AHC: 1 billion Soviets/Russians

Have the Red Army sweep over all of Europe during WWII. To do that you'd need, among other things, to keep the US out.

Not the same WWII as history, because then if the US even started to feel like the Soviet Union was pushing it's luck in Europe then they'll turn off the spigot of Lend-Lease aid.
 
Not the same WWII as history, because then if the US even started to feel like the Soviet Union was pushing it's luck in Europe then they'll turn off the spigot of Lend-Lease aid.

True, but turning the spigot off in, say, early 1945 won't stop the Red Army from taking Europe. Only an Allied invasion or NO lend-lease is going to do that.
 
Ironically the one thing thats freaking Putin and his Kgb buddies is thst the population of Russia today could well half within 50 years due to low male expectancy rates and high abortion rates a legacy from Stallinism where it was used as a form of contraception.
 
Russia wins Great Game, gets some northern pieces of India/Pakistan/China, somehow keeps it in the 20th century (that should be the easy part). That'll get it, if not exactly to 1 billion, very very close.
I don't think it's doable post-1900 without USSR annexing either Europe or China (which isn't all too incredibly hard by itself - juat a decent level of Soviet-wank - but doing it without any of the involved sides nuking most of the relevant area is).
 
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