Challenge- Soviet Union/Eastern Bloc Survive Until Today

Challenge-

Make it possible for the Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union to survive until today (2010), and a force which can still be reckoned with. It is alright if there was a possible peace between the two sides in the 90's, and 2000's.

POD no earlier than 1950. President Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama must still have been President of the United States during this timeline.
 
The Soviet Union in some form could survive and some of the Eastern bloc could remain allied to it, but with the requirements specified
their is no way to have the full USSR and all of the Eastern bloc remain.

Your best bet is a USSR comprised of Russia, the Central Asian SSR's and maybe Ukraine*.
As for the Eastern bloc, well their is no way to have it survive, atleast not as it was (IE Soviet satellites), you could have 1-3 who have
their own revolutions but decide to remain close to the USSR, but overall a surviving USSR is not likely to have any allies in Europe,
Mongolia would probably remain its ally though.
 
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POD no earlier than 1950. President Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama must still have been President of the United States during this timeline.

Very unlikely, with a surviving Soviet Union.

The USSR could survive if they don't invade Afghanistan, have no coup, and put the New Union Treaty into effect. Chances are, the Soviet Union would be far less EEEEVIL by today, if they survived and continued to reform. By the Soviet Union's end, there were actual elections.
 
President Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama must still have been President of the United States during this timeline.

I don't see "during the same years they were OTL" there, so here's an attempt:

1964 -- Mikhal Kruschev survives ouster; George HW Bush wins US Senate Election in Texas

1968 -- Reagan, with his running mate Bush, is elected President

Early 70's -- US Presence in Vietnam is escalated further; military is stretched, and deficits keep soaring, as does inflation

1971 -- Kruschev dies; the next Premier [is someone like Deng for the PRC; can't say which one]

1972 -- Reagan still wins re-election, in close race where Democrats blow it

1974 -- Reagan is impeached for abuses of power; Bush succeeds him; Bill Clinton is elected to the House of Representatives

1976 -- George Wallace is elected POTUS

1977-80 -- his single term is plagued with foreign policy disasters, as nation after nation in the third world joins the Soviet sphere of influence; Wallace tries a number of interventions to stop them, with some success, but mostly sees the public sour on high military spending and overuse; to make matters worse, the USSR mends things with the PRC, so the communist bloc is reunified

1978 -- Clinton is elected to the US Senate; GW Bush elected to the House

1979 -- marxists come to power in Iran; [no Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]

1980 -- Ted Kennedy challenges Wallace for the DNC nomination; wins the Presidency, with Bill Clinton as his running mate

1982 -- A new premier, Gorbachev, comes to power in the USSR; continues reforms, largely economic [a lot less glasnost]

1981-92 -- Kennedy's presidency, followed by that of his VP Clinton, sees a stabilization of US power and economy, but Soviet economic growth and power remain at advantage

1992 -- George W Bush elected President

1995 -- Soviet Union, and later its satellites, join the newly formed WTO

2008 -- Barack Obama elected President
 
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The Soviet Union in some form could survive and some of the Eastern bloc could remain allied to it, but with the requirements specified
their is no way to have the full USSR and all of the Eastern bloc remain.

Your best bet is a USSR comprised of Russia, the Central Asian SSR's and maybe Ukraine*.
As for the Eastern bloc, well their is no way to have it survive, atleast not as it was (IE Soviet satellites), you could have 1-3 who have
their own revolutions but decide to remain close to the USSR, but overall a surviving USSR is not likely to have any allies in Europe,
Mongolia would probably remain its ally though.

It might lose the Balctic States but even that isnt a sure, the rest of the SSR's stay through Georgia would be a problem.

The East Bloc are a bunch leeches the U.S.S.R is better off without them in many ways, but still theres no reason why reformist leaders cant take power and keep Communist regimes in power so long as economic reforms are successful.

The fall of the U.S.S.R was in most ways very unlikely it's quite easy to have POD's were it can keep going, through this can range from China style reforms, becoming loose commenwealth, or North Korea style crackdowns etc.
 
Having the USSR survive is as easy as getting rid of the August Coup. The Baltic States still leave, but you get a federal democratic socialist state from the others.

Having the Eastern bloc surviving...could we have WW3 in the 80s, the WP wins, and Europe is united under communism?
 
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