cold war

Here's a thing, I support Ukraine in the war, okay i'm saying this because this timeline talks about the USSR being victorious, and Communism has been taboo in Ukraine ever since the holodomor, I believe. So In this timeline, the United States never won the Cold War. Instead, the Soviet Union...

While looking at maps of Romania before and after WW2 I've been wondering about the incorporation of Moldova in the USSR and the territories it was assigned. While the bulk of what was acquired from Romania was made into the Moldovan SSR, Budjak and the northern parts of Bukovina and...

THE IRON EAGLE DAYS OF STRIFE DEATH IN RIGA The clock had reached midnight, and yet he was still there in his office, seated and working his eyes through page after page of reports and documents which require his attention. Alfred was not in a rush to go back to sleep, because he...

The geopolitical situation for the 55 years after World War Two was defined by the Cold War, the showdown between the Liberal, Capitalist United States and the Communist Soviet Union. Tensions ran high and the apocalypse was narrowly averted on several occasions as the two sides jockeyed for...

How long would this civil war last?

I am fascinated by stories about nuclear warfare or WW3 that do not actually cause the apocalypse, or cause the a majority of the world to turn into Fallout, Wasteland, Atom RPG, or Mad Max, even despite nuclear strikes on massively populated cities, millions of deaths, and a total reset of...

In a situation where fascist Italy remains neutral through WW2, I became curious as to what might happen to East Africa. Everyone always seems to focus only on Europe and Libya, but Italy also had territory in the Dodecanese and East Africa (esp. after the invasion of Abyssinia). Assuming...

Though he is rarely (if ever) remembered nowadays, Roberto Silveira was one of the most promising left-wing Brazilian politicians of his generation, together with people like Leonel Brizola, Waldir Pires and Miguel Arraes. Much like Brizola, Silveira got into politics at a very young age, and...

(The Rise of the Second Imperial Kingdom) With Meiji's peace agreement with the US and the Western world established, and with most of the colonies now independent. The Imperial House would find itself in a new political climate. Since the Kenmu Restoration had eliminated the threat of civil...

Tenório Cavalcanti was one of those historical figures whose life would probably be considered ASB if he was a fictional character. Born in Alagoas in 1906, he moved to the state of Rio de Janeiro (more specifically the future city of Duque de Caxias, then a district of Nova Iguaçu), where he...

In December 1969, when Gamal Abdel Nasser visited Moscow to request direct Soviet military involvement in Egypt, he said that if it's necessary to receive Soviet military aid, he is ready to join the Warsaw Pact «even tomorrow». IOTL Soviets sent their anti-air forces to Egypt without any...

During its last few decades of existence, and particularly from 1973 onward, the economy of Yugoslavia fell into a decline that turned into a death spiral, with high inflation and rising debt. Naturally, this contributed to the radicalization that led to the horrors of the Yugoslav Wars. Was...

The first Turkish prime minister not to belong to the until then dominant Republican People's Party, Adnan Menderes ruled Turkey from 1950 until his removal by a military coup in May 27 1960, after which he was executed a year later. As time went on and the economy began to decline roughly...

Suppose that the Communist Party and its stooges don't do as well in the 1946 election. This means that, even if Klement Gottwald still becomes prime minister, the Ministry of the Interior is given to someone who isn't an ally of his, denying him the ability to pack the police with communist...

The Conference of Emerging Forces (CONEFO) was a bloc of third-world states dissatisfied by the UN and its dominance by the US and USSR. Led by Mao's China (unrecognized by the UN) and Sukarno's Indonesia (resentful of Malaysia getting a non-permanent UNSC seat), the bloc was dissolved after...

The most important political leader Brazil had in the 20th century, Getúlio Vargas was president from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. His first administration was marked by a combination of multiple achievements, such as laws establishing workers' rights and the construction of the Companhia...

Whenever there’s a thread about Cold War Royal Navy Carriers the following points are always brought up: 1) CVA’s are argued as missed opportunity, but with an acknowledgement they were a mess 2) the Malta’s are offered as alternative, but (mostly) disregarded as an idea best suited for service...

As someone who’s been interested in the Great Depression to the end of WW2 era of American history, one of the things that interested me the most were the big and lesser big figures at the time that, due different circumstances for each of these figures (Long getting shot in 35’ and...

Considering how much attention is directed towards the Ottoman Empire long decline in the face of European industrialization and supposed Ottoman stagnation, the fact that the Ottoman Empire made it to 1922 is quite astonishing. Had it not joined WWI, chances were the Europeans couldn't have...

The first president of South Korea, Syngman Rhee was a ruthless and corrupt far-right dictator whose regime was responsible for the imprisonment and death of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of political dissidents. He was also a very old man, being 84 years old by the time he was finally...