warsaw pact

Your challenge here is, with a POD in 1989 or later, to have at least one state of the Eastern Bloc be non-democratic by 2017. And it can't stay communist either. "Non-democratic" means generally all forms of dictatorship - the state must be at least a hybrid regime and be in the lower half of...

Basic idea is Nicolae Ceaușescu never rise to power in Romania, between him dying in World War 2, or sometime before 1965. So who will lead Romania? What affects would this have on Romania, and possible Eastern Europe, and the Cold War as a whole?

The Portuguese Colonial War, also known in Portugal as the Overseas War and in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. This war was a decisive ideological...

(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...

Looks like there are a whole host of brilliant WW3 ATLs here on AH.com; however, I've noticed that pretty much all of them end with the USA and NATO emerging victorious, and all traces of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact dying in an unparalleled nuclear holocaust. As such, your challenge is...

Due to a delayed or failed Operation Overlord, yet historical performance in Operation Bagration, the Soviets push much farther west and the Allies have a harder time pushing east. By the time the Germans surrender, the frontlines between Soviet occupation and American-British-French occupation...

Why did the Soviet Union not ask the other members of the Warsaw Pact to participate in the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan? What would it take for them to do so? What would the consequences be?

So FWIG, the first several years of nuclear weapons development in the USSR were hindered by a shortage of uranium within the country, which would remain the case for several decades; as such, the vast majority of nuclear material in the Soviet program came from their conquests in Eastern...

While working on my "Fallen on the March" TL, I commenced work on a project on the side that blossomed into another full-fledged TL. It concerns a Soviet invasion of Poland in response to Solidarity and a longer Cold War with some more 'interesting' developments due to hardliners staying at the...

Imagine that the Soviets had taken over much more of Europe (at least, the entirety of Germany and Austria), giving them free rein over a larger area, perhaps direct annexation of a few of the Warsaw Pact countries, as well as a stronger communist-bloc economy. Could we see some magnanimous...

Europe by Norman Davies, pg. 1109: "The ailing Brezhnev put the Soviet Army into motion, then hesitated, and left the job to the Polish army." Let's say someone who is eager to intervene, like GDR leader Honecker or Czechoslovak leader Husak, manages to convince Brezhnev otherwise and the three...

When we talk about the warsaw pact and the cold war, there is no way to not touch the NVA. The Nationale volksarmee was argably the strongest army in the warsaw pact after the soviet army but still, east germany was dependent on the soviet occupation, as we saw in 1953, and as soon the soviet...

Say in the early 1990s the United States were to provide Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with funds from a Second Marshall Plan in order to help them economically rebuild. How much money would be needed for this task? What are the odds of this package passing? What effect would this have...