AHC: The Non-Aligned Movement wins the Cold War

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With no POD before 1945, rewrite the history of the Cold War so that the Non-Aligned Movement lead by Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, Jawaharlal Nehru and Josip Broz Tito emerges as the economic, ideological and military winner of the Cold War, overcoming Capitalism and Soviet Communism. By the 1990s, nearly all of the world's countries will have accepted that Socialism (Titoist, Arab or Fabian), Secularism, Anti-Imperialism and perhaps Autocratic leadership are the only effective ways of developing a modern nation state. Europe and America no longer have any great influence, military or economic, on the Third World, and neither does the Soviet Union.
 
Shit! I was mentally reminding myself not to do that.

So, do I wait for a mod to move it, or delete everything and repost?
 
The thing with the non-aligned movement is that it was'nt a single thing, it was a group of disparate nations who shared two things in common; anti-Imperialism (to varying extents) and not wanting to be in American or Soviet orbit.

In other words, it's hard for something to win when it barely exists.
 
The thing with the non-aligned movement is that it was'nt a single thing, it was a group of disparate nations who shared two things in common; anti-Imperialism (to varying extents) and not wanting to be in American or Soviet orbit.

In other words, it's hard for something to win when it barely exists.

That's why its a challenge, not a WI. Naturally, the point is too find a POD which will lead to it become a much stronger entity.
 
completely and utterly ASB. The NAM didn't have anything near the capability to compete with the United States or the Soviet Union. It was mostly ex-colonial countries and much of Latin America, and they didn't have much economic clout.

As well as that, it is important to remember that it was anything but non-aligned. Frex, India and Pakistan were deeply linked with the USSR/USA respectively.
 
That's why its a challenge, not a WI. Naturally, the point is too find a POD which will lead to it become a much stronger entity.

That's the thing though, it can't become stronger (aside I suppose from a military alliance against non-members) since it had no core.

What you're basically wanting is an actual, concrete Third Faction in the Cold War that's neither Capitalist or Communist.
Now, it's certainly possible for such a group to exist, but it would not be the Non-Aligned Movement.
 
If you manage to make the western block fall into pieces at the same time the eastern block fall, you get more or less a victory of the non-aligned, but only in the sense that they lose less than the two great blocks.
 
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