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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 1784425" data-attributes="member: 22882">Considering the kind of culture Austria had prior to WW1, I have trouble seeing it as "grim and brooding" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> If anything, Austria-Hungary (Vienna and the heartland of Austria) would be more prone to Polyannaism than an excess of grimness.Now, the outlying regions were prone to some of the first modern, nationally sponsored terrorist activity.  The problems there could lend a grimness to the country as a whole, but the government in Vienna is more likely to continue cheerily along, downplaying and ignoring as much of the problem as it can, than it is to face it with dour resolve.  Much to the frustration of its German ally-neighbors.Speaking of those original state-sponsored terrorists... what event triggered WW1 in your world, if not the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by Serbian nationalists?  Because with more than half of France in German hands, I can't see Serbia still existing as a separate country if it triggered the war.  Just something you might want to change on your map.Russia entered WW1 to protect Serbia, its close ally.  Assuming that the nations south of Austria-Hungary survive as independent entities, they're probably still under Russian protection.  In the RUS scenario, they would have probably incorporated into the Russian commonwealth over the course of the century.P.S. I still can't see Rasputin as undead. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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