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My Interference Timeline included such a scenario, among the many other tweaks. Cannot find the link right now.

How much can the Soviets trust their Warsaw Pact allies? I mean, the politicians and the generals maybe in their pocket, but the troops won't be that enthusiast of taking on the full might of NATO. Plus, they know it's THEIR countries on the frontline - not Russia. Same problem the Americans...

The Soviet Eagle Claw WOULD succeed. With a huge number of fatalities. Saddam would move in faster than OTL; the Soviets would likely seize Tabriz (to reunifiy Azerbaijan) and Khorasan (split between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan). The US could only send in the carriers to the Persian Gulf, watch...

It isn't a very logical scenario - though in WWI right that had happened.

I couldn't discount the paradox of a Communist party in ambiguous and actually vaguely antagonistic relations with Moscow partaking into a wartime national solidarity government in a Western country... apart the little detail that America would jump with both boots on the very idea.

Having seen and meditated both movies, I'll say "Threads" is much more brutally realistic. The Brits always knew they were screwed for good in case of a nuclear war, whereas many Americans harbored illusions of survival, even of "victory" because of the sheer expanse of their country coupled...

By 1984 GULAG proper was long history. The umbrella organization was dissolved back in 1960, after most inmates had been quietly released, under dire threats in case they spoke publicly of their experiences and often being barred for several years from living near major cities. Camps did exist...

In a any given situation clearly heading to all-out war between the superpowers, such as this, panic in Western Europe, especially in urban areas, would have been simply inconceivable as for scale, level and intensity, it would have severely disrupted any civil defense preparation, military...

Oh, for Italy it's easy. Let's say Sardinia and/or Sicily remain under the loving care of the freedom-loving and democracy-abiding Anglo-Saxon liberators, whereas the peninsula falls to the endless night of Stalinesque socialism. Et voilà: pardon, ed ecco!

I myself wouldn't have such good memory of my by now venerable work. :D

The break of gauge question gives serious pause to anyone thinking about the "Soviet hordes swarming into Western Europe". Those hordes would be limited to what already is deployed forward into the Iron Curtain border countries. Second echelons etc advancing would be significantly late, and the...

The chapter on "pet decontamination" was most interesting. Indeed, after a nuclear war your pet must be thoroughly decontaminated to be eaten safely...

After having 26 million excess deaths from war and related consequences in 1941-45, the Soviets invade Western Europe fighting the Anglo-Americans? Be serious.

LITTORIO Division? A Fascist name banned since 1943-5? PieDmonte? PAglia? Italian Communists willing to sabotage their own country to favor the Soviets? WTF?

Any war with a long time of preparation is unwinnable by the Red Army, whose only hope would be a quick, out-of-the-blue attack during some major Western holiday coupled with a human-delivered nuclear decapitation strike against Washington, Langley, the Pentagon and main NATO command & control...

Bonaires could make it. Montevideo would probably stay unchanged.

The Mapuches are the better candidates for building a solid state and civilization.

The right time for such a union would be around 1630, by a dynastical marriage. When Gustavus Adolphius dies in battle, a great power is born, and all subsequent history will be quite different. With important consequences not only in Europe, but also in very distant parts of the planet.

The usual questions. How many of them weapons would be actually deployed? How many would be actually launched? How many would be destroyed in the ground/inactivated and abanoned by panicked crews? How many of them would misfire on launch, say? How many of them would malfunction in flight/be on...

I still think a full, working Russo-German alliance would be unconquerable by conventional means; no les sthan a rain of nuclear death would have bene necessary to crush it. But it also couldn't certainly be born out of any pact between Nazis and Stalinists... At best, such an "alliance" would...