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I can kinda see this happening if Operation barbarossa happens a few months earlier. The Germans have more time before winter arrives so they have more of an advantage. So if they successfully took Stalingrad, what next?

Many at the time and today called Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost "too little too late". With the Soviet Union in shambles, opening the press only highlighted the country's myriad problems. Combined with tepid economic reforms, these policies arguably shattered confidence in the...

Yes, I am aware that the policy was almost inevitable as a means for the USSR to survive. But let’s suppose whoever succeeds Lenin is extremely dogmatic and remains committed to a worldwide revolution. They refuse to establish diplomatic relations with bourgeoise regimes and continue to support...

Something I recently learned is that the Soviet Union was originally a confederation from its founding in 1922 to 1936. After that, it became a federative country. And later on, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to make a new confederation to reform the union. But a coup in August 1991 prevented this...

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...

Wars to reconquer Poland and Finland are successful, leading to them being inducted as SSRs (Finland being given Karelia, and Poland eventually getting East Prussia) Similarly, Bessarabia is invaded, but ends up incorporating both Moldavia and Wallachia. Transylvania ends up independent...

De-Stalinization never happens in the Soviet Union because Nikita Khrushchev remained loyal to Joseph Stalin even after his death. POD would be Khrushchev's son Leonid not being killed under mysterious circumstances in 1943 like he was in OTL. So Stalingrad is never renamed, the reforms...

In 1991, many republics of the Soviet Union expressed interest in recreating the union into a new federation of sovereign states, where things such the army and foreign policy would be United and agreed on. While it did express interest in joining the new union of sovereign states, Ukraine...

Hey all! Let's start things off! Cuban soldiers in occupied territory setting up perimeter defenses. The Cubans used multiple varieties of structures for ad hoc garrisons such as college campuses, summer camps and warehouses. This group is setting up near the cabins of a seaside tourist...

Introduction: This was a Alternate Cold War story publish in Alternate History.com in 2014 Sadly over years thing went not so well and my co-authors lost interest or had not time anymore. Next to that happen Apple Tv Series "For All Mankind" and demand re issue the TL I have decided to...

Hello everyone! I have a challenge for you. Make Kaliningrad go independent following the collapse of the USSR while still being Russia majority, and being part of the russian SFSR prior to that.

Would the USSR have survived longer if gorbachev didn't try liberalizing and reforming it? What would change in our history? When would it have eventually collapsed?

So in this scenario, a Christian Socialist movement led by Father Stalin takes over Russia instead of the Bolsheviks. After WWII, America and the Christian Soviets get into the Cold War as usual. The Reds win the Greek civil war and bring Greece into the Warsaw Pact, having gained a decisive...

It seems irrational to me that the Eastern Bloc leadership maintained such large conventional forces after around 1970 or so. Was the Eastern Bloc committed to such high military spending due to inertia, fears of an invasion (however irrational or rational), fear of a military coup, or some...

OOC: Before some guy blunders in saying "what are you talking about the Soviets crushed the Kronstadt rebellion?" this is a double blind scenario, which is a scenario where we pretend to be from a different timeline speculating on what would happen if things went the way they did in our...

This is an idea that I was toying with in the back of my head - what if the USSR follows a Chinese-style development model, with private and state-owned enterprises, export-oriented manufacturing, etc, while maintaining a single party state and explicit dedication to socialism? The real question...

Hope and Strife; A Cold War political timeline...