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• 10-Minute Retirement: The Soviet ranks of the great heroes of 1945 are filled with many officers who lost their mettle and were dismissed in 1941 for "incompetence" but called back to service.
• 25th Amendment: Following the July Crisis brought on by the assassination attempt on President Wood and his eventual death, the "Executive Succession Amendment" is created to clearly define under which conditions the Vice-President can assume the powers of the President in his stead and clarify the lines of succession and command. It becomes the Nineteenth Amendment a year later.
• Abdicate the Throne: Edward VIII actually avoids his OTL abdication and is allowed to marry Wallis Simpson, who becomes Princess Consort rather than Queen. However he is still forced to abdicate as the anti-interventionist government of Edward Wood he supported is deposed by a vote of no confidence and replaced by a new government that will declare war on the Axis.
• Ace Pilot: Mentioned and deconstructed somewhat, noting that the Nazis almost certainly lied about their ace pilots' kill counts, and the Nazi habit of keeping their ace pilots running sorties until they died instead of rotating them back out to train new recruits meant that Luftwaffe had a hard time maintaining the skill of its pilots in the face of attrition. It also meant that they wouldn't pass on their skills onto other pilots, making the air force perform worse overall.
• Action Girl: Jane Schafer, a young woman who grew up during the revolution, and after reaching adulthood, made the jump from Plucky Girl to this by joining the army. Not much of her character arc has been revealed yet, except for her being highly decorated for her service in the Second World War (as well as gaining quite a few scars from it, both of the physical and mental kind).
• Actual Pacifist: Some pacifists oppose American entry in World War II, even to fight against Fascists. Their political campaign against war is mostly ignored but sometimes vilified. Conscientious objectors called to service are assigned to non-combat roles far from the front to respect their beliefs.
• Action Politician:
  • Tom Lawson is a decorated war veteran and first man in space who becomes a People's Alliance politician pushing environmental policies later in life.
  • Harry Haywood enters politics and becomes Premier after a long carrier in the armed forces where he continues to push for an aggressive foreign policy.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Jacques Doriot and Pierre Clémenti, the fascist leaders of the Parti Populaire Français and the Parti Français National-Collectiviste respectively, enjoy a cordial relationship ITTL while IOTL Clémenti was deeply hostile towards Doriot because he considered him still to be a communist.
• Adaptational Upbringing Change: Jacqueline Bouvier and her sister Caroline Lee are orphaned by the Second American Civil War.
• The Alcatraz: After the Red May Revolution, the UASR expands the Alcatraz prison to serve as the primary repository for infamous counterrevolutionaries and only a single person, Alvin Karpis, ever managed to successfully escape..
• The Alliance:
  • The Vladivostok Compact (VOSCOM) is a military alliance uniting Comintern members and its allied fellow traveler regimes. The INTREV (International Revolutionary Armed Forces) is a unified military command to coordinate the different national armies of VOSCOM.
  • The Federation of Greater Central America, despite its name implying it is The Federation, is actually an alliance between the dictatorships of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador against the Comintern-allied regimes encircling them. The alliance is dissolved with their complete defeat in the Central American Revolutionary War.
  • The Axis is the obvious villainous example. It gets expanded compared to OTL with the addition of Brazil, Bolivia, Petain's France, Paraguay, Nationalist Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Iraq.
    • The Union of Sovereign Latin Nations is a network of Axis and Axis-aligned countries comprised of Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.
  • After the Western Allies join the war against the Axis, they and the VOSCOM form the United Nations.
  • The Western Allies form the Alliance of Free States (AFS) after WWII. Consequently, the liberal and communist powers which fought the Axis are more often collectively referred to as the United Nations in historiography rather than the Allies.
• Alliterative Title: The franchise Commander Columbia has some alliterative titles, the title of the franchise itself and the subtitles of some entries: Transamurian Troubles and Alaskan Avenger.
• Allohistorical Allusion:
  • President Taft proclaims "peace and prosperity in our time" during the 1914 State of the Union address only to have a world war break out soon after, making his declaration an analogue to British Prime Minister Chamberlain's in OTL.
  • The US Marines are given their nickname by their enemies during WWI, but instead of being named "devil dogs" by the Germans like in OTL they are called "western wolves" by the Ottomans, being deployed in the Middle East rather than on the Western Front.
  • Henry Wallace becomes People's Secretary of Agriculture in the UASR, just like he became Secretary of Agriculture in OTL USA.
  • The American Biennio Rosso is analogous to the Italian Biennio Rosso of 1919-1920, the latter happening in both OTL and Reds!TL.
  • The Southern Strategy makes an appearance as a political project, but rather it being the Republican party trying to get disenchanted Dixiecrats to vote for them after the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, it is instead the Workers' Party of America trying to bridge the gap between poor whites and blacks in the South and motivate them to become joint revolutionaries against the "Bourbon class".
  • The term "Baby Boom" is coined to designate the major increase in birth rates attributed to the return of millions of soldiers and the end of wartime conditions, but in the post-WWI era instead of the post-WWII era.
  • The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Commune is an organization focused on supporting the Asian American community in the United States and one word away from a much less benevolent organization.
  • The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1925 are analogous to the OTL Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • US senator Hamilton Fish III goes on a witch hunt for communists in the army and the government and has a list of supposed communist sympathizers. Does this reminds you of anyone?
  • The Breen Code is a direct analogue to The Hays Code.
  • African National Congress is the name of both an African-American political organization affiliated to the Workers' Party and the OTL South African political party.
  • The Tuskegee Experiment is proposed but never happens thanks to the opposition of socialists within the Public Health Service.
  • The right-wing of the Workers' Communist Party supporting the appointment of MacArthur as Secretary of War after Norman Thomas' Presidential election mirrors Salvador Allende, socialist president of Chile, appointing Pinochet as Chief of Staff of the Army. Both MacArthur and Pinochet went on to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government.
  • The central command of the Provisional Government's military, the All-American Central Committee for Anti-Fascist Militias and Red Guards, is nicknamed Antifa.
  • There are numerous allusions to the exile of the Nationalists to the island of Formosa (Taiwan) after their defeat in the Chinese Civil War:
    • The United States government's exile to the island of Cuba is the first and most blatant one, with Macarthur serving as Generalissimo and President for Life for the United States of America-in-Exile up until his death and Americuba's subsequent transition to Liberal Democracy
    • The Greek Anti-Communists lose the Greek Civil War and flee to Crete, what is left of the now-partially-recognized Kingdom of Greece after revolution claimed the mainland
    • Interestingly, the exiled Spanish Free Soviet Republic^note Spanish Republic's rename in the aftermath of the Civil War's first phase when the PCE consolidated power within the Popular Front, based in the Canaries after the government fled the Nationalist-Petainist invasion in WWII, is a communist allusion.
  • The discussion on in-universe AH.com about the possibility of an obsolete aircraft carrier air group like the Kitty Hawk's sinking a modern British battleship alludes to the OTL sinking of the Bismarck, where the battleship was disabled by Swordfish torpedo bombers and subsequently destroyed by the Royal Navy ships.
  • Upton Sinclair says in a speech "It is not the beginning of the end; rather the end of a beginning", which was said by Winston Churchill in OTL.
  • Elements of Communist Mexico are nods to Mao's Communist China: Both countries are considered still semi-feudal by Communists when they take power. Zapata develops an ideology named after himself in which agrarianism and rural guerilla warfare are central tenets analogous to Maoism. The army is known as the Mexican People's Liberation Army.
  • The armed forces of this timeline's Communist China are known as the People's Revolutionary Army, a nod to the alliance-turned-merger of the CPC and its armed wing (which becomes the PLA in our timeline) with the KMT and the National Revolutionary Army.
  • After the 1940 coup and revolution, Iran's military rebrands itself as the National Liberation Army, which was the name of the People's Mojahedin Organization's paramilitary in OTL.
  • Right after the Second Civil War the UASR enacts policies reminiscent of the OTL Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency, such as the National Industrial Recovery Act to restructure the economy and the Tennessee Valley Industrial Project analogous to the great works undertaken in OTL under the Tennessee Valley Authority.
  • The True Democrats' status as an honeypot for dissidents filled with State Sec informants is based on the OTL Communist Party USA, which is nicknamed "the fed party" in leftist circles because of the perception that it has been thoroughly compromised by FBI infiltration and their tendency to support the Democratic Party no matter what. A similar allusion exists to some extent with the Australasian Section of the Communist International, with many leftists in-universe accusing their authoritarian and ideologically sectarian attitudes to be due to "Fed" infiltration into their ranks to make Communism as unpalatable as possible to Australasians.
  • The term "people's democracy" was used in OTL to designate Communist bloc regimes that were ostensibly multi-class and multi-party, but in reality were controlled by their communist parties with little independence for their supposedly allied parties. In Reds!, people's democracies are social democratic regimes led by a leftist popular front including communists and allied to the Comintern without establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat.
  • The "Two Ocean Navy Act" signed in 1936 has a similar purpose of strengthening the American Navy as the one signed in OTL 1940.
  • The slogan "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism" used by the DFLP for its political platform is directly taken from OTL Earl Browder's platform during his tenure as leader of the Communist Party USA.
  • In the film Aelita (1937) the Earth scenes are shot in black-and-white, while Mars is shown in Technicolor, alluding to the OTL The Wizard of Oz where Kansas is in black-and-white and the world of Oz in Technicolor, with the reveal of Mars in color becoming an iconic scene just like the reveal of the World of Oz is in OTL.
  • Howard Rushmore's most famous article is an eviscerating critic of the film Gone with the Wind in the Los Angeles Times. In OTL, Rushmore was fired from his job at The Daily Worker because the editorial board found his critic of the movie insufficiently negative.
  • The split of the True Democrats between a mainline "Official" Democratic Party and a "Provisional" Democratic Party in the 1930s mirrors an OTL split within the Irish Republican Army in 1969.
  • The Red Trinitarian Ecumene espouses a doctrine known as liberation theology, invented thirty years in advance and much more communistic than OTL.
  • A fundamentalist splinter of the Mormon Church founded after the Second Civil War is named "The Third Convention" after the OTL splinter group in Mexico.
  • Operation Ajax, an American-sponsored political coup against the Pahlavi Shah in Iran to establish a Comintern-friendly regime, follows the same patterns as the historical one in 1952 (including the orchestral role of a person named Kermit Roosevelt), except that ITTL it takes place in 1940 and it is a Communist regime that's established afterwards.
  • The Communist bloc refers to World War II as the World Revolutionary War (WRW) or Great Revolutionary War (GWR), similar to how the Soviet Union/Russia (both OTL and ITTL) calls it the Great Patriotic War.
  • Harry S. Truman becomes Deputy Premier during the World Revolutionary War (WWII), the equivalent to US Vice-President, the position he held in OTL 1945 (However, like both OTL Roosevelts Presidents he never becomes the leader of America).
  • The paramilitary arm of the Free American State, led by Virgil Effinger, is named the Schwarz Legion, a translation of the name of the terrorist organization Effinger founded IOTL.
  • The "Ware Group" becomes the name of a group of diplomats led by Harold Ware coordinating with some diplomats and contacts in capitalist Europe, instead of a covert organization of Communist Party USA operatives within the United States government in the 1930s.
  • Operation Valkyrie is the name of a German offensive aiming to capture Moscow, instead of an emergency continuity of government operations plan.
  • Japanese Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku takes inspiration of an Allied raid on an Axis fleet to conceive a similar attack on the American fleet, the American attack on the Brazilian fleet at Natal inspiring the Japanese attack on Aleutian Islands. IOTL he took inspiration of the British raid of Taranto for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Nazi Germany establishes the SS-Kommissariat Salfrank as a personal fiefdom for Heinrich Himmler, alluding to the Ordensstaat Burgund proposed IOTL.
  • The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is created by the Palestine Communist Party in Jordan and recruiting from refugees across ethnic lines to liberate their homeland from Axis occupation.
  • The Portsmouth Incident is the "Battle" of Los Angeles transposed to Great Britain.
  • Anti-Spanish State groups named the Euskadi ta Askatasuna and the Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota are founded shortly after the Falangist invasion of Soviet Spain.
  • The end of WWII sees the rise of a two blocs, one Communist and one Capitalist, engaged in a Cold War against each other.
  • The Philippines are divided between a capitalist South and a communist North after WWII, just like OTL Korea.
  • After the World Revolutionary War, the UASR organizes the Truman Aid/Plan to help rebuild Europe as an analogue to the OTL Marshall Plan.
  • The acronym JDPON is lifted from OTL Maoism-Third Worldism and given a different meaning, the "Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Occupying Nations" designates the VOSCOM administration of occupied countries after WWII (including North-East Italy, East Germany, Romania, Turkey and Japan).
  • Howard Hughes' Hughes-Welch Broadcasting Corporation is one to OTL Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (the owners of Fox) as a conservative media empire.
  • The FBU operates a radio station aimed at Comintern nations named the Voice of Europe, analogous to Radio Free Europe IOTL.
    • Americuba does the same with its Radio Free America, an analogue to Radio Martí broadcasting anti-communist messages to Cuba from Miami, broadcasting anti-communist messages from Cuba to Miami and up to New Afrika.
  • One forum poster thinks it would've been unlikely for Georgy Zhukov to rise to prominence in place of Frunze had the latter been purged. Yet this is exactly what happened IOTL, Zhukov becoming the most famous Soviet commander of WWII.
  • Arthur MacArthur's defection from Americuba to the UASR parallels Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defecting from the USSR to the United States IOTL.
  • The infamous film-producer Harry Cohn's death from a heart attack in 1958, while corresponding to his OTL death, also is an allusion to the death of Harry Warner that same year. Both caused by the great personal defeat of having their film company (Columbia in Cohn's case, Warner Bros in Warner's case) bought out from under them by Jack Warner (Cohn's rival and Harry's fellow "Warner Brother").
  • Barry Goldwater attempts to run for political office in Americuba's 5th District in 1964 but is beaten, alluding to his OTL defeat in the 1964 US presidential election.
  • A war still erupts over the Falklands between Argentina and Great Britain (actually the Franco-British Union ITTL), but due to both sides being part of the rival blocs the war takes much greater proportions, coming close to provoking WWIII.
  • Following Canada's turn to Communism in the 1980s, the late 1980s see the growth of a local cultural movement called "Canuck Kitsch", revolving around nostalgia for pre-Red Canada, especially products available in Canada before the Red Turn. This is meant invoke a similar cultural phenomenon from OTL in the East Germany areas after the fall of the wall, called "Ostalgie", which is similarly about nostalgia for the old East German state.
  • Elon Musk, still a rich businessman ITTL, invests some of his money in starting a Video Review Show with himself as the host, which proves quite popular, leading him to build up an entire company, called NerdWorks, around his reviews, which ends up picking up several similar internet shows, much in the vein of The Nostalgia Critic and Channel Awesome of OTL. To strengthen the parallel, Musk and NerdWorks land in hot water in the late 2010s when a scandal involving allegations of widespread mistreatment and toxic workplace environment amongst his fellow content creators rocks the company, very much similar to the #ChangeTheChannel controversy of OTL.
  • The history of Maggie Pie, a meat pie chain that's the largest fast food enterprise in the AFS, mixes elements of the corporate histories of different fast food chains. Like KFC, its founder designed a way to cook a labor intensive food faster: Colonel Sanders invented the pressure fryer, which greatly reduced the time needed to maked fried chicken, Maggie Pie's founder Alistair MacDuff invented a machine to cook a meat pie faster than anyone else and opened his shop to demonstrate. Also like KFC, it's founder also serves as it's mascot, but gradually drifts away from the company and begins feuding with the new owners.^note The part in the Maggie Pie story where Alistair goes to restaraunts, asks to sample the food, and then chews the workers out if he didn't like it? That was something Colonel Sanders did in real life. Like McDonald's, it was formed by a wealthy outsider who visited the shop and liked what he saw, and then gradually took over the business: Ray Kroc liked what his milkshake-mixer clients the McDonald brothers were doing with their original California restaraunts and bought the company out, Richrd Finlay did the same. Mickey D's has the Happy Meal, Maggie Pie has the Fun Meal, and Maggie Pie has another mascot named Mr. Magpie who serves as the Ronald McDonald equivalent. But it also incorporates other stories of giant, faceless corporations: the studio buying and mismanaging Eastman Pictures parallels how the Coca-Cola company owned Columbia Pictures IOTL, and Finlay's large, politically connected family reflects Wal-Mart owners the Walton family.
  • While Albert Speer is primarily a non-factor in this story with his role in the Nazi War effort being taken over by Henry Ford, and Henry Ford himself would be eventually executed for his crimes rather than be allowed to escape justice, Speer's role as a postwar figure associated with the Axis that both escaped justice and created a myth using their memoirs whitewashing their war-time conduct and their own commitment to Fascist ideology would be filled by Francisco Franco, whom writes multiple memoirs painting himself as a moderate and apolitical officer appalled by the conduct of Jose Sanjurjo and Emilio Mola and whitewashing his support of Sanjurjo's coup and his own participation in Falangist atrocities.
