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Here's Lenin-3. I actually had this one finished for years, and only recently upgraded the map to match my modern style and to add the Moon colonies. It's an interesting if rather implausible timeline, where Mussolini stays socialist and then manages to become leader of Italy anyway. I suspect the PoD is that Mussolini does not oppose the Italian socialists' desire to maintain neutrality, and does not fight in WWI. He then leads the Italian socialists to victory in revolution in the 1920s, possibly supported by the Soviets. SJG does say that he intervenes on behalf of the Catalan workers in the Spanish Civil War and does not help the Soviets during WWII, so if they did support him, then he's not very grateful. I have Spain coming under the control of a syndicalist "Third Republic" that stays neutral along with Italy. Mexico being socialist was SJG's idea; not really sure what's going on there. I picture the Soviets being less successful during WWII, not entering the German Reich proper, while the Western Allies manage to take it, restore the Weimar Republic (albeit under a much-improve constitution), and break off bits of Germany so they never become powerful enough to start another war. SJG mentions the US-UK alliance becoming more technocratic with its "Manhattan Initiatives;" beyond expanding the US-UK alliance, I didn't really do much with that. No Atlantropa or stupid shit like that. I added Russia and India into the Grand Alliance, and I suspect both of them are doing better than their OTL counterparts. Same with China and Brazil, who are leading their "middle of the road" Third World Order. After the collapse of the USSR, there isn't much of a Cold War left, but to say that Italy and the West are buddies would be inaccurate.

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Here's Lenin-3. I actually had this one finished for years, and only recently upgraded the map to match my modern style and to add the Moon colonies. It's an interesting if rather implausible timeline, where Mussolini stays socialist and then manages to become leader of Italy anyway. I suspect the PoD is that Mussolini does not oppose the Italian socialists' desire to maintain neutrality, and does not fight in WWI. He then leads the Italian socialists to victory in revolution in the 1920s, possibly supported by the Soviets. SJG does say that he intervenes on behalf of the Catalan workers in the Spanish Civil War and does not help the Soviets during WWII, so if they did support him, then he's not very grateful. I have Spain coming under the control of a syndicalist "Third Republic" that stays neutral along with Italy. Mexico being socialist was SJG's idea; not really sure what's going on there. I picture the Soviets being less successful during WWII, not entering the German Reich proper, while the Western Allies manage to take it, restore the Weimar Republic (albeit under a much-improve constitution), and break off bits of Germany so they never become powerful enough to start another war. SJG mentions the US-UK alliance becoming more technocratic with its "Manhattan Initiatives;" beyond expanding the US-UK alliance, I didn't really do much with that. No Atlantropa or stupid shit like that. I added Russia and India into the Grand Alliance, and I suspect both of them are doing better than their OTL counterparts. Same with China and Brazil, who are leading their "middle of the road" Third World Order. After the collapse of the USSR, there isn't much of a Cold War left, but to say that Italy and the West are buddies would be inaccurate.