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The Cold War of OTL was a dangerous time that saw a lot of proxy wars between the United States, the beacon of Democracy and Capitalism, and the USSR, the Hegemon of Communism. It wouldn't be until the 1980s that the US finally won the Cold War in effect with the USSR and the Warsaw pact...

In our timeline, the USSR, after years of being the main rival of the United States, fell into economic and technological stagnation and soon that evolved into military stagnation with Afghanistan as Nixon was able to further divide Russia and China with his 1972 trip to China. Eventually, the...

What would be the consequence IF everything that can go wrong GOES wrong for the Germans and their allies in Operation Barbarossa and after? What if they CANNOT even reach cities like Vilnius, Minsk or Khmelnytskyi ?

Chapter 1 - Seeking Remote Globes “It is a plain road from the Earth to the stars, though mortal feet cannot tread it.” September 6, 1958 - South Atlantic Ocean The USS Norton Sound, having left the Californian port of Hueneme last month, now remains stationary amidst the frigid waves...

What if Japan invented and used the Bomb on an American possession in the Pacific before the US could bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Let's say this happens after the Nazis surrender, so Japan drops the bomb between May and August 1945. Probably on Hawaii; I doubt Japan would have been able to get...

So, in our timeline, Breznev led the USSR as Premier until his death in 82, dying at the age of 76. However, he seemingly started to go senile in 72-74 and would eventually be succeeded by a proto-reformer in Andropov (I think he was, but I'm not 100% sure) and it was the Brezhnev years would...

The Soviet Union seems like it fell into an awkward position in its ethnographic balance, the ~50% range of the main ethnic group, since it was too Russian dominated to be viewed as really pluralistic and multi-national, and yet not so much so that like China, the main ethnic population...

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...

In this timeline, Cuba Invades Mexico in the Cuban Missile Crisis with the help of the USSR, which threatens the US and NATO to unify into the North Atlantic Republic and invades Finland, planting bombs there. The Soviets assassinate JFK in 1962, which triggers the 3rd World War. This was the...

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...

How long would this civil war last?

Disclaimer: The text is based on an edited Google translation, so if you see errors anywhere, please let me know. And so, I decided to write a TL about the absence of Yeltsin. The specific PoD that led to Boris Yeltsin not becoming a political leader in the late 1980s is not particularly...

Since the end of World War II in 1945 and victory over the Axis powers, two new superpowers USSR and USA are locked in open yet restricted geopolitical rivalry which involves both countries and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. Aside from the nuclear arsenal...

Did the Munich Beer Hall Massacre lead to the DNVP's rise? Article from November 12th, 1993 Many of the conditions that lead to the rise of the Deutschnationale Volkspartei, or German National People's Party (DNVP), can be traced back to the failed coup by the so-called "Nazi Party" lead by...

If Kornilov managed to take Petrograd in September 1917, say Kerensky refuses to arm the Bolsheviks, what happens next, does the Provisional Governement side with the Reds or Kornilov? How does this affect the Eastern front? Does an earlier RCW lead to an early B-L? Does a three way civil war...

Is there anyway that before or after the Kerensky Offensive, he had been overthrown by the Russian Military to prevent a Russian Revolution?

Upon his dismissal from the Navy in April by Admiral Erich Raeder, Heydrich decides that there is nothing left for him in Germany and leaves everything behind, emigrating to the USSR and joining the OGPU. Upon the dissolution of the OGPU and replaced with the NKVD, Heydrich has risen high enough...

As Stalin lie's unconscious from his hemmoragic stroke, Stalin's inner circle decides it is a great idea to announce to the entirety of the USSR and have it be shown on live television, as they are outlining what's going to be happening in the interim period, Joseph Stalin, on national...

Erich von Manstein after the defeat at Kursk and seeing how the initiative has completely passed to the Soviets, decides that now is a great time to switch sides, so he takes a truck and drive it straight to Soviet lines with a white flag attached on top, as he gets into contact with Soviet...

so I've been reading a few threads on what if Mao died and if Stalin lived another decade and so, I've come to ask everyone here this question - What if it was Mao, not Stalin, who died on that day in 1953. Who is his immediate successor? Is there a possible way for China to leap slowly but...