r/AlternateHistory

Turkey never comes to be, an ottoman residuary state kept living.

Hitler and the nazi party never rose to power, the Weimar republic instead transitions to a military governament with simbolycal Kaiser.

Germany allies with Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Ottomans and the new alliance asserts its dominance in the balkans and in Anatolia with diplomacy and conquest.

The Soviet Union faces the largest invasion in history and mass insurrections, after a long and bloody war, communism ends in Russia and the peace traty leaves its vast territories as a mosaic of sovereign states with different cultures and ideologies.

Russia as a concept is erased and new and old cultures florish under the protection of Germany and its alliance.

Will there be a Russian Risorgimento if Germany gets embroiled in another war?

(To be honest I just liked the borders a lot, the lore should not have too much depth)

So : The French communist party won the 1945 elections and, after a confrontation with the Gaullists, proclaims it's own People's Republic. A new revolution awakens in the land of Robespierre...

Beneath the fragile recovery of modern Argentina lies a dilemma that continues to threaten the country’s long-term stability and prosperity. The return to democracy in 2001 after the fascits populist era marked a turning point, with leaders within the Cabinet of Ministers restoring civil liberties and rebuilding institutions. Yet the decades that followed have been defined by recurring economic crises, most notably the 2001 economic collapse, which shattered public trust in political and financial systems. In recent years, polarization has deepened once again. The legacy of Peronism remains central, embodied in figures like Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whose movement commands fierce loyalty while provoking equally intense opposition. On the other side, newer political actors such as Javier Milei have risen by channeling public frustration with inflation, corruption, and stagnation, proposing radical economic reforms that challenge long-standing structures. Argentina’s economy is once again under strain, with chronic inflation, currency instability, and rising poverty eroding confidence in democratic governance. The political system, while formally intact, is increasingly questioned by citizens who feel excluded from meaningful progress. The dilemma is stark: how to reconcile deep ideological divisions while implementing the structural changes needed to stabilize the economy. Efforts to push through sweeping reforms risk intensifying social conflict, yet gradualism often fails to address the urgency of the crisis. As in earlier periods of its history, Argentina faces a test of whether its democratic institutions can adapt without breaking. The outcome will determine whether the country can finally escape its cycle of instability or whether disillusionment will once again undermine its hard-won achievements.

Forcing nations to accept peace terms, going hard against terror groups, forcing its allies to uphold democracy and peace, stamping out weak and autocratic regimes, with a president at head who acted like Injustice Superman let's say. Even forcing Palestine and Israel to accept peace and two state boundaries by threatening nukes and sanctions. (Not Ai)

Based on a movie that I found on YouTube last night.

Fascist Georgia | Operation Barbarossa (1941–1942, REWORK)

In July 1940, Joseph Stalin, instead of invading Finland, ordered an invasion of Fascist Georgia (the Democratic Republic of Georgia had never been invaded), as he was infuriated by the fact his homeland was under fascist rule. Lideri Vakhtang Kalishvili was overthrown within a month of the invasion, but he and fellow Georgian fascist leaders Vsevolod Merkulov and Sergo Goglidze launched an insurgency against the USSR.

Operation Barbarossa gave the Georgian fascists a great deal of momentum. On 25 July 1941, the Royal Georgian Army captured Tbilisi, restored the Fascist regime, and launched major offensives to expel Soviet forces from Georgia. By the end of August, this goal had succeeded, and Shalva Maglakelidze's First Georgian Army followed it up with a push through Armenia and towards Baku's oil fields.

The First Georgian Army captured Yerevan on 12 October. Bogdan Kobulov's Blackshirts immediately began perpetrating a second Armenian genocide (Georgian Fascism scapegoated Armenians instead of Jews) as well as atrocities against Abkhazians, Ossetians and Meshketian Turks.

Despite conquering Armenia, the Georgians suffered heavy casualties against the larger and better armed Red Army, but the Georgian invasion of the East Caucasus forced the Red Army to fight in two directions at once, allowing Nazi Germany to seize much of the European USSR. The fall of Baku to Georgia on 12 December proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back for the Soviets, as they lost their main source of oil.

