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Very quick question because I cannot find a definite answer to this, when Stalin first invaded Finland, did he had in mind to annex the entire state, to sort of restore the Grand Duchy of Finland in a red coat of paint as a new Finnish SSR? because it seems that after it was made clear that the...

What if the People's Republic of China was taken more seriously and a bigger threat than the Soviet Union and the WARPAC ? Could have it happened? What if there wasn't a thaw between China and the USA?

For example, since the RSFSR in our timeline had no anthem nor a branch party of the CPSU and KGB of its own, and most of the institutions were under direct control of the central state of the USSR, what if Khrushchev or Brezhnev had introduced them, would it have influenced the course of USSR...

Let's say that rather than Gorbachev a hardliner takes over (say Ligachyov) who clamps down on liberalism and in a last ditch attempt to avoid instability embraces neo-stalinist totalitarianism. This fails and order completely breaks down into the Second Russian Civil War that lasts until the...

In "Project: Vigilant", my alt-history project, the planners of the August Coup all conveniently died in a plane crash and Gorbachev's "New Union Treaty" was successfully signed on August 20th, 1991 between the supportive SSRs. Likewise, in P.V, the name "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"...

So, the PoD may be that Nixon nominates Thruston Morton as his VP and performs a bit better in Southern States managing to win narrowly defeat JFK. In 1961 he orders a full-blown invasion by US Army after a Tonkin-like provocation instead of what JFK did IRL. Castro is toppled and there is no...

"1941 was not the worst, oh no. And 1945 was not the end. All we went through together was meaningless. Those desperate, brutal battles against the fascists in the long first summer of the war, the bitter cold outside Moscow and Stalingrad, and our heroic march to Berlin- none of it mattered...

Although many people think that Rosa Luxemburg is German,in fact she was born in Poland,in the then Russian empire.What would have happened if she had remained connected to Russia and not moved to Germany and participated in the October Revolution?Would she have collaborated with Lenin?And let's...

The War Ends Henry Wallace was, for the First American Republic an unusual President, a progressive New Dealer he was to the left of much of the political establishment and easily the second most popular politician in the country, second only to his President; Franklin Roosevelt. When Roosevelt...

Leonid Brezhnev's health problems were evident to all those who were close to him, and in the politburo. In 1981, apparently most in the central committee had realised that the general secretary didn't have long to live, and were looking for a successor. As we all know, IOTL the position went to...

I find it confusing to what could happen Afghanistan if the Soviets never had withdrawn. And I have read these threads https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/war-on-terror-with-a-surviving-ussr.132355/ and...

In this timeline, the USSR end up being less controlling of their satellite states in Europe. The Soviets don't remove Imre Nagy from power in Hungary leading them to avoid the Hungarian Revolution. Soviet leadership also decides to make a compromise with Czechoslovakia and does not invade them...

Instead of the unpopulated suburb, the plume of anthrax spores goes the other direction directly over the city of Yekaterinburg killing tens perhaps even hundreds of thousands. So this is essentially Chernobyl 7 years early, except a million times worse caused by the Soviet offensive biowarfare...

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Truman, Churchill and Stalin discussed their stance vis-à-vis Spain at the Postdam Conference, but did not reach an agreement on immediate action (more than internationally ostracising Spain). I believe Churchill was vocal against any kind of...

So the way I understand it, Soviet armed forces were seeing some serious innovation as regards military theory during the 1920s-30s. Not only was the Red Army rapidly modernizing, Soviet commanders were also theorizing how to best make use of it, and they came up with Deep Operation/Deep Battle...

With any POD (or PODs) from 1945 to 1991, what would need to happen for: - No dissolution of the Soviet Bloc or the Soviet Union - Socialism in one form or another becomes the mainstream, most common, iddeology - The USA falls in a similar way to the USSR (divided into several nations) with...

The pod is simple: Hitler dies from his wounds after being blinded by mustard gas on WW1 and never enters politics, meaning that while there's several far right-wing groups causing troubles they never get to wield any serious power outside of working as a block. So for Germany there's no war as...

The premise is very simple, instead of the Nazis being the ones in power, it's the same Weimar Republic but with a leading party who also controls the parliament for the whole war for simplification sake's and they have just started WW2 by invading Poland after a secret deal with the USSR to...

If Leningrad had remained capital probably the axis in ww2 would have focused more on the city and succeeded in conquering it,what influences would the fall of the capital have?

What would have happened to the Soviet Union had they not been able to retake Armenia AND Azerbaijan and consecutively WW2 and then the Cold War ?