Category:Alternative Russia

One of KMF’s AUs. Directly inspired by “Parallel Brazil”, with some elements from “Johnsonverse” and the lore of the micronation “Westarctica”.

First POD is that Russia has more of a colonial empire, leading it to have overseas territories nowadays, like 3 of the other 4 UNSC members do. (This also causes the Pacific coast of Canada to speak Russian, Alaska to become part of Canada, and the existence of a significant Russian-speaking minority in the United States, especially the Pacific Northwest.) Second POD is that the USSR is more ambitious, having 3 more SSRs (Tuva, Karelia, and Prussia), and not only landing the second person on the Moon during the Space Race, but also the first on Mars. Third POD is that instead of the USSR breaking up as it did in OTL, only 5 SSRs (Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; Moldova later reunites with Romania) leave the USSR, and the rest is fully-democratized and renamed as the Russian Federal Republic, which includes the RSFSR being split into three “states” (modelled on the United States): Muscovy, Caucasia, and Siberia. (Putin was the president for a while, but he was quickly impeached for trying to interfere with US politics, and is now in jail for life.) This also means that Russia is much more progressive than it is in OTL, which means more LGBT rights, minority rights, and even legalizing cannabis decades before Canada does (at the same time as in OTL). Fourth and final POD is that the PRC ceases to exist and balkanizes in 2002.

More minor PODs are that Puerto Rico becomes an US state at the same time that Alaska did in OTL (to make up for Alaska being part of Canada in TTL); the US annexes the Rio Grande Republic at the same time as the Republic of Texas, and later conquers more of Mexico (Baja, Sonora, Chihuahua, and the Yucatan) during the Mexican-American War; some proposed US states (such as Jefferson, Absaroka, Superior, and Sequoyah) come to fruition; the historical British West Indies become overseas territories of Canada at some point, like how most of the remaining smaller islands of the British Empire in Southeast Asia and Oceania became Australian territories; the “Douglass Commonwealth” proposal to make Washington, DC a state is successful; the Sino-Soviet Split gets worse and leads to the USSR (and later Russia) recognizing Taiwan as China out of spite; the Cuban Missile Crisis never happens; Korea is unified under one government (the United Republic of Korea, not related to either the DPRK or ROK) in 2008; the Euromaidan in Ukraine devolves into a full-out civil war with the country splitting into two (calling back to the Cold War with its divided Germanies, Koreas, and Vietnams); and the Second Republic of China (the PRC’s legal successor) successfully controls COVID-19 before it can spread outside of Wuhan, by locking down all its borders, and also mandatory, non-consensual euthanasia for citizens that contract the virus (which includes cremation and dumping the ashes into the sea).