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From what I remember it is, albeit very short (only a few pages long IIRC). It's one of those old short stories published in magazines.
From what I've heard his writing isn't as chuddy as it sounds (the short story I mentioned is the only bit of I've actually read), for all that it was a huge inspiration to chuds, but it is very much

, yes.
Alternate history tends to attract/create two types of writers: outright chuds, and New Deal liberals who combine a basically progressive outlook with American exceptionalism and unexamined conservative assumptions. Turtledove is one of the latter.