the only thing stopping me from unironically repeating this is that I'm fairly doubtful that Stalin going after the west after the fall of the third reich would somehow result in a soviet victory
gah i got to stop posting when I'm drunk. What I meant was: If Stalin didn't stop at Berlin, the USSR would be destroyed by American and British forces by the early 1950s, probably. Which is not something I'm 100% sure about but I seriously doubt that the USSR had the capability to keep up war like that after all it had been through
The yanks were absolutely bursting with excitement to use a nuke on the communists. This absolutely would not have gone well for the USSR. The only thing stopping things from popping off immediately was war fatigue and the genuine wish of most common people for there to be peace, finally. If Stalin had pushed past Berlin capitalist propaganda would have made sure that the public asks for a "final solution" to the communist menace.
Exactly. The nazis fucking obliterated Eastern Europe in a way that they still haven't really recovered from today, meanwhile the UK got bombed quite a bit and the US had basically nothing happen to it. The idea that Stalin was ready to take on the west in 1946 is frankly ludicrous
I remember writing about this a few weeks back, but immediately after nazi germany capitulated and the allies were pivoting to finish of Japan, Stalin ordered the demobilization of teachers, construction workers, farmers, doctors, etc. to begin immediately helping the reconstruction efforts across the war-torn eastern front.
The great patriotic war was a gruesome defensive war that had brought the best and worst out of the Soviet peoples in the name of defending their motherland from the genocidal fascists. Any idea of conflict beyond that after such a war was unthinkable.
The Brits were on the ropes, but the US absolutely could have crushed the Soviets. They had the industrial capacity but didn't have enough men to spare at that point.
Also, Nukes. The USA would have totally used them as field weapons.
Stalin should not have stopped in Berlin
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the only thing stopping me from unironically repeating this is that I'm fairly doubtful that Stalin going after the west after the fall of the third reich would somehow result in a soviet victory
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That sounds like a good thing tho?
gah i got to stop posting when I'm drunk. What I meant was: If Stalin didn't stop at Berlin, the USSR would be destroyed by American and British forces by the early 1950s, probably. Which is not something I'm 100% sure about but I seriously doubt that the USSR had the capability to keep up war like that after all it had been through
The yanks were absolutely bursting with excitement to use a nuke on the communists. This absolutely would not have gone well for the USSR. The only thing stopping things from popping off immediately was war fatigue and the genuine wish of most common people for there to be peace, finally. If Stalin had pushed past Berlin capitalist propaganda would have made sure that the public asks for a "final solution" to the communist menace.
Exactly. The nazis fucking obliterated Eastern Europe in a way that they still haven't really recovered from today, meanwhile the UK got bombed quite a bit and the US had basically nothing happen to it. The idea that Stalin was ready to take on the west in 1946 is frankly ludicrous
I remember writing about this a few weeks back, but immediately after nazi germany capitulated and the allies were pivoting to finish of Japan, Stalin ordered the demobilization of teachers, construction workers, farmers, doctors, etc. to begin immediately helping the reconstruction efforts across the war-torn eastern front.
The great patriotic war was a gruesome defensive war that had brought the best and worst out of the Soviet peoples in the name of defending their motherland from the genocidal fascists. Any idea of conflict beyond that after such a war was unthinkable.
Some kind of unthinkable operation.
The Brits were on the ropes, but the US absolutely could have crushed the Soviets. They had the industrial capacity but didn't have enough men to spare at that point.
Also, Nukes. The USA would have totally used them as field weapons.