Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about '1989 revolutions'

The wave of anti-communist uprisings that swept across Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, leading to the fall of Soviet-backed regimes and the end of the Cold War division of Europe. These largely peaceful revolutions, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and the collapse of communist governments in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, marked a dramatic transformation in European geopolitics and the beginning of post-communist transitions to democracy and market economies.

What If The Tiananmen Square Protests Succeeded?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests led to democratic reforms in China, fundamentally altering the trajectory of global politics, economics, and human rights in the 21st century.