Much of Eastern Europe becomes a de facto German colony. Belgium splits into French and Flemish states. Civil wars erupt in Serbia and Albania. Macedonia fragments and is divided by Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. Romania s Hungarians rebel and demand union with Hungary.
Communists return as a political force in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland.
The Cold War resumes, as Moscow re-asserts its power in the Baltic states, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, the Mideast. Russian troops invade Central Asia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan. After a short, sharp war, Russia invades and reabsorbs Ukraine which is abandoned by the west. Russia becomes the world s leading produce of oil and gas, and major exporter of water. They then team up in shifting alliances to fight one another.