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  1. Hyenas and dogs

    I really don't get this conversation. Its like asking "What if you had an omelet for breakfast instead of instant cereal?" and you responding with "But raw eggs are disgusting! How can I eat them for breakfast?" Yes, a dog is safer to be around than a hyena. But dogs are already a finished...

  2. Challenge: Ukrainian "Russia"

    Points 1 and 4 are already met by OTL Russia. Point 3 seems moot as during the Mongol conquests there was no Russian or Ukrainian language AFAIK and so a POD at this point might mean nothing "recognizably close to OTL Ukrainian (or Russian for that matter)" develops at all. So the only point we...

  3. Hyenas and dogs

    :confused: How are the "modern" techniques used by the the "Hyena Man of Harar" any different from "ancient ways of domestication"? Do you or do you not agree that scientists speculate that wolves were domesticated in pretty much the same way? Don't think anyone disputes that. I don't know...

  4. WI: Independent Chechnya... after the Second Chechen War?

    Yeah, but what I'm suggesting is that Russia restores control and rebuilds it under Kadyrov but with Chechnya having nominal independence to shield Moscow from international criticism over actions of Kadyrov and others. I agree that it would likely be politically suicidal/infeasible, hence why...

  5. Alternate world Propaganda

    Revolution comes to Dinotopia?

  6. Hyenas and dogs

    Early dogs would also keep out other large predatory animals away from the human settlement so there is that. I don't know if "hyenas are less effective as hunters and herders than dogs" (well, obviously they are less effective but modern dogs are a result of thousands of years of selective...

  7. Hyenas and dogs

    http://www.gadling.com/2011/04/19/hyenas-in-harar-a-unique-relationship-between-beast-and-man/ This does not seem to be too different from how wolves were supposedly domesticated.

  8. WI: 9/11 style attack occurs in Russia

    Sure you could. For example, wiki says the Moscow State University has 15000 staff and 47000 students. A university could easily have thousands people on campus during the school year. How is it 'very plausible"? Note that no one was able to pull of nuclear terrorism anywhere in the world...

  9. WI: Independent Chechnya... after the Second Chechen War?

    I was thinking about how past and present events in Chechnya impacted and tarnished Russia's image in the world when an idea came to me: In Afghanistan and Iraq, USA had to support, deal with and work along side people just as despicable as Kadyrov but the actions of the Iraqis and Afghans...

  10. The Deomcratic Russian Republic

    Why? For all we know the various European powers support Russia in this. WTF would Russia need to fight them, even assuming those nations are hostile to Russia? Depends completely on the size and state of the US navy in this ATL. The author said the story would be about a Russian soldier on the...

  11. The Deomcratic Russian Republic

    I'm confused. Is your POD the Russian Civil War resulting in a White victory? Or is it an ATL civil war in the USSR? Because USSR was not around during the RCW while a large-scale Soviet Civil War would a completely ATL event. Depends on the POD and how it effects the USA -- there is not enough...

  12. Keep Eastern European car producers competitive

    I was just going to point out that a number of E. European manufacturers like Lada and Zaporizhia Auto are still around and make licensed/modified coppies of other cars... but if you want completely home-grown designs rather than just copies... who knows, maybe this might be future history...

  13. DBWI: The Results of the North Korean Election Are In…

    OOC: note I point out that he was re-elected into office and that he initially came to power in 2011 (like OTL) though I did not specify how that occurred.

  14. DBWI: The Results of the North Korean Election Are In…

    …and Kim Jong Un, the grandson of the nation’s founder, has been re-elected to the office of Premier. In this latest election he received ~60% of the vote; the nationalist candidate from the New Ch'ŏngu Party and the Front For Reunification candidate each got about ~15% of the vote while...

  15. Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire

    Well, if you believe some of the things Soviet intelligence supposedly did, then supporting various groups without those groups knowing they were backed by UIS is not that far-fetched. (Few years back, I even recall hearing the theory that German Green Party and similar organizations that...

  16. AHC: Internal conflict in the USSR

    OTL there were uprisings in Chechnya (surprise, surprise) during WW2 which needed military force to be crushed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940–44_insurgency_in_Chechnya

  17. Western Ukraine and Crimea Do Not Join 'Ukraine'

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Ukraine#Kuban

  18. Western Ukraine and Crimea Do Not Join 'Ukraine'

    As you can tell from my above post I agree with your assessment of "separate Ukrainian SSRs are unlikely". But I do wonder, in an event where "inventing" a new identity for Western Ukrainian SSR was needed if Rusyn identity and Rusyn language could be promoted and put on the pedestal?

  19. Western Ukraine and Crimea Do Not Join 'Ukraine'

    All these "WI Ukraine is split in the past" scenarios seem to ignore the aspirations of Ukrainian nationalists. Apparently, the borders of a Ukrainian state proposed by the Ukrainian delegation at the post-WW1 Paris Peace Conference of 1919 looked something like this: As you can see, with...

  20. Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire

    There used to be such a thing as "White Croatia" too, interestingly enough. And a "Red Croatia"
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