• Altar Diplomacy: Princess Elizabeth Windsor marries Henri of Orleans, the Orleanist pretender to the throne of France, in order create permanent links between France and Great Britain after the creation of the FBU and avoid the royal family appearing as wholly foreign to the French by having a French prince consort and half-French heirs.
• Alternate History: What if America had a Communist Revolution in 1933 (leading to a Communist democracy)? Complete with excerpts of the universe's AlternateHistory.com speculating about alternate history scenarios from their own history.
• Alternate History Wank: Multiple ideologies and nations are subject to this:
  • The United Republics cause a wank for the communist movement, being an already industrialized nation with sophisticated infrastructure and a large scientific community. A series of revolutions in Central and Latin America inspired by the American revolution expanded the Comintern membership to dozens. The United Republics also successfully creates a democratic state and leads the USSR and the wider communist movement away from authoritarianism.
  • The Axis is also wanked, Nazi Germany and Italy avoid most of their Easy Logistics problems and gain access to Libyan oil, along with initial financial support from Britain and France, while Brazil, Turkey, Sweden and Iraq are taken over by fascist governments, resulting in the former two outright joining the Axis powers as an equal partner, and the latter two forming a strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. This happens because otherwise the Axis would be curb stomped by the combined American and Soviet forces which would not make for a very interesting story.
  • Inverted with neoliberalism, which is mostly a fringe ideology only taken seriously in Dutch politics. The Capitalist Bloc by The New '10s have vast welfare states which in most cases are more expansive than what existed in real life, as a way for capitalists to prevent the working class from joining communist movements.
• Alternate Techline: Downplayed. Television in the Comintern takes a different direction from OTL, being based on projection television using CRT projectors, while AFS television is much more familiar.
• Amazon Brigade: A very literal example. The all-female combat units of the Red Army during the 30s and 40s are often called "the Amazon Regiments" colloquially.
  • In the beginning they are used as a dumping ground for incompetent and politically unreliable male NCOs and officers, leading them to regard their task to train women soldiers as a punishment and to treat the women under them badly with a large dose of mysogyny.
• Ambiguously Gay: The relationship between Jiang Jieshi and Zhou Enlai.
• America Takes Over the World: Downplayed. Thanks to its more developed industrial and technological base and being the only other powerful communist state, the UASR quickly matches the USSR's level of influence over the Comintern and eclipses it after Stalin's death. In fact some would accuse the UASR of "social imperialism" and of controlling the global communist movement in its entirety, but while they would prove very influential they do not control everything, secretly or otherwise.
• Amoral Afrikaner: The South African National Republic, a splinter of the old Union of South Africa which formed during the Azanian Revolution, is a white supremacist settler state oppressing its native African population. It is also the only fascist state in existence as of the present, which has made it a pariah in the international community.
  • Somewhat downplayed in Rhodesia's case. While it is still very much ruled by a racist, colonialist regime, it has managed to retain membership in the AFS and normalize relations with some other African members to not be completely isolated, including the native-governed and democratic East African Federation next door. This is largely due to the concessions it has made towards native Africans within its borders to win their compliance as well as policies elevating certain black ethnic groups deemed "civilized" above others within Rhodesian hierarchy.
• Anachronism Stew: There is a class of American cruisers serving during WWII named after the song Fields of Athenry, which is actually a case of modern artist pretending their original composition was a traditional folk song to borrow the gravitas. When Spartakrod (who wrote the entry) found out, fae decided to keep the name because fae liked the song and its subject, instead deciding this timeline's version of the song was created in the 1930s.
• Animal Theme Naming: As IOTL, the tanks of the German Reich are well-known for being given names of animals, particularly big cats: PzKpfw IV Nashorn ("Rhinoceros", TTL PzKpfw VI Tiger), PzKpfw 50 Jaguar (TTL E-50), Jagdpanther^note The Jaguar is chosen over the Panther for development and all existing materials is recycled to create a heavy assault gun/tank destroyer, the Jagdpanther, PzKpfw 25 Guepard.
• Anti-Mutiny: Patton mutinies with his loyal men and successfully rallies the Bonus Army against MacArthur.
• Argentina Is Nazi Land: As IOTL, several Nazis, Fascists and collaborators manage to escape the collapse of the Axis.
  • Harry Bennett, who followed his employer Henry Ford to Germany and was involved in his crimes, flees to Brazil as Germany is about to fall, living under an assumed name. He is captured by the Palestinian intelligence agency and deported to East Germany in 1966, where he is sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • Richard Heinz, an American POW turned Nazi camp guard, escapes to England then Canada, where he lives under an assumed name until his arrest in 1993.
  • Heidi Glockner, another Free American State collaborator, is found living in the London suburbs, arrested and put on trial in 1961.
• Armchair Military: Salgado and the integralists expected Argentina to collapse as soon as the Brazilian army would reach the capital. It didn't, they vastly underestimated the resolve of their enemies.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In order to prevent a Socialist Labor Party victory at the 1916 midterm elections the Wilson government arrests without trial dozens of SLP candidates, attempts to suppress voting, and, the most incredible, makes an agreement for Democrats and Republicans to not stand for election against each other.
• Ascended Extra:
  • IOTL Daniel De Leon and his ideology of De Leonism are only a minor part of the history of American socialism and are largely forgotten. In Reds!TL he is the founder of one of the most important political parties in American history and his ideas become part of the foundations of the UASR.
  • Leonard Wood takes the place of Theodore Roosevelt as one of the most influential American presidents known for their progressive reforms, even being remembered in Communist America as one of the better ones.
  • Pretty much every prominent American socialist mentioned in the timeline is subject to this as a result of their party and ideology gaining much more prominence than IOTL and eventually power as well.
  • Since there is no biographical information about Solon De Leon, the son of Daniel De Leon, and he was presumably apolitical IOTL, he is used as a sort of a literary blank slate by the authors for the purpose of the timeline.
  • Georges Catroux takes Charles de Gaulle's place as a French WWII military leader who becomes an important politician and leader of his country later on, becoming Prime Minister of the FBU in 1960 (around the time de Gaulle became president IOTL).
• Assassination Attempt:
  • One major point of divergence in the timeline is the absence of one: Leon Czolgosz is arrested for vagrancy by a racist cop, before he can make his assassination attempt on President McKinley.
  • Venustiano Carranza's plan to assassinate Zapata fails and instead Carranza himself is assassinated in an internal coup in 1920.
  • In 1927, a successful one happens on Independence Day against the popular reformist-Republican President Leonard Wood at the hands of a KKK member, who was angry at his broad reforms helping to enfranchise black people in the South. Wood is gravely wounded by two shots to the chest in the attempt, and succumbs to his injuries seven days later, leading to his Vice-President, Herbert Hoover ascending to the presidency.
  • Puniša Račić attempts to kill Stjepan Radić, leader of the Croatian People's Peasant League, but unlike OTL his attempt fails.
  • The 1932 assassination attempt against Japanese Emperor Hirohito by a Korean independence activist, known as the Sakuradamon Incident, still takes place. What is changed though, is that the attack is slightly more successful as Hirohito is seriously wounded in the attempt and never fully recovers from his injuries, and is ultimately left partially incapacitated, allowing his younger brother, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, to assume the position of Kanpaku, the Emperor's chief advisor, thereby becoming the de facto head of the Japanese state.
  • William "Big Bill" Haywood is assassinated by the Whites during the Second American Civil War.
  • Óscar Benavides narrowly misses an assassination attempt during an inspection of the soldiers assigned to his guard during the Peruvian Revolutionary/Civil War. The experience intensifies his paranoia dramatically and he starts refusing to come out of secured locations in anything less than an armoured car.
  • Undzer Shtik enforcer Arthur Flegenheimer, aka Dutch Schultz, makes a botched attempt to assassinate Metropolis Attorney General Joseph Brodsky, prompting J. Edgar Hoover to focus his efforts on the "National Crime Syndicate" alliance of Italian and Jewish organized crime.
  • On 28th April 1940, John Birch attempts to assassinate Premier William Z. Foster, as he speaks at Emma Goldman's funeral in Chicago. Birch is unsuccessful as a Red Guard spots him in the crowd trying to pull out a gun, and tackles him to the ground, causing the shot meant for Foster to hit another funeral guest, H.L. Mencken, non-fatally in the arm instead. Foster is still left deeply shaken by the event, and eventually it becomes a decisive factor in his decision to retire from his office and public life shortly thereafter.
  • Dai Li orchestrates an attempted assassination of Wang Jingwei during which the latter is shot in the groin. He survives but has to take a 'temporary' leave to recover, in spite of his protests, and Zhou Enlai takes over Wang's duties effective immediately.
  • On 1st September 1940, Secretary of the Treasury Bernard Baruch is victim of an attempted car bombing outside his office killing his chauffeur. A young German-Americuban Nazi sympathizer named Herman Stuhl is eventually arrested, claiming that Baruch was an agent of the "International Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy".
  • A National Socialist and Fascist League sympathizer attempts to stab Commonwealth Workers' MP Willie Gallacher as he is giving a pro-interventionist speech. Gallacher survives, but notably, King Edward blames Gallacher's "fiery rhetoric" for the incident.
  • Marcus Garvey is assassinated on Auburn Avenue, Atlanta in 1940 due to persistent political conflict between him and black Communists.
  • In 1966, the white supremacist Robert B. Patterson carries out an attack against Premier Richard Nixon with a handgun. Though Patterson manages to hit and wound his target before he is stopped, Nixon survives and eventually makes a full recovery.
  • Claire L. Summers attempts but fails to assassinate Premier Harry Haywood out of devotion to the ideas of Jaime Grump, a former Fantastik writer turned deranged cult leader in the 60s.
  • Mark John Johansson attempts to assassinate Premier Fred Hampton on an helicopter attack, but due to his inexperience he crashes and kills himself rather than his target.
  • Americuban President Jay Rockfeller is assassinated by Neo-Integralists in 1988.
  • Revmira Malekov unsuccessfully attempts to assassinate politician Harry Belafonte in 1989.
• Assassin Outclassin': A member of the German-American Bund attempts to plant a bomb at the Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung but ends up losing the bomb in the sewers and having to be rescued.
• Asshole Victim:
  • While the persecution of political rivals in the beginning of the United Republics is clearly inexcusable both in and out of universe, many of the victims of the old Kangaroo Courts and summary liquidations were indeed people who tried to stifle American democracy, like the KKK.
  • Trofim Lysenko, a pseudo-scientist who contributed to famines that killed millions of people IOTL, is arrested by the GUGB for complicating Soviet-American relations and sentenced to hard labor before he can commit the same in Reds!.
• Author Appeal: Aside from the expected negative portrayal of capitalism, the Troika will gladly admit to these:
  • All three members are queer^note Aelita is a non-binary lesbian, Spartakrod is pansexual, non-binary and uses fae/faer pronouns, Miss Teri is a transgender lesbian, so several characters in TL are queer. Aelita herself once noted that in her TTL rewrites of OTL American pop culture, she has a tendency to change the heterosexual male main characters into queer women.
  • In general, it's become a bit of a running joke among contributors that anything Spartakrod likes would probably be a part of the TL anyways, including but not limited to Godzilla, heavy metal music, and Metroid. When fae began writing the lore for Commander Columbia and the Rubyverse, many people thought it was a self-indulgent exercise in this, but it's really more of the culmination of a very different global animation scene that arises from the Second American Revolution, and it still works because the narration points out how unprecedented the whole thing was in-universe.
  • Miss Teri loves superhero comics^note The Bronze Age of Comic Books being her favorite and classic sci-fi, so her pop culture contributions commonly explore how those genres have evolved.
  • Both Aelita and Spartakrod are Jewish, so many parts of the timeline delve into forgotten parts of Jewish history. Aelita focuses on the cultural and political aspects, while Spartakrod imbued the Rubyverse with themes reflecting Kabbalah. Neither of them are big fans of the modern State of Israel, so ITTL Palestine is a secular, multinational socialist state for Jews and Arabs.
  • As for the individual contributors themselves: Hawkatana is a fan of Toku, Asami is the self-proclaimed "loremistress of baseball", Rise Comics writes about car culture and motorsports.

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• invokedBacked by the Pentagon: The WFRA makes the same sort of agreement with filmmakers as the US Armed Forces do IOTL for the use of their equipment and the help of experts, including denying such services if the movie depicts its servcemen in a light it doesn't appreciate, in which case filmmakers usually can rely on the Mexican Army as it uses the same equipment.
• Badass Boast: When Nicolas Repetto, the President of Argentina, asks aloud who will support them against the Brazilian invasion, the arriving Mexican delegate reassures him.

  The Mexican delegate: "Comrade, no member of INTREV stands alone."

• Balkanize Me:
  • The Ottoman Empire/Turkey suffers a worst balkanization after WWI than IOTL, closer to the one envisioned in the Treaty of Sèvres.
  • Spain is divided after the Spanish Civil War results in a stalemate, but only for two years as the Spanish State invades the Spanish Free Soviet Republic after joining the Axis.
  • Occupied Germany (which includes Austria) and Italy are subject to a division between two sides, one communist and another capitalist, after WWII.
  • The Greek Civil War divides the country between a communist mainland and a capitalist island of Crete.
  • The Philippines are divided between the capitalist Commonwealth of the Philippines in the south and the communist Free Philippine Republic in the north after WWII.
  • The South African Revolution results in the division of the country between the socialist People's Union of Azania and the fascist and white supremacist South African National Republic.
  • Indonesia is partially dismembered during a war, with parts of it annexed by Malaya and Australasia, leaving the rump Socialist Union of Nusantara to remain independent.
• Band of Brothels: The Red Garters trade union is founded to organize sex workers, burlesque performers, the workers of public bathhouses, and the support staff, and their defense against pimps and government suppression. As a result sex workers become reliable spies and saboteurs for the Reds during the Second American Civil War.
• Bavarian Fire Drill: Essentially describes Longworth and MacArthur's suspension of the Constitution and attempted power grab. It doesn't work.
• Benevolent Conspiracy:
  • Field Marshal Frunze's takover of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death puts it on the path to democratization and removes from power the infamous Lavrentiy Beria.
  • In Brazil, as WWII becomes unwinnable for the Axis, Henrique Lott forms an eclectic alliance known as the Anaconda Group to perform a coup against the Integralist government and switch sides before the country is entirely destroyed by the war.
• Better the Devil You Know: Jiang Jieshi invokes this when he decides to join the Japanese rather than possibly have China under Soviet-American influence.
• Better to Die than Be Killed:
  • Nicholas Longworth, the disgraced political leader of the National Salvation Front coup, attempts suicide by hanging in his prison cell, rather than face official prosecution by the Socialist government. His attempt fails when he is discovered in the act.
  • The Green Guard's most fanatical units decide that rather than face the justice of war crime trials in the days following Brazil's official surrender to the United Nations and the restoration of the Empire they may as well die on their feet. This results in Salgado's most die-hard fanatics gathering for one last charge, announcing their intention to attack the troops that were meant to accept their surrender with a final broadcast of "Death before Dishonor" and being killed to a man after a spectacular but unwinnable fight. It would almost be poetic if they weren't a State Sec fond of terror tactics, war crimes, and raping female POWs.
• Big Bad Quadrumvirate: The main powers of the Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan and Brazil.
• Blatant Lies: After the establishment of the UASR, their diplomats speak with those of the United Kingdom of peaceful coexistence, which both sides know to be a bald faced lie, but one useful to them right now as it gives the UASR the international recognition it desires and the UK can suspend its foreign debt obligations both public and private to the United States government or to American financial institutions. The French are quick to follow the British on it.
• Blood on the Debate Floor:
  • A fistfight erupts between Workers' Party and Democratic Party representatives over racist remarks made by the latters.
  • In the early days of the UASR, some Anarchist delegates would several times get into fistfights with non-Anarchist delegates during heated constitutional and legislative debates.
  • In France, a fistfight erupts in the National Assembly on new year's day 1939 over siding with the Comintern to contain the Axis or staying the course with the United Kingdom.
• Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Played with and subverted. The Workers' Party defended anarchist terrorists in court of law before the Revolution, while the General Union of Anarchists take a moderate view of the new socialist state due to the strong influence of syndicalism in the Workers' Party, even having famous anarchist Emma Goldman serving as Secretary of Labor to enforce strong workplace regulations and mandatory union membership.
• Bookends: The Prologue and the last entry of Part I, The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized, both feature the character of Marius Gracchus thinking/talking about the new world birthed by the Red May Revolution in which he firmly believes.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The brainwashing of WFRA soldier Richard Heinz by the Free American State, being steadily broken through torture, shown of anti-communist propaganda, and groomed into a fanatical Nazi by Pelley himself turns the young POW into an extremely brutal Nazi camp guard who tortures prisoners for his own amusement.
• Breaking the Glass Ceiling:
  • Crystal Eastman becomes the first female Attorney General, Emma Goldman the first female Labor Secretary and Louise Bryant the first female Culture Secretary in 1933, making them also the first female cabinet ministers in America.
  • Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to complete a round-the-world flight.
  • Haim Kantorovitch becomes the first Jewish head of state of America as Secretary-General of the Presidium after the retirement of Upton Sinclair.
