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What if the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, created by the Soviet Union as a tool to show religious tolerance and respect of minorities turned into a prosperous jewish majority region and became basically like a second Israel? What would need to be changed for it to happen? (Removing Israel isn't...

In the October Revolution and Russian Civil War of OTL, Russia became an atheist Marxist state, abandoning its traditional religion of Orthodoxy. What if a Christian Socialist movement takes over Russia instead? It could be a Christianized version of the Bolsheviks, or perhaps the SRs or some...

This is an idea that I was toying with in the back of my head - what if the USSR follows a Chinese-style development model, with private and state-owned enterprises, export-oriented manufacturing, etc, while maintaining a single party state and explicit dedication to socialism? The real question...

Prelude: Birth of a Giant "I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." - President John F. Kennedy, 25th May, 1961, United States Congress, Washington DC...

So I thinking of a 1945/1946 divergence. Who could be a potential Reformer? Is there anyone Gorbachev or Yavlinsky style?

The USSR had a massive and diverse population of Muslims across the country - Tatars in Crimea, Tatars and Bashkirs in the Volga basin, and large majorities of the Caucasus and Central Asia, all of them facing repression from the atheistic government. The stubborn Basmachi uprising must have...

Alright. So I had this thought for a couple days, what if the Soviet Union established a colony on Mars? The POD I think for this TL would be Korolev's survival and, instead of trying to beat the USA to the Moon, the Politburo is convinced (somehow) that landing on the Moon before the Americans...

(this is my first post) I find in a lot of axis victories scenarios where either the entirety of Russia is annexed, by both japan and Russia or Russia collapses after a loss to Germany and becomes a fantasy land of airplane states, thief republics, autonomous gulags and funny edgy...

I am not incredibly knowledgable in this area, so this is more of a question of inquiry. What would happen if the Totalitarian ideology of Soviet leninism and stalinism never manifested, or was snuffed out by opposing forces? Would the West and the Nazis develop a strong hatred of Communism, or...

Map of the World 2021 The basic premise of the timeline is the survival of the USSR into the modern era and the repercussions of it. The basic PoD is the bomber that nearly killed Stalin in OTL in 1942 does kill him ittl, which sees a vastly different Soviet War Effort in WW2 here, which leads...

Hello, so I am relatively new to the forum. The first thread got locked, but now I can understand why. The intention was to simply start in a "super" medias res , with the death of this Nikolai Bukharin in 1986 between a discussion between an army general, who is in reality Zhirinovsky who in my...

KARAFUTO, US BASE SUNSHINE, JANUARY 1.1.1986, DECRYPTED AND TRANSCRIBED CONVERSATION BETWEEN GENERAL WALDEMAR WOLF EIDELSHTEIN AND UNKNOWN INDIVIDUAL BEGINNING OF TRANSCRIPT WWE : So why are we in DEFCON 2 ? UNKNOWN : Well, Uncle Buk kicked the bucket at the ripe old age of 97. WWE : No...

As I'm sure many posters might know, the 1990s in America saw the burst of the comic speculator market and the near-collapse of the US comic book industry. Collectors who bought up comics because they thought their value would increase with time suddenly found out that their "investment" was...

What if Stalin had lived a little longer? Thats not to say a decade or so, he had been in very poor physical health since 1945, but what if he'd lived another year or two, until 1954 or 1955? Theres the matter of the 'Doctors Plot' and Stalin's plan to deport virtually the entire jewish...

OTL: Wikipedia states that Ruslan Khasbulatov was the 'Second most powerful man in Russia after Boris Yeltsin in 1993.' During the Constitutional crisis the Russian Parliament (Khasbulatov the Speaker, Alexander Rutskoy Vice-President) pitted themselves against Boris Yeltsin (the President). To...

In 1953, the Soviet Army revolted after the head of the NKVD, Beria was sworn in as General Secretary. What would need to happen and who would become the next General Secretary? Would the Soviet Union survive to the turn of the millennium?

Would Italy have lost her territories gained during the war(like Savoy, Corsica, Cattaro, Dalmatia and Lubiana)? Would have Yugoslavia not being divided into East and West ? What else would have happened? Would have Kingdom of Syria exist today? What are your thoughts about it?

Could Lenin or other Communists rise to power in Russia if Germany surrendered late 1917 or early 1918 instead of November 11, 1918? Assuming Lenin still ends up in Russia somehow.

What would happen to the political Scape? Let's presume the WAllies are actually unsuccessful in liberating France, Norway and Denmark (and how they would be unsuccessful), what would happen afterwards?

So far I haven't seen that discussion about one of the most bizarre Hearts of Iron 4 workshop creations. So I thought I was it was a good idea to create a thread about the countries and the lore. I haven't played in a while so I can't get any information about it. I would say let's put the...