Decolonization in a Lessened Cold War World

Let's say that, due to different military decisions on the part of the Soviets, the Germans, and the Western Allies, WWII goes much more poorly for the Soviets and much better for the Western Allies (perhaps due to some combination of Italy never declaring for the Axis and Stalin committing suicide shortly after Barbarossa is launched). The Soviets lose more territory over the course of the war and several million more people, while the British and Americans roll more easily through Europe and Germany surrenders somewhat earlier, perhaps after a coup, leading to noticeably fewer American/British/Free French soldiers dying. While the Soviets manage to get back to their pre-war borders, they don't have the ability to project their power much further than that, and all of Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Southeastern Europe are part of *NATO's sphere (perhaps with some of those countries ending up with different borders).

What would decolonization look like under such a scenario? Here, the Soviets will lack at least some of their ability to project their power worldwide, and the Western European countries would have lost fewer people. As such, would Britain, France and the rest have a stronger incentive to maintain their colonial empires, and with less of a communist bogeyman on the world stage, would America be less willing to pressure them to decolonize?

I assume that, by this stage, decolonization for most, if not all, of the various countries under European control was essentially inevitable (for example, India), but under these circumstances, how different would the details be? Could we actually see a more prolonged and bloody process of decolonization in certain areas? How would this affect the development of Africa, Asia, and other parts of the globe?
 

BigBlueBox

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Assuming the Soviets haven't conquered the Baltic states and refuse to let them go, there probably wouldn't be a NATO. And if the Communists loose the Chinese Civil War there won't be a Cold War at all.
 
Assuming the Soviets haven't conquered the Baltic states and refuse to let them go, there probably wouldn't be a NATO. And if the Communists loose the Chinese Civil War there won't be a Cold War at all.

Hence the asterisk. My essential point is that is this a scenario where almost all of Central and Eastern Europe is free from Soviet influence.
 
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