  • Anna May Wong becomes the first woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as O-Lan in The Good Earth.
  • Damir Maksudi, a Volga Tatar (and fictional character), becomes the first non-Slav to hold the position of Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Ground Forces.
• Burger Fool: A twist on the trope at any rate. McDonald's, the real life Trope Codifier, is butterflied away ITTL, so burgers and fries never becomes the stable of fast-food, but the concept of fast-food in and of itself, and with it fast-food chains, still eventually comes into being, with the largest franchise being Maggie Pie, a Scottish themed company which specializes in serving cheap and quickly-made meat pies.
• Burn Baby Burn:
  • In occupied Barcelona, amid the White Terror, works by authors and artists deemed "subversive" or "degenerate" are burned in front of the Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia. Among those burned are works by Picasso, Dali, Ernst, Hirsfield, Kafka, and Miro.
  • When the Western Allies declare war on the Axis, Salgado has the French and British consulate set on fire.
• invokedB-Team Sequel: Thanks to the end of intellectual property after the Revolution, different studios and creative teams can make their own sequels, such as King Kong Returns, a sequel to King Kong where the giant ape battles against a giant two headed eagle named Aquillon.

C

• Cain and Abel: Martin Heinz participated in the hunt for his own brother, American Nazi camp gua Richard Heinz, to bring him to justice despite being just a postman.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp":
  • Roger Nash Baldwin and Crystal Eastman still found an organization to defend the rights of Americans and free speech in 1917 but call it the Civil Rights Bureau instead of the National Civil Liberties Bureau. In 1920 it merges with the Socialist Labor Party's General Defense Committee, set up to defend the right to strike and protest to create the International Labor Defense Committee, which serves as TTL's American Civil Liberties Union.
  • Similarly, the American Civil Liberties Union is instead known as the National Civil Liberties Union.
  • The Disney brothers found Hyperion Animation Studios instead of Disney Brothers Studios like IOTL, becoming the Hyperion Animation Collective after the Revolution.
    • Mickey Mouse is known in Reds!TL by the name Walt Disney originally wanted for the character: Mortimer Mouse, nicknamed "Morty" subsequently.
  • The American federal law enforcement agency is named NBI, National Bureau of Investigation, instead of FBI like IOTL.
  • The terms "Uranian" and "Sapphic" are used to designate gays and lesbians respectively.
    • The acronym USAT is created instead of LGBT.
  • The Hoover Dam is instead known as the Boulder Canyon Dam.
  • Molotov cocktails are instead known as Sanjurjo cocktails from their use by Spanish Republicans.
  • Tofu is known as doufu in America, borrowing from Mandarin instead of Japanese.
  • Fantastik is used as an umbrella term for fantasy and science-fiction in this timeline.
  • "The Bechdel Test" is instead known as "Eastman's Law".
  • The German Reich authority covering the Baltic states and Belarus is called Reichskommissariat Baltenland instead of OTL Ostland.
  • The Panzer VI Tiger is instead known as the Panzer IV Nashorn (IOTL, the Nashorn was a German tank destroyer).
  • Several OTL American planes exist with slight technical differences and different names^ListB-17 Flying Fortress becomes B-19, C-47 Skytrain/Dakota becomes C-39 Dakota, A-20 Havoc becomes A-14 Shillelagh, P-39 Airacobra becomes F-34 Belladonna, P-47 Thunderbolt becomes FA-35 Yeoman and P-51 Mustang becomes F-41 Guardian.
  • Project Manhattan is known ITTL as Daisy Bell instead.
  • Korea is better known as Chosun and Japan as Nippon after World War II.
  • The Communist bloc refers to World War II as the World Revolutionary War (or the Great Revolutionary War sometimes).
  • The European Union is instead called the European Continental Federation.
  • The UASR's NASA is known as the Aero Space Exploration and Development Administration (ASEDA).
  • Rap music is instead known as Toast music.
• Capital Offensive: During WWII, Brazil aims to defeat Argentina by taking their capital and directs most of its army to do so. The ensuing siege and battle is one of the most important of the South American Theater but ultimately fails to take the city or force the Argentinians to capitulate.
• Cassandra Truth: When Alice Paul tries to get published accounts of sexual predation targeting women she interviewed to expose their abusers most newspapers refuse to print them and she is fired from her job. Downplayed as the socialist press proved more receptive, and she began a long partnership with Max Eastman's journal Masses, although she was also victim of infantilization within the movement that frustrated her.
• The Chain of Command: Confusions over who has authority over who when the president is incapacitated are what cause the July Crisis to happen.
• Child Soldiers:
  • Child soldiers are used during the Second Mexican Revolution.
  • The desperate Axis powers on the brink of defeat remedy to their lack of able bodies by using children as soldiers.
• Chummy Commies: The United Republics and communists in general are pretty clearly the heroes, in spite of moral complexities. They do include some individual Dirty Communists, like Stalin and Beria.
• Cincinnatus: The Marxist interpretation of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" is this, as enacted more-or-less successfully by the Workers' Communist Party of America. The principle was that during the revolution, the whole of the working class, organized by the party, would take complete control of the state in order to enact its transformative program. In-universe, how well they fit this ideal is less clear.
• Civil War:
  • The Central Plains War (1930-1931) opposes the Republic of China under the KMT-CPC United Front and supported by the Soviet Union to anti-United Front warlords and ends thanks to a deal brokered by the Japanese government. Hostilities would resume a few years later and merge into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • The Second American Civil War is fought in 1933 between the National Salvation Front of Nicholas Longworth and Douglas MacArthur, who took power by murdering the socialist President-Elect Norman Thomas before he could take office, and initiating a mass arrest of the leaders of the Communist-dominated Popular Front. This only ends up provoking the revolution Longworth and MacArthur claimed to want to prevent. The war ends with a Red victory, leading to the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics, the foremost Communist power along with the Soviet Union.
  • Concurrently to the above, the Second Mexican Revolution is a Mêlée à Trois between the Communists, Calles' Maximato government and the Cristeros ending with a communist victory.
  • Peru goes through a civil war in 1935-1936 between the leftist Mariateguistas and the Benavidistas, supporters of the government. The Mariateguistas win and establish the Socialist Union of Peru.
  • The Brazilian Communist Party launches an uprising against the Vargas government but it fails like IOTL.
  • The Spanish Civil War, opposing the Republicans to the Nationalists led by José Sanjurjo, lasts from 1936 to 1938 and ends in a stalemate dividing Spain in two between the Axis-aligned Spanish State and the Comintern-aligned Spanish Free Soviet Republic.
    • The first act of the Spanish State upon joining the Axis and WWII is to conquer Soviet Spain with the help of its allies.
  • The Austrian Civil War errupts between the leftist Republicans and pro-unification Fascists. The intervention of Nazi Germany decisively gives victory to the latter, leading to the Anschluss.
  • As the French government had just declared war on the Axis, pro-Axis forces within the army attempt to despose the government, starting a civil war. It ends with the pro-Axis side in control of the country and the pro-Allied forces forced to go into exile.
    • The pro-Allied forces eventually return, now part of the Franco-British Union, to defeat the French State.
  • The Tibetan Civil War begins after a failed coup by Tibetan reactionaries forming a pro-Japanese government in Nagqu to continue their revolt against the Tibetan government, which sides with China and the United Nations in turn.
• Coincidental Dodge:
  • Vice President-Elect Upton Sinclair escapes arrest or execution by the Putschists only because he was attending to party business in Chicago, and not in Washington to prepare for the inauguration.
  • Antonio Aranda barely escapes the Falangists' purge on Dia de Reyes by virtue of spending a late night in the government offices, and was able to flee into France over the next few days.
• Les Collaborateurs:
  • ITTL Polish right-wing nationalists work with the Third Reich's General Government.
  • The Republics of Daehan and Insulindia are led by right-wing nationalists serving as proxies for the Japanese Empire.
  • Since the French State is a member of the Axis instead of a German puppet state governing from Vichy, the Trope Namers actually don't work as collaborators to the Nazis but as their allies.
• Commie Nazis: American white supremacists economically pivot to socialism during the Cold War as the restoration of capitalism becomes unrealistic and no longer attracts much supporters even among reactionaries, and they reinterpret their racism as a defense of the economic interests of white Americans.
• Conlang: The Green Guard speaks a secretive conlang called Uzumrik.
• Conspiracy Theorist:
  • William Burke, the assassin of the President, left behind a manifesto accusing President Wood of being in an adulterous relationship with a black woman, a secret agent of the international communist movement, a Jew, and a Freemason, conspiring to "negroize" the white race.
  • Due to a miscommunication about President Wood's death, Hoover is accidently sworn in almost a full hour before the time. Due to this, and other unsightly coincidences in the affair, conspiracy theories begin to form around the assassination in later years.
    • One of them states it is the doing of a cabal of business and political leaders including William Randolph Hearst, who becomes Hoover's Vice-President.
  • The National Salvation Front during the Civil War and the Nazis during WWII believe their opposition has been duped by "foreign agitators", Jews and leftists, and will take little effort to convince them to join their war against communism. They are wrong.
  • Robert W. Welch becomes a popular voice amongst the in-exile American government on Cuba, eventually getting his own radio talk show, Private Opinion, where he preaches anti-Communism, his own brand of pro-Capitalist Christianity, and support for MacArthur's regime. However, in the early 1960s, around the same time MacArthur's health starts waning, Welch's radio show takes an increasingly bizarre and erratic bent, as his radio sermons start turning into unhinged rants, speaking of communism as an "ancient, satanic conspiracy" in league with the Illuminati, which he believes is run by the British Royal Family. Welch's superiors at first quietly edit out some of his weirder outbursts from the broadcast, but following MacArthur's death, it gets harder to ignore the fact that Welch is slowly, but surely going insane, as he publicly accuses MacArthur's successor, Robert Kennedy, of being a high ranking MDSS agent codenamed "Raven", controlled by J. Edgar Hoover to assassinate MacArthur and assimilate Cuba into the UASR. Private Opinion is then eventually taken off-air in 1964 for inflammatory rhetoric against the President (and for promoting dubious health products). This doesn't sit well with Howard Hughes, who gets in touch with Welch and gives him a platform on his private radio station, over protests from his business advisors that Welch is too unstable and erratic to be trusted, allowing Welch to bring back Private Opinion in 1966. At first, Welch is given great editorial freedom by Hughes, allowing his publicly broadcasted ramblings to get even weirder and crazier, culminating in in the early 1970s where he repeatedly accuses the government of the French-British Union of being in on the Communist-Illuminati conspiracy; this results in trouble and embarrassment for Hughes, as he has been commissioned to work on governmental projects for the FBU and makes him realize that he has to rein Welch in to some degree, so he has him gradually Kicked Upstairs, having more and more of Private Opinion's airtime devoted to guest spots, while Welch is made director of programming and production, effectively taking him and his opinions off the air. Welch doesn't get any less crazier, however, and instead start obsessively wasting company resources on sending lower-ranking staff reporters out all over the world to find evidence for his insane theories (unsurprisingly, these expeditions all prove fruitless). Welch finally manages to burn his last bridges in 1980, as he causes a major incident when he breaks onto the set of the live talk show The Red Hour with Lord Richard Cecil during broadcast, pushes the host out of his seat and angrily yells about the FBU being in cahoots with the Illuminati and conspiring to ensure the "Satanic World Order", before the show is cut off. Hughes, having died in 1976, is not around to protect Welch this time, and he is immediately fired and effectively blacklisted from all media business.
  • The circumstances of Stalin's death remain uncertain to present day and are subject to a notably abundant number of conspiracy theories from some of his supporters, some claiming the UASR assassinated him (with means ranging from a landmine to direct artillery fire and often involving Sean Cinnéide) so they could turn the USSR into their Puppet State after also getting rid of Beria and his other loyalists, while others credit a "revisionist clique" seeking to "institute weak leadership that would be unable to adequately combat global capitalism". Some even claim Stalin faked his death and covertly emigrated to America, taking the name "Joseph Steele". In reality the death of Stalin was most likely due to German artillery schrapnel, despite some reasonable doubts preventing a definitive conclusion, and not an assassination but simply an unexpected opportunity for Frunze and his Benevolent Conspiracy to rid the Soviet Union of its authoritarian leadership. Or maybe nobody shot him and his head just did that, who knows?
  • The assassination attempt on Richard Nixon spurs a number of conspiracy theories casting doubt on the report of the Commission led by Sean Cinnéide which investigated it.
• Continuity Snarl: One entry mentioning Jacques Doriot describes him as the general secretary of the SFIC, implying he was never expelled from the party like OTL and thus remained a Communist. However, a later entry explains he followed a fate similar to OTL, becoming a fascist leader after being expelled from the SFIC.
• Cool Plane: The Soviets largely use the same planes they did in our timeline, while the British use some different aircraft such as the Avro London heavy bomber. The Germans start the war with the usual Bf-109s, Stukas, and Ju-88s, but move onto more advanced TA-190s and unlike OTL; make use of a four-engine strategic bomber known as the He-277 well regarded by all sides in the war. The American lineup is perhaps the most changed with aircraft like the F-35 Belladonna and the B-23 Superfortress (roughly equivalent to the B-29). The Italians and Japanese make their own entrees into the cool plane contest of course.
• Cool Ship: The Enterprise, America's most decorated warship ever, also appears in this timeline, albeit with some alterations. In terms of battleships, the Yamato, Fate, Il Duce, and Lion class battleships are probably the most grandiose expressions of this trope as the world's navies race to build the biggest and meanest ship they can.
  • Deconstructed somewhat with the Bismarck, where its OTL design flaws that lead it to being several thousand tons heavier than the USS North Carolina class battleship while having less firepower and being less well defended from long ranged plunging fire are called to attention in an in-universe thread. More specifically, the German battleships are built around a "banded armor, turtleback" scheme where armour is generally spread across the ship while the Citadel (the most heavily armoured part of the ship meant to protect the vital components) was quite small and only guarded absolute essentials. America, Britain, and Japan however use "all or nothing", where the ship focuses on protecting the most vital areas (the belt, the citadel, and the deck) and only leaves the minimum for everything else to save weight. This means that shells striking nonvital parts of the ship will simply pass through, whereas the Bismarck had just enough armour to let shells arm and detonate after penetrating non-vital components. The Bismarck's armour scheme is excellent in close ranged naval combat like the kind seen in the First World War, but because of the thin deck armour in particular and the small citadel not protecting a number of secondary components, is not well suited to protecting from long ranged, radar directed "plunging fire" where shells come in from a steep angle onto the top of the ship.
    • The effects of these are seen in the battle of Iceland between the American and German fleets where despite the Germans having a significant advantage in the number of capital ships, are crushed by the Americans in the gun battle. Bad design choices with regards to German aircraft carrier design also mean that despite having two carriers to America's three at the battle, the Americans had a three to one numerical advantage in number of planes.
• Corrupt Church: One major criticism of American Communists against religious institutions like the Salvation Army is that they are more concerned by the spiritual salvation of the poor than taking care of them, a sentiment sometimes echoed by pro-socialist priests who feel abandoned by their leadership.
  • The Free American State practices Silver Christianity, combining Nazi Positive Christianity with Pelley's own spiritual beliefs, drawn from theosophy, spiritualism, Rosicrucianism, and pyramidism.
• The Coup:
  • Victoriano Huerta's, Bernardo Reyes' and Félix Díaz's coup overthrows the Mexican government of Francisco Madero and happens a year earlier than OTL and with German instead of American support.
  • In 1920 another coup takes place, resulting in the assassination of president Carranza and the takeover of Adolfo de la Huerta, Álvaro Obregón, and Plutarco Elias Calles.
  • Field Marshal Józef Piłsudski's May Coup fails in this timeline but he is acquitted in his trial for treason.
  • General MacArthur and First Secretary Longworth attempt to make a coup to prevent the Workers' Communist Party from assuming power after winning the 1932 elections because they fear they will transform the USA into a communist state. The coup is not entirely successful, leading to the Second American Civil War and ironically kickstarting the Communist revolution they sought to kill in the crib.
  • The Bolivian military coups the government with the help of nationalist paramilitary groups, claiming the Bolivian left to sell the country out to the Comintern.
  • The Integralists led by Plinio Salgado take advantage of the communist uprising to successfully overthrow Getúlio Vargas (unlike OTL where the attempt failed), founding the fascist Estado Novo.
  • The Charleston Putsch (or Uprising) is an attempt by the South Carolina Sons of the Confederacy, a subdivision of the Sons of Liberty, to seize Charleston, the capital of the African National Federal Republic and inspire an uprising to restore the United States and white supremacy in the South on the fourth of July 1935. However, the legislature manages to escape and the terrorists find themselves besieged in the Marion Square Capitol complex by the Red Guards, who storm the building ten days later, putting an end to the insurrection.
  • The French far-right leagues' attempt to take the Palais Bourbon and install a new government is thwarted before the OTL demonstration can even take place as the plot is discovered, leading to the arrest of key members of the Action Française by the Gendarmerie.
