What if a communist enclave?

During the cold war Berlin was a little capitalist enclave in the middle of communist east germany, but what if there had been a communist enclave in the middle of a capitalist nation. If, for example the USSR had participated in an invasion of Japan, or had an occupation zone in Austria, there could have been a communist chunk of Vienna or Tokyo in the middle of Austria or Japan.

Presumably people wouldn't be trying to escape into these Soviet dominated spots as they did into west berlin, but would the natives try to escape, and if so what would the soviets do about it?
 
Presumably people wouldn't be trying to escape into these Soviet dominated spots as they did into west berlin, but would the natives try to escape, and if so what would the soviets do about it?

probably the same thing they did in Berlin: build a wall.
 
How long tell the pepole of that communist Enclave escape form there .
If you Rember that is why the Soviets build the Berlin War because the East German People were leaving in droves .
 

Hendryk

Banned
If the USSR had a Berlin-like enclave in a non-Communist country, my guess is that they'd lavish money on it to make it a showcase of Soviet prosperity. It would be a life-size Potemkin village where life is much better than in the rest of the Soviet bloc--still unfree, but materially much more comfortable.
 
If the USSR had a Berlin-like enclave in a non-Communist country, my guess is that they'd lavish money on it to make it a showcase of Soviet prosperity. It would be a life-size Potemkin village where life is much better than in the rest of the Soviet bloc--still unfree, but materially much more comfortable.

Yeah, probally.
You would likely get a lot of capitalists defecting to there.
 
Vienna could be doable, as a counter to West Berlin - a sort of 'we'll have our East Vienna as long as you have West Berlin and until you leave West Berlin we won't leave East Vienna'

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Grey Wolf
 

Hendryk

Banned
You would likely get a lot of capitalists defecting to there.
I wouldn't go that far. You may have some of the more naive Western Communists visit the place and tell everyone how great it is, but that in itself would be little different from OTL.
 
I wouldn't go that far. You may have some of the more naive Western Communists visit the place and tell everyone how great it is, but that in itself would be little different from OTL.

A lot of people defected IOTL without this perfect town in plain sight.
 
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