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I'm in the beginning stages of a TL involving the USSR winning the cold war and the collapse of the US as a superpower (which is supposed to be similar to the OTL Soviet collapse), and I have several questions:

1. What would be a useful (and plausible) POD for the purposes above?
2. If America disunited (for whatever reason), what nations would be most likely to secede?
3. What would be the immediate after-effects of the USSR's victory?

I don't intend for nuclear war or WW3 to happen during the TL, as I consider it cliché. So, what POD should I use (I'm thinking of setting it during WW2) and what should I take into account?
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