A sequel to my earlier UASR map with the 3 sided cold war.
Its now 2003, and the Cold War has had one player out, and another down.
The practicalist regime in Germany had flourished for man years, but people were growing tired of the way things were. A more oppressive leader came to power in that country and started enforcing things upon his puppets that hte population was not fond of. In 1984, a coup by reactionary resistance movements took place in Berlin, with a short Civil War taking place. The puppet governments also collapsed as a result, leading to many of them going into civil wars and overthrowing the oppression. Things got particularly bloody in Italy, where the Spanish and Portuguese stepped in, appealing to the Italians by offering their brand of 'Christian Communism' to the population, renewing interest and preventing the movement from dying out, leading to a partiioned Italy. Despite the damage, the new nationalistic though still democratic Germany is one of the main world powers, having a powerful economic sphere in Central Europe. Only Albania remained in practicalist hands.
In the 90s, the Brazillian regime also fell apart, though for very different reasons. In this case, the ruling family had been ousted from power by a coup d'etat by a power hungry general, leading to a great weakening of the totalitarian regime. Soon, the regime ended up killing itself and the population was restored to a republic. How long this will last though is anyone's guess.
The former sattelites Cuba, Haiti and Yucatan still last though, being some of the worst places to live in the world. The local dictators make a very effective job at taking out opposition, using each others help. America wants to take them out, but the fact they have missiles puts them off.
The starter of the communist craze, the Union of Asian Socialist Republics has been in decline. In order to cement its position over its remaining puppets, it used a powerful assimilation strategy, by flooding the place with immigrants. This proved actually quite effective, working with Nepal, Yakutia, Kashgaria and in the process with the other Central Asian states. This was successful for a number of reasons. First of all, the country may have been Trotskyist, but it never had democidal leaders such as Mao, Pol Pot or Kim Il Sung (even OTL Lenin was more harsh than these leaders) adding at least 60 million or more to the population. Secondly, they never added a One Child population, in exchange for their assimilation process. This is criticised as racist by other nations, including the non-aligned communists, but the Asians themselves are fine with it.
Despite this, the economy has been tanking, thanks to the vast population providing many mouths to feed, and the military spending to defend themselves from the Americans and until recently Germans is also enormous. The largest nation on Earth is teetering on a very fine edge, and the era of communism may be going with it.
