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With the recent Chinese police stations drama, it raises the question- could the Soviets have mitigated their defector problem by sneaking agents in, hiding police stations in America and other NATO countries, then sending KGB agents out from them to intimidate potential security risks? How...

Part 1. World Cup 1974 Augusto Pinochet, one of the most controversial characters, if not world, then at least South American history, a tough dictator who killed many of his opponents, but imagine that if he somehow accidentally dies in an accident in the Chilean army. But the essence of this...

Very quick question because I cannot find a definite answer to this, when Stalin first invaded Finland, did he had in mind to annex the entire state, to sort of restore the Grand Duchy of Finland in a red coat of paint as a new Finnish SSR? because it seems that after it was made clear that the...

This story is written with the permission of the Redditor who originally came up with this scenario, No Biscotti 711. Those of you who find the work in question that inspired this, please, no spoilers. Chapter 1: One Itchy Finger March 7th 1965 Selma, Alabama The previous demonstrations and...

I am going to tag @CountofDooku because he is the first I have seen which is doing a USSR timeline, @nixonshead @TimothyC @SingularityG3 @Tshhmon @Juumanistra since you have timelines regarding space. I was thinking of what would need for the Soviets to reach the moon between those dates, not...

Like the title implied. What if just like our tl the hostage crisis goes off on the American Embassy in Tehran, but before the American can react the Soviets/KGB manage to get them out and into west Germany. What would be the political consequences for this towards the Carter administration and...

The Greek Civil War took place from 1943 to 1949. It was mainly fought against the established Kingdom of Greece, which was supported by the United Kingdom, the United States and France and won in the end. The losing opposition was governed by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its military...

A lot of historical reading over years has given me this idea, but the two articles I'm linking summarize my line of thinking fairly comprehensively. Taiwan: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/question-why-didnt-mao-invade-taiwan-60837 Yugoslavia...

Excluding Prussia, what could have been some alternate, other names that would have been used to represent east Germany? (Basically if it was referred to as something else rather than just East German Democratic Republic)

Hello everyone! I have a challenge for you. Make Kaliningrad go independent following the collapse of the USSR while still being Russia majority, and being part of the russian SFSR prior to that.

How could communist Romania from the 1950s to the 1980s have improved its economy and gdp? Perhaps becoming one of the largest economies in Eastern europe? (After USSR)

Would the USSR have survived longer if gorbachev didn't try liberalizing and reforming it? What would change in our history? When would it have eventually collapsed?

In the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev suggested that the Lithuanian SSR should annex Kaliningrad oblast. Irl, Antanas Sniečkus declined this offer as it would give Lithuania a massive russian minority. But, what if he accepted? Would Lithuania be subject to the same colonization by Russians like...

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...

From “Permanent Revolution: A History of Trotsky’s Russia” by Pavel Nikolayevsky When Karl Marx first penned “Das Kapital”, he had no idea what monsters he would inspire. While it is reasonable to believe that Marx had good intentions at heart, his teachings would become the basis for one of...

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...