  • The Second American Revolution encourages some left-wing groups across the American continent to take power by force in their own countries (others do so through elections), sometimes with direct American involvement (but since they are independent rebels movements allied to America rather than its puppets, they avert Regime Change situations).
    • In Nicaragua, following the conclusion of a pact with rebel leader Augusto Sandino, UASR Marines conduct an amphibious landing near the capital of Managua, forcing the surrender of government forces with minimal bloodshed to the rebels.
    • In Panama, junior military officers, supported by American forces in the canal zone, overthrow the government of Augusto Samuel Boyd, allowing the formation of a socialist republic.
    • The Socialist Republic of Chile is declared after a coup by junior military officers with the support of the trade unions and the Communist Party of Chile.
    • In Haiti, an alliance of left-wing groups, led by the Communist Party, takes power in a bloodless coup.
    • The Dominican Revolution erupts with American pressure fanning the existing flames and preventing Trujillo's government from suppressing them. A coalition of Dominican leftists take power, forming the Dominican People's Republic, and Trujillo is arrested.
    • In Argentina a popular revolt forces President Hipólito Yrigoyen into exile and his replacement by a short-lived military regime is in turn overthrown and replaced by a new "people's democracy" regime led by a leftist popular front.
    • In Liberia the government almost goes through a Regime Change but avoids it by caving in to UASR demands, only to be overthrown within two years by a popular revolt.
  • The Kōdōha seizes control of the Imperial Japanese government in a relatively bloodless coup in 1936.
  • Italian former major general Emilio de Bono attempts to gather support from the military old guard for a coup because they felt threatened by the young officers and their new theories of warfare Mussolini seemed to favor, but the plot is discovered and arrested by the secret police before it can be executed. Afterwards Mussolini sidelines the old officers completely in favor of the more politically reliable young officers.
  • The Spanish Civil War starts with the same attempted military coup as IOTL.
  • Codreanu's Iron Guard seizes control of Romania in 1938.
  • Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš is deposed after he signals a willingness to capitulate to German demands on the Sudetenland. A provisional government is formed with the participation of political parties opposed to Nazi aggression.
  • Soong Qingling and her faction conduct a soft coup of the Republic of China government, definitively ousting Wang Jingwei and aligning China with America.
  • Incensed by growing ties between the "Red Monks" in the Kashag and the United Front, a coalition of landowners and reactionary clergy in Tibet attempt to abduct the Dalai Lama and remove the current government but fail and are forced to flee to Nagqu, where they form a rival government.
  • A part of the French military led by Field Marshal Pétain attempts a Military Coup to prevent the country from joining WWII on the same side as the Comintern, seeing Nazi Germany as the lesser evil. The partial failure of the coup leads to a Civil War between Loyalists of the French Republic and the Pétaintists of the newly formed French State.
  • Elements within the military of Integralist Brazil become convinced they cannot win WWII and perform a Military Coup to save the country from complete destruction by taking power and switching sides to the United Nations.
• Crossover: The half-film Libertas Invicta is a crossover featuring Captain America and Commander Columbia.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • It takes about three months for America, Mexico and Nicaragua to defeat Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador during the Central American Revolutionary War. In particular the American Marines and paratroopers defeat the enemy troops with little effort.
  • It takes a month for the German Reich to invade and conquer Poland with the Soviet Union also attacking from the east.
  • The invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the coalition of Italy, Bulgaria and Hungary crushes the country in less than a month.
  • The Axis invasion of Norway forces the country to capitulate after 15 days.
• Curb-Stomp Cushion:
  • Nazi Germany and Hungary force Czechoslovakia to capitulate in less than two months. However what shoud've been a much shorter war was prolonged by the Czechoslovaks' tenacious resistance and issues plaguing the German Wehrmacht.
  • Operation Teutonic, the Nazi invasion of the USSR which kick-starts TTL's World War II. The Soviets lose across the board but they do put up a decent fight all things considered and do manage to score several small victories that prevents the invasion from being an outright curb stomp. Operation Mercury, the Soviet counteroffensive in Northern Ukraine, manages to encircle and capture an entire Panzer division, slightly making up for the much larger encirclement and capture of Soviet troops in Byelorussia.

D

• Dark Horse Victory:
  • When the Second American Civil War begins, MacArthur and the National Salvation Front appeared to have the upper hand and were expected to easily crush the WCPA-led Provisional Government thanks to a superiority in numbers and equipment. However, the illusion is shattered by defeats, munities and numerous defections within their own ranks, the situation becomes reversed in a couple of months and the war ends with the NSF fleeing to Cuba while the United States are dissolved and replaced by the Union of American Socialist Republics.
  • Emilio Mola and the Spanish Falange emerge victorious from the power struggle among the Nationalists despite their leader having recently been disgraced by efficiently reorganizing the Falange and biding their time for the right moment to strike and take power.
• Day of the Jackboot:
  • On Wednesday, 1 February 1933, President Hoover signed, under duress, an executive order that declared the United States to be under threat of unlawful insurrection, declaring a state of emergency and martial law, and suspending Habeas corpus indefinitely. Furthermore, Lieutenant General MacArthur would exercise the president's commander-in-chief authority for the duration of this crisis, marking the beginning of MacArthur Putsch.
  • On March 30th 1936, the Kōdōha install a new Japanese government espousing a totalitarian, militaristic and expansionist doctrine.
  • On February 24th 1938, Codreanu's Guarda Fiera takes over Romania.
  • On January 6th 1942, the Spanish Falange took power and their leader Emilio Mola imposed himself as Prime Minister. The Falange took control of police stations and radio towers, then kidnapped and murdered the prominent members of the rival Carlist and Alfonsite factions. They finally marched on the Palace of El Pardo to lay out their exigencies, Mola would be made PM and the Falange the sole legal party and the incapacitated Caudillo Sanjurjo was forced to accept.
  • On January 8th 1942, William Joyce and his National Socialist and Fascist League attempts to re-enact Mussolini's March on Rome by leading 6000 supporters to march on London and the 10th Downing Street to oppose the looming British declaration of war on the Axis, counting on royal support to carry them in power. However the march is defeated by counter-protesters and the police breaking up the riot and arresting Joyce, while Edward VIII's declaration of support is published too late thanks to some (intentional) mishaps from the Royal staff, ensuring the complete failure of the pro-Axis camp to take power in the United Kingdom.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Pyotr Krasnov is captured and executed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War because he tried to escape later than in OTL. This results in Historical Villain Downgrade for him as it means he never goes on to collaborate with the Nazis during WWII.
  • Micheal Collins is killed earlier, on 24 May 1920 by the British instead of on 22 August 1922 by Anti-Treaty Irish forces.
  • First Secretary James Mann dies a year earlier than in OTL. President Wood seizes the opportunity to strengthen his hold on the Republican Party by reshuffling the Cabinet.
  • Eugene Talmadge dies on 9 August 1925, two decades earlier, in an arson attack by the Georgia Red Army.
  • The Emperor Taishō passes away three months earlier than in OTL.
  • Charles Lindbergh dies during his transatlantic flight, presumably due to choosing London as his goal instead of Paris, and it's presumed he crashed somewhere over the Atlantic as he never arrives.
  • Richard E. Byrd and his crew disappear during their Antarctic expedition in 1929 and are presumed dead.
  • Walter Chrysler dies during the Civil War of wounds from the battle between his striking workers and the Pinkerton scabs he hired.
  • William Faulkner dies from a hit by an errant shell during the Civil War.
  • Mob boss Johnny Torrio is killed in a shootout with MDSS agents in 1934 and his successor Al Capone is killed a year later in a failed bank robbery by the Chicago Militia, marking the end of the Chicago Outfit.
  • Peruvian dictator Óscar Benavides dies ten years earlier in 1935 to Peruvian revolutionaries.
  • Ruth Harkness, Quentin Young, and Gerald Russell disappear on their expedition searching for Giant Pandas and are presumed victims of fighting in Sichuan province between the rival Chinese governments.
  • Charles Luciano is executed in 1937 by the UASR.
  • John E. Rankin dies 21 years earlier than OTL, executed by the UASR for being the Imperial Wizard of the KKK.
  • Emma Goldman dies almost a month earlier than OTL.
  • Fritz Julius Kuhn dies 11 years earlier, killed as he is attempting to resist arrest in a San Francisco boarding home.
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder is executed in 1940 for counter-revolutionary activity and treason.
  • Joseph Stalin is killed by stray artillery fire during the Battle of Moscow in 1941.
  • Santo Trafficante Jr. dies 11 years earlier under mysterious circumstances.
• Death March: Turanist Turkey subjects the Armenian and Greek populations of the Straits to one stretching from Constantinople to the Pontus Mountains.
• Decisive Battle: The Battle of Chicago marks the turning point of the Second American Civil War in favor of the Reds. The White forces bleed defectors and fail to break the defense of the Reds and are eventually counter-attacked and encircled, shattering the Army of the Mississippi and forcing its commander, General Marshall, to surrender to the Reds.
• Decoy Convoy: Paul Matthews and his squad use this tactic to successfully draw the Germans away from the real convoy of artworks they were planning to attack.
• Defector from Decadence:
  • JFK in this timeline. At first his exiled family think he died in the revolutionary violence and hold him up as a martyr only to learn later he actually joined the Revolution, changed his name to Sean Cinnéide and went to study at West Point.
    • And he is not the only "turncoat bourgeois son", merely one of the most prominent examples.
  • Charles Sorensen, who works for Nazi collaborator Henry Ford, resigns following the occupation of his native Denmark by the German Reich. He moves to Canada to work for Edsel Ford's Ford Motor Company in exile.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Not all members of the Workers' Party share the more progressive members' support for greater women's and sexual minorities' rights. Notably, Alice Paul recounts being treated in a patronizing manner by some of her fellow socialists after joining the party.
  • As a whole, life in the TCI might be better...but it's also highly militarized compared to OTL. The UASR and other red nations still have the draft, and high schoolers are taught how to use guns. The doctrine of mutually assured destruction doesn't exist, and there has been more than one nuclear bombing.
• Demoted to Extra: Several important figures, namely US presidents of OTL, never arise to the same positions of power and influence.
  • Theodore Roosevelt never becomes a US President, instead remaining the Vice-President of McKinley and becoming for the most part forgotten. He continues to have a minor role in US politics as an "Independent Republican", becoming Secretary of the Navy in President Marshall's first cabinet and Secretary of State in the third but he never becomes as influential as he was IOTL (being replaced in the role of the progressive reformist-Republican president by Leonard Wood). After WWI he becomes part of the Major League Baseball Commission and after the Red May Revolution becomes a latter-day communist as he finds in the Workers' Communist Party an audience for his conservationist proposals.
  • Downplayed for Woodrow Wilson, who never becomes president but still becomes an influential figure of American politics as First Secretary.
  • Warren G. Harding never becomes president but remains an important conservative Republican senator.
  • Likewise, Franklin D. Roosevelt never becomes president, he serves as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the 1910s like he did IOTL, serves as Party Chairman/Secretary-General of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from 1936 to 1946 and People's Secretary for Foreign Trade from 1938.
  • Same for Harry S. Truman, who first gains fame for defecting from the White Army at the start of the Putsch and forming the Minutemen, a paramilitary wing for the DFLP, fighting with distinction alongside the Red Army during the Second American Civil War. After the war he enters politics and becomes Party Leader of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1937, successfully modernizing the party and keeping it relevant, Deputy Premier during WWII and General-Secretary after it.
  • In the older versions, Herbert Hoover played an (unwilling) role in the start of MacArthur's attempted coup. But in the newer canon, it's First Secretary Nicholas Longworth that conspires with the military to overthrow the government and Hoover was simply forced to rubber stamp the destruction of American democracy.
  • Francisco Franco never becomes the leader of the Spanish State as José Sanjurjo and Emilio Mola never die in plane crashes. After fighting on the losing side of WWII he becomes a successful writer, with several of his books receiving film adaptations, and an advisor to the formation of the European Continental Federation. He also becomes the subject of a myth he helped craft with his memoirs whitewashing him as a moderate and apolitical officer appaled by the radicalism of Sanjurjo and Mola. In truth he was only a moderate by opposing Spanish involvement in WWII, was a staunch anti-communist and a supporter of Sanjurjo's military coup, and participated in the atrocities of the Spanish State in places like Irun. The Franco Myth also exaggerates Sanjurjo's own radicalism, being actually an average Alfonsite monarchist believed to be more radical than he was because he was associated with Emilio Mola.
  • Winston Churchill doesn't become Prime Minister of the UK during WWII, but does become the leader of the pro-war Conservatives.
  • Charles de Gaulle never become the leader of Free France, remaining a general of some importance and never developing an important post-war political career.
• The Dictatorship: The timeline features multiple examples of dictatorships.
  • The USSR under Stalin is an hybrid of Types 2 and 3, it stops being one after his death and the reforms of Frunze's Internationalists.
  • Americuba under MacArthur is an hybrid of all three types, being led by a general with a Cultof Personality around him and power is concentrated in the hands of the single party, the National Salvation Front. After MacArthur's death and the assumption of the presidency by RFK, it becomes a flawed liberal democracy, having not shed all of its authoritarian legacy.
  • Fascist states are an obvious example, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Integralist Brazil mixing Types 2 and 3, while Imperial Japan under Prince Chichibu is a Type 1.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: In the historical miniseries Vanguard, Theodore Roosevelt Junior, Robert Taft and Orland Loomis go to confront Earl Browder over the Communists' decision to scrap the US constitution and form a new socialist republic instead of keeping to the agreement that they would be fighting to restore the Constitution and nothing more. In response Floyd Olson points out their profession is politics and therefore lies while Browder expresses surprise it took them this long to realize they would do it and presents the order as a simple recognition of the political reality of the situation.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: General Dmitry Pavlov is still killed by his own side in the early stage of the German invasion of the USSR (which happens a year earlier than OTL), but as a mercy kill after being mortally wounded instead of executed for "incompetence".
• Different States of America: Most of the United States became the Union of American Socialist Republics, a communist state, after the Red May Revolution.
  • The foundation of the UASR sees the addition of Chicagoland and Metropolis (formerly New York City and Long Island) as separate republics, and Hawai'i, several Native American territories based on reservation territories^note Apachean Autonomous Federal Republic (covering the Apache, Navajo and Hopi reservations), Great Sioux Autonomous Republic (a restoration of the Great Sioux Reservation), Sequoyah Autonomous Republic (covering the former Indian Territory) and an African-American-majority territory covering the Black Belt^note First called the Negro Soviet Republic, then the African National Federal Republic. It is created from the states of Mississippi and South Carolina and most of the states of Alabama and Georgia. as Autonomous Socialist Republics. The District of Columbia (renamed to Debs Commune) is expanded with lands from both Virginia and Maryland.
    • Cuba was annexed as a US state during the Second American Civil War by the MacArthur regime, but the annexation is not recognized by the UASR.
  • By The Roaring '20s the United States are much more culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse than they were IOTL and moreso under the UASR as it doesn't share the assimilationist ambitions of the old USA.
    • Notably, article VII of the Basic Law of the UASR provides for all laws, decrees and public documents of the government to be made available in German, Yiddish, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Chinese and Russian.
    • American food is much more diverse. By the 1920s and 30s, Americans are already much more familiar with staples of the East Asian diaspora like tofu and the UASR actively promotes a diversity of ethnic food traditions as part of Langston Hughes' "nation of nations" program.
  • Housing becomes centered around superblocks designed to avoid excessive separation between living and working spaces, is designed to be much more communal as the traditional family unit is overturned, and benefits from a much more developed public transportation network, especially railways.
  • Post-Civil War architecture sees modernism and constructivism become greatly influential, DFLP-dominated areas prefer the Vienna Secession style while the ASRs are mostly influenced by neoclassicism and classicism.
• Different World, Different Movies:
  • The Universal Monsters franchise (OTL 1923-1960) are known as The Lankershim Monsters (ITTL 1921-1968) since the Universal studios are renamed to Lankershirm Collective after the revolution. The list is much different from OTL, some being never made or original to TTL and some non-Universal Monsters films being part of it, but a few are essentially the same as OTL.
    • The Hunchback Of Notre Dame is the same except it is made two years earlier than OTL.
    • Dracula is initially shelved due to Breen Code censorship regarding its content and eventually released two years later than OTL.
    • Frankenstein (1931) is subjected to extensive cuts and reshoots done by Universal in the wake of the Dracula controversy. This earns the ire of Director James Whale, who fortunately saved the original cut, allowing its release after the revolution and the lift of the Breen Code.
    • The Mummy is made two years later than OTL but otherwise is unchanged.
    • The Invisible Man is made two years later than OTL and is directed by Tod Browning (instead of James Whale) and starring Bela Lugosi (rather than Claude Rains).
    • Dracula's Daughter is directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (instead of Lambert Hillyer IOTL).
    • The sequel to Frankenstein is made a year later than OTL and as Frankenstein Rises, directed by Robert Florey (rather than James Whale).
    • Murders in the Rue Morgue is made four years later than OTL due to being stalled and eventually halted by Universal, with Lambert Hillyer (instead of Robert Florey) as the director and Lon Chaney (instead of Bela Lugosi) in the leading role.
