Thanks for your sense of detail, there is effectively a small error on the Nobel Prize list ! Thank you !
I must admit that I can't think of it !
For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL
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Any prominent CWR generals who become notable in the World War aside from Henri Tanguy? And speaking of the World War, what fronts did it have aside from the anti-CWR front?
And was any CWR general/marshal such who would had same reputation as Rommel?
Icelandic Revolution
The Icelandic Revolution was a peaceful regime change in Iceland that started with heavy protests during the month of March 1986, ending with the adoption of the new and current Icelandic Constitution the same year, on October, 20.
Heavily indebted by US military presence and suffering heavily from the Great Recession, Iceland experienced hyperinflation and mass unemployment, while critics were made against current politicians due to clientelism and corruption. Mass protests mobilized up to 160,000 people (the two thirds of Iceland’s then population), remaining peaceful all the way : it ended with the June, 8 mass resignation of the government and the organization of new elections, that saw the victory of left-wing and anti-system parties, then a constituent assembly. The Constitution that was enacted in 1986 remains in force in Iceland to this day.
The 1986 Icelandic Constitution is considered as “the most democratic in the current world”. Aside from acknowledging various civil rights (GRSM but also neo-pagan), it provided for absolute control of the people, with the head of state being replaced by a 40-member collective Executive College, with members selected by lot and renewed every year, along with a strong proportionally elected Althing. The Constitution also stresses the need for referendum at a citizens’ initiative, a strong protection for the environment (in 2006, Iceland has inaugurated his plan to make the country carbon-neutral by 2031), free health care and education, abolition of army and police and had been amended to providence for e-democracy. Critics have deemed that the very small population of Iceland is the only thing allowing the Constitution to work and it would be impossible to put in motion in a bigger country, yet Iceland constantly ranks first in the World Democracy Index;
Lalli is right.
War never changes...
As CWR officers, we could see Jacques Doriot, Jacques Duclos, Marcel Bucard, Pierre Brossolette, May Picqueray, Enrique Lister, Marcel Déat, Maurice Joyeux, Missak Manouchian, Henri Barbusse, Francisco Galan Rodriguez, Buenaventura Durruti among others... As of the most succesful generals, maybe Doriot, Brossolette, Lister or Manouchian.
Even in OTL Icelandic crime rate is extremely low even with Nordic standards. So probably private citizens manage keep some order. There might be some voluntarely groups which investigate crimes if such occur.
I think Iceland was rated as the safest country in the world IOTL, even more than famously low crime countries like Japan and the other Nordic countries.
Local militias, on the model of the National Guard, provide for law enforcement. And yes, the Icelandic crime rate is indeed incredibly low so this works.
Kolchak Incident
The Kolchak Incident of 22 July 1953 was an event of the Armed Peace between Germany and Russia ; the incident saw the sinking of the Russian Imperial Navy’s cruiser Kolchak by two German U-Boots in the Skagerrak Sea near Denmark. The confrontation is often considered as one of the closest the Armed Peace came to escalating into a global nuclear war.
Commissioned in 1952 and named after former Prime Minister and Admiral Alexander Kolchak (1874-1945), the Russian cruiser Kolchak was considered the jewel of the Russian Imperial Fleet and embarked during Summer 1953 in a mission of patrolling the Baltic Sea up to the Skagerrak Strait (between Denmark and Norway) in order to test its capacities.
These patrols, held in the immediate aftermath of the detonation of the first Russian nuclear bomb and the Second Polish War, deeply stressed the battle-weary Kaiserliche Marine ; on 22 July 1953, as the Kolchak was returning to its base in Petrograd, she was intercepted by German U-3540 and U-4029, that repeatedly asked the cruiser to identify herself ; the Russians declined to answer and the two U-Boots opened fire, as according to the rules of engagement in Reichspakt-controlled seas ; the Kolchak was hit five times by torpedoes and the ship was abandoned.
