John Fredrick Parker
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With no PoDs prior to the 1955 Geneva Summit, how can tensions between the US and USSR be as low as possible, particularly in the late 50's and 1960's? With the given changes, how is world history altered?
Hey! I recently had a thread similar to this: End the Cold War very earlyWith no PoDs prior to the 1955 Geneva Summit, how can tensions between the US and USSR be as low as possible, particularly in the late 50's and 1960's? With the given changes, how is world history altered?
Some interesting answers; remember, we're not trying to stop the Cold War so much as ease tensions between the great powers.I'm thinkin off the top of my head maybe Gomulka isn't reinstated in Poland in '56? This could lead to a Polish uprising at the same time as the (OTL) Hungarian uprising. Maybe throw in some discontent in Eastern Germany and you've got the keys to a collapse of the Warsaw Pact.
Or, if you want to go a route that preserves the Soviet Union, you could find someone better than Krushchev to head the USSR. As I understand it Brezhnev did a lot of damage and perhaps have Yuri Andropov succeed Krushchev directly at some point in the 1960s. I'll leave the details of that up to others as I don't have a very firm grasp on Soviet politics.