AQATWW: Chapter Sixty-Six- The World Is Not Right

[inverarity]

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A fitting end

[wodcdre]

Well i must say that this ending was better than i had hoped for. Finally, a bit of resolution, finality, and still trouble to come. I will admit, like other fans of this series....it seems that end is coming sooner rather than later. After year 7....i will be one of the first to admit that i will be sad that after the final chapter of year 7, there will be no more alexandra quick books to read. All great works must come to an end, but this will be the 3rd time that I will mourn the loss of a classic. I can always re-read them or have them put into a hardback form to read later and pass them on to my kids when they need a good distraction from this terrible world. Ive rather grown quite attached to many of the characters in this series and will miss them when its all said and done

Congratulations!

[max_sinister]

You've done it! Now I'm curious for the Author's Notes.

Re: Congratulations!

[max_sinister]

PS: Quickipedia updated. The word count is now already over 1.5 millions!

When civil wars end

[fpbarbieri]

You have clearly studied the issues that occur at the end of a civil war or when a constitutional settlement is overthrown. In our country we had a situation like that at the end of the second world war; made more complicated by the fact that, as with Medea and the Dark Convention, some of the liberators were hardly better than the monsters they overthrew. About half the Italian partisan army was Communist, and these were the real thing, who took their orders straight from Stalin. Their designated leader, Palmiro Togliatti, had been one of the most servile and swinish of Stalin's bureaucratic henchmen before the war. From a couple of my answers on Quora

Re: When civil wars end

[fpbarbieri]

But at the end of the day, Fascism was not properly eradicated. There was barely any effort. A few thousand hardliners left for Argentina, and the rest of the veterans of the puppet Fascist regime of 1943-45, and millions of party members from the previous twenty years, just settled down under the new democratic government. After Togliatti's amnesty, most of those who had served Mussolini went on to work for the Republic. Some of them did well, others were scum. There even was a small legacy Fascist party, tolerated for the sake of civil peace, from which eventually Giorgia Meloni's party sprang up

Re: When civil wars end

[max_sinister]

That's all a very interesting topic, but is this here the right place to talk about it? Inverarity is a very good fanfic writer, but not the man who has the power to repair what's broken in Italy.

And I'm saying that as someone who isn't a fan of "comrade" Stalin either. (In some alt-historical text I'm working on, I have one character comment: "People tawking about how great Stalin was 'defending his country' just don't get it. He wasn't! The first days after Barbarossa started, he sat around uselessly in his Dacha, crying like a lovesick finicchio 'How could Adolf hurt me like that!' And when he finally got around leading a war as he was supposed to: His fans don't get that they have to wonder what anyone else in his position would have done. Do they believe that any other leader of Russia but Stalin would have dropped over and surrendered the moment the first Wehrmacht soldier crossed the border?")

Back to your text: Which sources are you using?

Re: When civil wars end

[ext_6259248]

I am a historian. I have hundreds of sources, plus the stuff I know from my own experience; I am 62 and I lived most of my life in Italy. I met people who served under Mussolini, people who knew the bastard, and people who were still faithful to his memory and thought that was a honourable thing.

As for the purpose of these comments, it was just to show how what Inverarity imagined for his wizarding America really does reflect what happens, time and again, in actual history. I saw it happen among white South Africans in 1994, and among Russians three years earlier. But my country is what I know best, of course.