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If it helps, this is what *did* happen to them,
they were made into client states of the soviet union (now referred to as the USSR) and turned into communist semi autonomous states
Wagon trains were caravans of covered wagons each wagon pulled by horses. This is the type of caravan that saw used traveling the orogen trail and by other settlers moving west across the united states. Played the computer game "Oregon Trail" to get a realistic idea of what life on a Wagon Train may have been like...."Oops you died of starvation."
Because a pandemic(unlike and epidemic, which is more provincial) reaches around an entire nation and/or continent. Obviously, a nationwide sickness would be terrible for a newly developing nation trying to get on its feet for the first time. It’s just more unnecessary work for the new nation to deal with. Hope this helps!
