MotF 45: Alternate Soviet Union

Krall

Banned
Alternate Soviet Union


The Challenge
Your challenge is to make a map depicting a state that acts as an alternate Soviet Union. The state in question must be socialist, and must act as/be seen as the leading socialist state in the world, fulfilling a position that the Soviet Union fulfilled in our timeline.


The Restrictions
There are no restrictions on when your map can be set, but the form of socialism used in your alternate Soviet Union must be recognisable as a form of socialism to modern people, and the alternate Soviet Union needs to be a great power, able to extend its influence across much of the world.

ASB maps are not allowed, but there is some leeway for future maps.


This round shall finish on Saturday the 8th of October.

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DireSituation

I hope this counts, as it's an alternate Soviet Union... in the future.


The earliest PoD here is the Kingdom of Hejaz staying independent from the Saudis in the 1920s. While this certainly leads to many PoDs in the Arab world, the world wars and the creation of Israel still occur very similarly to OTL. The Saudis hate the Hejazis and start to become more West-leaning while Hejaz becomes another Iran in the early '80s. More fun stuff happens in the region but barely butterfly anything too different anywhere else.

The second divergence is in 1991, when the USSR collapses and NATO is more or less disbanded as their primary enemy appears to have collapsed. After Boris Yeltsin's weak handling of the economy, the presidency of Vladimir Putin is seen as a godsend by many Russians. During this time, 9/11 happens and everything, but instead of just invading Afghanistan in 2001, Hejaz is also targeted by America. With the Taliban overthrown, the US makes the unwise choice of withdrawing from Afghanistan to focus their efforts in the Arabian peninsula... and this means expanding the war to Yemen and Iraq by 2005.

During this decade, China's economy grows exponentially, then flattens due to prolonged instability in its major oil sources and an ever-increasing inflation that finally becomes uncontrollable by the CCP in 2014. Oh, the US by now is in deeper economic sh*t than OTL thanks to a much more parasitic War on Terror.

By the mid-2010s, Putin's second rule (after being elected President again in 2012) turns Russia into an essential autocracy. Political parties exist in theory and Russia is a democracy de jure, but it's obvious to the world that it's not so, as Soviet-esque economic policies are introduced and the flags of the Russian armed forces returning to their old Soviet designs. After a brief war with Georgia (taking Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the process), the Caucuses fall under Russian influence. The same goes for Central Asia, which the Kremlin had been applying influence since the early 2000s.

In a US-free Afghanistan, it's not long before Karzai is assassinated and civil war breaks out once again, with the Taliban close to taking full control in 2021. Citing the spread of Islamic extremist groups spreading to Tajikistan and eastern Turkestan (a true fact), Russia commences an invasion of Afghanistan. Again.

By 2026, this is the state of the world. West Libya, Syria and North Korea were all failing dictatorships before the Kremlin came to their rescue at the last second, resulting in virtual Russian dependencies that allow the Kremlin to project both soft and hard power (usually the latter). Things aren't all going well for the FRU though, as the PRC is proving to be a serious threat to Russia.


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If it's still unclear, Russia is now more socialist than the Scandinavian countries but stops short of being a technical communist country. It does, however, promote actual communist parties around the world (with the exception of the CCP).
 
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Sumeragi

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Union of Asian Socialist Republic

The slatemate of the Battle of Mukden, where most of the Japanese land forces were decimated and the Russians too bloodied to fight further, led to the end of the war in Japan's favor after the battle of Tsushima. However, the large death count led many to question the motives of the Japanese government, leading to the birth of a socialist movement. In addition, the imperialist actions of the Empire alienated many more people, towards the path to Pan-Asianism.

Sun Yat-sen conversion to socialism was another spark leading to the formation of the Union of Asian Socialist Republics. While Sun did not abandon his Three Principles of the People, he place a great focus on the socialist aspect of Minsheng, bringing the support of the Chinese Communist Parties into the fold. The threatening left/right-wing conflicts of the Nationalists was concluded with left-wing supremacy during the life of Sun, which Chiang Kai-shek fought bitterly when he came to power. This socialist aspect of the Three Principles survived the annex which Chiang supplied to the Principle of Minsheng, becoming the bonding force between the Communists and the left-wing Nationalists.

