Weird alt-world map from 1942
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 1:53 pm
Found this on Twitter; it was made in 1942 by one Maurice Gomberg as a personal project.
![Image](https://i.redd.it/3y2itwh0uuk11.jpg)
On the one hand, for a map designed in the early years of the war, it's not shabby as a prediction for ~ 1960:
-- the USSR is correctly shown as taking over East Europe
-- decolonization in India, SE Asia, and Africa
-- Israel (amusingly named Hebrewland)
Of course, every detail beyond that is wrong, baffling, or perverse. (Some of it is explained in the verbiage below the map, which in the interests of 'peace' proposed demilitarizing everyone except the US, UK, and USSR, ethnically cleaning Japanese from the Western Hemisphere, and preventing immigration of Germans and Italians. Oh, and nationalization of resources and major industries.)
So many weird little details— why does the US get Hainan and the Celebes? Why does the UK lose its empire but gets most of Indonesia? But these are typical of the conworlder who knows maps more than history...
![Image](https://i.redd.it/3y2itwh0uuk11.jpg)
On the one hand, for a map designed in the early years of the war, it's not shabby as a prediction for ~ 1960:
-- the USSR is correctly shown as taking over East Europe
-- decolonization in India, SE Asia, and Africa
-- Israel (amusingly named Hebrewland)
Of course, every detail beyond that is wrong, baffling, or perverse. (Some of it is explained in the verbiage below the map, which in the interests of 'peace' proposed demilitarizing everyone except the US, UK, and USSR, ethnically cleaning Japanese from the Western Hemisphere, and preventing immigration of Germans and Italians. Oh, and nationalization of resources and major industries.)
So many weird little details— why does the US get Hainan and the Celebes? Why does the UK lose its empire but gets most of Indonesia? But these are typical of the conworlder who knows maps more than history...