Greater Cold War

The Cold War was a period of ideological, political, and military tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union which both emerged as the two new superpowers of the world following the end of World War II in 1945. From 1947-1990, the United States and the Soviet Union domianted the world landscape and left the world divided as the two superpowers did whatever was necessary to spread their ideologies around the world and reduce the influence and power of each other. The Cold War itself never saw the United States and the Soviet Union go to war and instead engaged each other in various proxy wars from Korea to Vietnam to Afghanistan and many other places all across the world until 1990 when the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbechav had signed the needed agreements to end tensions between the two nations and ended the Cold War before December of 1991 which saw the USSR collapse and dissolve into 15 new sovereign nations and the United States left as the sole superpower of the world.

But what if the Cold War didn't end however? What if the Cold War not only didn't end, but intensified to new heights from the 20th century with the Soviets landing on the moon to a Soviet victory in Afghanistan and what if the conflict continued into the 21st century with the Soviet Union having reformed, but new maps are drawn and old tensions remain. The Soviets become ful equals with the United States and are just as influencial as their American counterparts and continue to compete with them by any means necessary.

Point of Divergence


On July 20th, 1969, Soviet cosmonaut, Aleksey Leonov, becomes the first man to land on the moon and plants the Soviet flag on the moon, officially winning the Space Race for the USSR. This event shocks the American public and becomes the third national embaressment for the nation in the Space Race, however it only motivates the United States into further pursuing space travel and the Space Race continues into the 1970s. Meanwhile Leonov is rewarded as a hero back at home and the Soviet Union contiues to cement its dominance over the world and uses their increase in moral to continue the spread of communsim around the world. In 1979, Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev had taken advantage of the increase of Soviet influence and had the Soviet military invade Afghansitan in support of the communist regime that was in power during that time in what would become the Soviet war in Afghanistan. During the war, the United States issued an embargo on the USSR in response to their occupation of Afghanistan and supplied weapons and arms to the Mujahideen, but it wasn't enough and developments on weapons capable of shooting down gunships advanced at a slower pace and the Soviets won the war by 1985.

The Soviet Union had won their war in Afghanistan and maintained the influence and spread of communism around the world, but things at home began to look sour as the war had drained many needed funds and resources for the Soviet people and the population was growing at an alarming rate and the economy was under heavy pressure and was slower and slower to sustain the growing population. Mikhail Gorbechav soon took office in 1985 and began to reform the entire country and eased tensions with the Western powers. Following the outbreak of the Revolutions of 1989 and increased unrest and opposition in the Soviet Union, Gorbechav issued the Union of Sovereign States to reform the Soviet Union and de-centralize the country. Opposition was met from the group known as the Gang of 8 and they even planned a coup, but their plans took too long to be planned out and succeede and the treaty was signed in August of 1991 and the six republics that opposed were recognized as independent states. The Soviet Union contiuned to reform throughout the 1990s and saw an increase in economic, social, and political conditions, but many nationalistic elements were still present and threatened to restart old Cold War tensions which Gorbechav ended in 1990.

Following the start of the 21st century, conflict had rosen once again with Islamic separatist movements fighting for secession from the Soviet Union down in the Caucuses and in Central Asia and the start of the War on Terror following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York of 2001. The Soviet Union supressed insurgencies in the Caucuses, but it was only the beginning as the Soviets sent military advisors back into Afghanistan to support the communist regime after Islamic insurgents were spotted and launched a second insurgency to overthrow the Afghan communist government. Tensions between the United States and Soviet Union remained low, until Vladimir Putin was elected President in 2012 and has since then increased Cold War-era tensions and has once again put the United States and Soviet Union as competators on the world stage and the world remains divided as a result.