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  1. Presidential system: Separate Head of State and Head of Government. Possible?

    The republic of Ireland has a head of state who is elected, but yet is not head of government. My historical impression of the republic of Ireland's head of state is that the head of state is non-interventionist in government, and has a similar faculty to many other post-Empire or...

  2. Would the Hunger Plan have worked like the Reich expected?

    Here’s a what if: what if Police Battalions, hilfswillinge, the heer, action-groups and the multiple conflicting state apparatus fixated on food extraction / deprivation in 1941 rather than on pleasure actions, political actions, partisan suppression and population disruption (outside of...

  3. RAF insanity options 1945-80

    Wouldn't the best way to achieve this be with institutional change within the RAF, Ministry, and Exchequer? Why fail with planes, when you can fail in committee?

  4. How Cooked was Rhodesia Actually?

    ...himself to attain power as a result of the changed social systems of Zimbabwe and maximally operating inside the new systems. Mugabe as the *second* leader of Zimbabwe, and as trapped and controlled by the systems that promoted him as Stalin was by the revolution and systems that promoted...

  5. Would the Hunger Plan have worked like the Reich expected?

    I think you're correct about the desire given PoW starvation in 1941/2. So I guess the question isn't about institutional desires, but institutional capacities.

  6. Would the Hunger Plan have worked like the Reich expected?

    The stop line would be short of the desired murder plan because the Soviet Union would not have collapsed. The murder plan could have been further East, but it wouldn't have reached the desired numbers.

  7. Malaya What If

    Australias left is fragmented (ha) but wartime labour is generally viewed as the good old days when the ALP were actually left nationalists, or when the ALP cooperated with us the real left communists…. The left popular history hagiography is that they’re saints of saving capitalism from itself...

  8. The earliest possible documentation of performed "Breakcore"

    I bought a *lot* of polka records in the 1990s to get at locally constructed and performed dance. "Folk" is often a correlate for "underground" in modernity. I strongly suspect the correlation of anti-tonality, deliberately bad chords, broken beats, complex beats, anti-tuned samples ("just...

  9. The earliest possible documentation of performed "Breakcore"

    Wotcher, "Breakcore" is a marketing or cultural-affiliation term in high post-Fordist capitalism related to the recapitulation of "music" following the lines of Venetian Snares, Bloodyfist (Newcastle), or in some modalities Aphex Twin. It is a high modernist or post-modernist music reliant on...

  10. Krush 'Em All, Nick! | What If Nikita Khrushchev was Born in the US?

    ...distaste for, in political decision making, being decisive for the same anti-bonapartist reasons? I don't like this particularly much, but if there's anyone who can play servant to the committee *without* pre-manipulating it like Stalin using 3rd tier phone networks, it is Zhukov. yours, Sam R.

  11. AHC: better behaved Red Army

    Soldiers don't engage in mass disciplinary rape from lust. They engage in it for the sake of punishment, for "the other" but also in less dysfunctional societies in order to punish themselves for being second liners.

  12. What if Nikita Khrushchev never became the leader of the Soviet Union?

    1) All key decisions were signed off by what amounted to a "cabinet" government in the post-Stalin era. Removing Khrushchev removes one formed bureaucratic position and a characteristic advocate for it, but it does not remove the basis of that formation, nor advocacy for it, nor the...

  13. The Prague Spring endures?

    If successful I agree that it would solve the immediate economic crises. The longer term issues are on the table though and the forces unleashed in society may not accept such limited reform either for or against.

  14. Leonid Brezhnev dies earlier in 1975/1977, how does this change the USSR and the world?

    With what standards of labour unrest and indiscipline? Italian? French? English? German? Swedish? Japanese? Any increase in labour productivity, combined with more collective labour unrest might save the Soviet Union from its own ruling class.

  15. The Prague Spring endures?

    In '56 it was Mikoyan. Six years later he was shooting Soviet strikers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre There's always someone speaking against. Usually they're earnest and real about it, and believe it to be in the best interests of the power of the party. yours, Sam R.

  16. Let's play: Master and Servants, the salvation of the USSR in the Kyivian Божевільний замок sound

    ...capital cycling through cultural production in high tech micro-industries with productivity as great as the consumption market for them. We don't *need* play stations for this, we could just use theatres, dance-halls, radio and film. MDMA "Monday" would be slightly more productive than...

  17. The Prague Spring endures?

    Historically the action plan fraction of the Czechoslovakian party didn't determine the historical outcome: in a brutal way the leadership of the Soviet Union did with force. In a more local sense the action plan fraction of the Czechoslovakian party theses in the action plan that the social...

  18. What if Yul Brynner starred in the Grand Guignol ABBA Cold War Opera: Chess

    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble. I can feel the devil walking up on me. Historically ABBA's remnants created a Synth Pop opera "Chess." Chess was partly London, partly New York, partly Operettists, partly ABBA, partly Cold War, partly concept. Partly. Let us make it whole...

  19. The Prague Spring endures?

    Kadar risked his balls for Hungary and lost them. He risked his neck for Hungary after '56 in an incredibly long planned gambit to deStalinise after the triumph of Stalinism. Kadar knows the risk, but he's already risked it for Hungary. And a Soviet PC that is sensible enough to listen to...

  20. DIXIE GOES DOWN!

    Mid 70s right? Melvin Van Peebles looks available to direct but not write.
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