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 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.