The imperialist participation of Japan in the Great War heightened the socialist support in Japan, and when the Siberian Intervention continued to drain blood and riches, the people had had enough. Riots throughout the country turned into a revolution, in which the Japanese Communist Party was able to gain the reins of government. The Emperor was spared into quiet retirement, for he was still considered the symbol of the nation and an unfortunate man who was manipulated by the evil imperialists who had surrounded him. The murder of the Tsar and his family shocked many in Japan, making the nation distance itself from the Bolshevik. At the same time, the Far Eastern Republic was overturned, where a Menshevik government was installed, who joined the Japanese in establishing the Union of Asian Socialist Republics, comprised of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and FER.

The 1920's was an age of development for the UASR. Becoming the light for the oppressed colonies of Asia, the Union preached Pan-Asianism, anti-Bolshevik, anti-colonialism, and anti-fascism. The member republics developed industries, of which the FER provided resources, Japan the capital and labor, and Korea the energy and chemicals. In 1931, the Manchurian Incident allowed the UASR to establish the Manchurian Socialist Republic. While becoming a major power, the Union was forced into war with Chiang's China when a shootout in Beijing started after some Nationalist forces lynched a Chinese Communist Party member at Lugou Bridge, resulting in the unauthorized invasion of of UASR-held Beijing. The Union declared total war on the "Fascist Regime of the Reactionary Chiang Kai-Shek", starting the Great Asian Liberation War. The USSR used the war as an opening to harass the FER.

1941 was the year that the entire world became engulfed in hell. Germany launched in invasion of the Soviet Union, which the UASR used to their advantage in occupying eastern Siberia after war was declared. In addition, the embargo set by Pro-Chiang USA also led to an attack on Pearl Harbor, bringing the entire world into conflict. Now the is split into three sides: The Allies, the Axis, and the Asian Socialists. With support from the oppressed colonial people of Asia, the Union has started its march to liberate their comrads of the continent, and to bring down the Stalinists, the fascists, and the imperialists.

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Otherworld

Union of French Socialists Republics

During WW1, in 1916, France is suffering a lot : Germany has taken control of Northern and Eastern France, and is close to Paris. But in Normandy and around Lyon, two industrial areas, workers are revolting : under the impulsion of Georges Lacrand, the revolt grow up into a Revolution. In February 1917, the communists control Paris and a the Treaty of Calais is signed : many French territories now belongs to Germany.

But the war is not finished : Royalists and Nationalists rebels and a long Civil War (1917 - 1922) happen. The principal bases of the Royal-Nationalists are Gironde and Britanny ; the first one is invaded in 1919, the second one in 1921.

In 1920, with the Treaty of Boston, Germany finally loses the WW1 and releases the German-occupied French territories. Quickly, France annex these territories, and with the post-war chaos, invade Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Swiss, Corsica, Lombardia, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. And France become the Union of French Socialists Republics (UFSR) or Union des Républiques Socialistes Françaises (URSF) in French, a communist Great Power, ready to fight for the Workers.

Note : the text in the top left of the page is : "We are the People!"

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Mumby

Mumby

The POD is in the 1770s, when Parliament agreed to a compromise with the Continental Congress, and the colonies were integrated into the Kingdom of Great Britain. All goes swimmingly up until the 1830s, when the South seceded over the issue of slavery. This precipitated a crisis across the board. The British East India Company saw which way the wind was blowing, and pledged its soldiers to the New Commonwealth. For a short time in the 1840s, the New Commonwealth was a conventional republic until the Radicals became the ruling party.

