soviet europe

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...

I know this may sound very unrealistic, but I've had this idea in my head for a long time now. What if the Americans were weakened by a specific reason, it wouldn't be the Great Depression since they even had the ability to enter the war. My reason for the Americans weak is because of an...

Besides Trotsky, were there any other potential Soviet leaders who would've had an aggressive foreign policy? Did Stalin have any generals who wanted to invade all of Europe? The two potential pods I have in mind are that either Stalin is either unable to succeed Lenin or Stalin dies in the...

So OTL, the US dominated western Europe, but the USSR tended to do better in Asia. What if this was reversed? My idea is that TTL Warsaw pact would extend all the way to Brittany and Northern Italy, maybe via numerous bungled offensives by the Western Allies? This scares the US, who then...

Would Italy have lost her territories gained during the war(like Savoy, Corsica, Cattaro, Dalmatia and Lubiana)? Would have Yugoslavia not being divided into East and West ? What else would have happened? Would have Kingdom of Syria exist today? What are your thoughts about it?

In the wake of the Great War, Europe was stricken by massive socio-economic upheaval. People all over the continent, war-weary and hungry, were fed up with the contemporary order, and many became attracted to Marxist ideals and socialism. From Russia to Berlin, from Bavaria to Hungary, uprisings...

So the challenge here is with a POD of whatever you want, create a scenario where the Soviet Union occupies most of Western Europe by the end of the Second World War. How would such a scenario affect the Cold War, if they're even is one? A scenario where Operation Unthinkable is actually...

So, let's assume that the Russian Civil War ended earlier (no Czechoslovak Legion's rebellion, earlier peace at the Brest Litovsk with less territories ceded to the Germans). What would happen if the Soviets pushed further west than OTL (assuming that World War 1 lasted few months longer due to...

So I'm just wondering, how might the Cold War change if the Soviets didn't take France during the Second World War? I was inspired to make this thread by another poster saying that Soviet France was one of the most ASB moments of OTL? So how would a Capitalist France effect the ongoing Cold War?

Lets say D-Day fails, or the soviets do better against the nazis on the eastern front, leading to the red army liberating all of europe. As we know from OTL, the soviets were able to greatly boost the popularity of communist parties in the liberated nations, leading to communist takeovers via...

THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY the STORY ABOUT AN ALTERNATE COLD WAR TIMELINE CREATED BY ONE SINGLE STROKE OF LUCK AT STAVKA HEADQUARTERS 1940 Eastern Bloc (1947): Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Mongolian People's Republic People's Republic of Xinjiang People's Democratic Republic of Finland...

Hello! I'm currently reading a book titled New Hokkaido. It's a New Zealand alternate history set in a world where the Japanese won their side of the war and turned New Zealand into a colony. It's not the most plausible scenario (or really at all), but it's a fun read. The author briefly...

After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States binds the former Soviet Republics into an organization. In the aftermath of ww1, would such an organization for the peoples in Caucasus help stabilize the region? In the idea's implementation, the proposal for the...

(I posted this in the test forum and received no replies, so I thought I'd have a better chance here) I've recently had growing interest in Cold War era history, and I've started to read up on some events I found striking during that period, namely the martial law over Poland, and the...

what if the battle of the bulge make the allies have severe loses and Eisenhower wants to spend 3 weeks to re-arm and replenish loses. This gives time for the Soviets to gain ground all the way to Munich capture all of Austria and northern Italy along far more of the Germany then in are universe...

Hello, I world like to know if a scenario where the Wehrmacht manages to be more throughtly gutted in the East, resulting in the Red Army reaching the Rhine, and emboldening local Communists to try to take over (OTL some French Communists discussed in 1944 an uprising before deciding against...