After the surrender of the United States to the Soviet alliance in 1965, work began on revitalizing America’s derelict and war-ravaged cities. By 1978, a visitor to the Big Apple would find himself in a city in love with its new proletariat background.
Love both of them... although the New York one could easily be from an alt-Red Alert 2 TL, where the Soviet invasion was more successful. Or the Soviet ending of RA2: Yuri's Revenge.