For some fans of 4e's History Chronology, there's a twinge of dissatisfaction that it results in a USSR with no major European allies, and most of the former Warsaw Pact members aligned with NATO.
This alternate timeline (follow the link to the relevant post on the pan-edition T2k forum) seeks to remedy this issue by positing a alternate reality branch from actual history in the pivotal year of 1989. This addresses the ultimate failure of the various Velvet Revolutions, and explains why the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution and subsequent realignment of the Warsaw Pact nations, and the end of the Soviet Union, do not occur.
https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=6906d
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