wormyguy
Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make the Soviet bloc as large as possible.
No, I'm not talking about countries becoming Communist of their own volition, that's too easy. What I'm talking about is the semi-permanent occupation of that nation by Soviet forces after World War II without acceptance (or at least consent) of its population.
For instance, if the Soviet Union militarily occupies Yugoslavia or Albania, that counts, even though those countries were already Communist in OTL, while if Italy goes Communist, but the Soviets don't occupy it, that doesn't count.
The POD must be no later than 1943, and your Soviet bloc must reflect its state in the year 1955 (to impose an arbitrary time limit). The Soviet Union may not enter armed conflict with any of the Western Allies still in possession of their peacetime capitals.
Do your worst . . .
No, I'm not talking about countries becoming Communist of their own volition, that's too easy. What I'm talking about is the semi-permanent occupation of that nation by Soviet forces after World War II without acceptance (or at least consent) of its population.
For instance, if the Soviet Union militarily occupies Yugoslavia or Albania, that counts, even though those countries were already Communist in OTL, while if Italy goes Communist, but the Soviets don't occupy it, that doesn't count.
The POD must be no later than 1943, and your Soviet bloc must reflect its state in the year 1955 (to impose an arbitrary time limit). The Soviet Union may not enter armed conflict with any of the Western Allies still in possession of their peacetime capitals.
Do your worst . . .