The Radicals reforged the entire realm, integrating British India into the new Federated British Commonwealth, as well as abolishing the 'reactionary' Hudson Bay Company, and integrating them as territories. The protectorates are shifting, as they are mostly ruled by native monarchs, and are bastions of Tory ideology. The 'Tory' Shires have been altered into collectives. Most of Europe despises the Rads, and Britain now seems to be at the forefront of industry and social progessivism.

This is basically a massive give-away to future events in my TL.

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GodRaimundo

Basically, the Central Powers win WW1, as the Schlieffen plan is carried out as originally planned, smashing the Allies at the Marne, leading to a quick French capitulation. Suddenly faced by a much larger force than they had expected, the Russians sue for peace despite minor successes against the Austrians in Galicia.

With their crushing defeat and the harsh peace imposed upon them by Germany, many in France begin to lose faith in central authority. Several successive weak governments did nothing to help the situation, sitting on the fence. This left them vulnerable to fire from both sides of the political spectrum, and by the mid twenties, public faith in the government had almost completely disintegrated. Seeing an opportunity, the radical right wing, known as the National Front, staged a coup d'état. Unfortunately, their suport was not as widespread as they had hoped, and they were fiercely resisted by the left. Army units loyal to the National Front eventually secured Paris and the North-east of the country, but were unable to subdue the Socialist militias in the west and south. In these areas, the People's Republics of Brittany and Aquitaine, and the Popular Republic of Occitania in the south.

France was not the only nation to suffer weak governments in the wake of the war. Spain and Italy also suffered a series of weak governments and civil wars similar to France. In spain, this resulted in two small socialist republics in the north: the Catalonian People's Republic and the Euskadi Socialist Republic, while in Italy, the Socialists came out on top, seizing the entire north of the country down to Rome, establishing the Italian Popular Republic.

As the twenties wore on, the nationalist governments of France, Spain, Naples, and Portugal, fearing further socialist uprisings within their remaining territories, became increasingly intolerant police states, focussing more and more on their militaries and neglecting their economies.

In the face of this threat, the socialist republics began integrating more and more, culminating in the 1929 Treaty of Narbonne, bringing the Union of Socialist European Republics (USER) into existence.

At the beginning of the thirties, the strains on the nationalist governments were starting to show; rising uunemployment, increasing unrest, and stagnant economies were taking their toll. The nderground socialist movements found fertile recriuting ground in the unemployed. They were also covertly approached by USER agents, offering weapons and funding. In 1932, the French socialist underground decided that the time was right to rise, and called strikes across the nation, paralyzing the government forces, and allowing their coup to proceed without much of a fight, as the demoralized and separated government forces generally surrendered without resistance.

The underground movements in Spain, Portugal, and Naples all followed suit within the next three years, and the new governments applied for membership of USER.

Meanwhile, Austria-Hungary was slowly falling apart. In 1928, Hungary declared it's independence, and a 'transitional' military government was set in place. In 1930, with no sign of democratic elections on the horizon, Hungary also fell into civil war. Galicia seized it's independence, but the military managed to hold down the rest of the nation.

The war had adverse effects to the south too. In the Balkan War that followed, Macedon broke away from Serbia, and Moldavia split off from Romania. Beginnning in 1932, a wave of socialist revolutions broke over the peninsula, culminnating in the overthrow of the governments of Montenegro, Serbia, Macedon, and Romania. By 1938, the new governments had also joined the USER. However, the Balkans were still a fairly unstable area, and the USER was increasingly drawn into conflicts in the region. This intervention finally led to the Balkan Occupation in 1940, in which the USER invaded and occupied all of the Balkans from Greece and Istanbul to Moldavia and Hungary's southern border. In the occupied territories, they set up provisional military governments as a first step to integrating them intto the USER as full socialist states.

Over the forties, the German Empire, once the all-powerful behemoth dominating the continent, was suffering industrial unrest which was growing more and more organised, recieving covert aid from the USER, which was doing the same for national socialist revolutionaries in Hungary. The fifties would mark the beginning of a new era in Europe...

