Continuing down the dystopian wing of GURPS: Infinite Worlds, here's Lenin-1. It's fairly detailed in Infinite Worlds, so I won't go into too much detail here, but the PoD is basically Wallace being left on FDR's ticket, and him becoming president after FDR kicks the bucket. Wallace proceeds to then let the Soviets take pretty much all of Europe. And Japan. The premise is that there was no Cold War, because Wallace basically handed Stalin the entire planet on a silver platter. I don't really buy that, but hey, I don't buy Hitler managing to take over the world, either, and I've covered that.
What I like about Lenin-1 is that the author did not present the communist world as a united front. All of that talk of socialist brotherhood goes out the door when geopolitics gets involved. Naturally, China and the Soviet Union hate each other, but Lenin-1 also throws in some twists by having an independent India, which declared its independence from both blocs after it detonated its first nuclear weapon. I've interpreted that as India taking control of parts of the OTL Non-Aligned Movement, but with a communist twist. Then, there's the much less plausible Republic of Great Britain, which became a socialist republic in 1974. SJG doesn't detail how that happened, but I'm guessing it was by a relatively bloodless revolution. What I am disappointed by is the continued existence of the United States as a capitalist power. Come on, guys, if you're gonna give the commies this much, give them the entire world! At any rate, I've been a bit more generous to the Americans than what was perhaps implied in the Lenin-1 entry, as I've given them some portions of the world on their side. I just can't see this rolling over attitude lasting the entire length of the OTL Cold War, particularly as interventions against communists in Cuba and Guatemala are mentioned.
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