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Interesting and a bit different. I get the feeling the Soviet Union might be a bit weaker relative to the West than OTL but clearly to people alive in that era it is still going to loom as large as the threat we are familiar with.
 
globes and politics

Yes!!!! Haha.
Also, a teacher in an underfunded district excited about FINALLY getting an updated map of the world (thinks back on how many globes an maps growing up still had the USSR on them).

Growing up, my globe had the USSR, but it was supposed to; it was still a going concern...(showing my age)

I do like the idea here..though there could be political risks if narrow minded people see the alternate history mentioned as being opposed to their views. Goodness knows there's enough politics when people try to teach history as it is...be careful! (How bad depends on the area, of course--in some areas, a majority of people want history taught, others want their bowdlerized version of it to be the only thing mentioned, and will try to lynch (figuratively) anyone who dares teach different. I've lived in areas of both sorts.
 
Oh dear, the 'duck and cover'... :3

Yup yup. In an earlier version, I considered actually having everything go hot, and bombs actually being dropped, but decided against it.

Interesting and a bit different. I get the feeling the Soviet Union might be a bit weaker relative to the West than OTL but clearly to people alive in that era it is still going to loom as large as the threat we are familiar with.

Pretty much. The USSR enjoyed earlier stability post Lenin, but Trotsky's death in 1956 ushered in a power struggle that has weakened the nation internally, part of why the new leader has been taking such a bombastic and defiant tone towards the west, to get people focused on external threats.
 
Just curious if people would like to see the "background" document I typed up before I wrote this, basically a short TL to take care of the needs of the story.

Yes, no?
 
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