Bona nit!
The first and main point of divergence between real history and Twilight v2 timeline is the moment when the KGB storms the Soviet Parliament building, killing Boris Yeltsin in the process. At the "Designer's Notes" chapter at the end of the v2.2 rulebook, the designers explain how, in real life, the Alpha Team officers refused, "one after another in descending order of seniority" to carry out the assigned mission. Here is where they choose to begin their own timeline. The Soviet coup is not an entire success as the process of disintegration of the Soviet Union continues. Some of the members declares the dissolution of the Soviet Union, not recognizing the new government and war erupts in the territories of Central Asia. The coup is in 1991, two years after the Soviet Union's retreat from Afghanistan ant the beginning of the v2 timeline.
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