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Originally Posted by Drifter
Babasaheb-3 is beset with civil violence. Rioting consumes many cities in the West as the Civil Rights movement is violently put down. Soviets send aid to the increasingly desperate groups in the American South, and semi-post-colonial Africa. Economic gains made thanks to India in the 50s have eroded away, and much of the West looks like 70s or 80s Israel, large sections of major cities walled off, terrorist bomb blasts a daily occurrence, armed guards everywhere you look. A dystopian, neo-1984 world.
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There were civil rights groups and demonstrations outside of the American South, too. (c.f. Chicago, "The city that broke Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.") Did these not survive the crackdowns, or did the initial crackdowns prevent their formation/occurrence?
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