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A popular trope in Alternate History stories or those set 20 Minutes into the Future. Russia is a global superpower and could possibly take over the Earth, at least in fiction. Worries about this happening were part of the Red Scare movement during the 1950s. For Cold War versions, this will invariably be a World War III scenario. If they succeed, this will result in the world becoming a Commie Land. For the post-Cold War period, the writers will have to Make the Bear Angry Again. Expect to see Russia marching into the Invaded States of America at some point. Taking back Alaska may be a motivation. Subtrope of Take Over the World. Compare America Takes Over the World, China Takes Over the World and Japan Takes Over the World. Unlike those examples, Russia almost always uses its military to take over the world instead of via cultural or economic hegemony. Examples |
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The infamous KD Rebels from white supremacist David Lane (yes something similar to The Turner Diaries but less famous) has its last chapter named "From Russia, with love" as white nationalists took over Russia and then start conquering The West, naturally prompting the Undefeatable Little Village of the American neo-nazis to happily support them. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: One of the world's three superpowers is Eurasia, the Russian-derived successor state that controls the former Soviet Union and continental Europe (while Britain and Ireland are part of Oceania alongside Australia, the South Pacific, the Americas, and Africa south of Brazzaville). They are allied with Oceania against Eastasia until Oceania betrays them by teaming up with Eastasia against Eurasia. Apparently practices "Neo-Bolshevism" and according to the propaganda of Oceania is currently leading a campaign to conquer all of Africa. This is a subversion, since neither Eurasia nor any of the other two superstates really desire world domination, only to control their own peoples. | |
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The American Dad! episode "The Best Christmas Story Never Told" achieves this via the Butterfly of Doom, in a kind of Soviet counterpart to Godwin's Law of Time Travel. After traveling back in time to 1970s Hollywood, Stan meets a young Martin Scorsese and ends up convincing him to quit drugs. In effect, Scorsese never makes Taxi Driver. Without Taxi Driver, John Hinckley Jr never becomes obsessed with Jodie Foster and thus never tries to assassinate Ronald Reagan in order to impress her. Without the sympathy vote that would've occurred as a result of the assassination attempt, Reagan loses re-election to Walter Mondale, who hands over control of the country to the Soviet Union. Everything gets reset to a Close-Enough Timeline at the end of the episode, though. | |
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A closer example, also from 2000 AD, is Nikolai Dante. In the 27th century, a resurgent Feudal Future Imperial Russia dominates Earth and a good chunk of interstellar space. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series: The first game is set in an Alternate Timeline where Einstein uses time travel to prevent Hitler's rise to power, leading to a Soviet conquest of Europe. Later games see the Soviets attempt to take their conquest global. | |
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Red Dawn (1984) depicts a Soviet invasion of the United States, and a bunch of teens forming La Résistance. The backstory, outlined in the intro, has the USSR suffering the worst wheat harvest since the Holodomor and sending troops into Poland to put down an anti-communist revolt, Cuba and Nicaragua leading communist revolutionaries across Central America and Mexico, and a Green government in West Germany demanding the withdrawal of American nuclear weapons and eventually leading to collapse of NATO and mainland Western Europe declaring neutrality. World War III sees Soviet troops push up the Great Plains from Mexico (with help from their Latin American allies) and cross the Bering Strait into Alaska. The UK and China support the US, but are just barely hanging on, with it being strongly implied that China has taken a nuclear pasting for its trouble. | |
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72, a story from AlternateHistory.com, accomplishes this by reversing the Soviet Union's fall. Influenced by a clique of Western-trained socialist economists, the USSR starting in The '70s embraces an "MBA communism" similar to the reforms carried out in our own history by China, with much the same result (i.e. economic liberalization and growth while retaining an authoritarian government), helped by the exploitation of its vast natural resources to buy favor in Western Europe. The US, meanwhile, endures economic and political strife during that decade before being taken over by far-right corporate plutocrats in The '80s, and quickly finds itself succumbing to the same pressures that brought down the Soviets in our own history: economic mismanagement at home (in this case by Corrupt Corporate Executives instead of bureaucratic central planners) leads to a collapse in living standards for working-class Americans, and the fact that the US in this timeline won The Vietnam War leads to a bad case of victory disease as it engages in budget-busting military adventurism on multiple continents that only gives Western Europe more reason to leave NATO and engage in their own detente with Moscow. As the US plunges into chaos by the end of the '80s, the Soviet Union emerges as the world's sole superpower. | |
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Sliders: The pilot episode involves an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union took over most of the world, including the United States. When asked, the locals explain that it all started when the US lost The Korean War, and the Domino Theory became reality. | |
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In the Dante Valentine novels the Russian-derived Putchkin Alliance is one of the setting's two Space Filling Empires, controlling most of Asia. (The apparently American-derived Hegemony controls the rest.) | |
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In the future history presented in Cities in Flight, Russia made peace with the (by then just as oppressive) USA in the early 21st century. When the American president was assassinated, the Russian premier declared himself ruler of both countries. The resulting empire grew to become a world government, known as the Bureaucratic State. | |
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Empire Earth: The game's Russian campaign is set 20 Minutes into the Future where the paramilitary group Novaya Russia seizes power and begins a war of expansion against their neighbors. Helped by robotic troops and the US's isolationism, they're able to conquer Asia, Europe, and Africa, and start moving on Cuba when a disillusioned soldier defects to the US and travels back in time to prevent the fascist regime from ever rising, only to find that future soldiers already got there and need to be eliminated with inferior modern troops. | |
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In Endwar, a potential outcome for World War III is Russia (bloated to a size and strength not seen since the Cold War by the oil crisis - they own most of the world's remaining oil) defeating the United States and the European Federation to become the sole remaining superpower on Earth. | |
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Rise of Nations: The expansion pack Thrones and Patriots has a Cold War campaign where you can diverge heavily from history to ensure that the Soviets dominate the globe. | |
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Amerika is a miniseries set some years after the Soviets have taken over the United States and installed a puppet government. References to other parts of the world indicate the Soviets are firmly in charge elsewhere as well, with the Warsaw Pact stretching all of Europe and China ceding Manchuria to the USSR. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Petey IV", Vladimir Putin is shown to be controlling the entire politics of the United States with simply pushing buttons at home on a machine that can manipulate US election turnouts and even the NFL. Roger Goodall is simply a puppet of Putin's. | |
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Exploited but ultimately subverted in the Ender's Shadow series. Achilles, looking to Take Over the World, sees Russia returning to militarism and allies himself with them promised to make them a great empire. While Russia does increase in power under his command, including forming a New Warsaw Pact, Achilles has his eye on bigger fish, and sells them out to trade himself over to India, and then to China. In the end he's defeated and a global union is formed instead to command the world. | |
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The first Age of Empires III campaign has the Russian Empire secretly allying with the illuminati-like Circle of Ossus and planning a large invasion of North America while Britain and France are fighting each other in the Seven Years' War. The invasion is stopped when John Black triggers an avalanche that buries the Russian army. Unfortunately, at the cost of his own life. Luckily, his beloved Nonahkee is already pregnant with his son Nathaniel. The Russians later support the Circle's search for immortality in South America during the early 19th century Latin American wars of independence, as part of an implied plot to Take Over the World. | |
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