Analysis
In spite of the prior comments, many fans found the idea of the Cold War continuing to its logical conclusion a fascinating one.
What is frightening is that it could have happened if the Soviets had adopted the limited Socialist/partial capitalism economic model of the National Socialists rather than clinging to all-economic-controlling Communism. The resources of the USSR were immense compared to the Reich and the idea of a Hitler-type Socialism controlling those resources, versus an inherently inefficient Communist one, one that combined Socialist ideology with the economic model of the Nazis, they might have taken half the world as depicted by the Eastern Alliance— like Hitler tried to. WW2 was largely a supply war and the Germans were forever running short on everything. The Soviets had an abundance of metals, oil and other strategic resources that Germany lacked.
That idea of such evil taking half the world is hard to put into words.
One fascinating parallel is that the President of the Western Coalition is very much like President Clinton was a decade later.
The planet Terra itself was an exact duplicate of Earth. That requires an act of deliberate creation by someone. Such could not happen by accident.
Like the rest of the series, distances and velocity appear to ignore the known laws of physics.
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