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Chamonix

The Deist Roman Republic survives, for a short while. In 1836, the Radical revolution under Giuseppe Adolphi in Roman creates the Roman Radical Republic. After the Social Wars, Adolphi found himself master of... little more than he had started with, and now he was upon his deathbed.

When Adolphi died, Massimo, a proud philosopher, took control in 1865. As wars raged on, he quietly signed treaties with the republics around him, creating a small buffer zone in return for a free trade zone being placed over all Rome.

Massimo was followed by Franco, whose rule was marked by the creation of the Confederation of Italian Socialist Republics in 1893 and the declaration of the Socialist Association in 1902. By 1930, the Socialist Association had expanded to take the banking cities of Milan and Florence under Giorgio, and in 1942, the Venetians joined the association, unifying Italy under a single state for the first time since the fall of Rome.

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Kaiphranos

Kaiphranos

Donor
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survives, modernizes, loses a war, and falls victim to a radical revolution.

 

Analytical Engine

The PoD for this one is somewhere in the 5th century. The Britons managed to get their act together, defeat the Anglo-Saxons and unite the whole island under a single country. Meanwhile, the Franks never really rose to power; instead, the Burgundians took control of most of southern and central Gaul, while a remnant of Syagrius’ kingdom held on until it united with Prydain during the 9th century through personal union.

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Fast forwards some fourteen hundred years or so, and the world has moved on considerably.

The year, in our reckoning, is 1933 (technology is closer to 1970-ish), and much of the world is divided into two main camps – the Demokrats (TTL’s term for socialist movements) and the Organisation of Free States.

The Demokrats are a rather varied bunch. The “Celtic” Demokrats are mostly Syndicalist in terms of industry, with public transport, communication networks etc. nationalised, and state capitalist in other sectors. Naturally, they are centred on the Unol Gweriniaethau y Gweithwyr (United Workers’ Republics), which is the former Prydeinic Empire following the War of Three Oceans[1] in OTL’s 1877, and the subsequent *Great Strike. Many of the former colonies (and integral areas), such as Ireland, Bornew and Kmer embraced the Demokratic Movement, but decided to remain outside the UGG, while several other countries (such as the Bod Freestate and Chimu) have since allied themselves with it.

The “Nordic” Demokrats are more like OTL’s Social Revolutionaries, but with a more ethnocentric bent. These are the Nordic Union and its former colonies, in Hesperia[2], Africa and the Megas Ocean[3].

Unfortunately, relations between the two blocs have become strained of late…

The OFS is a rather looser organisation than they would have you believe, especially since the feared “Global Workers’ Uprising” has most annoyingly failed to materialised. Burgundy and its allies are the only really committed anti-Demokratic group; Persia is mostly in it for all the oil money Burgundy constantly heaps on it, and is an OFS member despite having heavy Demokratic leanings itself (which it denies in the presence of Burgundian diplomats). The rest is mostly due to fear of their Demokratic neighbours rather than the Demokratic block specifically. (Jia China is a major trading partner of the UGG, for instance, despite the latter’s mostly bloc solidarity support of the Bod DF and the Demokratic State of Nihon.)

However, that doesn’t mean that the OFS doesn’t have teeth. Burgundy and its allies – Italy, Saxony, Moravia, Geatland[4], and Monarchist Hispania – and protectorates are more than capable of going toe-to-toe with the UGG if it really had to, with Persia as a useful counterweight to the Nordics.

The Byzantines have hung on and maintained a great power status. One would usually expect them and their allies to be enthusiastic members of the OFS if (a) Burgundy wasn’t so arsehole-ish about it all the time, (b) Persia, and (c) it is actually mostly Orthodox Social Democratic, and actually reasonably friendly towards the Demokratic powers.

The two powers constantly try to get the neutral powers, especially Fang China, on their side, but they, much like the rest of the world’s countries, are more interested in staying out of the not-war currently being waged between the League of Llundain and the OFS.

