First, some backstory. In a TL I'm working on, the Nazis retreat at the (first) Battle of Stalingrad. This puts them at a better position for the Second, in which they overwhelm the Soviets. The Nazis proceed to conquer basically all of European Russia, until the Allies retake it (in 1944; ITTL, the Second World War ends in 1947, with the nuclear bombings of Berlin and Cologne, called the Überfall), and establish a neo-Tsarist state in the area by 1949, called the Imperial State of Muscovy, led by Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovitch, with only minimal Operation Unthinkable-esque fighting with the USSR. My questions about this scenario are thus:
1. How viable is the survival of this state? ITTL, the western allies (USA, UK) are stronger, and only the USA has the atom bomb. I had a major conflict about the creation of Muscovy, the Battle of Perm, planned; should there be more?
2. Are there better candidates to lead a neo-Tsarist Russia in this timeframe? Alexander was probably not the most qualified, or legitimate, contender for the throne, so who could be?
3. Is a world where Casablanca's hypothetical sequel, Brazzaville, gets made dystopian or not?
1. How viable is the survival of this state? ITTL, the western allies (USA, UK) are stronger, and only the USA has the atom bomb. I had a major conflict about the creation of Muscovy, the Battle of Perm, planned; should there be more?
2. Are there better candidates to lead a neo-Tsarist Russia in this timeframe? Alexander was probably not the most qualified, or legitimate, contender for the throne, so who could be?
3. Is a world where Casablanca's hypothetical sequel, Brazzaville, gets made dystopian or not?