• Flyberius [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    North Korea won the mars race too! China is conspicuously absent from the show.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      Eh, I could see it honestly. In a world where the Soviet Union became increasingly stronger, the Chinese gambit of allying to the United States would most likely fail and they would either remain a “colonial holding” like India today, or sputter along as a regional power at best; lagging decades behind China’s real world development.

      North Korea is a bit silly though, unless they somehow managed to reunify, but then, still silly.

      • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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        edit-2
        4 months ago

        To be fair, the industrial power of the DPRK before the dissolution of the Soviet blok was only really rivaled by Japan in EAsia. Total capeshit but it's less impossible than it'd seem on it's face.