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Interesting. This site doesn't get too many TLs that focus on Africa (much less Portugese colonial Africa), so I'll be following yours.

Um, what? Invading the US is even more foolhardy than any serious post-Golden Horde attempt to invade Russia. At least in the invasion of Russia scenarios, the invaders have the benefit of land in Central/Eastern Europe from which to stage the main offensive thrust. But with the US, there's a...

But the OP's POD four years after the war in Europe ended. Besides, there's a reason why it was called Operation Unthinkable. Stalin wasn't the kind of leader who took major gambles in the foreign policy arena - just look at the Soviet policy toward Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil...

OK, I'll have to take issue with the bolded assumption: "Stalinism" arose not due to communism per se, but due to the fact that the Bolsheviks inherited a centralized autocratic state apparatus based on the absolute rule of the Tsar. By the time the Russian Civil War was over, the functions...

You're really overestimating the hawkishness of the Stalin-era Soviet leadership. I mean, once Uncle Joe bit the dust, along came Khrushchev and his "peaceful coexistence" doctrine. Of all the faction/opposition figureheads in the early days of the USSR, Trotsky was far and away the most...

lolwut?:confused: Otherwise, that's a key point you mentioned - how Fascism grows in times of crisis, when widespread anger gets diverted toward an "other" by these reactionary ideologies.

This scenario happened in the Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire TL, where said politician was handed power after an unknown sniper assassinated Yeltsin during the August Coup. @Kevin R.: I guess that scenario would be somewhat plausible if a longer-lived Stalin continued to push for more...

What? The Russian Civil War didn't result in as many deaths as what you claim (at least according to its Wikipedia article, and Wikipedia is hardly a source of communist propaganda), and the Great Purges had a death toll of about 690,000 according to the BBoC. The 1921 Famine (est. at 5-6...

Still waiting on sources for your estimates. FWIW, the BBoC puts the USSR's death count at 20 million - less than half of what you claim. Estimates for the Holodomor range anywhere from 2.5 to 8 million deaths. And the postwar famine is at least partially attributable to Hitler, since the Nazis...

Different nation, different circumstances. We're talking about a country that's been invaded and crushed by foreign powers - some of which (I'm thinking France here) would want to get to the bottom of what happened in the Nazis' prison camps. It wasn't just Soviet and Polish Jews that were sent...

WTF is with all this talk of covering up the evidence?? I mean, regardless of how thoroughly they destroy the camps, people are still going to wonder what exactly happened that caused the population of European Jews to decline so rapidly, especially compared to all the other population groups in...

Which is basically what happens in the TL I linked to in my previous post.

A World of Laughter, A World of Tears did a fantastic job of putting the United States on a trajectory course to what you might describe as evil - all courtesy of President Walter Elias Disney (well, not entirely if you read the TL, but I'm not in the mood to drop spoilers in case you decide to...

I wonder if the SRB's agricultural policies will have any knock-on effect on the policies of its main trading partner, or if the Soviet leadership (with or without Stalin) will still go through with their OTL misadventures in collectivizing.

So basically, make German political culture's attitude to Nazi atrocities more like that of Japan? (Yeah, I know many Japanese politicians have acknowledged and apologized for their country's WWII atrocities, but the likes of Shintaro Ishihara and Toru Hashimoto having prominence throws a wrench...

Speaking as a leftist myself and as somebody w/ an above-average interest in China/East Asia: The currrent CCP leadership, even the faction which included Bo Xilai, has zilch interest in acitvely promoting the Marxist-Leninist/Maoist ideals of the pre-Deng PRC. The self-proclaimed communists...

Rather than create a brand new wall of text regarding this subject matter, I'll quote myself from an earlier thread (two days ago) discussing Soviet survival (w/ a 1967 POD involving Che Guevara's assassination failing): -Will come back later with additional discussion points, but this post...

One major problem with a POD this late is that there are already several fronts on which the Soviet Bloc was falling behind in this time period. Take China, for instance. By this point in the 1960's, the Sino-Soviet Split had resulted in yet further sectarianism amongst the Revolutionary...

@Incognito: How's this for a possible scenario? The May 1968 general Strike in France escalate into a revolution, combined with the Prague Spring spreading beyond Czechoslovakia and into the other Warsaw Pact nations. By 1970, NATO is left in disarray as much of mainland Europe has thrown off...

With the 1990's almost over, I have only one suggestion left for any further updates pertaining to events in 1999: The Seattle World Trade Organization summit in December. Is it still going to happen ITTL, or has it been cancelled/delayed? If the former, I'd like to see an update mentioning...