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Okay, so your alternate history challenge for today is to make the entire world as shitty as is semi-plausible by the turn of the millennium while avoiding the cliches of Nazi victory in WW2 and Soviet victory in the Cold War.
Total nuclear warfare (such as was feared during the Cold War and still feared today) is also out of the question.
I advise you to start as early as possible. Now, alt-hist away!