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Okay, i decided that my old TL idea was shitty and so I'm going to be making another one; this project will focus on the paths of certain nations in a world where the UN is much more potent as a result of American superiority over the other three victorious but exhausted and unstable superpowers (the UK, USSR, and ROC). See my "Dystopian UN" thread for a better idea.

The first nation I will direct my attention to is Japan. In my TL I plan to have a much more successful JCP, that eventually capitalizes on earlier failures in the Japanese militarist leadership and is able to mount an uprising against it. This leads to the creation of North Japan, backed by the Communist (Stalinist) world, and South Japan, backed by the UN.
In the Cold War, Soviet Japan lags behind the South, and like OTL North Korea becomes super extreme. Its leadership espouses the insane ideology of "Supreme-Principle Revolution" or "Shinri-Kakumei". This leads to it being distanced from its allies and forming ever-worse relations with South Japan, which leads to a brutal second Japanese Civil War.

So what I need help on is:
- How does the JCP get more powerful? Are there any online texts I can read to learn more about the situation, since Wikipedia is unhelpful?
- Is the scenario at all plausible, or how could it be?
- Are there any suggestions?


There are three other possibilities, occurring in the same TL but in different nations/times:
- USSR: How the USSR, without American aid early on, is heavily damaged by WW2 (moreso than OTL) and after a short but bloody civil war in the aftermath of Stalin's 1949 death, joins a super-powerful USA in forming the UN with South China (ROC) and the UK.
- USA: How an intelligent, ambitious President, after a string of crappy predecessors, liberates Europe and negotiates the forming of the UN.
- North China: How Mao Zedong fights against Jiang Jieshi in a vastly different Anti-Japanese War and is forced to settle for the north part of China, where he becomes the leader of the international communist movement to counter the UN.

What do you guys think? Can anyone with a good knowledge of Asian history help?
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