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What if the Sino-Soviet border clashes in 69 erupted into a much larger war that eventually led to a nuclear exchange? China turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland but still unoccupied, a weakened Soviet Union perhaps facing a rebelling Warsaw Pact (if not reaching Glasnost sooner). The USA perhaps invading Vietnam and/or North Korea (depends on a lot). The Cold war essentially over by the mid-70s, but the United States has already gone to the moon at least once. (All of this seems pretty reasonable IMO).

How do things develop from here? What happens to how people view the history, how communism is viewed, how does pop culture develop, etc?
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