The Russian government considered the sinking an act of war and Germany had to deeply water down their conditions for peace for the Second Polish War, accepting that Poland would be a neutral buffer state between Germany and Russia, forbidden to join the Reichspakt in any circumstances. The German efforts were seen as an admission of weakness by Russia, that began to prepare for the Estonian War (1954-1956), another close call of the Armed Peace.
The wreck of Kolchak was discovered in 1989.
A LOT. The annexation of Pahang is still fresh in memories and China is happy to have them under their sphere of influence and provide them with guarantees and weapon sales.
I take it the Kolchak-class is basically a Sverdlov-class cruiser with a Tsarist coat of paint?
Battle of Switzerland
The Battle of Switzerland, also known as the National Redoubt Campaign, was the Syndicalist invasion of Switzerland during the World War.
As it bordered the Confederations of Workers’ Republic from its creation, Switzerland had always been very weary of the Syndicalist threat, as the Swiss Confederation had been heralded in Syndicalist propaganda as “the capital of Jewish banking and faked pacifism, a degenerate bourgeois republic”, with Doriot-era speeches pointing “Geneva and its French-speaking population a component of true France”. A general strike in Geneva, the week following the French Syndicalist Revolution, was repressed in 1921, while radical trade unionists, funded by Syndicalist intelligence, tried to seize Geneva’s Administrative Council and proclaim the annexation of the Geneva Canton to the CRW on November, 9 1932, only to end in failure, a harsh military repression and the proclamation of martial law on Swiss territory. As the World War began in 1943, Switzerland mobilized its army. In 1946, with Syndicalist successes in Germany and Italy, Jacques Doriot resolved to “wipe out the bourgeois enclave in Red Europe”.
The CRW declared war upon the Swiss Confederation on 9 April 1946, invading Helvetic territory through French Jura and the Rhine with 25 Alpine divisions during Operation Sapin (“Fir Tree”). As Geneva and Zürich felt to the Syndicalist in a month, the Swiss Army, under command of General Eugen Bircher, implemented the National Redoubt Strategy (Schweizer Reduit/Réduit national/Ridotto nazionale/Reduit nazional), that allowed for the retreat of the Swiss Army, the Swiss population and the Swiss industrial capacity in the Alps, behind a line formed by the St. Maurice, St. Gotthard and Sargans fortresses. From here, the Swiss Campaign, designed to last less than two months, became a war of attrition in the Alps, that lasted three and a half years.
The Swiss army, very well equipped, heavily trained, knowing extremely well the terrain, and benefiting from supplies sent by the air by the Allies from Southern Italy, stopped every Syndicalist attempt at a breakthrough ; even if the Syndicalist managed to conquer the Plateau Suisse by Spring 1947, taking Bern and Lucerne, the subsequent defeats in Italy, England and Spain forced the CRW leadership to undersupply the Swiss Front, providing it with inexperienced and disciplinary troops, untrained in mountain warfare. The Swiss Front proved to be a tremendous source of stress for the Syndicalist war effort, diverting and killing fresh troops that would’ve been needed in Germany and Spain.
The collapse of the CRW allowed the Swiss Army to reconquer the entirety of the country during the year 1949, stopping at pre-war frontiers. Even as Switzerland counted among the Allied Forces, the victorious country retook its neutralist policy, refusing to enter the World Council and to accept a German proposal to annex French Savoy, according to an article of the 1815 Congress of Vienna.
As Switzerland’s infrastructure and population survived relatively unscathed from the World War, the country pursued a policy of “neutral preparedness” : the country successfully developed and acquired a nuclear weaponry in 1965, designed for a defensive capacity, while a state of emergency was proclaimed during the Second French Civil War (1968-1971). Due do its highly democratic and capitalistic model, and its unofficial title of “Tomb of the Syndicalist Armies”, Switzerland was heavily targeted by neo-syndicalist terrorists, such as the 1982 massacre of the Federal Council or the 2014 Geneva Train Station shooting.