late 20th century timelines.

I like the 1950s timeline that due to circumstances the US and USSR kind of have to play it straight and compete on who can do a better job assisting with genuine economic development in the third world.

This turns out to be a very good deal for a number of third world countries, and then they start flexing their muscles.
 
I myself wrote a TL with a PoD fairly late in the 20th century. It's titled Soyuz-80 and the PoD is that the Soviets invade Poland to suppress Solidarity in the early 80s. This leads to a completely different late 20th century/early 21st century in which the USSR reaches the year 2000 and later comes apart violently, like a Yugoslavia on steroids.
 
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