But Fang China is not going to be pushed around – recently, it has joined the (fairly short) list of countries with atom weapons, having detonated a Cronium[5] Bomb in the Gobi Desert…

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[1] TTL’s equivalent to WWI.
[2] South America.
[3] Pacific Ocean.
[4] It broke away from the Nordic Union during the Demokratic Revolution, and has been hiding behind Burgundy’s metaphorical skirts ever since.
[5] Plutonium.
 

B_Munro

In this world, a somewhat different history of the German Socialists (with more shootings) and a longer WWI with no US intervention led to Red Germany and Hungary (and very nearly a Red France as well, making efforts to Crush the Revolution in Its Cradle not entirely successful).Lenin in the meantime never made it to the Finland Station and the Whites eventually won after a long and ennervating struggle and reconquered the no less than three quarreling Ukranian states.

In the 1930s, Spain going Red with heavy German aid led to a right-wing takeover of a panicky France, and later an alliance with Fascist Italy and White (brutal, unpopular regime) Russia to finish off the Red Menace once and for all. Fortunately, the French *Fascists were no more interested in fancy new tank maneuvers than their OTL counterparts, and the Germans were able to knock them out of the war fast enough to be able to turn the bulk of its forces east before the Russians were quite done with mopping up Poland. The UK joined the war late: as much as they disliked the Reds, they really weren't happy with aiding to create a Fascist-run Europe by joining a "pre-emptive" strike on the Germans. Only after the fall of France did the UK join in, but the White Russian regime was ultimately less stable than the Stalinist one..

The development of the atomic bomb by German, Czech and Hungarian scientists in 1946 probably spared Europe from a joint British-US-Japanese invasion, and added to the ferocious political in-fighting which developed over the "who lost Europe" question. The cold war that developed was no less acrimonious than that of OTL, and although Red Germany, albiet somewhat radicalized by the war, was never as nasty a place as OTLs Stalin's USSR or Mao's China, that did not prevent the Americans from developing a rather lurid image of the situation...

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Megaman03

The following excerpt was taken from "The Scarlet Banner : A History of Socialist Revolution in the Early to Mid 20th Century" by William Bryant. First printed in 1976 by Red Revolutionary Press

After the victory of the Central Powers in WW1, a harsh peace was imposed on the former Entente by the victorious Central Powers with the signing of the Treaty of Munich and Germany was able to impose its will on much of Europe via the newly created Mitteleuropa Economic Union. Mitteleuropa was created in order to achieve economic and cultural hegemony over Central Europe and subsequent economic & financial exploitation of this region combined with direct annexations, settlement of German colonists,expulsion of non-Germans from annexed areas, and eventual Germanization of puppet states created as a buffer between Germany and Russia whose political, economic and military aspects would be under the control of the German Reich. However, victory for Germany came at a price. Austria-Hungary was now almost at the point of collapse and Bulgaria was nearly bankrupted by the war. The German attempts at enlarging the German High Seas fleet at the expense of the Royal Navy ended in a disastrous failure as the British scuttled their ships rather than hand it over to Germany as a final defiant gesture.

In the former Entente nations, the people were increasingly frustrated with their governments. The French and British especially were angered over the large death toll on their nations bright young minds over a pointless war. Despite the war ending, rationing of food and other essentials continued as they were forced to pay enormous war reparations to Germany numbering in the hundreds of billions of dollars. In July 1921, the German government issued the Berlin ultimatum, demanding reparations in gold or foreign currency to be paid in annual instalments plus 26 percent of the value of France's exports as well as that of the UK.The first payment was paid when due in June 1921.The total reparations far exceeded the total French and British gold and foreign exchange. German troops soon occupied the main industrial centres of Northern France in an attempt to get them to pay with goods as well as France began falling back in its payments. In an attempt to pay the reparations, the governments of the UK and France began printing massive amounts of money, turning the pound and franc into virtually useless sheets of paper. It soon cost millions of francs to buy a loaf of bread. As the French and British economies began to collapse, people began flocking to their local Socialist parties which promised them prosperity for all and a new economic principle where the workers owned the means of production. In 1923, workers began rioting in France and the UK and by the end of the year, these workers were getting more support from the general public as well as the army which resented the massive cuts in the military budget and slashes in the wages of servicemen. After a swift civil war, the Socialist Worker's Party took over Metropolitan France as armed Socialist militias occupied Paris itself. Algeria and Tunisia joined the new revolutionary republic as they were promised to be treated as equals in the newly Socialist nation. A few short months later, the UK collapsed and was replaced by a new Union of Socialist British Republics. The old governments of France and the UK would flee to French West Africa and Canada respectively. At the same time, Italy is taken over by Fascists under the leadership of Benito Mussolini.

