In order to weaken the Western Allies and use as potential negotiation leverage for Europe, Stalin negotiates with Japan: Manchuria, in exchange for military aid and Soviet intercession in negotiations. They agree with a partition of Germany, but they're not quite sure where to draw the lines.

The Soviets are increasingly concerned by post-war isolation and demand to extend their sphere of influence throughout the occupied lands, all the way to the Rhine. The Western Allies push for autonomy and territorial integrity of Poland, and a neutral Germany. The Allies meet up to discuss the future of Europe, and it's patently clear that they will not reach an understanding. The Soviets managed to push all the way to the Rhine by the end of the war.Īt the same time, the Manhattan project is stalled by several months due to a Japanese fire balloon cutting the power off at the Hanford site and causing a meltdown (this actually almost happened.) The Germans end up getting encircled in Antwerp, and putting up less of a resistance to the Vistula-Oder offensive in February, and Berlin falls to the Soviets by March. An emboldened Hitler then shifts troops from the Eastern front to the Western front, trying to push the advantage. The news and political effects lead to a more successful push by the Axis and the fall of Antwerp, and stops the Allied attack until January. It all starts with the sudden death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in December 1944 (as opposed to April 1945 in our timeline), in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge. The last half a century was marred with bad ideas, bad decisions, and even a bit of bad luck. The world of Victopia is a dramatically-different world from ours, with most of the world thrown into chaos due to political, social and economic instability, wars, and the occasional use of weapons of mass destruction.

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