"Quite a few pre-1948 Zionist proposals, and a few British ones too, have a Jewish state that stretches all the way up to the Litani river in South Lebanon. These maps are also from Flapan’s The Birth of Israel."
Never heard of the last one, somehow.
Southern Carinthia was not economically important, and regardless the Austrians already lost a lot of land so it's not like it would be the sourest wound.
A classic: Italy gets split between a neutral socialist north inheriting the partisan legacy and a southern monarchy with uncannily familiar militarist attitudes and a lot of mafia influence.
When the idea of hippie farm communes caught on, most fertile agricultural land in America was already in the hands of propertied farmers or expanding agribusiness conglomerates. As a result, commune-builders were left with the land that was not considered attractive to the former group and...
The Red Week was an explicitly anti-war demonstration led by anarchist and socialist workers, so i have no idea where you got that notion from. It also runs in contradiction to your previous paragraph, as well as the bulk of historical evidence.
Communism and gender equality?
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. (Marx to Louis Kugelmann, 1868)
In the 2012-2013 period of the Syrian Civil War, media outlets speculated on the possible outcome of the conflict, especially since ISIS was not yet an apparent threat and the US was considering an intervention similar to that in Libya. In the midst of the chaos, Alawite minority groups in the...
Apparently the Urals weren't widely adopted as the eastern border of European Russia until the 19th century. Many earlier mapmakers considered the whole Caucasian isthmus and the lands east of Moscow and the Don to be a part of Asia, which perhaps shifted due to settlement patterns.
Avoid having...