    • Instead of Werewolf of London (which is mentioned as an unmade project), an adaptation of Guy Endore's 1933 novel Werewolf of Paris is made with Endore writing the screenplay himself, directed by Edward Dmytryk (instead of Stuart Walker) and starring Lon Chaney alongside his son Creighton Chaney.
    • The Mummy Walks is a sequel to The Mummy (consequently The Mummy's Hand, being a semi-reboot of the first one, and its sequel are never made), though centered on an Incan mummy this time, played by John Carradine and Lupe Vélez as the (eventual) love interest. Also starring Jon Hall and directed by Rowland V. Lee.
    • Frankenstein's second sequel, Frankenstein's Journey stars Peter Lorre as "Manfred Frankenstein" and is directed by Erle C. Kenton (instead of Rowland V. Lee).
    • Son of Dracula is made three years earlier than OTL and is directed by Victor Halperin (instead of Robert Siodmak).
    • Invisible Agent is made a year earlier than OTL as Invisible Man in Baghdad, set in the wartime Middle East. Starring Vincent Price and Turhan Bey, and directed by Ford Beebe (instead of Edwin L. Marin). The monster movie sequels mostly take on a more B movie tone from this point on.
    • The Mummy Lives!, is made in 1942 and set in wartime China as the second sequel to The Mummy. Starring Jon Hall (opposite a Chinese American cast) and directed by Harold Young and Esther Eng.
    • Phantom of the Opera (1943) is the same as OTL except for Franz Liszt being played by Lon Chaney (instead of Fritz Leiber) as a cameo.
    • The Bride of Frankenstein is Frankenstein's third sequel instead of the first and made a year later than OTL. Ramsay Ames replaces Elsa Lanchester as the titular Bride. The film stars Elyse Knox, and Lionel Atwill, and is directed by Dorothy Arzner (instead of Erle C. Kenton), none of which were associated to the OTL film.
    • An adaptation of The Masque Of The Red Death is made 19 years earlier than OTL, with Bela Lugosi as Prince Prospero and Boris Karloff as the titular Red Death, and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
    • Dracula Meets Frankenstein replaces OTL Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man as the first Universal/Lankershirm Monster Mash, with Vincent Price as Dracula, Creighton Chaney (instead of Bela Lugosi) as Frankenstein's Monster, and John Carradine as a mad scientist and directed by Reginald Le Borg.
    • Creature from the Black Lagoon takes place in the Colombian, instead of OTL Brazilian jungle and has Ray Bradbury as a co-screenwriter.
    • Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is known ITTL as Attack of the Flying Saucers! ans is directed by Nathan Juran (instead of Fred Sears).
    • The sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon is known ITTL as The Creature Returns! and is made two years later than OTL. The story is also different, being about another Gil-Man caught and held in a Bogota zoo, eventually gaining the sympathies of two zoologists.
    • The Thing is made six years later than OTL, starring Boris Karloff as a scientist involved in early manned space exploration dealing with an astronaut infected by an alien disease.
    • War of the Worlds is made seven years later than OTL.
  • D. W. Griffith's project to make an epic adaptation of The Clansman novel flounders, becoming a victim of the drive towards wartime propaganda. Instead he makes an epic adaptation of Ben-Hur in 1922 (with Rudolph Valentino in the titular role), helping usher in a new age of epics to capitalize on its success.
  • Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the first of the Looney Tunes series, features the character of Foxy instead of Bosko.
  • TTL's equivalent of It Can't Happen Here is the film Gabriel Over the White House, "The Last Film of White America", which inadvertedly predicted in 1932 elements of General MacArthur's coup, its plot revolving around the General-turned-President Buzz Windrip receiving a religious vision that he must save America after the newly-elected President Judd Hammond is incapacitated in a car accident, becoming a dictator who violently crushes dissent until Hammond wakes up from his illiness and returns to power. The film is largely funded by William Randolph Hearst and predicated on the idea of Hoover winning re-election in November. The socialists encouraged its boycott and with the eruption of the Second Civil War copies were destroyed by Red forces. The film is considered "lost" with no remaining complete copies and actively researched by lost media enthusiasts.
  • Flash Gordon is first published in 1934, as in our world, but due to the Second Civil War, not to mention the much greater acceptance of communism even before that, combined with fascism losing much of its support in the U.S, the Arch-Enemy of Flash Gordon isn't Ming The Merciless, but rather Adolph The Abominable.
    • Sergio Leone directs a Flash Gordon movie adaptation in 1979, adopting numerous elements of the "Emperor Adolf" and "Tropica" storylines from the comic strip. Its sequel, Adolf's Return is made without Sergio Leone but with some of the original cast.
  • Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is the same except for the inclusion of a White American emigre as a character.
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood becomes a sequel to The Legend of Robin Hood made in 1934. Both are a proletarian reinterpretation of the folk tale presenting Robin Hood as a proto-socialist hero. The first movie becomes a classic and also propels the lead Marion Morrison to stardom, instead of being known for playing in Westerns.
  • Some volumes of the Tintin comic book series are much more different from OTL.
    • Tintin in America becomes the fourth, instead of third, volume of the comic series. The plot combines a pre-Revolution draft for an American-set adventure (which would've been the OTL version) with plot elements lifted directly from Tintin in the Land of the Soviets because of Executive Meddling mandating an explicitely anti-communist message. When Hergé later redraws the story, he alters it to be slightly more neutral towards the Americans.
    • The Broken Ear features Tintin fighting quasi-Integralist forces in San Theodoros, beginning to ramp up their oppression against native peoples and stealing their artifacts.
    • The Land of Black and Gold, based on OTL Land of Black Gold, is the eighth volume (rather than fifteenth) and takes on fascist Italy and the tensions in Palestine.
  • King Kong is released with significant reshoots and re-editing in 1934 because of the Civil War and the death of director Merian Cooper during it.
  • A different A Farewell to Arms is made in 1936 instead of 1932. The film is the first major feature to utilize the three-strip Technicolor technique, while the OTL movie was black-and-white, and stars Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball in the leading roles, instead of Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.
  • The 1937 adaptation of The Good Earth stars Anna May Wong instead of Luise Rainer in Yellowface.
  • Picasso's Art/Guernica is instead known as Bilbao as the Condor Legion bombed the latter instead of the former.
  • Several Creator/Disney (Hyperion in this timeline) creations are quite different from OTL.
    • Hyperion still creates the world's most famous mouse, but he is known by the name Walt Disney originally wanted for the character: Mortimer Mouse, nicknamed "Morty" subsequently.
    • This timeline's version of Donald Duck's debut cartoon "The Wise Little Hen", is instead a tale of how Donald and other wetland creatures work together to overthrow a stereotypical fairy tale style hen encroaching on their land as a capitalist.
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first major feature length animated film like IOTL but also a subversion and a social realist retelling of the traditional fairy tale.
    • Saludos Camaradas is a live-action/animated anthology, highlighting the socialist nations of Latin America, their unique cultures, their burgeoning socialism, and their struggle against the Integralist threat.
    • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is released in 1941 and has notably more psychedelic style in a stark contrast with Snow White, leading to it receiveing mixed reviews at the time.
  • Bringing Up Baby is made as a 13-episodes TV series/subscription film rather than a single movie. The plot is slightly changed to Hepburn's character having lost her wealth in the revolution and falling in love with both Cary Grant's and Virginia Walker's characters rather than just the former and they all get together in the end.
  • Bob Clampett gets to make the animated adaptation of John Carter of Mars he couldn't IOTL, named Warlord of Mars and released in 1938.
  • Some adventures of Superman become different.
    • The cover of Action Comics #1 shows Superman attempting to stop an execution by a pair of counterrevolutionaries.
    • A full length adaptation of the shorts by Fleischer is made in 1945, where Superman fights an assortment of villains, robots and monsters, unleashed by Japanese and Nazi scientists.
  • Gone with the Wind comes into being as an Americuban production, becoming a smash hit in Cuba and Europe and sweeping the Americuban Oscars, while American critics decry it as "racist" and "neo-Confederate" for its Lost Cause ideology. The main differences are that the film is released in 1938 rather than 1939, and stars Errol Flynn as Rhett, rather than Clark Gable.
  • The Fleischer Studios' animated adaptation of Gulliver's Travels is quite different from OTL, featuring Franchise/Popeye (who did went to Liliput in the episode Popeye's Travels in OTL 1960) as the protagonist of Popeye the Sailor in Gulliver's Travels. A majority of the film is in a realistic style, including rotoscoping, which contrasts with its cartoony protagonist.
  • Willis O'Brien's unfinished film project Creation gets made as an American-Soviet production in 1938 with reworked elements from Edgar Rice Burrough's The Land That Time Forgot. The film centers on a WFRN submarine (with Soviet crew members) stranded on an island of dinosaurs.
  • Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is partially filmed in the Melrose soundstage in Hollywood and the character of Gavrilo Oleksich is played by Marion Morrison.
  • A Christmas Carol (1938) is made by Culver City (formerly MGM/RKO) as a socialist reinterpretation of the classic Charles Dickens story, with Scrooge giving away his fortune and closing the shop at the end.
  • The Grapes of Wrath takes place during the Red May Revolution rather than the Dust Bowl.
  • Batman's character evolves much more differently after the Revolution, originally re-imagined as a former bourgeois turned party apparatchik after siding with the Revolution, he is revamped during the Silver Age by taking on elements from Golden Age GreenArrow, including the name Oliver Queen and his backstory as a rich heir becoming a superhero after developing his skills surviving stranded on a desert island.
    • His first story in Detective Comics #27 features him investigating the "Clan of the Cross" instead of fighting a "Chemical Syndicate".
    • Bill Finger never goes uncredited for co-creating and writing Batman.
    • Robin first appears in Detective Comics #37 rather than #38.
  • The Wizard of Oz features animated characters and sequences from Hyperion Animation and presumably not the division between a black-and-white Kansas and a technicolor World of Oz. The film wins the Oscar for Best Picture for 1939.
    • A rival adaptation is made in Americuba by Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures, taking elements from later books and having a more straight-forward approach.
  • The movie adaptation of Kim is made eleven years earlier, starring Errol Flynn like IOTL but right after achieving success instead of being his last great adventure movie.
  • One update on 1930s film serials mentions a series about the dysfunctional family of a real estate mogul who left the UASR after the revolution called The Bluth Family.
  • Frank Capra still makes a version of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, still starring Jimmy Stewart. This version is simply called Comrade Smith, and it overtly references the "Revolt of the Cadres" incident.
  • Rebecca (1940) becomes Alfred Hitchcock's first Americuban rather than American film.
  • With William Randolph Hearst's media empire sundered by the Revolution, and Hearst himself living in exile in England, Orson Welles redevelops his Citizen Kane project to be much more frank about its subject matter, noticing "we could just take down the man himself. There's nothing he can do to us now." The film, now simply titled Hearst, is released on December 20, 1940 (opposed to Citizen Kane's May 1, 1941 release of OTL), and would be a critical success, go on to sweep the Oscars, and, yes, ends up being regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.
  • Why We Fight is made by John Ford instead of Frank Capra. One of the episodes, Why We Fight: Hitler's Plans made in 1941, attracts the most controversy for featuring leaked documents that showed Germany's postwar plans for the USSR (the Generalplan Ost) and the UASR, stirring outrage at the Nazis in these countries and provoking a diplomatic incident in then-neutral United Kingdom when Germany's ambassador gave a statement condemning the film in a way that confirmed the authenticity of the documents.
  • In Mrs. Miniver, Greer Garson's character deals with the political chaos and the eventual formation of the Franco-British Union and declaration of war rather than the war being already ongoing.
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941) stars Barbara Stanwyck as a gender swapped Sam Spade.
  • WonderWoman is known as Suprema ITTL.
  • The North Star becomes a Soviet-American production starring Anne Baxter as an American journalist instead of an Ukrainian villager, and Ukrainian actors Dmitri Milyutenko and Viktor Dobrovolsky as partisans instead of having a non-native cast.
  • Sherlock Holmes in Debs features a different plot from the OTL version where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempt to foil a Nazi plot to disrupt the wartime alliance between Comintern and the newly formed Franco-British Union.
  • An episode of Private Snafu is made to illustrate the dangers of unprotected sex within the ranks and educate the viewer on various sexually transmitted diseases, no such episode exists IOTL.
  • The Imperial Menace, this timeline's version of Know Your Enemy: Japan, made by George Stevens, is a documentary targeted at Japanese Americans, focusing on the terror of the regime of Hirohito (through his surrogate Yasuhito) and the imperial machinery that allows it to plunder other nations, and it ends with a guide as to how to identify spies within the community. The film is considered outdated and its targeting of spies within the Japanese American community inaccurate and insensitive, alluding to Know Your Enemy: Japan's own racist content.
  • John Huston makes a documentary about The Battle of São Paulo instead of The Battle of San Pietro, depicting it from the perspective of Argentinian soldiers.
  • Inspired by his cautious optimism towards Red America, George Orwell's stories are less soul-crushingly depressing. The Last Man in Europe, this timeline's version of Nineteen Eighty-Four, becomes less of a Shoot the Shaggy Dog story as Winston Smith escapes to America and witnesses a debate in Times Square.
  • While the James Bond series still takes off as a popular book and film franchise, there are several differences: The first Bond film is an adaptation of Casino Royale, which is released in 1954, and stars David Niven as Bond and Leslie Nielsen as Felix Leiter, and with Alfred Hitchcock as director and uncredited co-writer. The plot is the same, albeit with the Americans replacing the Soviets, and Leiter, instead of Bond's friend, becoming a secondary villain and The Rival. Leiter and the American spy organization he belongs to, DITR8R (an attempt to Americanize the Soviet SMERSH) would become Bond's main enemies for the most of the other films (culminating in a final duel between Leiter and Bond in TTL's The Man with the Golden Gun), with SPECTRE largely relegated to common enemy or "villain for peacetime" status.
  • J. R. R. Tolkien's seminal works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, still exist in the form they had in OTL (largely as in exercise in exploring the limitations of historical materialism), and both become literary breakouts that come to define the modern Fantasy genre, as well as being a huge influence on Tabletop RPGs, even gaining a sizeable fanbase in Red America. The main difference is that Lord of the Rings is published as a sextology (using the internal divisions of each of the three OTL books, which was one of the proposed publishing methods before going with the trilogy). While Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson both still adapt The Lord of the Rings into film, the adaptations are slightly different. Bakshi's adaptation is of all six books, instead of just the first two OTL, and he manages to complete it. Jackson's adaptation is an international co-production, involving film crews from both capitalist and communist nations, and also a sextology, rather than a trilogy, which he and his collaborators put together for the better part of a decade, winning numerous awards in the process, and eventually capping off their work with The Return of the King in 2009, which goes on to be the highest grossing international film of all time. Guillermo del Toro makes a follow-up adaptation of The Hobbit released in 2015.
  • Pierre Boulle writes a WWII novel named Mekong (instead of Bridge on the River Kwai IOTL), which receives a film adaptation by Eastman Kodak Pictures (a subsidiary of Kodak) in 1958. His most famous novel Planet of the Apes exists as OTL and receives a film adaptation a year later than OTL directed by François Truffaut and produced by Kodak and Pathé.
  • Bridge over the River Ganga, this timeline's The Bridge on the River Kwai, is the first big international Bollywood film, along with Pather Panchali, and defines Bollywood filmmaking for the next generations. The film, directed by Mehboob Khan, follows Indian POWs forced by the collaborationist Azad Bharat to work building a railroad over the Ganges. The character played by Raj Kapoor, a light skinned Hindu, is given preferential treatment, while the one played by I. S. Johar, a Muslim, is forced into very hard labor. Kapoor seems to be converted, but ends up sabotaging the railroad at the very end.
  • Have Gun – Will Travel is known as Paladin ITTL.
  • The Guns of Navarone becomes a cross-bloc co-production about a group of British, American, and Soviet soldiers lead by David Niven attempting to make a last stand against a Turkish offensive on the fictional island of Navarone.
  • The Twilight Zone is known ITTL as Beyond The Horizon but otherwise keeps the same concept.
    • The Last Flight becomes The Last Revolutionary and displaces the action from WWI to the Red May Revolution.
    • The series receives an anthology adaptation movie in 1988 with different segments being adapted compared to OTL, including The Last Revolutionary.
  • A film adaptation of Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, Psycho, is still released in 1960. The differences are that Robert Altman acts as the director and co-screenwriter on the project, rather than Alfred Hitchcock, while Roger Corman is the producer. The adaptation's plot is also a bit Truer to the Text than the OTL version, following Norman Bates' perspective from the beginning, and Mary Crane keeping the name of her book counterpart, rather than it being changed to Marion Crane. The cast is also markedly different, starring Robert Ridgely as Norman Bates, rather than Anthony Perkins, and Barboura Morris as Mary Crane, rather than Janet Leigh. Like its OTL counterpart, the movie becomes both quite controversial for playing loose with film regulations, but also very successful and influential, playing an instrumental role in kicking off TTL's version of the New Hollywood era.
