This is definitely a part of the 4e timeline that takes some chewing to swallow. Why would any nation be eager to get into bed with the Soviet Union? It can't be doing all that much better than historically, economically. The Warsaw Pact has collapsed. The USSR itself can be seen as an illegitimate state since it has only been preserved by an armed coup. It's hard to see anyone who has a choice in the matter seeing the Soviets as a good one.
What's missing, I think, is a demonstration of power from the Soviet Union that could convince others that they're the winning side.
Today, you have countries siding with Russia because they have fears about over-expansion from the West. But that's taken 30 years to develop.
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