I'm afraid that the earlier end of the communist dictatorships is offset by the generally more brutal character of the Soviet and Soviet aligned regimes than they were OTL - the nuclear bombardment of Warsaw, the Second Holocaust, the much shorter and more indecisive Thaw that ended with a deeper relapse into Stalinism, the civil war that accompanied the regime's demise - all in all, I think that ITTL the Eastern Bloc ended in the early 70s much worse off than it did OTL in the late 80s-early 90s, and the prospects of its recovery look rather dim.
The Footprint of Mussolini - TL
Stalin already was antisemitic IOTL, and ITTL he was paranoid that the victory of Mussolini's fascist Italy in WWII was somehow linked to the Jews. So, during the late 40s until his death, Stalin threw all Jews into the gulags. When he died and the news broke internationally, the Soviets basically became a pariah
Zagan
Donor
That is not correct. I lived under the boot of the Communist dictatorship and I believe I know what I am talking about.
By far the greatest crime of the Communists was the perversion of the spirit of the people and not the destruction of the economy or the oppression and even murder of random people no matter how horrific that was. No, with a healthy population, a country can quickly rebound, both economically and demographically and the scars of the past can be slowly forgotten. But with a population whose healthy instincts have been systematically destroyed and perverted, the recovery becomes much harder or even impossible.
You may be already wondering what the Hell am I rambling about here. Well, I'll explain. The catastrophic Communist rule changed the very mentality of the people. They encouraged and promoted continuously, during two generations, everything that is bad and counter-productive: lies, theft, lazyness, corruption, profiteering, turning other people in to the political police, waiting to receive everything from the government instead of trying to achieve something with one's own forces, etc. It was a demonic regime which turned many people into its own liking, making them unable to be productive citizens of a normal country. And we are still suffering the ill effects of that disaster today, thirty years after our liberation. If the liberation were to come earlier, the proportion of normal people, not affected by the disease promoted by the regime, would have been much larger.
And the Second Holocaust was but the most infamous part of the Second Great Purge.
Wait til you heard about the third one the UAR tried to do.
Little grasshopper, you still have too much horror to read, let us know when you finish.
I can hear my high school and college teachers saying "n0, dAt wAsn'T rEal ZoziAlizm"
I mean, if it's worse than OTL's ECW, then Ethiopia's probably lost a shit ton more people and is even worse off than when the TPLF/EPRDF took power in 1991. It also makes you wonder what's happened with men like Tafari Benti, Aman Andom, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Meles Zenawi, and others ITTL. Perhaps they're either co-opted or resisting?
I think the Roman Alliance would give racialism a new lease on life, in the form of Mediterrean Supremacy/Latin Racialism rather than Nordicism. Nazi ideologues have no reason not to go full Nordicist during the war ITTL, so Southern European racialism would be a plausible triumphalist response to their victory in WW2. This "race that builds Empires" might be defined as Latin or Mediterranean race that includes Italians, French, Iberians, and maybe Greeks, Berbers, and Arab Christians.
Agree that Finland, Baltics, Poland, Slovakia and East Germany are in bad condition and mght recover quiet slowly but I guess that ITO nations are very willingful give them lot of moneytary fund. We already know that Warsaw is reconstructed pretty rapidly.
Its also been mentioned the RA is giving aid in the hope gaining favor with the newly liberated countries.
Not Arabs. If you're talking about Libya, it's "Phoenicians", and the Muslim religion isn't scrutinized, just Arab identity. Mussolini made a speech that the Libyans had "reclaimed the glory of Islam from the barbaric Arabs", even. If you mean Lebanon, they probably just identify as Lebanese. If the Second Arabian War did one thing, it solidified regional identities rather than pan-Arabism
Bookmark1995
Banned
Uh...
People could argue that prolonged settler colonialism has similarly stunted Africa's development.
Remember that communism isn't the only way to be a monstrous dick to other human beings.
And the fact the USSR (or more accurately, Suslov, considering Molotov and Andropov thought Suslov was either insane or trying to test their loyalty) decided it would be a good idea to fake a Moon Landing didn't help.
Bookmark1995
Banned
Here is why that ultimately became communism's death blow:
1. It made the USSR look foolish.
2. It made the USSR look weak.
3. It made the USSR look like wasteful idiots.
These are the things that lead to the downfall of a regime.
With that Moon landing thing Soviet regime indeed managed ridicolous themselves such level that people didn't anymore scare them but begun threat leadership just joke which should oust quickly.