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Private property is protected by the US constitution. (...) nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation This obviously includes privately owned factories, and thus protects capitalism.

If you are concerned only for the power for the sake of power, then yes, I believe that North Korean model should work in the USSR. North Korean model of course includes economy forever at 1950' levels and famines. This would be basically new stalinism, but with worse economy. No reason why...

Now, this "moves the goalpost" significantly. I argued mainly against medieval economy. If we assume 2000$ GDP/per capita as the starting point, to again develop into 20 000$ GDP/per capita economy we would need around... Well this depends of economic growth rate... Around 2% annual average...

Well, you answered your own questions, many towns with population lesser than 50 000. Where do you live? O.o My village in Poland, population 1000, has a stone quarry (complete with industrial machinery) and machine shops. Nowy Sacz, population 80 000, lies nearby. Maybe I shouldn't explain...

In the case of the "Threads" at least British military, if not civilian administration, remained in control over - possibly - the whole country (or at least significant parts of it). And use of steam-powered agricultural machinery was pretty much directly shown, as well as some minimal...

Some technology is easy if you have even one surviving machine shop or a chemist. I mean, really easy and directly useful for agriculture, mining or war/internal security. To make mercury fulminate, for example, you only need to disolve "mercury in nitric acid and adding ethanol to the...

This is simple rationing, nothing new about such, and obviously at some lew level of efficiency it can work. In the black market either - like it was common in the OTL Eastern Block (especially when currency value was unstable) - US dollars or some other foregin money would be obviously used.

I must respectfully disagree. What is shown in Threads after the exchange is pretty normal if we compare to North Korea/Eritrea, and probably still slightly better than some parts of Somalia or DRC. There is one thing much worse - the next generation and their, well, stupidity (medieval...

This is almost cliche in fiction; after nuclear war the US simply ceases to be, instead of existing as entity with greatly dimished capacity. Now, there are brilliant exeption to this cliche rule. In the movie "Threads", altough the US is not shown, Great Britain can be seen as mix of North...

He fails miserably and then mental health experts may try to cure him from his insanity. Historical US is too stable. Dictatorship in the US could be possible after a nuclear war, but not because of gov policies in Korea.

...but 17-year old King supported this coup, new government even ended regency and allowed him to assume normal duties, despite his age.

Secret police everywhere sometimes does evil and illegal things, democratic countries included... USA regularly experimented on its own citizens, for example... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Can anybody name one country, democratic or not, that never killed any innocent...

Comparing Pinochet to Hitler, Stalin or even to Mussolini (relativiely rational internal policy, as far as fascism can go into "sensible" direction, but... wars) or Franco (civil war) is rather far-fetched... Pol Pot was the real evil incarnate, but Pinochet, seriously ? Dictatorship less...

OTL France still own a few of overseas departaments, most notably French Guiana. French overseas territories are undoubtely much better off than neighbours, but French Guiana include significant space industry, and their population size is very low in comparision to mainland France...

This man would need to transport his army through not only Poland, but also Belarus or Ukraine... Which he can (mistakenly) consider as Russian territory, by the way... Even if not, would these countries happily provide him with logistic support ? :D His army may not be in condition to do...

wherewer, indeed. Moscow doesn't exist anymore in this timeline. ...assuming existence of "Russia"... Kaliningrad is, and was (at this time) ethnically Russian, and not all of them would flee (this would be almost impossible). Kaliningrad, census 1979 Russians 632,717 (78.3%) Ukrainians...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_National_Glory This idea, slightly insane in OTL geopolitical situation, was dropped in July 1972, but... :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary%E2%80%93Khamis_dollar Prof. Maddison (Groningen University) used 1990Int$ to compare even medieval economies. http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm I strongly suggest to look at this database...

You would be probably very surprised about conditions in which people can live and cities function :rolleyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzerzhinsk,_Russia Look at "pollution" data. OTL closed zone around Chernobyl nuclear reactor also would be (mostly) inhabitable... As long as people...

Do you think about government with actual control over any territory, or about curiosity without any power whatsoever... Like Polish government in exile 1945-1990 ? :) If you compare with Taiwan, then perhaps you have something more serious in mind. In that case, Isle of Pines, I suppose...