Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "What If The United Arab Republic Succeeded? | Alternate History" video.

@meejinhuang Cuban Missile Crisis was largely a bluff, political play on Khrushev's part. Same as space race. Stalin wasn't about political clout. So you wouldn't see neither missiles on Cuba, nor Gagarin in space. What you WOULD see is another dozen attempts of Tito's life, maybe even open war with Yugoslavia, attempts to cause coup in Iran a decade earlier. Lack of Sino-Soviet Split would probably mean an attempt to invade Taiwan or even Second Korean War. Oh, yeah, and purges will never stop.
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