Fantastic Worlds - AH - "The League of Nations Triumphant!" (2001, 2012) by Jordan Bassior

[jordan179]

"The League of Nations Triumphant!"

An Alternate History

(c) 2001, 2012

by

Jordan S. Bassior

Introduction:

This timeline is taken to 1964, and it details a world in which the League of Nations was an effective organization and, as a result, there was no global Second World War. The League of Nations dominates the world of 1964, though it is challenged by

Comments

[mrmeval]

I was so F*kg bored I now have a headache from slamming my head against the table. I would *love* to live there. However I would prefer to read how Hitler manages to die from autoerotic asphyxiation and saner *ahem* heads take over their war and America has it's back up against the wall until they develop the Q bomb....

[jordan179]

Um ... ok ... :)

[mrmeval]

;)

[mrbirthday]

A decent read, but there was a bit too much copy/pasting from real history for my liking. I.E., quotes being taken from real history despite their different circumstances. (In-jokes, I know, but they still rubbed me the wrong way.) What really struck me as too unbelievable is Khrushchev basically doing what Yeltsin did in real history. Now, while I see Khrushchev as having been essentially a Soviet politician rather than someone of Lenin or Stalin's stamp, this kind of lost me. Mostly, I find myself doubting that Khrushchev had the guts to do something like that.

[jordan179]

"The times make the man." In this ATL I assume that Nikiti Krushchev found himself in a position where the best political approach was to get out in front and help lead a revolt against Stalin which seemed extremely likely to succeed, given both the extent of the rising within the Soviet Union and the degree of the global hostility toward Stalin's coninued rule.

The real Krushchev was certainly a ruthless political apparatchik -- like all of Stalin's officials he was responsible for the deaths of countless innnocents -- but I never heard anything to indicate that he was a coward. Jumping on the armored car to harrangue the military, under the cirumstances (wavering political loyalties amongst the troops) was a calculated risk, and I'm assuming that Krushchev ran it for exactly the same reasons that in OTL did Yeltsin in 1991

[polaris93]

A thoroughly enjoyable glimpse into an alterate Earth. If only . . .