AHC: OK, what happened here?

No ASBs.
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Finland was defeated in the 1940 Winter war and was occupied.
Greece was in a civil war post 1945 and it ended up with a North and South Greece.
The western part of Cosntantinole was occupied.
There was an indepent Soviet backed Kurdistan.
In France the city of Great became semi independent after a mini civil war.
Finally nothern Ireland became a Soviet backed regime due to severe troubles in the country and was this timelines ATL Cuban missile crisis.
 
The Soviet Union rolled over the Finns in 1940. Brittany declared independence from France in 1942 and is recognized by the UK and the US, seeing as France is still under Nazi control. Greece, in the chaos of the second world war, lost much territory to the Soviet backed Macedonia.

Post 1945, Brittany, in order to resist French re annexation, sought support from the Soviet Union.

1952, during the third world war, the Soviets via submarine gave weapons to communist paramilitaries in Belfast which touched off the red Irish rebellion. In the final peace of 1955, the PRIC was guaranteed independence, forcing the United kingdom into a partnership with the republic of Ireland.
 
Oh it's an election map of an alt-European Senate. Big east-west divide between right-of-center and left-of-center parties.
 
The Soviet Union rolled over the Finns in 1940. Brittany declared independence from France in 1942 and is recognized by the UK and the US, seeing as France is still under Nazi control. Greece, in the chaos of the second world war, lost much territory to the Soviet backed Macedonia.

Post 1945, Brittany, in order to resist French re annexation, sought support from the Soviet Union.

1952, during the third world war, the Soviets via submarine gave weapons to communist paramilitaries in Belfast which touched off the red Irish rebellion. In the final peace of 1955, the PRIC was guaranteed independence, forcing the United kingdom into a partnership with the republic of Ireland.

The Soviets do not have the naval power projection to prop up the Britons and Northern Irish, and even if they did the political calculus of tying down that many resources and agitating the entirety of Western Europe into a tight alliance (No French alienation from NATO here!) who will be feeding guns to rebels in Ulster and Brittany and can easily out-play the Soviets in that reguard requires Stalin to have such an aggressive forgien policy there's no reason he would have stopped there. The South is easy enough to explain with an Axis Turkey (plausable, if unlikely: if nothing else Hitler could have massed troops in Bulgaria and pointed many guns at Istanbul to intimidate them into closing the Straits and triggering the Soviets to attack)
 
Well Brittany and Northern Ireland,
The Soviets do not have the naval power projection to prop up the Britons and Northern Irish, and even if they did the political calculus of tying down that many resources and agitating the entirety of Western Europe into a tight alliance (No French alienation from NATO here!) who will be feeding guns to rebels in Ulster and Brittany and can easily out-play the Soviets in that reguard requires Stalin to have such an aggressive forgien policy there's no reason he would have stopped there. The South is easy enough to explain with an Axis Turkey (plausable, if unlikely: if nothing else Hitler could have massed troops in Bulgaria and pointed many guns at Istanbul to intimidate them into closing the Straits and triggering the Soviets to attack)
According to the map, are part of the Warsaw pact.
 
Well Brittany and Northern Ireland,

According to the map, are part of the Warsaw pact.

I get the map SAYS that. I was the proposed circumstance dosen't put them in a postion where they'd survive long enough and be poliically viable to be put under the umbrella of the WP without a funidmental shift in the underlying circumstances the existance of a fully Capitalist France and Britain don't allow for. There's a reason the Hungarian Revolution and Prague Spring did not result in the US stepping in; this is literally right in the heartland of the Western Alliance and their interests, and the USSR can't offer them any protection short of pressing the Nuke Everything button, which they'd have to be idiots to do for the sake of BELFAST of all places.
 
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