soviet union

There's an assumption on these boards that a scenario such as a failed D-Day, no American intervention in the European War, or white peace between Britain and Germany, would lead to the Red Army marching all the way into France. I wanted to test how plausible that assumption really is. For...

So in a lot of timelines featuring a Nazi victory, the Soviet Union is pushed behind the Ural Mountains, this Soviet rump state is usually allied with the United States. So is it possible for the rump Soviet Union to retake european Russia? How might this happen? What difficulties might the...

I'm pretty sure most people here are familiar with the Palace of the Soviets: A gargantuan structure that gave birth to an entire style of construction known as Stalinist Architecture, and if it had been built would've been the Soviet Union's new administrative center and congress hall for...

This scenario is going to make a lot of initial assumptions, so bear with me here: To begin, say that Nikolai Bukharin somehow manages to survive Stalin's Great Purge in 1938 and continues to survive under Stalin's reign by keeping a low profile until Stalin's death in 1953. Then, in the...

I recently had a discussion regarding a scenario where the German Empire emerges victorious in WW1, and props up the newly independent regimes in the Baltics, Ukraine, and Belarus. If the regimes in those countries survive for at least a few decades, what would the industrial situation be of a...

Ok, here a dystopic question: Considering that against all odds, Beria becomes the leader of the Soviet Union, how would such state look like, and how it would develop different from the Kruschevist Soviet Union? First of all, one condition I want to stabilish is that Beria is prepared for...

This might need to go in ASB, so let me know if you think that's the case. What if the Japanese had a much more organized, well-funded, and successful atomic weapons program, and it was headquartered in Manchuria rather than Japan proper. Let's also say that the program progresses enough to...

During the opening stages of the Afghan Civil War in late 1979, many Soviet politicians wanted the USSR to intervene. However, Brezhnev got cold feet and refused to enter, only sending arms to the communist Afghan government. However, what if the USSR did intervene in Afghanistan? Would they had...

How would the Soviet Union develop politicially and militarily, if no WW2 happens? The (geo-)political situation: - Central Europe is ruled by a heavily armed militarist German state. This could be a military dictatorship that resulted from a Reichswehr coup. A Nazi state where Hitler died...

Like it says on the tin. I have a timeline concept that basically involves Trotsky taking power instead of Stalin and the ensuing Second World War between capitalism and communism. Who will win? Who will lose? Find out....when the timeline is ready!

With a POD no earlier than Lenin's death how can a woman, any woman, rise to become leader of the Soviet Union? You are allowed to consider possible candidates should the USSR have survived into the 2000s as well as earlier potential candidates.

NASA's Waterloo October 2, 1983 Kennedy Space Center A crowd had gathered at Kennedy Space Center, larger than any seen since 1969. They cheered as the countdown timer approached the final minute. Miles away, on the pad, a white and black rocket glistened on the pad. Though larger, and more...

Exactly what it says on the tin. I was asking about all this due to watching Cody’s Trotsky video, reading an old post and also looking at some old content. Anyway, point is: how do I get post-WWII Europe to look like.... This ^? Any suggestions would be nice. Trotsky was my first...

Ok, since this is a important discussion I want to start, I'm going to summon the allmighty economist of the eastern bloc to help us to develop this, I call you @fasquardon ! Rise! Now, everyone grab your soviet hat and your copy of Red alert 2, because we have a soviet scenario to idealize...

During the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Italy gave support for Franco while the only support the Republic got was from the USSR. What if the British and French intervened in the Civil War on the side of the Republic and this sparked WWII? Is that plausible or is it ASB?

So let's say the SSRs in red (along with Abkhazia) don't become independent. However, the USSR still dissolves, yet it becomes a capitalist "Confederation of Independent States". How will the politics of this CIS go? Does it resemble the OTL 1990s? I am curious about how the Nargono-Karabakh War...

In real life, Wallace, a staunch progressive who opposed the idea of a Cold War was the VP from 1941 until 1944, when an internal party coup replaced him with Truman. Personally, FDR liked Wallace better, and its very possible that at some point (either Truman failing to get FDR's support, or...

In 1935, a woman, the heiress of the Russian aristocratic family Orlova-Pavlova attempted to shoot Stalin, but she missed the target. Let's say her plan succeeds and Stalin is killed. What is the result?

The question. Did Russia improve because of Stalin, or despite him? It seems pretty bad. Mass destruction of administrators and veteran officers. Famines. Squalor. Inefficiencies. But one must admit, Russia did improve, did industrialised. I'm fairly sure those of 1900 would not have guessed...

What if Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, had a healthier lifestyle and lived past until the late 80s/early 90's? What is the result? How does the Cold War change? What would the relations between Reagan and Brezhnev be?