A Soviet Victory in the Cold War

It's hard to say

One thing I know is that america would end up being a horrible facist bunker nation....

oh wait...:eek:

:p never mind
 
yeah, hard to say, the word "victory" is widely open to interpretation here, so a soviet victory in the cold war could look like any number of things.
 
Heres what I'm thinking

To keep with realism, lets say this coldwar lasts until about the year 2000.
What happened to the soviet union after the cold war partially happened because there were many ethnic groups demanding independence.

In america there are not many people advocating seccession (well there is Rick Perry Governor of Texas), so most likely the union would remain together.

The soviets had to sell off and dismantal many of their nukes. It is likely that america would sell some of its nukes to countries like Canada,Mexico and maybe Japan. Brazil?

It is likely that if america lost the cold war its economy would experience some sort of crash. Hell, americas economy right now being hollowed out by corruption and greed. Not to mention america's economy right now is very weak and could at any moment could take that perverbial jump off the cliff.

During Gorbachev's time in power the soviet military was cut by percentages such as 50%. Not to say that russia was completely defensless, but it was pretty weak. For a while america whould slash military spending by similar amountd just to keep the economy afloat. There would still be a military, but think more along the lines of less than one million soldiers, several aicraft carriers probally are sold to remaining allies or they are sold for scrap. This america could intervene in its neighboring countries, but the most i could see for a while would be small border schirmishes with cross border bandits.
 
For this to work, you have to have a perfect storm in the United States.

(1) Isolationism returns in the postwar United States. This means that either Henry Wallace becomes POTUS on April 12, 1945, or Truman does, and then loses re-election to Bob Taft in 1948. Regardless of what happens, you have no Marshall Plan and no NATO.

(2) As a result, Western Europe falls to the Soviet Union. Germany is united as the German Democratic Republic, Italian elections in 1948 bring the Communists to power, leaving only Britain and France standing against the Soviet threat. By 1968, however, a student and workers revolt in France establishes the People's Republic of France. The United Kingdom is alone in a sea of 'Red' European regimes, as Portugal's Carnation Revolution leads to the installation of a communist government there as well. Spain and Britain, along with the Nordic countries, hold out and form an anti-Communist alliance, though there's no telling how long it will actually hold up in the face of expanding Communist influence and a lack of interest on the part of the United States.

(3) In Asia, the PRC invades and deposes the ROC on Taiwan, uniting China fully under the red banner. North Korea defeats South Korea and establishes a united DPRK, and Japan, which has been split like Germany was after the war, is governed by a communist North and a authoritarian South. The North eventually defeats the South following a general war, repeating patterns seen in Korea and in Viet Nam. India aligns with the Soviet Union openly, as does Israel, as a buffer against Arab aggression.

(4) African colonial regimes are largely replaced by Soviet satellite regimes. In South Africa, a bloody uprising deposes Apartheid in the early nineties, installing instead a communist state there.

(5) The rest of Europe finds itself under siege as well. Labor unrest in Britain leads to a general strike and a worker's revolution in the seventies, deposing the Queen and installing the People's Republic of Britain. With the death of Franco, a second Spanish Civil War occurs, with communist forces succeeding outright, establishing the Third Spanish Republic.

(6) Latin America quickly becomes a hotbed of communism as pro-American regimes are deposed by communist regimes. Cuba and Chile are especially of note here, as is the People's Republic of Brazil. Economic unrest in Mexico leads to a peasant revolt in the late eighties which will eventually topple the Mexican government in the nineties, leading to the establishment of the 'People's Republic of Mexico' under Subcomandante Marcos.

(7) As a result of all of these changes, the United States has, by 1989, become a paranoid fascist state. Student unrest in the late sixties lead to draconian anti-communist laws being passed and eventually, most Americans just gave up on waiting for elections that never came. However, a general strike in 1989, provoked by American communists, did shake the existing government enough to begin reforms. By 1991 however, it was clear that reforms would not work and the nation split apart, with various communist regimes replacing whatever was left of the United States by the early 2000s.
 
Grey.





That's about it.

Agreed.

Just compare West Germany to East Germany.




Now details could vary though. You could have a hundred differant Soviet Victory TLs.

BUt by and large you would have more nations will less freedom and prosperity.


Oh, and the US would survive in most of them. The US is not, as the SOviet Union was, a multi=ethnic empire.
 
Let's see if I can't dig up that map...

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I think the Soviet union following the Chinese way and becoming an economic superpower and never partitioning should be considered a victory.
 
I think the map is plausible but it requires some more changes to the 1945-75 period, particularly in the Soviet political state.
 
I think the map is plausible but it requires some more changes to the 1945-75 period, particularly in the Soviet political state.

I wanted the latest POD I could think of that realistically could have allowed for a successful, non-military Soviet victory: the failure of the US' civil rights act.
 
You'd probably need a better replacement for Brezhnev, IMO. He wasn't a very good leader.
 
Yeah, the whole "Virgin Lands" Campaign was basically an economic and agricultural Epic Fail. I don't have a source handy, but I'm pretty certain that program's failure was responsible for making the USSR a net food *Importer*, which was bad news all around.
 
Yeah, the whole "Virgin Lands" Campaign was basically an economic and agricultural Epic Fail. I don't have a source handy, but I'm pretty certain that program's failure was responsible for making the USSR a net food *Importer*, which was bad news all around.

Yup. It pretty much devastated areas in Kazakstan and in few years nothing grew there anymore. Khurchev also wanted to encourage maize farming and in Russian climate that didn't just work at all. Private plots (which were very important for food production in the USSR) were also made smaller in kolkhozes which then led to overall smaller agricultural production.
 
I think that by just solving Soviet agricultural problems their situation would have become much better. Creating more Private plots and stopping following lysenkoism earlier would help a lot.

More agricultural products + wealthier peasants = more money to the state to use to other things + more support from rural population

It would have increased their prestige a lot if they didn't have to buy their grain from the US as in OTL.
 
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