  • Judgment at Nuremberg becomes based loosely off the "Scientists Trial", where von Braun, Heisenberg, and other scientists were put on trial for their role in the Nazi death machine, instead of the "Judges' Trial".
  • Lawrence of Arabia gets an unofficial sequel named Intifada, a British-Palestinian movie where Peter O'Toole reprises his role. The films is based partially on T.E. Lawrence advising the Palestinian resistance to the Italian occupation, and is a deconstruction of the myth the real man projected to the end of his life. Roger Ebert called it "Lawrence of Jerusalem".
  • Camp Cherokee is a 1963-1968 TV sitcom mixing OTL series Hogan's Heroes and Dad's Army, centered on the titular POW camp in Oklahoma and the local Proletarian Guardsmen in charge of running it.
  • Gene Roddenberry still creates and manages to turn Star Trek into a lasting multi-media franchise. The main differences being that Gene is already able to get The Original Series off the ground in the autumn of 1964 (resulting in the show lasting for four seasons and a total of 81 episodes), that the character of Captain Kirk is a bisexual woman (being Gillian T. Kirk rather than James T. Kirk) and is played by none other than Marilyn Monroe (though in this timeline she still goes under her old name of Norma Jeane Baker), and that Bones is a Russian rather than an American (this also results in the character of Scotty not being invented until the second season, working as an analogue for Chekov in that he represents a European nationality). But in the end, even with the changes in timelines, Gene is still Gene, with Warts and All, and some of his more infamous and ill-advised story ideas and views on women and sexuality still ultimately makes it onto screen, with roughly the same results as in OTL; being seen as somewhat problematic elements of an otherwise beloved and famously progressive show.
  • TTL's The Dirty Dozen is Fugitives, made in 1966, a true story of a group of prisoners freed and recruited by the Reds as an elite squad during the Red May Revolution. Starring Peter Fonda, Warren Beatty, and Sharon Tate among the leads.
  • The Man Who Would be King is made more than 5 years earlier than OTL, directed by John Boorman (instead of John Huston) and produced by Eastman Kodak Pictures.
  • Mazinger Z is created in Australasia under the title Super Energer Z. The story and premise are overall the same as IOTL, with the main differences being the characters' names (Kouji Kabuto to Lance Hyatt, Sayaka Yumi to Jessica Wells, Dr. Hell to Dr. Cypher, etc.) and the fact that the Pilder is a motorcycle like in Go Nagai's original plans for the series. Its sequel, Iron Energer is similarly identical to Great Mazinger, minus a few more name changes as well as other minor details like Jun's counterpart, Jenny Hastings, being half-Indian instead of half-black.
    • The changes to Mazinger would also end up affecting Getter Robo, as Ken Ishikawa, who was still born in Nippon and thus never met Go Nagai ended up becoming close to Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori instead. Ken eventually read Energer and hated it, and so created his own mecha series to stick it to Nagai. The resulting Getter Robo series would end up largely identical to OTL except for the ending, where Ryoma Nagare dies instead of Musashi Tomoe. This change would end up reverberating into Getter Robo G, where Michiru Saotome takes over as the main character. Getter would end up becoming even more successful than in OTL, filling the cultural niche in Nippon that was left by the absence of Mazinger. This also lead to Combining Mecha displacing traditional Super Robots in Nippon.
  • The World At War is made as an EBC rather than ITV documentary series and is composed of 39 episodes instead of 26 IOTL. It becomes a landmark documentary series thanks to the period of relatively warm relations in the 70s allowing for unprecedented access to Red Bloc information.
  • Jaws by Steven Spielberg still comes into being, being at first a surprise hit in the UASR and USSR. Talks about distributing it in the capitalist countries stall for a bit, due to the distributor (Franco-British leftist film collective Vertov, a riff on an OTL group run by Jean-Luc Godard) finding the film too commercial (having distributed documentaries and social realist films prior to that) and that a part of the plotline about a corrupt nomenklatura covering up shark attacks for political gain is contrary to their goals of promoting communism. But a deal is eventually made, and, much to everyone's surprise the film becomes a hit on the capitalist market too, defining the idea of the summer blockbuster. (It is also implied that rather than making Poltergeist, ITTL Spielberg instead chooses to finish developing the Sci-Fi Horror film Watch the Skies!, a project he never finished IOTL, but inspired him to make Poltergeist in the first place.)
  • George Lucas still creates the Star Wars saga but it begins with The Phantom Menace as the first film made instead of A New Hope with a significantly different cast (some original cast members remain in different roles, such as Mark Hamill as R 2 D 2 and Carrie Fisher as C3PO) and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
  • John Carpenter directs The Star Beast with a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and starring Sigourney Weaver as part of a spaceship crew terrorized by an alien and existential dread. The film is essentially TTL's Film/Alien with Dark Star's themes.
  • Douglas Adams still creates his famous science-fiction work but it is known as The Nifty Galactic Handbook. A film adaptation is made by Kodak Pictures in the 1980s.
  • Series/Taxi exists as Taxi Drivers.
  • Sergei Bondarchuk takes advantage of the 1978 Military History Symposium to shoot the principal photography of Film/Waterloo, using the surplus of soldiers and benefiting from the official cooperation of multiple governments.
  • 1942, based on OTL 1941, is a Franco-British film centered on the Nazi bomb scare in Portsmouth, instead of the panic experienced by Californians after Pearl Harbor. The film is also one of the last Franco-British films directed by a Canadian, Norman Jewison, before the Red Turn.
  • invoked Yoshiyuki Tomino's long-running Gundam franchise also comes into being with its first installment, Mobile Suit Gundam, being released in 1979. The most immediate and notable difference being that the series is entirely in Esperanto, as it is partially financed by a grant from the Nipponese central government as a part of an effort to promote the Ŝin Esperanto auxiliary language. The series' plot remains by and large the same as in OTL, which some minor differences, such as the Principality of Zeon instead being the Zeonic Commonwealth and the Earth Federation being explicitly communistic. Like its OTL counterpart, Gundam also faces a difficult beginning, struggling with low ratings during its initial broadcast, but eventually becoming a bona fide Sleeper Hit, thanks to positive word of mouth, and a rebroadcast in Chosun, where it quickly becomes even more popular than in its home country.
  • While JRPG's still become popular like in OTL, they are still quite niche outside the Comintern until the creation of the internet. This leads to the rise of "ARPG's (Australasian Role-Playing Games)" in the AFS. Chief among them is the long-running franchise Star Legacy: a series that in many ways resembles the Final Fantasy series in its tone and cultural impact.
  • Captain America (1990) is made by the Vertov Collective and United Artists and includes the appearance of Natasha Romanov and "her" Howling Commandos.
  • Spider-Man doesn't experience the same Development Hell as OTL and is released in 1987, made by Alain Resnais with the Vertov and Olive Street Collectives producing. Filmed in Metropolis, the film focuses on the webhead's origin and his battle with the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus, becoming a hit in the detente era, causing Vertov to commission a few more comic properties (including Tales from the Crypt and The New Gods).
  • The Franco-British project for an adaptation of Judge Dredd becomes Annihilator, TTL's equivalent to RoboCop (1987) (directed by Paul Verhoeven and with anti-capitalist themes adapted to the corporatist FBU) mixed with Terminator (notably the time travel plot). Annihilator would spawn 2 sequels (to less than positive reception), an animated television series, and reboots in 2009 and 2014.
  • A version of The Simpsons also comes into being with the title Reactor 420-69. As said title implies, this version is less of a Dom Com and a bit more of a Work Com, focusing mainly on the antics of Homer Simpson, who is the incompetent commissar and inspector of a local nuclear power plant. The show ends up running for 12 seasons, the final season ending with Homer getting involved in politics, first as a local representative, before finally gradually rising to the office of the Premier of the United Republics. The series finale becomes (in)famous, as Premier Homer accidentally nukes London, and the show ends on a surprisingly dark note as World War III is imminent.
  • TTL Literature/Fatherland features the same plot except for replacing the United States with the British Empire, becoming a commentary on pre-WWII British appeasement policies.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! is created two years earlier and instead of becoming the Collectible Card Game it is OTL, it becomes a Tabletop RPG inspired by the TTL game Warband and based on chapters 50-59 of the manga (Bakura's introductory arc), using a d100 as its engine with the anime (still done by Toei) and manga. It would spawn three spin-offs: Yu-Gi-Oh! V2, Yu-Gi-Oh! Vanguard and Yu-Gi-Oh! Chronicle, with Kazuki Takahashi handing over control of the series to Ryo Mizuno and Akira Ito by the game's third edition.
  • Westwood Studios' epochal Real-Time Strategy series Command & Conquer comes into being as the Westwood Collective's Rise & Revolt series.
    • As a further consequence, the spinoff series Command & Conquer: Red Alert, instead becomes Rise & Revolt: Blue Alert. The plot of the first game also begins in the aftermath of World War II, where Albert Einstein uses time travel to remove Adolf Hitler from existence in a bid to prevent the horrors of the war (of course, he does this in 1947, rather than 1946, seeing how WWII went on somewhat longer in the Reds! verse). But instead of preventing the war, this change causes a Fascist and anti-American movement headed by J.F.C. Fuller to come to power in the United Kingdom and take control over the British Empire. By empowering other far-right movements in Europa and East Asia, Fascist Britain becomes the leader of a new and powerful anti-Communist alliance, and in 1950, they make their move against the United Republics and the Soviet Union, leading to an even more devastating version of World War II.
  • Aaron Sorkin has a similar set of shows and movies as OTL, but remixed slightly:
    • It still starts with A Few Good Men starring Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore, with Rob Lowe replacing Tom Cruise as Daniel Kaffee, and the central murder plot taking place in Puerto Rico, rather than Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Malice, with Nicole Kidman replaced by Natalya Negoda.
    • TTL's The West Wing is still a popular TV show on the American government starring Martin Sheen, though it is called Capitol Hill, and Sheen plays the Leo McGarry role to John Amos' Premier Will Bailey. Amusingly, the criticism it receives by the press in-universe is much like its real life counterpart; quite lauded back at its launch, but later remembered somewhat less fondly in hindsight for what is seen as overly idealized politics and at times ham-fisted and preachy writing. It actually receives a spin-off TTL called Stavka, starring Dulé Hill as the Premier's son working at the titular military headquarters.
    • Several other Sorkin projects, like The Newsroom, Sports Night, The American President and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip are reimagined and done at different times.
  • Assassins is expectedly different from OTL but otherwise has the same premise of a musical about assassins from American history.
  • A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant is made ITTL as a British production (L. Ron Hubbard having fled Red America, he founded his church in England) named An Unauthorized Dianetics Children's Musical Nativity.
  • The Revolution Revealed is a documentary focusing on intimate interviews with veterans and survivors of the Second Civil War and shows animated reenactments for their stories. It is noted for its brutal, honest depiction of the war and was made in 1998.
  • Steven Spielberg still makes an epic historical war film, but seven years later than OTL. Rise centers on a group of workers that answered the call to Revolution upon hearing of the coup. It is noted for merging more modern style realism with previous idealistic depictions of the revolution.
  • The Kennedys becomes an American-British co-production and as different as the lives of the family it depicts is, detailing their history from the 1930 Stock Market Crash, purportedly to Ted Kennedy's retirement as head of the Kennedy Group in 2005. In addition to the three prominent Kennedy brothers (Robert, Ted, and Sean Cinneide (formerly John)), the show also focuses on Joe Sr., Rose, Joe Jr, Maros Cinneide (formely Rosemary Kennedy), and Patricia Kennedy-Burton. The show has garnered praise from both sides of the Atlantic, but also criticism from surviving Kennedy family members and Ted Kennedy's media conglomerate the Kennedy Group.
  • Public Enemies is still centered on John Dillinger but follows his life as a member of the State Sec fighting against organized crime and reactionaries. Melvin Purvis is played by Adam Sandler instead of Christian Bale.
  • The Revolution in Color is a critically acclaimed British documentary by Ken Loach using both footage from previous documentaries and previously undiscovered footage and colorizes them with modern technology to give a more real feeling to the footage and display the war as the soldiers themselves saw it.
  • Kaguya-sama: Love Is War still comes into existence, though it is named Kaguya: Love is War ITTL, but is re-contextualized by Japan having become the Nippon Socialist Republic after WWII while an anti-communist diaspora fled to AFS countries, changing the characters' backgrounds. Kaguya, who comes from an aristocratic diaspora family installed in Australasia but came back to Nippon with her divorced mother, experiences a culture shock from which the series gets many comedic moments but reflects real-life struggles of repatriated Nipponese diaspora, while the stark contrast with Miyuki's upbringing shaped by the socialist society he grew up in provides the story's main conflict.
  • This timeline's equivalent of Hamilton is a biographical musical about Emma Goldman named Red Emma: The Musical, with several of the same actors from OTL's Hamilton, written by Lenina Miranda.
  • Instead of The Death of Stalin, this timeline instead sees the Death of MacArthur, a Black Comedy about the scramble for political power amongst the top-members of the Americuban government in the wake of the death of Douglas MacArthur, also released in 2017.
  • The films Judas and the Black Messiah and The Irishman are not made in this world. Instead, there is a film which follows similar story beats named "Revolution on Auburn Avenue" released in 2019 with the same producers^note Shaka King and Martin Scorsese, but this time joined by Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, depicting the events leading up to the assassination of UNIA leader Marcus Garvey. Primarily set in Atlanta, Georgia both before and after the revolution, it stars a young black man named Caesar Williams (Lakeith Stanfield) who, after being saved from unjust imprisonment by the timely intervention of WCPA representative Harry Haywood (Mahershala Ali), abandons the hustler life and finds his calling in service of black liberation and communism. He is chosen to act as the WCPA's liaison with Marcus Garvey (Winston Duke) and soon befriends him. Matters are complicated after the revolution and establishment of the African National Federal Republic when Garvey's goals clash with the communists' and he's found to be outright obstructing their programme. After a string of attacks by reactionary terrorists leads to heightened security alert in the Republic, the New African authorities and later the All-Union government places Garvey on high suspicion due to his subversive, counterrevolutionary activities. Eventually, Williams is ordered to eliminate him.
• Dirty Communists:
  • Stalin and most of the USSR, but especially the leaders of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (the NKVD) and especially Lavrentiy Beria. Following Stalin's violent death in the Battle of Moscow in 1941, some of the Russian military leaders who have remain loyal to the ideals of the revolution reach out to their American counterparts and hatch a Benevolent Conspiracy to clean the Soviet house of authoritarians, especially the NKVD leadership who had been mainly responsible for enabling Stalin and his numerous purges. This changes the culture of the USSR for the better, though some of Stalin's cronies, most prominently Vyacheslav Molotov, are able to get away with their involvement in Stalin's crimes for political reasons.
    • A report from a post-war truth commission revealed that Stalin and his supporters killed nearly 600,000 people in The Purge. This is equivalent to the most conservative estimates of the victims in the Real Life Great Purge and does not includes people who died in the Gulags, famines and attacks on peasants as they had not yet completed the counting of all victims of the early Soviet government.
    • While most leftists in the present day are willing to acknowledge Stalin's flaws, a small minority continues to insist that everything he did was righteous. The in-universe poster Cheka is one such person.
  • Gil Green and the WCPA members who oppose the Revolt of the Cadres see it as a political deviation and a threat to be contained and neutralized by force.
• Disaster Democracy:
  • The UASR is born from the ashes of the USA during the Second American Civil War.
  • Despite becoming a dominant-party democracy after 1950, the Franco-British Union started as a liberal democracy created as both France and Great Britain were severely hammered by the Axis armies and mainland France fell to Pétaintist tyranny.
• Disaster Dominoes: A small scuffle between a student in the Shanghai Commune and a Japanese legation guard ends in 8 people dead and 20 more injured.
• Disowned Sibling: When Jiang Jieshi tells his "brother" (what they affectively call each other, their wives being sisters) H.H. Kung that he plans to defect to the Japanese and wants offers him to join, Kung answers by declaring to Jiang he is dead to him and no longer the brother to anyone in China, least of all him. He does offer Jiang a last courtesy by not informing the government of their conversation.
• The Dissenter Is Always Right:
  • When the New York Commune is formed, Vice-President Charles E. Hughes strongly protests against violently suppressing the revolt and urges President Marshall and First Secretary Wilson to open a dialog with the leaders of the revolt but is ultimately overruled. Attempts to suppress the revolt and the SLP only manage to worsen the situation and spread revolutionary discontent until the Supreme Court intervenes and the government must reluctantly enter negotiations which successfully end the revolt peacefully.
  • The left- and centre-wings of the WCPA unsuccessfully argue against the many concessions made by the right-wing for its accession to power, such as their support for MacArthur's ascension to Secretary of War, William Foster calling it "Letting a rabid dog into the house". They are proven right by MacArthur's Putsch.
  • Much of the British military staff were in agreement that the German invasion of the Soviet Union would lead to the latter's capitulation within some months. A few disagreed with this assessment, including Major General T.E. Lawrence, who correctly asserted that the USSR and the UASR would fight to the bitter end.