As such, Leningrad fell to the Nazis on 18 December 1941 and Moscow on 4 January 1942. Stalin attempted to flee to Siberia, but he fought an engagement with Wehrmacht soldiers while shouting "I die with my fatherland!" and was killed.

The Soviet Union dissolved into multiple warlord states founded by Red Army and NKVD officers, but Zhukov soon emerged as the leader of a powerful partisan movement that posed a serious challenge to the Nazis. The Nazi victory in the East was soon followed by a German-Italian-Egyptian defeat at Suez, shifting the tide of the war in favour of the Allies.

Hello, this is a post I've been working on for a while. It's not fully compleatly done, so I will be posting progressively on this project. The idea is what I stated above, but... as a result of said PLC still being alive, the entire map has been changed. I will eventually post more on the rest of this world, so think of this a teaser. This is the Planning Section, so I hope you enjoy!

Also, the cities not named are done so because they are either not the site of a battle so far, or are not operational objective.

One last thing:

These series of posts will be done in a six month time period, I.E. each map is six months after the previous one.

How would this change the 2000 election and how would the rest of the 2000s differ?

Let's imagine a world, where the character of Superman wasn't created... Because he was a real person...

In this reality, ''Krypton'' existed in the Andromeda Galaxy, where generations of eugenics lead to a superpowered society of human-looking aliens. Unfortunately, an unknown cataclysm would destroy the planet and a scientist managed to sent his infant son away on a spaceship, traversing the cosmos for three years (The child was in hyper-sleep) until he arrived on Earth. The ship would crash near ''Metropolis'' (Illinois), where a passing motorist found the alien child (His ship sunk in the Ohio River) and took it to a nearby orphanage. Luckily for everyone, the child later named ''Clark Kent'' grew up to care for others and seek to help those in need, training his incredible powers for the benefit of mankind. Upon turning 20 in 1938 (His birthday is July 18th), Clark began acting as a supehero the people dubbed ''Superman'' and this world's history took a new path...

Regarding his superpowers, he's more like his original 1930-40s incarnation, which grants him the following...

• Superhuman Strength: He possesses immense physical strength. His strength allows him to lift and move cars, locomotives, and even warships at his full strength. His strength also allows him to leap over buildings, generate a shockwave with a ''thunderclap'' and hold his breath for over two hours. Thankfully, he has full control of the precision and coordination of his strength, preventing accidents like tearing someone's arm off with a handshake.
• Superhuman Durability: While not as invulnerable as in his modern depictions, he's still effectively immune to most conventional weapons, requiring nothing less than a bursting shell to harm his skin and a direct nuclear strike would end him. He's also able to endure extreme temperatures (Both hot and cold), high voltages, crushing pressure, corrosive acids and even lethal radiation with virtually no issue.
• Superhuman Stamina: He possesses exceptional stamina that far exceeds that of normal humans. His enhanced physiology allows him to fight for extended periods without tiring, even while sustaining injuries that would incapacitate or kill most others.
• Superhuman Speed: He is capable of moving at incredible speeds, easily surpassing a speeding train and even a bullet, making him faster than the human eye can perceive. His enhanced reflexes and reaction time make him a formidable force in high-speed combat.
• Superhuman Senses: He possesses exceptional sensory abilities, far exceeding human limitations. His auditory perception allows him to hear sounds from great distances with incredible clarity, enabling him to selectively ignore irrelevant ones. His vision is equally advanced, providing him with the ability to see distant objects with the same sharpness and detail as though they were right in front of him even low light areas.
• X-Ray Vision: Rather than actual x-rays, he can use a form of ''clairvoyance'' to psychically peer through solid matter without irradiating stuff or people.
• Photographic Memory: He can memorize things with photographic accuracy, such as the entire content of a page with one glance.
• Language Assimilation: He can understand and speak the language of others with only a few seconds of exposure, although he still has an ''accent'' and doesn't know how to read or write them, only speak them.
• Body Control: He's capable of psychically alter his own physial appearance, allowing him to change his facial structure, hair and eye color, voice and even compress his muscles to appear shorter and thinner.
• Decelerated Aging: While his lifespan is only a bit longer than a human's (Around 150 years), his aging process is slower and better. By the time he's in his 80s, he'll only appear as if he's in his mid-40s and while his physical capabilities might decrease, his mental ones won't.
• Accelerated Healing: Should he suffer actual damage, his body is capable of repairing itself far quicker than a normal human. He's able to mend broken bones, torn muscles, damaged organs and deep burns in a matter of days or weeks at worst. However, other than his eyes and teeth, he's unable to regenerate major organs or limbs. On the upside, this healing also improves his immune system, making him immune to all known pathogens and contaminants, from snake venom to mustard gas.
• Flight: While at first restricted to running and jumping, he eventually unlocks the ability to levitate and propel himself through the air at incredible speeds (Being faster than a streak of lightning at his full speed). He can quickly alter his trajectory mid-flight, allowing for sharp turns, sudden stops, and precise aerial maneuvering. He can also extend this ability to whatever he's touching, allowing him to catch someone falling from hundreds of feets without them splattering on his arms or lift an airplane without it breaking apart over him.