However, while they were the first Socialist nations to emerge, they would not be the ones to lead the Socialist cause in international politics. In October 30, 1929, a day now known as Black Wednesday, the Berlin Stock Exchange and New York Stock exchange collapsed, signalling the beginning of the Great Depression. It was also during this time that the Socialist movement in the United States began experiencing tremendous growth. The message of equality and freedom for all was very attractive to the working people of the United States and the farmers and workers who were seeing their fortunes dwindling as the Depression continued. When news broke out that the wealthy were still leading comfortable lives while many were out on the streets, protests broke out in the major cities of North America and many called for open revolution. After the December Revolution, the Socialist Party USA began calling for an armed uprising against the American government, sparking off the Second American Civil War between the American government, Socialists and Ultra-Nationalists in 1934. Worried that the United States would be taken over by either extreme, Canada and Mexico began sending in troops and funding to the beleaguered US government. However, despite this, the Socialists won the civil war and launched invasions of Mexico and Canada. With the aid of workers militias and sympathetic army units, the crimson red banner was soon flying high in Ottawa and Mexico city and with Socialist regimes in charge. The British government in exile was able to flee to Australia.

In 1936, pressure from nationalist guerilla factions, a declining economy and growing resentment between the various nationalities within the Austro-Hungarian Empire finally caused it's collapse in March of that year with the nations of Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria and Hungary emerging as the successor states of the fallen empire. In August, Austria petitioned for assimilation into the German Empire. The German government enthusiastically accepted this offer and Austria was fully incorporated as the fifth kingdom of the German Empire.

Meanwhile, Bulgaria and Greece were suffering terribly as the Great Depression continued. Despite winning the Great War, Bulgaria was nearly bankrupted and her economy was on the rocks, experiencing periods of mostly slow growth and economic contraction. When the Bulgarian government announced fresh pay cuts, job slashes and other measures in an attempt to bolster its failing economy, the people rose up and overthrown the Bulgarian monarch and established a people's government. The same happened in Greece and Albania. In 1940, the Ottoman puppet states of the Caucasus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan freed themselves from the Ottoman yoke and established the Union of Sovereign Transcaucasian Republics. It is also on this year that the nations of America, Britain, France, Canada and Mexico establish the Socialist League. All members of the Socialist league are democratic nations with equal freedoms and rights for all its citizens. Economically, these nations are a mix of centrally planned state owned entities and democratic workers enterprises under independent Socialist control.

By year 1943 tensions were already rising between the "Free Alliance" consisting of Germany and her allies along with the "free" British and French forces in their colonies. Spain and Portugal have recently emerged from violent, devastating civil wars which saw the rise of Marxist and Syndicalist parties in these nations. Mitteleuropa is stagnating as the German economy begins to stagnate and it has less control of its puppets than it used to. In Ukraine, the Agrarian Farmer's and Workers Party in coalition with the Social Democrats have won the recent general elections and have put social reformer, Nikita Khrushchev in power, challenging the domination of pro-German parties within Mitteleuropa. In the major German satellite states, small-scale Communist uprisings have been breaking out, especially in the large cities.
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Desmond Hume

My entry. The POD is that there is no Spanish-American War, so Theodore Roosevelt never becomes president and the Progressive Era never gets off the ground. The USA continues to be dominated by trusts and robber-baron capitalism, and the labor movement becomes much more radicalized by its lack of access to the political process and violent suppression. As the Gilded Age drags on into the Twenties, the Socialist Party is overtaken by radicals who preach revolution rather than participation in corrupt electoral politics.

