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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Try this idea, a nuclear war in the early 1950's. At that time the USSR had very few bombs (later durring the time America was up set over the "Missle Gap" the "Gap" was overwhelmingly in the West's favor). Assume that the Soviets collapse. A very likely senario.
Doubtless everybody would still demonise and resent the USA, but if Russia reforms in this world as in out own, the Europe of the 1960's might face a new Imperialist Crony Capitalist Russia. That would skew the culture in interesting ways.
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You might end up with something like four big power blocs/alliances:
US and clients/allies
France and Britain and clients/allies
Russia and clients/allies
"Non-Aligned"/post colonial group (Arab Socialist regimes, India, Ghana, etc.)
This last one is probably the loosest "bloc", but might still be important.
Maybe Nasser would not attempt to nationalize the Suez Canal, but if he did still do so, without the Soviet pressure in addition to American pressure, perhaps the French, Brits, and Israelis would tell Uncle Sam to stuff it?
That could harm US relations with France and Britain even more than the real Suez Crisis did.
What happens in China and in various parts of Latin America should also be interesting...