They missed the breakaway Azerbaijani Peoples Government, and Kurdish Republic of Mahabad in Iran. The left Iranian border should have been shifted downward.
If you want to go deeper, you can say that in this timeline the USSR would have likely rescinded the Percentage Agreements and incorporated Greece.
Also… Japan? Korea and Manchuria you can make an argument for sure, but the main Japanese islands? How?
Part of the (alleged) reason we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to prevent the USSR from entering the pacific theater and muscling in on post-war Japan. I have to assume they’re referring to that.
Yes, but the plan was at most the invasion of Hokkaido, with the British and Americans invading Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. Even that was considered an insane long shot since the Soviet Pacific Navy was unsure if it could undertake such an operation. Most attention was focused on Manchuria.
All this.
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You play the cold war mod for Vicky 2?
Nope, I’ve never played any of the Vic games. Never got around to them, and paradox games are daunting and exhausting. I already have my hands full with hoi4 and Stellaris lol
Do one better and pretend the Sino-Soviet Split never happened
Do one better and include all the AES countries in this Soviet Union
Do one better and include all the countries in this Soviet Union
Crap, somehow the USA managed to escape on the grounds that it’s a union of states and just annexed all its allies
That’s fine, with this map they won’t be able to exploit the global south so it will be collapsing within the week.
always the same map
I think in this situation Turkey would flip very fast.
Also wtf based Switzerland for once?
Alaska but awesome
It’s more likely that they freed all of mainland Europe than get Alaska back. Like, how would they even get there?
I think they’re implying pre-Soviet Russia never sold Alaska in the first place to the US
honestly, if the USSR did that, maybe it could’ve lasted a few more decades
we still have time guys lets do this
So a lot more leeches wouldn’t get to suck the blood of those below? Oh no, the horror.
They should’ve taken us alongside Alaska, but I understand the need to take baby steps. We could’ve had it all 😩