• Divided States of America: The aftermath of the Second American Civil War sees the United States nominally divided between the UASR, controlling most of the former US territory, and American Havana, still claiming to be the legitimate government of the entire country but controlling only Cuba and surviving on British (later Franco-British) protection.
• Double-Blind What-If: Several are hypothesized by the users of Reds!TL's AlternateHistory.com, such as "What if McKinley had been assassinated by Leon Czolgosz?"
• Draft Dodging: Socialist Labor Party activists and politicians encourage Americans to dodge the draft during World War I and get arrested by the government for it.
• Driven to Suicide: Polish President Władysław Raczkiewicz commits suicide after having to surrender his country to the German Reich.
• Due to the Dead: The National Salvation Front buried the people they murdured in the early days of the coup in unmarked graves, including Norman Thomas. The Provisional Government exhumed the bodies and creamted them, then brought the ashes for a funeral service at the Capitol, where Premier Foster gives a funeral oration for the martyred president-elect.
  • The night after Marinus van der Lubbe, the presumed culprit for the Reichstag fire, is executed, a candlelight vigil is held at the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. and Provisional President Sinclair delivers a eulogy that becomes a stirring call to action to fight fascism.
  • State funerals are organized for the beloved former Mayor of New York Morris Hilquit.
  • State funerals are organized for Emma Goldman where Premier Foster gives a funeral oration.

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• Eagleland:
  • The United Republics, despite some questionable actions early on in the revolution and in the early years of their existence, ends up as a very rare socialist version of type 1, being a socialist state preserving many democratic and social freedoms for their populace and using their influence to support democratic change in authoritarian socialist states.
  • The National Salvation Government/Americuba starts out as a full on type 2, being a Fascist dictatorship allied with the most reactionary aspects of American society established via a coup against an elected socialist president. After their defeat and escape to Cuba, they remain as type 2 for some time under MacArthur's dictatorship, but post-MacArthur's death they slowly democratize and they are somewhat closer to type 3 than type 2 by the 21st century.
  • The Free American State embodies the worst of type 2, being a genocidal Nazi puppet government extolling the worst aspects of pre-revolutionary America and even going as far as to recreate the conditions of the Antebellum South with Slavs and captured prisoners of war as their slaves.
  • Pre-Revolutionary America itself is mainly perceived in a type 1 light by Americuba, with Americuba touting itself as the continuation of the pre-revolutionary government, Interestingly enough, Pre-Revolutionary America is seen to some extent in a type 3 light rather than a fully type 2 light by the United Republics, with some presidents (particularly Abraham Lincoln as per Old Leftist/Orthodox Marxist thought and Leonard Wood) seen as historically progressive or well-intentioned. This is because many of the OTL systemic issues and imperialism that causes the total revulsion and extreme critical reevaluations of American history on the modern American left, alongsides the concept of American exceptionalism (which also contributed to said revulsion), do not manifest in this timeline or are resolved via sociopolitical reforms before they can become fully systemic issues, resulting in more willingness for socialist historians within the UASR to look back at the pre-revolutionary history in a more neutral light while focusing their ire more towards the imperialistic actions of European Empires.
• Eagle Squadron:
  • The International Brigades, first formed during the Second American Civil War and later reorganized as the International Volunteer Army, are made up of communists and fellow travelers from all over the world united in the fight against fascism and capitalism.
    • The American Reds can count on International Brigades and a Soviet expeditionary force to help them during the Second American Civil War.
    • An IVA contingent briefly serves in Czechoslovakia during the German invasion.
  • The Peruvian revolutionaries receive the help of Brazilian exiles after the failure of their own uprising in their homeland while the Benavides government receives token volunteers from Salgado's Brazil.
  • Both sides of the Spanish Civil War receive extensive support in the form of expeditionary forces disguised as foreign volunteers from Axis and Comintern nations.
  • Like IOTL, the Third Reich's Waffen-SS includes foreign volunteers.
    • The 5th SS Panzer Division Silberne Legion is composed of American emigres volunteers from Americuba and other emigres communities.
  • The UASR dispatches the "Medusa Regiment" to assist Mongolia and the USSR during the Soviet–Japanese border conflicts in Mongolia.
  • The 3rd Australasian Division gains the nickname "Meatgrinder" from the action it saw in Malaya.
• Easy Evangelism: Subverted. The National Salvation Front, the Nazis, the far-right in general and some capitalist powers operate under the mistaken assumption that their opposition has been duped into supporting communism by foreign agitators, and that they could be easily swayed to their cause once communist perfidy has been revealed. It never works, because they fundamentally do not understand why anyone would become a communist.
• Easy Logistics: Averted. During the Red offensives of May-June during the Second Civil War the advance was subject to the limitations of the logistical train's ability to provide food, fuel and munitions. Logistical problems would reduce the soldiers to foraging and not eating for several days, prompting reorganizations to be made after the war to answer them.
• Elites Are More Glamorous: Heavily deconstructed, noting that most of the Waffen SS and the Green Guard do not actually live up to their reputations of being fearless badass storm troopers with only a handful of units actually being formidable enough to be considered "elites" instead of politically reliable paramilitary forces. The Green Guard, in particular, is rapidly wiped out in the final stage of the South American theatre, with the whole corps being annihilated one after the other and most of its soldiers being noted to be "starved and beaten children and psychopaths".
• Emergency Authority: The Franco-British government under Prime Minister François Mitterand declares a "temporary state of national emergency" in 1979 lasting more than a year.
• The Empire: Quite a few in fact. The Franco-British Union is also known as the Franco-British Empire in less polite circles and is quite simply the largest formal empire to ever exist in human history by every metric besides percentage of the human population living inside of it; combining the British and the French Empires at their peak size. In the sense of Empires of being states with an Emperor as the head of state, Japan's two and a half thousand year old monarchy has been dismantled following the end of World War II, while the Brazilian and German Emperors have both returned to lead Brazil and West Germany, subverted in that the Brazilian and West German Empires are much more pleasant than the dictatorships that preceded them (although that's not saying much).
• Enemies List: During the Red Terror, the Secretariat of Public Safety publishes the Enemies of the People list, a list of 700 names, consisting of suspected counterrevolutionary political leaders, paramilitaries, organized crime bosses, and other counterrevolutionaries considered dangerous.
• Enemy Mine:
  • After Huerta's coup, the Constitutionalists and Zapatists sign a truce until they get rid of him then go back to fighting each other.
  • Witnessing the invasion and occupation of Poland pushes the Baltic states to seek closer relations with the USSR, prefering them to the Nazis and their racial animus against Balts and Estonians.
  • The Comintern and the Western Allies really do not like each other, with the most right-leaning politicians of the latter even arguing for joining the Axis to help them destroy the former, but they eventually band together to defeat Fascism. After the end of World War II, they go back to being bitter rivals.
  • Within Mandatory Palestine in particular and other Levantine mandates governed by the Entente in general, Jews and Arabs of all ideological leanings (from pro-Comintern revolutionary socialists on the Left to hardline nationalists and royalists on the Right) fight side-by-side against the Axis forces invading the Levant. When the Axis is completely expelled from the region and the war ends, they immediately resume hostilities which eventually culminate in a three-sided civil war.
    • This excludes the Right-Zionist terrorist group Lehi AKA the "Stern Gang" (pejoratively named for its leader, Avraham Stern), who instead choose to collaborate with the invading Axis against the UN, in the hopes of wiping out Palestinian Arabs and Jewish "traitors" and being granted an independent fascist state. They are all rewarded for their services by being sent to a death camp in German-occupied Europe once their utility as pawns expires.
• Et Tu, Brute?:
  • Joe Kennedy Jr. learning his brother John joined the Reds is the last straw making him decide to join Nazis.
  • Like IOTL, Josef Stalin decides to make a deal with Hitler and Nazi Germany for the division of Poland in the prelude to World War II. The move sends shockwaves through the other communist nations in the Comintern, especially the UASR, who are outraged that one of their largest, most powerful allies would willingly make a deal with the main fascist power in the world. However, the different communist governments realize that they cannot afford to engage in in-fighting with the fascists on the rise on the world stage, and so turning their back on the USSR and Stalin is not really an option, so instead they settle for just publicly expressing that they are not mad, just really disappointed with the Russians. The move does, however, mark the beginning of the end for William Z. Foster's political career, as he as Premier had been especially staunch supporter of strong diplomatic ties between the UASR and USSR, and even to him Stalin's decision came completely out of left field.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Douglas MacArthur might be the tin-pot dictator of the mostly right-wing American government in exile, but he absolutely abhors antisemitism, finding it personally offensive.
  • Theodore Bilbo and Barry Goldwater, both supporters of the MacArthur coup, are appaled by Nazism and willing to work with the United Republics to rally the support of Whites emigres to their cause (In exchange of which, both would have favorable hearings at their parole).
• Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Downplayed. The two Cultural Revolutions in America led to the liberalization of sexual mores and a greater openness in the discussion of sex-related subjects well in advance compared the rest of the world, particularly the Capitalist bloc, and remains much more open than the latter in the present day. However this led to the development of wildly exaggerating stereotypes on American sexual mores outside of it, depicting Americans as regularly engaging in sex and orgies and being very "easy" to have sex with, particularly during the Cultural Revolutions themselves, sometimes for the purpose of propaganda depicting the country as the "Modern Sodom and Gomorrah" and sometimes for exploitation pornography; an in-universe discussion commenter castigates the in-universe version of Public Enemies for depicting so many threesomes, saying he can see "that sort of thing happening in the fifties, but not the thirties." The liberalization of sexual mores is also not entirely without controversy; indeed, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in the mid-thirties gains a fair amount of converts thanks to its more socially conservative position. There is also a internal divide in America, with places like New York and California tending to be very socially liberal (and thus closer to this trope) whereas places in the Midwest, the South and Red Canada, while perhaps more liberal in these ways, still tend to be more conservative.
• Evil Chancellor:
  • In Japan, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, assumes the position of Kanpaku, chief advisor for the Emperor, after the latter is partially incapacitated by an assassination attempt, becoming Japan's de facto head of state and leading his country down an even more oppressive and imperialistic path than in OTL.
  • Emilio Mola becomes the true ruler of Spain after imposing himself as Prime Minister to the incapacitated Caudillo José Sanjurjo. Officially ruling until "the Caudillo has made his recovery."
• Evil Colonialist:
  • As IOTL, the Third Reich is absolutely horrific in its treatment of native populations of Eastern Europe as they plan to colonize their land.
  • Turanist Turkey creates the Turanization Commissions, modeled after the Nazi Reichskommissariats, to administrate the parts of Syria and Kurdistan they occupy and prepare them for colonization and the extermination or forced assimilation of natives. They receive assistance in their efforts from German Einsatzgruppen and Italian Squadristi.
• Evil Reactionary:
  • Integralist Brazil is especially hateful towards LGBT peoples, its "deviancy laws" sentencing to at least to three decades of hard labour and up to outright death for acts of "sexual deviancy" such as homosexuality, transgender expression, or even advocacy of LGBT rights. The Green Guard itself is even more extreme and believes the only "cure" for them is death, which they emphasize in their propaganda reels.
  • The Iron Guard seeks to impose an ultrareactionary path for Romania away from all the degeneracies of modernity that it perceives, planning to drag the country back to the middle ages by removing industry except those necessary to the armed forces.
• Executive Meddling: This timeline's version of Tintin in America falls victim to an in-universe version. Following the American Revolution, Hergé is asked by his editors to include an explicitly anti-communist message in the story. Hergé, though personally skeptical towards communism, is not a fan of the decision, as it means the story essentially becomes a retread of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. When Hergé later redraws the story, he alters it to be slightly more neutral towards the Americans.
• The Exile:
  • After the February Revolution, the Romanov family goes into exile in Sweden. They are later joined by Alexander Kolchak and Wilhelm II (after initially staying in the Netherlands like IOTL).
  • The UASR becomes a refuge for various socialists fleeing state persecution, such as Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky and Nestor Makhno. This policy is later expanded into offering asylum to anyone fleeing fascist persecution, particularly Jewish populations but also Africans fleeing Italian colonialism.
  • After the Second American Civil War, those who do not follow MacArthur to Cuba flee to other countries, many, like former President Herbert Hoover, to the United Kingdom and Canada while those considered too extreme for Americuba, like Henry Ford and later William Pelley and Joe Kennedy Jr., leave for Nazi Germany.
  • Bolivian leftists flee to Peru or Chile after the military coup in their homeland.
  • KMT politician H.H. Kung leaves China because he opposes the governments on both sides of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• Expanded States of America: After Canada goes through a communist revolution, the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia all vote to become republics of the UASR.

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• Face Death with Dignity: President-Elect Norman Thomas does not flinch in the face of the detachment of the MacArthur-lead coup coming to summarily execute him. Instead, he correctly assumes that the men has come to kill him and calmly tells them that he is Not Afraid to Die, while just as calmly pleading for them to stop what they are doing as it would surely doom the American nation to destruction. He then finally tells them if their minds is set on killing him, they should just stop wasting his time and Get It Over With already.
• Face–Heel Turn: Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) betrays the Republic of China and becomes the leader of a Japanese puppet regime because he believes China is becoming enthralled to Soviet and American social imperialism.
• The Faceless: Cristiano Boaventura "O Diabo Verde" always conceals his face with a gas mask.
• invokedFake Nationality: Robert Downey Jr. plays Lieutenant Ivan Alexeiovich Matskewicz, a Soviet volunteer, in the movie Vanguard.
• Fatal Forced March: The March of Sorrow, Loyalist French troops of the northern First Army receive the order to retreat to Brittany. Over the next month, they will mount a desperate defense while evacuating with British assistance. Meanwhile, Loyalists in the southern Third Army will cross the Pyrenees into the Spanish Free Soviet Republic.
• Fictional Currency: PlayedWith. The UASR continues to use the dollar but prints and mints new designs for the coins and banknotes called "Workers' Currency" to protect itself from Americuban conterfeiting operations. This new dollar is used until the UASR transitions to a labor voucher system under lower-stage communism.
• Fictional Flag: As a work of alternate history, several countries end up using different flags from any existing OTL design.
  • The most notable is obviously the flag of the Union of American Socialist Republics◊, featured on the cover at the top of this article. The flag's symbology is ostensibly Marxist, and the positioning of the hammer and gear reflects the Soviet hammer and sickle, but also includes black to honor the efforts of the anarchist cause during the Second Revolution.
  • The flag of the Union of Socialist Republics of Mexico adopted in 1936 but no longer used by present day. The flag is a compromise between those wanting a simple red flag and those wanting to keep the Mexican nationalist symbols.
• Fictional Political Party: Played with; new political parties form, but usually out of existing political parties. And the parties that have the same name tend to have diverged in radically different ways to become In Name Only versions of their real life counterparts.
  • In the present day, the American major parties, from the political right to left, are:
    • True Democrats: The designated traitor party. The drain trap that catches everything that won't accommodate to the revolution, becoming the mirror image of Western communist parties in our world (particularly the CPUSA) and being similarly weak on the national level. Their politics were initially about reversing the Red May Revolution and restoring the old capitalist order but after decades being a Joke Character of American politics they mellowed out. By the 2010s their policies would be equivalent to the progressive wing of the real-life Democratic Party.
    • Democratic-Republican Party: The resident mainstream right-wing party, although still certainly very radical by real life standards and considered centre-left by the Capitalist world. It's a catchall for the progressive political center- they approach socialism from a mutualist^note an anarchist school of thought which advocates a market-based alternative to capitalism based around workers' associations (cooperatives) perspective. They favour markets and limited property relations. Think a communist American version of IRL libertarians. As far as foreign policy is concerned, they're one of the most pacifistic parties.
    • Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: The former left-wing of the Democratic Party, they approach socialism from a Christian perspective, and are largely left-wing nationalists. They embrace a leftist version of American exceptionalism and fit in between the CLP and the LCP with regards to their approach to how centralised economic planning should be and between those two and the DRP with regards to the approach to the market. In terms of foreign policy the DFLP is a somewhat militant party, advocating for a confrontation with the Capitalist world and supporting America's allies.
    • Communist Labor Party: The former center- and right-wing of the Workers' Communist Party, they place a greater emphasis on Marxism, support a more centrally planned economy and are largely centrist on social issues. They generally advocate for the most state presence and involvement out of any of the parties in the Union of American Socialist Republics and have the strongest "authoritarian" streak, though certainly less so than the CPSU or CPC in our timeline. Their foreign policy is based on containment. Out of the two largest parties in American politics, they're the most comparable to the Republican party in our timeline and "neoconservatism" is even used to refer to their policies. They are essentially, the Bordigists to Liberation's Councilists.
    • Liberation Communist Party: The left-wing splinter from the Workers' Communist Party and most often just called Liberation. They're Left Communists^note a term referring to communists that hold views to the left of Bolsheviks, most often referring to Council Communists and Bordigists, with Liberation leaning strongly towards Council Communism who want to push the world revolution forward by "rolling back" hostile regimes and have a strong libertine streak. They favour a decentralised, democratic structure for planning the economy and abolishing wage labour and commodity value and are in favour of more localised structures of government and administration.