With a real superhero appearing in the 40s, how would the course of history change?

A scenario that came into my head is what if European unification became much more popular in the 2020s? With Russia invading Ukraine and America becoming a less helpful ally, what if there were more popularity for a European Federation along with less right wing preverlance in Europe? We already hear news wise in OTL for a united European army.

I was thinking, instead of trying to have a far too optimistic view of an entirely united EU, what if just a few countries united first, like Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg? I thought of this first since it would seem to be the most stable option, since these nations get along very well within in the union (aside from Flanders and Wallonia, which could be adjusted and sorted with a dissolved Belgium in the future). The EU would still be kept intact, with nothing else happening to the other members. With a combinded GDP of 10.6 trillion dollars, it would be the 3rd largest economy in the world.

Though the pretzel incident is sometimes brought up as a situation that could've resulted in death in an alternate timeline, the shoe incident is another one that held potential if things went catastrophically poorly. What if Bush, after getting hit by the shoe, somehow experienced fatal brain damage and died? What would Dick Cheney do in his month-long presidency, if anything, and how would it affect Obama's?

As the ritual ends, Wilhelm II finds himself in a strange, new world. His followers run into the snowy forest, trying to find food for their dear emperor.

This is where he'll rebuild the German Empire, his German Empire, once more.

Then, the night comes.

eyy welcome back to my HHRE (Holy Hispano-Roman Empire) it's just what it sounds, Spain got high on the Catholic church and proclaimed as the protector of Christianity

more lore below I guess, enjoy & ask anything ! (btw i promise this is the last re-do of this country i swear)

Night of 14th August 1945, the coup attempt(Kyūjō incident) succeeded and the emperor was put on house arrest, as the government was now under military command, they refused to surrender to the allies even after getting hit by two atomic bombs.

As the war continued, the United States asked the Soviet Union for help in "Operation Downfall".The Soviets feeling mistrust from a former ally for not sharing about the atomic bomb, yet accepted United States offer, as the Soviet saw it was a chance to expand their influence in Asia.

On the 1st of September 1945, "Operation Downfall" Began, as US forces land in Kyushu, Shikoku and southern Honshu. The Soviets on the other hand invaded from the Kuril island and Hokkaido.

With the invasion and march to Tokyo was going at a steady pase, United States alongside the invasion droped three more atomic bombs on saitama, Osaka and Yokohama.

On 25th December US forces marched in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and Japan formally surrender marking and end to the war in the Pacific.

After the war Japan was put into administration zones like Germany, Kyushu was controlled by UK, Shikoku under Republic of China and Southern Honshu under the United States, likewise North Honshu and Hokkaido was under Soviets control.

It was accepted that Japan will be divided like German, thus formed the US backed Republic of Japan in the South and the Soviet Backed Socialist People's Republic of Japan in the North.

In China due to Soviets being busy in Japan the nationalist supported by US won the Chinese civil war forming "The Republic of China" as the communists fled to Tiwan. Due to no Soviet intervention on Manchuria, the Korean Peninsula got independence under one US backed republic.

This is the basic Lore of "Red Sun in the East"

(P.S: I know it's not an original Alt history idea but I wanted to do it. And the Map year is 1983 btw)