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What if, for whatever reasons Operation Unthinkable (the offensive variant) comes to fruition, and the allies succeed in defeating the soviet union in a long, protracted war, restoring a much weakened "White Russia" as it were and liberating all central Asian peoples, Ukrainians, etc.

What kind of a toll will take on the allied nations, and what kind of a post war world would it be?

Certainly a transition to a peacetime economy will take a very long time. And given how popular soviet propaganda made Stalin in '45, there might be an insurgency movement-- maybe by both far right and far left guerillas might unite against what is essentially an American-led allied world domination. There might be a sense that the war ended, and the wartime institutions and measures might last decades in order to remake the world in the allied image. The communists in America during the war, might get treated like the Japanese in internment camps, while all in all, the US and the UK become more authoritarian as societies.

But, apart from these immediate effects, what would global politics be without the cold war? What would the American and British domestic politics be? How would 2000 look like. I am more interested in popular culture and politics of such a TL. Any thoughts?
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