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No Motherland Without. Kim Yo-jong, Mother of the Nation and of Propaganda

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  North Korean: Carlo Alberto Magnani. Western: Alex Isabelle. The events of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, aka North Korea, begin already in the aftermath of the Second World War. It will take about five years for the problems that began as a simple territorial division between the Soviet Union and the United States, and then finally exploded with the inconclusive Korean War, to crystallize in the form we know well: two states, divided by the most militarized border in the world and by a military truce that has been questioned several times. North of the 38th parallel, which divides the two Koreas with glacial precision, the Kim dynasty takes power, in the person of the military leader Kim Il-sung, who finds himself with a poor, wounded and extremely underdeveloped country. Will the discipline of Juche be able to guide North Korea through the waves of history? The game opens with the news that, of the three main population centers in the country, two are without electr...
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Cthulhu Wars. The Cuban exodus, the escape from the Moon and the collapse of reality

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Bubastis: Alex Isabelle Crawling Chaos: Luca Giannini Sleeper: Davide Guglielmi Somewhere in the world a game of Arkham Horror , one of Mansions of Madness and another of Mythos Tales end badly. The cult of the Sleeper of N'kai, also known as Tsathoggua, flourishes in Arkham and spreads throughout North America, while that of the Crawling Chaos, Nyarlathotep, explodes in China. This alarms the population of Earth cats, who go to council on the Moon to decide what to do. With all due respect to Randolph Carter, Doctor Armitage, and the other humans who have tried in vain to prevent the coming of these nightmarish creatures, the situation is now out of control and the future of the Earth is sealed: all that awaits us is open war between these two cults and the cats to decide the fate of the planet. A late premise: the writer takes great pride in having theorized, five years ago, that the long story in which the "space cats" debuted, namely The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadat...
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The Mission. On the Copts and their natural tendency towards heresy (part 6 of 6)

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  The entry of Islam , in the form of a violent wind of change that blew from the Middle East towards all the borders of the known world, devastated the Roman Empire, reducing it to a small colony in the Peloponnese. Only the tiny kingdom of Odo I of Aquitaine, later annexed by the Saxons, managed to slow down their advance in mid-Europe, while the kingdoms of Nubia are the only ones who found a diplomatic agreement with the jihadists, formalizing the Baqt, a slave trade that blocked the spread of the revolution along what, for me, is the Coptic branch of Christianity. As for the pagan peoples, the Turks were relegated to the point of disappearing from the map, while the Vandals were replaced by the Berbers, themselves Muslims. It's going badly, in short, but we are now at the end of a thousand-year journey. Christianity has survived so far, but still has to wait a few centuries before the coming of the Crusades, the final climax in which the state of the Mission in the world will ...
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The Mission. On the Copts and their natural tendency towards heresy (part 5 of 6)

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  The Roman Empire faltered, under the pressure of a horde of barbarian populations who have sacked Rome, ruined the title of Emperor, and significantly reduced the imperial borders. Strong support, both economic and factual, from Christians to the Roman cause, however, managed to stem the damage both in Mauretania Tingitana, where the Vandals still can't surpass the border, and in Ethiopia, where the Himyar clans, despite an initial advance, were driven back into the desert by the Nubian kingdoms. We must not forget, in fact, that in this game, starting from the advent of Constantius II and up to the coming of Gregory the Great , Christianity was a warring religion, which did not disdain the use of weapons in order to protect its own doctrine. It is not certain that such weapons will prove capable of defeating the next incoming enemy, however, as this time Christianity will face a threat coming from within: a new Abrahamic religion is in fact spreading, once again, from the Middl...
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