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Unusually for this series, there is no POV from the home timeline to outline the differences between our history and this alternate; therefore the Point of Divergence for this timeline is left a bit vague. The earliest stated POD is the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The alternate United States backed down, permitting the Soviet Union to maintain nuclear missiles in Cuba. This was the first signal that the US was not so resolute as it claimed. Subsequently, the United States withdrew its forces from the Vietnam War in 1968. Gradually all of Asia fell to Communism. In Europe popular fronts where built up between Democratic Socialists and hardline communists leading Europe and eventually the United States to fall to Communism by the end of the 20th century. No details are given as to how this

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  • Unusually for this series, there is no POV from the home timeline to outline the differences between our history and this alternate; therefore the Point of Divergence for this timeline is left a bit vague. The earliest stated POD is the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The alternate United States backed down, permitting the Soviet Union to maintain nuclear missiles in Cuba. This was the first signal that the US was not so resolute as it claimed. Subsequently, the United States withdrew its forces from the Vietnam War in 1968. Gradually all of Asia fell to Communism. In Europe popular fronts where built up between Democratic Socialists and hardline communists leading Europe and eventually the United States to fall to Communism by the end of the 20th century. No details are given as to how this
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  • Unusually for this series, there is no POV from the home timeline to outline the differences between our history and this alternate; therefore the Point of Divergence for this timeline is left a bit vague. The earliest stated POD is the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The alternate United States backed down, permitting the Soviet Union to maintain nuclear missiles in Cuba. This was the first signal that the US was not so resolute as it claimed. Subsequently, the United States withdrew its forces from the Vietnam War in 1968. Gradually all of Asia fell to Communism. In Europe popular fronts where built up between Democratic Socialists and hardline communists leading Europe and eventually the United States to fall to Communism by the end of the 20th century. No details are given as to how this later, far reaching event took place. However, while the Cuban Missile Crisis is the relevant POD, whether it is the original POD is up for debate, as certain plot elements suggest an even earlier break from our timeline. For example, the Soviets (and by extension everyone in their sphere of influence) venerate Joseph Stalin, who was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 in OTL. That could mean Stalin's legacy was rehabilitated some time after Khrushchev's reign, but it could also suggest that Khrushchev's denunciation never took place, which might also help account for the Soviets' long term victory. Also, it is very difficult to believe that the John F. Kennedy Administration would have "backed down" in 1962 as described; it has been proposed that someone other than Kennedy was elected President in 1960 and weakened the US by this "dove" policy, but the novel gives no conclusive evidence. While the US was eliminated as a contender for world power and completely subjugated, China remains an active rival, maintaining its own sphere of influence and effectively in a remaining Cold War with the USSR. The only specific detail given is activity of pro-Chinese guerrillas in Soviet-dominated Albania.
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