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 the Democracy Index of 2016.
The more dictatorial/totalitarian, the more bonus points you get.
I, by the way, always thought of the possibility of Poland becoming an extreme Catholic theocracy akin to OTL Iran (or even Saudi-Arabia?), but I don't know how plausible this is.
The more dictatorial/totalitarian, the more bonus points you get.
I, by the way, always thought of the possibility of Poland becoming an extreme Catholic theocracy akin to OTL Iran (or even Saudi-Arabia?), but I don't know how plausible this is.