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In December 1941, Axis forces trounced the Soviets and captured the city of Moscow and with it several top members of the Soviet government, Stalin among them. The Wehrmacht summarily executed them hoping to the cut head off the Soviet Union; however, their efforts would not be enough. Grigory Kulik, Marshall of the Soviet Union, took what remained of the government and military generals and relocated east to Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod).

The Axis Powers in Europe were defeated by mid-1945, with Soviet and Western Allied forces meeting along the Elbe, though order began to devolve quickly behind Soviet lines. By August 1945, the civil war had broken out within the Soviet ranks over who would become the next leader of the U.S.S.R. With Kulik being the favorite having enabled the Soviet government to survive, Fyodor Tolbukhin and Ivan Bagramyan were the first to turn their troops against the Kulik loyalists.

Countries in Eastern Europe seized the opportunity and began uprisings against their Soviet occupiers and with their access to atomic weaponry, the Western Allies reluctantly began an advance eastward in November 1945. By August 1946, due to a shattered Soviet defense, the Allied forces entered Leningrad and Moscow. By Spring 1947, everything west of the Volga was under their control. The Soviet government had finally coalesced under Kulik in May 1947, though it was too late to mount any effective defense against the Allied powers; after bearing the destruction of nearly all of its industry and suffering an abhorrent 44 million casualties due to the German Invasion and the Soviet Civil War.

In late 1947, the Soviet Union began to fall apart, with regions and urban centers began defecting to the newly formed democratic government based in St. Petersburg. A plebiscite was held in August 1948, which voted to restore a constitutional monarchy to Russia; by 1950, the new Federal Kingdom of Russia now governed all former Soviet Russia.

Due to troubling events unfolding in Soviet Europe, the Western Allies were better able to dictate what post-WW2 Germany would look like. Their plan was primarily based off that brought forth by Henry Morgenthau with some alterations. France annexed much of the Palatinate, Denmark seized Schleswig, and Poland – not being subject the Soviets realigning their borders – took East Prussia and most of Silesia. Germany was divided into a north and south German state respectively, while territory around the Rhine become an “International Zone” similar to Danzig during the Interwar years. The Allies also ensured the creation of a Romani State in the Balkans, being carved from Romania due to the country siding with the Axis.

In 1955, relations between the French and British and the Egyptian government headed by Gama Abdel Nasser broke down as Egyptian attempted to assert control over the Suez Canal. The two nations ultimately worked together to overthrow Nasser and retain control of the canal despite significant American support for the Egyptians. Due to the French and British beginning to view the United States as the greatest potential threat – primarily to a notion that the US wished to dismantle their colonial empires. The two countries, somewhat begrudgingly enter a union in 1958 to better pool their resources and project power. The Unites States is certainly aware of this; the French and British attempting to halt to spread of American influence around the world while trying to safeguard their own empires; this has lead to the beginning of the deterioration of relations between the two nations.

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This map was inspired by a reddit thread by u/KalaiProvenheim on r/HistoricalWhatIf asking what would be the outcome of the Soviet Union collapsing in the wake of WW2.

Description

In December 1941, Axis forces trounced the Soviets and captured the city of Moscow and with it several top members of the Soviet government, Stalin among them. The Wehrmacht summarily executed them hoping to the cut head off the Soviet Union; however, their efforts would not be enough. Grigory Kulik, Marshall of the Soviet Union, took what remained of the government and military generals and relocated east to Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod).

The Axis Powers in Europe were defeated by mid-1945, with Soviet and Western Allied forces meeting along the Elbe, though order began to devolve quickly behind Soviet lines. By August 1945, the civil war had broken out within the Soviet ranks over who would become the next leader of the U.S.S.R. With Kulik being the favorite having enabled the Soviet government to survive, Fyodor Tolbukhin and Ivan Bagramyan were the first to turn their troops against the Kulik loyalists.

Countries in Eastern Europe seized the opportunity and began uprisings against their Soviet occupiers and with their access to atomic weaponry, the Western Allies reluctantly began an advance eastward in November 1945. By August 1946, due to a shattered Soviet defense, the Allied forces entered Leningrad and Moscow. By Spring 1947, everything west of the Volga was under their control. The Soviet government had finally coalesced under Kulik in May 1947, though it was too late to mount any effective defense against the Allied powers; after bearing the destruction of nearly all of its industry and suffering an abhorrent 44 million casualties due to the German Invasion and the Soviet Civil War.

In late 1947, the Soviet Union began to fall apart, with regions and urban centers began defecting to the newly formed democratic government based in St. Petersburg. A plebiscite was held in August 1948, which voted to restore a constitutional monarchy to Russia; by 1950, the new Federal Kingdom of Russia now governed all former Soviet Russia.

Due to troubling events unfolding in Soviet Europe, the Western Allies were better able to dictate what post-WW2 Germany would look like. Their plan was primarily based off that brought forth by Henry Morgenthau with some alterations. France annexed much of the Palatinate, Denmark seized Schleswig, and Poland – not being subject the Soviets realigning their borders – took East Prussia and most of Silesia. Germany was divided into a north and south German state respectively, while territory around the Rhine become an “International Zone” similar to Danzig during the Interwar years. The Allies also ensured the creation of a Romani State in the Balkans, being carved from Romania due to the country siding with the Axis.

In 1955, relations between the French and British and the Egyptian government headed by Gama Abdel Nasser broke down as Egyptian attempted to assert control over the Suez Canal. The two nations ultimately worked together to overthrow Nasser and retain control of the canal despite significant American support for the Egyptians. Due to the French and British beginning to view the United States as the greatest potential threat – primarily to a notion that the US wished to dismantle their colonial empires. The two countries, somewhat begrudgingly enter a union in 1958 to better pool their resources and project power. The Unites States is certainly aware of this; the French and British attempting to halt to spread of American influence around the world while trying to safeguard their own empires; this has lead to the beginning of the deterioration of relations between the two nations.

________________

This map was inspired by a reddit thread by u/KalaiProvenheim on r/HistoricalWhatIf asking what would be the outcome of the Soviet Union collapsing in the wake of WW2.