Don't forget that, beside the 60's, the 80's were also very hot. And the EuroMissiles crisis (20 years after the cuban missiles crisis) is a example of that!
In 1987, SS20 vs Pershing2 was still a dangerous reallity... Only about 1988/89 the nukes were beign disabled.
Note: The SS20 resembles the SS1SCUD, yet a bit taller.
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About placing the Malden islands: well... baltic sea it's more a place for scandinavian speaking islands or russian speaking islands - don't forget that Kaliningrad - in spite of being off the russian main territory - belongs to Russia. And Czech Rep. is closer to the Balcans than the Baltics.
Hmm... placing those islands seems really tough, uh?!
Check the maps (maps from the soviet times, of course) and see if you can place it somewhere in the Mediterranium or the Black seas. If not, turn on your creativity (once again, as the revolution cpgn is a good idea) and create a story about a czech expedition which found the Malden islands somewhere in the pacific, near Vladivostok and the Kamchatka.
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Well, it seems I'm completly wrong! I was confunding the Czech Rep. with Romenia...
Therefore, most of the above information is wrong. The Baltic sea is, indeed, closer to the Czech Rep. than anyother. So, forget the the Black sea and the Medit.
In what concers to the Kamchatka... After some research I found that it is an absurd idea, as most of the people that live there have asiatic appearence... and dialects.
Excuse this missunderstood.
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Remember: back to the 80's, there was no Czech Republic.. only the Czechslovakia (excuse the spelling, but i don't have a dictionary right here ;D)
Oh! and write Komuna, not Kommuna... here we don't use double 'm'