The Revolution comes in October 1929, when the President (bought and paid for by US Steel et al), orders the Army to intervene against a national strike called by the Socialist Party. First in Pittsburgh and later in many other cities, the soldiers instead take the side of the striking workers. This leads to the outbreak of the Second American Civil War, which ends in 1932 with a total Socialist victory. The defeated side retreats in disarray; some flee to Alaska, which ultimately joins the British Commonwealth for protection; some to Hawai’i, whose government eventually renounces its claim to be the legitimate government of the United States and becomes an independent republic; and some flee to the Caribbean, where they impose themselves by force on independent Cuba, and US-occupied Dominican Republic and Haiti and claim to be the United States in exile. This government continues to rule from Santo Domingo to the present day, enforcing racial segregation on the natives of its territories and hyperbolically promising to retake the mainland some day despite being outnumbered 3 to 1 on Hispaniola by Dominicans and Haitians who passionately hate the American oppressors.

Following the war, the United States becomes the American Federation of Socialist Republics. For its first forty years of existence, the AFSR is unapologetically active in spreading socialism to the rest of the Western Hemisphere and also supports anti-colonial movements in other parts of the world. They have much success, as socialist movements sponsored by the AFSR win power in Mexico, Central America, and the Andean nations. Fearful of socialism spreading further, in 1955 the non-socialist nations of South America form an alliance and seek European aid to oppose the AFSR. The SATO nations become allied with the Atlantic Defense Pact nations of Britain, and France, who by this time have won one war with Germany (in 1916) fought another to a draw (1942), and are concerned about how close Germany (now a constitutional monarchy but governed frequently by the SPD and practicing a purely opportunistic foreign policy) is getting with the AFSR, especially since Russia has been unstable since the 1914-16 war and is in pretty wretched shape after unambiguously losing the 1942 war. Spain later joins this pact, as its anti-socialist government won a civil war thanks to Anglo-French assistance.

In 1960 the AFSR invades Cuba to “liberate” it from the US exile government, which is now confined only to Hispaniola. This brings the ADP into the Caribbean, as they want to stop the ASFR from threatening their own colonies. A period of cold war ensues, turning hot in 1970 when the ASFR sends troops to Peru to help put down an anti-socialist rebellion in the Amazon. The ADP gives massive proxy aid to Brazil and Venezuela to intervene in Peru, and in 1973 the world is on the brink of its first nuclear war when the AFSR mobilizes its army on the Canadian border. That crisis passes, but the Amazon crisis spreads to Bolivia. The Bolivian conflict ends in a stunning result, as the combined armies of the SATO nations (generously supplied by Britain and France) manage to hold their ground against AFSR armies and even carve out a “free” Bolivian republic in the eastern lowlands (which Bolivia is the free one of course depends on who you ask). This embarrassment leads to a leadership change in the AFSR, as longtime President and Socialist Party Chairman Richard Nixon “decides” to “retire” to his California “home.” The Bolivian war is only referred to in discrete terms in AFSR propaganda, by labels like “recent events.” In 1980 the AFSR is still the world’s leading socialist nation, but its future is increasingly uncertain as it finds few reliable allies in Europe or Asia and its leadership seeks to tone down the nation’s involvement in international conflict…(map follows in next post).
 

Martin23230

Nearly too late with this one, damn you university!!
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In this timeline, after a First World War that goes on for another two years, the German Spartacist/KPD movement gathers enough momentum and supporters that it successfully takes control of Germany. Soon after the German Revolution communist revolts break out across Europe, supported by the German Red Armies. Chaos reigns, and after the dust has settled from what became known as the European Revolution the Union of European Worker's Republics was created, stretching across Europe from the North Sea to the Adriatic.
The UEWR is formed out of 12 equal Worker's Republics, listed on the map below. In practice the 7 German Republics usually vote in the Supreme Worker's Council together, and as such they remain listed under the old German Union. This is partially why there has been resistance to intergrating Hungary and Denmark into the UEWR.

