Good Soviet Cold War victory TLs?
- Thread starter Krasno
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Have you read Red Army by Ralph Peters? I found it a good book & fulfils your criteria.
I mean its common in alternate history maps but in terms of actual timelines its extremely uncommon.
Why is that? It’s definitely far less unlikely than the MULTIPLE Nazi victory scenarios- and there’s so much room for interesting concepts and events to happen during the Cold War. Feels like wasted potential, honestly.
For starters most Alternate History Nazi Victory scenarios are also mostly maps, but are also made with a sort of message in minds since most of the time they tend to hyperfocus on destroying/humiliating the Nazis ignoring most potential changes worldwide, while for the most part making the US ultra-progressive state. I would say timelines dealing with Nazi victory that are not just that and put focus on the changes world wide are few and far between. This is just the alternate history timelines which attempt to tell an alternate history timeline since most are just excuses to have a convenient enemy or dystopia with no real attempts at realism anyways.
The Soviets have the problem of both being far less exotic than the Nazis, less cool, and frankly more real which leaves less room to push fantasy especially since the Soviets actually fell OTL leaving people less likely to believe they wold succeed in the Cold War.
Well someone did make an elaborately detailed scenario in google docs of a possible Soviet Cold War victory and even included the potential aftermath of having the Soviets remaining as the sole superpower nation in the early 21st century.
The docs was made by a viewer for a alt-history YouTube channel.
Here is the link to the doc, appropriately named Pax Sovietica
Pax Sovietica
docs.google.com
If you don't want to read the entire thing you can instead just watch the 30 minute explaining the TL, the video however ONLY covers the edited version that can be found on page 44 in the Docs (yes the full version is 44 pages long), it is shortened down and simplified for the viewer experience and to prevent the video from being hours long.
Not quite a full-scale Soviet Victory but I really liked this timeline: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...rn-capitalism-and-the-second-cold-war.422119/