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Here's Lenin-5, which is another rather boring one. The PoD is Bukharin, not Stalin, taking power, leading to a stronger Red Army that manages to throw back Operation Barbarossa, causing the Wehrmacht to overthrow Hitler in a coup. Modern Germany remains fascist and neutral, and the Sino-Soviet split is bad enough that Zhukov is considering rapproachment with the Americans. I don't really have much to say about this, since it is pretty straightforward. I decided to extend the parallelism that was evident in what SJG provides us. I assumed that the Pacific War still happened, since Mao is in charge, so Japan was defeated by the Americans and British. I kept Germany's sphere rather small, since I doubt the Western Allies would have tolerated them being supreme over the continent. I added an Israel that doesn't get involved in the Cold War, being backed by the Soviets and Americans, given the continued existence of an anti-Semitic German state and the bad PR that comes from opposing Israel in such an environment. I didn't want to get too crazy with things like still-fascist Japan or Italy, because I don't think that is what SJG was going for. I think they were going for "Cold War, but with a surviving fascist Germany," which I'm sure is a unique concept for them at the time, but is rather tired to people in the alternate history community now.

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