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In our timeline, most of the rebel groups against European colonial empires were provided huge amounts of support by the USSR. Money, guns, military training, coaching on spreading a political movement among the disenfranchised poor, etc.

But what if the Soviet Union never came to be, and some conservative government was in charge of the Russian Empire? How much weaker would the rebel powers be? Would countries like France and Portugal that really wanted to dig in be able to hold on to their colonies?
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