With a cold war POD, preferably the 80s/90s. How could we have a European (west of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine definition) nation which to this day continues to hold on to a totalitarian, rogue state government?
The regime has to be nasty. Merely being totalitarian or keeping communist symbology does not apply.
And it has to be internationally recognised.
I came to thinking about this via my reading about Albania and its paranoia. I saw a lot of parallels with North Korea there. Sadly/luckily where North Korea has China on its border to prop it up, Albania is too isolated and did too good a job of alienating all the other socialist dictatorships. It being so poor renders it also perhaps not the best option.
Serbia seems to be a likely choice given it wasn't too long ago Milosovic was done away with. Yet...it was never the nastiest of regimes even during the cold war. A rather generic dictatorship in many ways.
Ideas?
The regime has to be nasty. Merely being totalitarian or keeping communist symbology does not apply.
And it has to be internationally recognised.
I came to thinking about this via my reading about Albania and its paranoia. I saw a lot of parallels with North Korea there. Sadly/luckily where North Korea has China on its border to prop it up, Albania is too isolated and did too good a job of alienating all the other socialist dictatorships. It being so poor renders it also perhaps not the best option.
Serbia seems to be a likely choice given it wasn't too long ago Milosovic was done away with. Yet...it was never the nastiest of regimes even during the cold war. A rather generic dictatorship in many ways.
Ideas?
