Is it even possible?
(I crave anti-colonial alt history)
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On April 24, 1953, Mahmoud Afshartous, Iranian general, chief of police, and right hand man of the prime minister, is invited to the home of a member of the social democratic party. As he approaches, he announces that the building is surrounded and that everyone inside is under arrest for treason. He had received a tip that the social democrats were collaborating with foreign intelligence and that they were luring him there with the intent to abduct him, probably to torture him to death and leave his body in the streets to get him out of the way and destabilize the government or something like that. A firefight ensues, and searching the building provides Afshartous with more intelligence, leading him to launch an immediate raid on the hotel room of one Kermit Roosevelt, which leads to his arrest and the uncovering of incontrovertible proof that the Americans are plotting to overthrow the government and install the shah as an absolute ruler, through the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.
This provokes a major international scandal. President Eisenhower denies all foreknowledge of the plot and blames the CIA, leading to the dismissal of Allen Dulles. He proceeds to declassify certain documents related to the plot - documents that also implicate MI6, damaging relations with the UK (along with screwing up and abandoning the plot in the first place). Attempting to please everyone, he ends up pleasing no one.
Prime Minister Mossadegh is outraged, and is convinced to shut down the American embassy and to pursue an alliance with the USSR. Iran’s Marxist-Leninist party, Tudeh, rises in popularity, but only comes to power after Mossadegh steps down.
Tensions between Western powers and increased anti-colonial sentiment result in Korea being unified under the DPRK.
People all around the world become more cautious of US-backed regime change, but with the failure of the “proof of concept” coup in Iran, the US becomes much more hesitant to deploy such strategies. But the red scare is still a thing, with the events in Iran and Korea kicking it into high gear. But the US approach is much more overt and mask-off.
That’s all I got, so far.
dismisal of Allen Dulles
Go read Fire on The Mountain. It’s an alt -history novel about if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry was successful
i was working on something but the project got too complicated
basic summary: FDR dies a year early, Wallace becomes prez, U.S.-Soviet post-war alliance (the U.S. becomes a non-interventionist demsoc state, the Soviet Union recovers quickly and starts aggressively assisting anti-colonial struggles with the Wallace admin’s secret blessing; basically by 1960 it’s a new Cold War between decaying European colonial powers and an ever expanding global left and a much better world. oh and Cuba still does what Cuba does but with backing from U.S. and Mexico, so Cuba assisting revolutions but on steroids
i just wish I had more time to work on stuff.
What if kakarot didn’t have help from his damn friends in our first fight
Alt history scenario: what if men didn’t have penis
The years of rice and salt by Kim Stanely Robinson starts with the black plauge wiping out all of Christianity and ends with world communism.
Yeah I’ll second this recommendation. It was a really interesting read.
the only thing that sucks is it sets up so many great moments and covers them only with a single chapter.
i want an entire novel about the Hedeosaunee fighting back Iberian Muslim colonists with the help of exiled Japanese Ronin. among other things
What if the dinosaurs didn’t go extinct and they were all Soviet?
I’ve got an alt-history Idea: What if the nazis lost WWII instead of regrouping in the US/other NATO countries’ governments.
That’s too unrealistic
maybe the hinge point there is no harry truman. wallace literally tried to prevent nato so it’s plausible he would have been much warmer with the soviets (despite his later public statements after many years of cold war) not dropped the bombs, etc.
I wonder what the USSR would have done with it if they had developed
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court is essentially one, but with the ending that you cannot do a butterfly effect by going back and bringing new technological ideas and progressive concepts to the past, because the weight of class dominance is too strong and consciousness must develop itself. Twain is so compatible with Marxism, there is a reason his works NEVER went out of print in the USSR.
Came here to post this
indigenous people winning the american civil war could be good.
It’s an epic fantasy novel, but Steven Erikson’s Midnight Tides began from the premise of “What would have happened if the Lakota Sioux were actually successful in defeating the United States Cavalry and marching on Washington?”
Not quite anti-colonial, and it’s parallel worlds-alt history instead of true alt history but
Have you ever wanted a book about parallel worlds that will take time to explain the labor theory of value? Or discusses the transition from feudalism to mercantilism to capitalism? Have I got the book series for you!
