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The USSR and Soviet-Dominated Europe 1958

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This image is part of the alternative history series: Alternative History Series: USSR 1958
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This is a 1958 political map of Europe and Asia as seen from the perspective of Moscow - the economical and political center of Eurasia - in an alternative timeline.

The continent is dominated by the USSR since the Great Class War (Second World War). Western and Southern Europe (UES), excluding the British Isles, form a union of soviet republics based upon the Russian model, as are the Scandinavian soviet republics and the Atlantic islands (NSSU). The former colonies of North Africa and the Middle East have been formed into two federations posing as protectorates of the USSR and the UES. The Democratic Republic of Turkey and the People's Republic of Xinjiang are pro-Soviet socialist states.

In the Far East, one can see the Republic of China and Tibet. The former is not the Koumintang republic familiar to us in our timeline, but a Japanese-dominated puppet state established during the war. China, Japan and the USSR have regognized the indepentent state of Tibet since it, along with Xinjiang and India, provides a buffer zone between the USSR and the Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone. The Republic of India broke from the British Commonwealth in the early 1950s.

The political status quo is not as stable as it seems. Cold War tensions between the socialist world and the USA have reached the highest peak since the conclusion of the war, as are relations between the USA and Japan and the USSR and Japan at a historical lowpoint. The socialist world is neither as monolithic as it was meant to be. Since the death of Stalin in 1952 and following economic growth in Western Europe during the 1950s, Russian influence and control over the UES has declined slightly.
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Shades of Eurasia in the Soviet bloc anyone?