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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?
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