With any POD (or PODs) from 1945 to 1991, what would need to happen for:
- No dissolution of the Soviet Bloc or the Soviet Union
- Socialism in one form or another becomes the mainstream, most common, iddeology
- The USA falls in a similar way to the USSR (divided into several nations) with socialism as ideology
I'd imagine that corruption scandals, separatism, a stronger counter-culture movement, interventionism backfiring, endless bloody wars and ethnic tension would be what need to cause an American collapse, but for soviet survival i dont see a clear path
- No dissolution of the Soviet Bloc or the Soviet Union
- Socialism in one form or another becomes the mainstream, most common, iddeology
- The USA falls in a similar way to the USSR (divided into several nations) with socialism as ideology
I'd imagine that corruption scandals, separatism, a stronger counter-culture movement, interventionism backfiring, endless bloody wars and ethnic tension would be what need to cause an American collapse, but for soviet survival i dont see a clear path