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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
This is a pretty good place to bridge from 1989 to 1995.
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Thanks. I figured that incorporating some of the more recognizable elements of the death knell of the Warsaw Pact and USSR, like the protests at the Berlin Wall, might help lessen cognitive dissonance for those of us T2k'ers who remember that time period, or younger T2k'ers who learned about it in school.
As someone who grew up with and still prefers the v1 History Chronology, I've been completely ignoring the IRL end of the [First] Cold War in my head canon for many years, but that hand-waving approach never quite felt right. I don't like how either v2 or 4e handled it so I decided to take matters into my own hands. I like having a temporal point- in this case a single year- that I can point to and say, "
Here is where the T2kU branches off from our own." A clear, clean break, if you will.
Including the pro-democracy protests in Eastern Europe and the Baltic SSRs also creates more space for anti-Soviet Eastern European partisan and/or turncoat PCs.
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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
I'm kicking around the idea of a similar coup pre-1985, but don't let me derail the discussion here.
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No worries. There's definitely a case for placing the temporal rift earlier. Doing so in 1985 would circumvent the various pro-democracy/anti-Soviet movements that occurred late in the decade, creating a very smooth segue right into the canonical v1 timeline.
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