Anyway, the map is below.
Major Powers:
The Union of European Worker's Republics: The major power in Europe, also holds a lot of power through supported socialist states in Africa, Asia and South America.
The Alliance of Free Nations: The name given to the alliance between the UK, France and the US (not shown), with several other countries tapped on mainly for protection. Mainly very uneasy about combating enemies from either side, often engages in proxy wars with the UEWR.
The Tsarist Empire of Russia: Revolution in Germany provided a new focus and a much bigger goal for the Communists. Russia became an extremely despotic state; though it is slowly modernising in every field other than political.
The Rome-Madrid Axis: Key players in Europe but not huge internationally. Often is forced to work with the other side; e.g. exchanging Südtirol for Italian Switzerland. Their closely growing bonds with Greece may well drag them into a war some time soon.

Key to numbers on the main map:
1 Ireland was so close to full independence, but the socialists getting involved forced the UK's hand.
2 Not a happy place if you are European, along with the rest of Red Africa. Only cordial links with the UEWR.
3 They get very annoyed if you call them French. They get EVEN MORE annoyed if you suggest they should rejoin the rest of the Low countries. If you then go on to mention Brussels they are likely to be excused from the dinner table.
4 Don't really like any side but neutrality didn't work last time. Side with the French and forget Geneva...
5 ... who wanted rump Switzerland to join France; the other cantons called their bluff and kicked them out.
6 Berlin's not that interested in Denmark per say, but Greenland on the other hand...
7 One thing about the Reds; they tend to like ethnic borders. The Poles could live with this,...
8 ... the Czechs on the other hand have the opposite opinion.
9 A slight oddity of history. Not a great place to live, but any complaints and the neighbours would be more than happy to step in.
10 Brought back into the Tsarist sphere after a hard fight.
11 Part of 10. Consider themselves lucky they could chose Helsinki over Moscow or (God forbid) Berlin.
12 Not many Poles nowadays, but still enough to resist Russian calls for a Finland-like status.
13 Like the idea of this Fascist idea, just the thing for Cyprus. Close to becoming a full Axis member.
14 Can't ally with the Russians or Greeks for obvious reasons, and the Allies are both to far away and too close for comfort. As such kind of left hanging, hoping to form a fifth(!) power bloc with those Middle Eastern states that aren't red yet.

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Austria collapses during the 1848 Revolutions, and rapidly becomes a radical worker's state spread along the Danube. Russia tries to intervene through the Pannonian Plain and is soundly trounced, leading to the Danubian principalities being absorbed by the radicals. In the meantime Italy gets... complicated, in a religious/ethnic conflict way. Eventually the Danubians are mostly successful on the peninsula, with Lombardy, Venetia and the Papal Legations merged into the confederation, while the rest of Italy unites under an aggressive papacy protected by the Savoyards in the north and the Bourbons in the south, ostensibly under French tutelage.

In the meantime France is, slowly, stabilized as a moderate, somewhat conservative, republic under first Cavaignac, and later Thiers. Across the Rhine Berlin gathers the smaller German states who fear the radicals in Vienna under her wing, except for a few that can't decide if they hate the radicals or the reactionaries more. Further east Russia clamps down hard, and then suddenly opens up under liberal reforms to counteract the dissent from their failed invasion, and the pressures, & extensional threat, of sharing a border with a radical worker's state.

Over the next twenty years butterflies happen; especially in colonial matters.

In 1883 the next great European conflict breaks out when the Danubians try to bring Bavaria into their sphere of influence and Paris, Berlin, Rome, and St. Petersburg (as well as Istanbul) move to crush the worker's state.

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