North Japan (If Hiroshima and Nagasaki Weren't Nuked)

North Japan, officially the Japanese Democratic Republic, was a state that existed from 1952 to 1987, when the northern portion of Japan was part of the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state in English usage, it described itself as a socialist"workers' and peasants' state." It consisted of territory that was administered and occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II — the Soviet occupation zone of the Chiba Agreement.