Re: Russia in Ill Bethisad

--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote:

> Well, before launching any wild ideas, I should
> first re-read carefully what
> exactly happened in Ill Bethisad during World War I.
We just had a thread on the Great War a while back.
Did you catch it?

> To be honest, I know quite little about it.
It's mostly a continuation of the Amazing Neverending
Eurowar (whose previous chapter was the
Franco-Prussian War).

Germany never had a Weimar Republic (as I understand
it); and it didn't really lose the Great War (it was
something of a stalemate) so there was no Versailles,
no Nazi Third Reich, etc.

Similarly, the Second War was no more than a
continuation of the Great War. I'm not exactly sure
what ended this war, but Germany had the Bomb, and
apparently used it.

> I know that the Austro-Hungarian
> Monarchy existed, but I have
> (for example) no idea what the situation was like in
> Germany; all I know is
> that there are two Germanies (according to the
> currency site).
Ah, now! Don't let that fool you... Germany is one
country; there are two monetary unions within the
country, based on old "zones" where certain monetary
denominations were common. The situation comes from
the time when each state issued its own money, and
relative value and denomination varied from one
location to the next. Germany *there* had its own
monetary convention which came up with the two zone
scheme they've got. Each zone is a sort of "average"
of local denominations.

Same goes with Italy, by the way.

> In general, I would say that the great turning point
> in Russian history is
> 1917, and not 1905. Plenty of possibilities. I'll
> think about the matter and
> post tomorrow, because it's really getting late
> here...
Good! We look forward to it!

Padraic.


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il dunar-li c' argeont ayn politig;
     celist il pozponer le mbutheor ayn backun gras.

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