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''Reds!'' is an [[Alternate History]] ongoing series being published at [[
The first depicts an alternate history in which President [[William McKinley]] was not assassinated, and in the resulting political climate (which marginalized Progressive reformers due to [[Theodore Roosevelt]] never becoming president), socialism becomes much more popular in the United States (additionally, several important schisms that occurred in the socialist movement in our timeline did not occur in this one). After a much more brutal [[World War
The first thread in the series, chronicling the events up to the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics' government, can be found [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=122672 here], and the second, chronicling post-Revolution events, can be found [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=148698 here]. The scenario is in the process of being rewritten and the rewrites of the first part of the timeline can be found [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=168330 here]. A collection of the canonical materials of the universe, which lacks the copious in-thread commentary from both the creators and other participants but probably makes for much easier reading, has also been compiled [http://fools-gold.org/aaron/reds here], but it is currently over a year out of date.
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* [[Allohistorical Allusion]]: has been used liberally
* [[Alternate History]]: Complete with excerpts of the universe's [[
* [[Author Avatar]]: [[Word of God]] says the in-universe discussion board character "flibbertygibbet" most closely represents one of the authors' (Jello_Biafra) views.
* [[Ayn Rand]]: This world is 100 percent guaranteed to make her squirm. After self-imposed exile from her adopted country, her work has become decidedly more dystopian than it would have been and, if possible, even ''more'' politically extremist.
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