The Amerigo Shift

At the end of World War Two, Two Superpowers emerged. The USSR and the USA. A fragile peace was quickly destroyed with the refusal of the USSR to give up East Germany. In our timeline both countries became sworn enemies, this encouraged the mass innovation by the US leading to the culture of the 1950s.

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Russia gives back East Germany in 1948 as planned and continues its place in the Allied Control Central and took part in the US-Backed "Marshall's Plan" a financial funding in Europe.

Tension leading to the Cold war never amounts, Joseph Stalin dies in Moscow due to a Stroke in 1951, 2 years before our timeline but with the same cause. His successor was his own daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva who became very involved in politics in an attempt to change Russia instead of fleeing it as she did in our Timeline.

Svetlana still despised her father although was still not thrown off by the idea of Communism itself, in an attempt to expand the economic and cultural influence of Russia, the borders of the USSR were opened and many social reforms took place, many social policies reverting back to the reign of Lenin such as his liberal stance on subjects such as homosexuality.

All this eventually leads to a much more open Russia and a less extreme view of Communism worldwide, with the who McCarthyism aspect of the US and general fear of Communism that plunged 1950s America into a decade of Conservatism and deep Religiosity. Due to there not being a fear of Communism or Atheism many religious and Capitalist policies and public view on the subjects do not exist