    • Social Ecological Union: Greens, with libertarian Marxist and social anarchist wings. The champions of environmental diversity and stability, the SEU qualifies as far-left by any standard and generally supports full worker control over the economy. In terms of foreign policy, they are perhaps the most pacifistic of any of the major parties, advocating for a reduction in armaments and the seeking of detente with the Capitalist bloc to let its problems bring about their end on their own. They are noted to have some issues with an abnormally high acceptance of pseudoscientific woo among their ranks and lax party discipline.
  • In the present day, the major parties of the Franco-British Union, from the political right to left, are:
    • Normanist Movement/Mouvement Normaniste: The junior partner of the FBU's right-opposition, and the biggest fascist group in the union. Attempting to consolidate the cultures of Britain and France under a united "Normanist" identity based on the Duchy of Normandy and the Angevin Empire of the 10th-13th centuries, the Normanists push for a white ethnostate in a so-called "Greater Norman Empire" to fight for "western civilisation" against communists, the LGBT community and whatever else they consider "degeneracy". Known for hating the UASR and the USSR due to seeing it as attempting to “cannibalize their own parent”. Also in favor of returning the Americuba regime to the American mainland.
    • Liberty/Liberté: The predominant right-wing opposition in the FBU, it does not style itself as a political party in spite of electing representatives to local and national government. It's mostly composed of an armed paramilitary wing and Venture Capitalists, Liberty styles itself as an ideologically liberal organization but is willing to support authoritarian measures to battle communism and opposes identity politics and the LGBT movement.
    • People's Alliance/Alliance Populaire: The party of perpetual government in the post-WWII era, formed in 1949 from the ad hoc alliance between the British Conservative Party and the French Rally of Popular Republicans among other conservative and/or pro-capitalist British and French Parties. The People's Alliance has constructed the economy along corporatist lines, establishing pro-business "patriotic unions" and doling out patronage through a sophisticated system of state capitalism to ensure social stability. On social issues, they've held back women, minority and LGBT movements and only make reforms when it benefits them.
    • Labour Party/Parti Ouvrier: The merger between the UK's Labour Party and the French Section to the Workers' International (SFIO), it is a big tent left-wing party that suffered from the flight of the right-wing to the People's Alliance, after which the party leadership was taken over by Marxists and the center dwindled. It's under constant attack from the corporate media and the State Sec.
    • Communist Party: Officially known as Entente Section of the Communist International, has remained unified under a general program of revolutionary socialism. Since the seventies, the Communists are the hotbed of identity politics including feminist, LGBT liberation and multicultural thought.
  • The modern-day parties of Americuba, from right to left, are:
    • Liberty Party USA: the merger of the nationalist America First and the objectivist party Liberty America and the party furthest to the right in Americuban politics. They are more conservative then other objectivist parties around the world, arguing that their ideology was intended by the founding fathers from the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and seek open conflict with the United Republics. They have recently fallen in popularity following Donald Trump's outing as a Rhodesian mole, with many calling for the LPUSA to be banned from congress.
    • National Party/Partido Nacional: The biggest conservative party in Americuba and the ideological remnants of MacArthur's National Salvation Front. They're the biggest force declaring Americuba as the legitimate American government and seek to contain communism wherever it rises. However, the party has become more moderate in recent years and finally accepted Cubans as an important part of the nation.
    • Christian Democracy/Democracia Christiana: A union of Christians that reject both capitalism and the atheistic model of communism in favour of a distributist economy and promoting "Christian values" in Americuba. While mostly Catholic, the party also accepts like-minded Protestant and Orthodox Christians.
    • Democratic-Republican Party/Partido democrático-republicano: Not to be confused with the American party of the same name. The Democratic-Republicans, formed from exiles from both the Republicans and the Democrats are liberal centrists who hold true to their vision of pre-revolution American democracy and seek to maintain it in Americuba.
    • Progressive Party of Cuba/Partido Progresista de Cuba: The currently-reigning party in Americuban congress and a centrist party that, as the name suggests, promotes socially progressive policies. They practice "binationalism", treating both the native Cubans and the American exiles as equally part of the same nation, with the eventual goal of renouncing all claims of being the true America.
    • Cuban Party/Partido Cubana: A Cuban nationalist party that, much like the Progressives, seeks to renounce claims of being the United States on account of viewing the American exiles as illegally occupying the island and the Cuban people. Due to their ambivalence towards the ideological conflict between the TCI and AFS, the government has threatened to dissolve them by force several times, though they survived every time due to being infested with NBI members (who may have come to legitimately believe the party's ideology.) They also get along surprisingly well with the Christian Democrats.
    • Cuban Section of the Communist International/Sección Cubana de la Internacional Comunista: formerly known as the Cuban Communist Party. The CSCI are the biggest communist organisation in Americuba and the official arm of the Comintern in the country. Despite having been banned in the country almost as soon as the exiles arrived, they have only grown in popularity, gaining support from younger Cubans. However, they have also allied themselves with elements of Americuba's criminal underworld, though refrain from violent acts themselves in most cases.
  • In the present day, the Australasian major parties, from the political right to left, are:
    • Oceania Forever!: the biggest far-right party in Australasia, formed in 1980 following the outbreak of the Indonesian War. OF are a party of xenophobic war hawks who are a little too eager to use nuclear bombs at best and fascist terrorists allowed to sit in parliament at worst. They constantly push for increases in military spending way beyond what's economically feasible for the country. Perhaps their most horrifying proposal is the Red-Cleanser Bill that would would allow the state to execute every Anarchist and Communist for treason without trial.
    • Australasian Liberty League: a cadet branch of Liberty created in 1995, and just as Objectivist as the main branch. What sets the Liberty League apart from its main FBU branch is its radical secularist policy toward religion (while also targeting Aboriginal and Māori culture in the process), their promotion of PMCs as an alternative to both the police and military and the League's rise being predicated on broadband companies in the mid-90's.
    • National Solidarity Party: the biggest and oldest right-wing party in Australasia, as well as the reigning party in parliament, formed in 1950 from the merger of the Country Party, the right-wing of the Labor Party and conservative refugees from China, Nippon and Chosun creating a party styled much like the right-wing of the Kuomintang. They promote state-capitalist economic policies alongside socially conservative mores in an attempt to portray themselves as "the true working class" much like the People's Alliance.
    • Australasian Liberal Party: the main opposition party and the centrists of Australasian politics. The Liberal Party are... well, liberals. They promote market policies with a limited welfare state as well as mild socially-progressive politics.
    • Green-Progressive Party of Oceania: a coalition of the Australasian Greens and the Australasian Progressive Party, both of whom split from the right wing of the ASCI following its banning at the beginning of the Indonesian War based on the issue of climate change and not being unable to make any significant change. They are the 3rd and 4th biggest parties in Australasia (respectively), and make up the largest left-wing bloc in the country.
    • Revolutionary Democratic Party: another splinter of the ASCI after their spiral into Bolshevik-Leninism. The Revolutionary Democrats have taken on a more Austromarxist position, believing that nationalism and class-consciousness can coexist. While affiliated with the Comintern, they wish to remain their own movement.
    • Australasian Section of the Communist International: the official wing of the Comintern in Australasia. Following their ban in 1979 after supporting Nusantara in the Indonesian War, the party bled most of its membership from a combination of the ban and other factors. This caused the ASCI to spiral into a borderline-reactionary stance of Bolshevik-Leninism, claiming to be "the only real communists" and begin fading into obscurity.
  • In the Republic of Palestine, the nation is dominated by the Democratic Liberation Front (DLF), which is a coalition of six parties that are largely similar except for minor points, with the only legal opposition being the Palestine Communist Party which believes that the DLF is not radical enough and moderate parties like the Islamic Democrats and General Zionists. You can see the greater detail of the parties here.
• Fictional United Nations: Two examples. In lieu of a singular global United Nations, the Third Communist International and the Alliance of Free States serve as equivalents in the communist and capitalist bloc respectively after the post-WWII split between the two of the United Nations alliance.
  • The Comintern zig-zags this trope due to having UN-style agencies like a culture organization, a labor organization, a health organization etc. but also having its scope being expanded by the Treaty of Leningrad, being a military alliance between socialist states as a large trade pact.
• Final Battle: The Battle of Washington D.C. is not the last battle of the Second American Civil War but the liberation of the city by the Reds marks the end for any hope of victory for MacArthur and the Whites, who decide to evacuate to Cuba as they are realize they will lose the city.
• Final Solution: The Nazis go even further than OTL with their genocidal plans with the Holocaust being extended to countries like Spain and Sweden due to them joining the Axis. The expansion of the Holocaust also inspires other genocides being carried out by regimes aligned with the Axis:
  • Integralist Brazil has its own extermination program inspired by the Nazis and is responsible for the Lavender Holocaust, specifically targeting LGBT peoples.
  • Turanist Turkey plans to remove Greeks and Armenians akin to the OTL Armenian genocide. The Turkish leadership explicitely talks of an "Armenian Question".
• First-Person Smartass: Jane Schafer tells her own story this way.
• Flash Forward: Each parts of Reds! begins with a flash forward.
  • The Prologue centers on the testimony of Marius Gracchus during the trial of General George Marshall after the Red May Revolution in 1933 while the timeline itself starts in 1897.
• Flock of Wolves: In the attempt to monitor and disrupt the True Democrat party back when it was still a party of Evil Reactionaries, the UASR government initiated a large scale infiltration of the organisation with undercover agents and recruitment of informants amongst its members. As a result, this happened quite a lot, even to the point of farce. In one particularly infamous example, it turned out that the True Democrats' local chapter in Monroe, Louisiana was made up entirely of a combination of undercover agents and paid informants from respectively StateSec, the Louisiana Red Guards, and the local parish militia.
• Foil:
  • The UASR's democratic character contrasts sharply with the Soviet Union under Stalin.
  • Also counts as an Allohistorical Allusion, Barry Goldwater becomes this to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Both act like prisoner dissidents in communist countries who became prominent figures in exile, known for their literary work and uncompromising attitude against socialist regimes, but while Solzhenitsyn criticized the West for moral decay and turning away from Christian values during his later years, Goldwater becomes opposed to the socially regressive politics of the Alliance of Free States.
• Four-Star Badass: Many. Among them George Patton, Smedley Butler, Harry Haywood, Mikhail Frunze, Georgy Zhukov, Bernard Montgomery and George Catroux.
• Frame-Up: José Antonio Primo de Rivera was assassinated in 1937 in his home in Madrid. The Spanish State claimed a CNT militant was responsible, however it is much more likely he was killed by members of his own party (the Falange Española) since he had become alienated from it and was killed just after the Nationalists took Madrid.
• Framing Device: The timeline is generally told through in-universe documents, but also through glimpses of discussion by board members of the alternate world's AH.com.
• Full-Circle Revolution: Reds! is one of the first major alternate history work to present a communist revolution averting this trope and successfully creating a democratic state.
  • Played straight with the USSR until Stalin's death and Frunze's Benevolent Conspiracy bring the country closer to the original vision of the October Revolution and the UASR model.
• The Fundamentalist: The Integralists, with the Boaventura siblings and the Green Guard as even more extreme examples, are ultracatholic extremists who believe leftists, Homosexuals, Jews and Atheists deserve to be put to death and are more than willing to act on their beliefs once in power (and possibly even before that).

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• Gas Mask Mooks: The troops of the Brazilian Green Guard often wore gas mask for psychological effect and to protect themselves from the smoke of their flamethrowers.
• Gender Is No Object: The UASR actively promotes greater gender equality in the workplace and jobs, including the military.
• General Failure: Stalin's meddling in military operations early in WWII proves multiple times disastrous for the Soviet Red Army.
• The Generalissimo:
  • José Sanjurjo uses this exact title as the military dictator of Spain.
  • Jiang Jieshi holds this military title after the death of Sun Yat-sen and fully embodies this trope after he defects to Japan and becomes the leader of its Chinese puppet state.
  • The Maréchal Pétain as leader of the French State.
• Going Native: Downplayed. During WWI the United States Armed Forces drastically change their doctrines to adapt themselves to modern warfare and the terrains they fight on by taking inspiration from both allies and enemies. The Marines and their commander Smedley Butler are the most notable example, learning from both Turkish foes and Arab allies as they fight in the Middle East.

  Ernest Hemingway: "The Army is Franco-German, the Navy is British, and the Marines are all Turks."

• Gone Horribly Right: For the United Kingdom and France the prospect of the German Reich destroying the Soviet Union instead of attacking them is seen as wholly beneficial and is why they didn't stop the Reich when it invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and even traded with it. However, after the initial success of the German invasion of the USSR they begin to panic when they realize that it would pave the way for German domination of Europe and that they would be their next victim.
• Good Is Not Soft: The United Republics are a nation of people devoted to social equality and individual liberty. But their early history is marked by political repression, including kangaroo courts and summary executions against a junta that tried to destroy American democracy, and government surveillance and suppression against those sympathetic to the pre-Civil War regime. World War II is described as having been even bloodier, and even though how much of the carnage was produced by the army of the UASR has not been specified, it's clear that they put up one hell of a fight.
  • It is evident that the parts of the United Republics government view themselves as such, with some of its founding members having witnessed events such as the domestic capitalist elite being willing to sacrifice American democracy on the pyre of profit and then afterwards cynically collaborate with the very same fascists who staged some of the worst atrocities in human history, means that Captalism, in any its forms, will always be inherently abhorrent, and as such the desire to fight it by spreading the World Revolution is in turn inherently morally justified, and that sometimes dirty means must used in this fight. This worldview, and the consequence that stem from it, is often examined and even criticized in-universe.
• Good Shepherd: Norman Thomas is a Presbyterian minister and a genuine reformer who seeks to unite the disparate factions of his political side behind a common program.
• Government in Exile:
  • After losing the civil war, Douglas MacArthur establishes one in Cuba with himself as President for Life.
  • Bolivian leftists create a government in exile in Comintern-aligned South America after fleeing their country.
  • A group of dissident parties of the Second Polish Republic (composed of the Polish Socialist Party, the Polish Communist Party, the German Socialist Labour Party of Poland, and the General Jewish Labor Bund) forms a government in exile in America named the National Liberation Front after the conquest of Poland by Germany.
  • V.D. Savarkar, A.K. Mukherji and Savitri Devi create the Japanese-aligned Provisional Government of Free India (Arzi Hakumat-e-Azad Bharat) in Tokyo.
  • The government of the Spanish Free Soviet Republic is forced into exile in the Canary Islands after the conquest of their territory by the Franco-Spanish Axis forces.
  • The government of the Kingdom of Greece is exiled to the island of Crete after the victory of the communists on the mainland in the Greek Civil War.
• Government Procedural: The story focuses on the American government, first on both the United States government dealing with a radicalized labor movement and the often futile attempts by progressives to implement necessary reforms, and the rise to power of the American socialist movement. After the Second American Civil War, it focuses on the United Republics' government attempts to implement socialism and the war against the Axis Powers and later the Cold War with the Alliance of Free States.
  • One of the most notable aspects is that progressives pass a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage earlier and transform America into a semi-presidential system similar to those in the United Kingdom and other European nations. The head of government is the First Secretary elected by the House of Representatives who is given authority over the Executive Cabinet while the President sees his power reduced but keeping a primacy on foreign affairs.
  • Several entries in the timeline are dedicated to explaining how the institutions of the UASR are organized and function^note even making a flowchart◊, and presenting its constitutional documents.
• Grey-and-Grey Morality:
  • Before the Revolution there was a revolving door between America's criminal underclass and the revolutionary Workers' Party as a result of government suppression targeting both and the lack of political inclination from organized crime beyond their cashflows. This partnership would end with the Revolution but would provide an avenue for many former criminals to "go legit" while organized crime pivoted to working with reactionary groups and suffered the might of the workers' state for it.
  • Implied to be the situation between the powers in the modern day, although the Communist side remains portrayed as the better one; the former colonial powers remain imperialistic and ruthlessly capitalistic, but are suggested to have had to liberalise how they treat their colonial subjects in order to avoid mass socialist uprisings, and are not nearly as fascistic as the Cold War propaganda of the Comintern would depict them. The United Republics is in many ways a socialist workers' paradise and the other Communist states like the Soviet Union have successfully democratized but they are suggested to have done nasty things during the Cold War.
• Groin Attack:
  • Theodore G. Bilbo, former governor of Mississippi, enthusiastic Ku Klux Klan member, and supporter of the National Salvation Front's coup, gets shot in the groin in 1933 when a group of red partisans ambushes a political rally where he is holding a speech. Bilbo is then captured and imprisoned, but his injury leads to him being confined to the prison infirmary at Alcatraz rather than a cell.
  • Wang Jingwei, Premier of the Republic of China prior to and during the early stages of World War II, gets shot in the groin in 1940 during an Assassination Attempt against him orchestrated by Dai Li. The injury forces Jingwei to go on medical leave, leaving his position to get usurped by Zhou Enlai.
• Gunboat Diplomacy: The recently-founded UASR employs this against Liberia to keep its supply of rubber.

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