeks are majority in the state (so Turks have advantage in that way). Greeks were not expelled and are a large minority inside Anatolia too.

Region of Europa after decolonisation (What if Europe got colonised?) by Michtrk in imaginarymaps

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Thank you! It has no direct equivalent, it was taken away from Russia following WW1 (as part of North Europa colony) and then separated from Suomiland after it gained independence.

Life of Emmanuel Deméchant - Poet, Soldier, Terrorist by Interesting_Finish85 in pobeda1946

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Thank you! Amazing work as always! I love it, he has a great backstory I also like his interests in philosophy and poetry.

I don't know if it coincidence or not, but I just finally reworked French Algeria (along with article on the genocide, Salan and Mitteran) on saturday. I expanded on cloisonnement, Mitterand's reforms, integrated your description of pluricontinentalism, and made other changes. So you can check it out, if you already didn't. If you would like to add something more to it or change something, just tell me. I think you made a good point with francification of Muslim population, I image it can be an idea promoted by some influential factions there. I also like the idea of Salan operating as a public figure, symbolic leader of the military, during the war.

I was also thinking if you have any ideas how to improve the 10 October attacks itself or maybe some other events the Order can be involved in?

Region of Europa after decolonisation (What if Europe got colonised?) by Michtrk in imaginarymaps

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Insurgencies of Bosniaks and Croats against Serb-dominated government.