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Originally Posted by sglancy12
The alternative TW2K campaign background I've been fiddling with doesn't follow the canon of v1 or v2, but it tries to keep as close as possible.
The big points of divergence is Gorbachev is assassinated by a conspiracy of Kremlin and Red Chinese reactionaries in 1989, blowing up his plane while he's on his way to visit China. Both groups see Glasnost and Peristroika as the real enemy, not each other, and use the "crisis" to mobilize their armies and crush internal dissent. China squashes the pro-democracy movement (again) and the Sovs crush their ethnic minorities and the independence movements in eastern Europe. That puts the Sovs and the Chinese as allies or at least neutral during the Twilight War.
A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing
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Yes, I like the idea of all communist countries uniting and fighting the west. It seems like in the v1 version with the Soviets and Chinese fighting each other, the PACT would have been too worn down to be that effective against NATO. Then you also had East German betraying the Soviets and a few other countries like Romania siding with NATO to add to that. It becomes very confusing and some of the stuff that happened just doesn't seem likely. Like Italy, France, and Belguim becoming turn coats.
I don't see what benefits countries would have by doing that when they are countries surrounded by nations that would be against them?