This is a background detail for a sci-fi novel and is not really important to the main plot or any specific ideological tenet. I have a tenuous grasp of non-RA2 history, so here’s a summary of what I’ve been shower-thoughting:
- Sino Soviet Split happens in the 60s, maybe like normal.
- Deng Xiaoping is assassinated or couped in the 70s, resulting in roading to capitalism
- USSR reacts with re-stalinization or w/e
- By 2010, China is fascist, USSR is principled AF, the US has a weird divide where some states turned to light socialism and some turned hard fascist, weakening the federal government for being effective at anything outside of imperialism.
I know in novel writing you can just hand-wave anything, but any advice for “making it work” or replacement ideas would be appreciated. The whole purpose of this is for me to rule-of-cool the USSR still being around.
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I don’t know the nitty gritty enough to say anything specific but the conditions outside of the USSR/China changing could also impact it. Maybe something happens to disrupt US / Europe relations or the post-war restructuring of the global economy, or a disaster hits the US making them less of a threat.
