Can’t blame him there. I don’t think the Soviets had any way of knowing that the west actually didn’t have that many nukes and that it would take them a while to make more.
Even then, they were exhausted and suffered enormous casualties. No way Stalin was going to convince his people that they needed to spill even more blood to liberate the rest of Europe. Especially since most of Western Europe would just end up resenting Soviet occupation.
Even under Stalin the Soviet education system was a haven for liberalism. Many of the officials who'd go on to do revisionism and liberalization were educated during the Stalin era or shortly after, so there had to already be fundamental issues with how people were being taught at that point.
Not sure how to avoid problems like that, since China had similar problems with the children of good revolutionaries growing up to be revisionist, elitist little shits too.
tl:dr everything went to shit after Stalin
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Can’t blame him there. I don’t think the Soviets had any way of knowing that the west actually didn’t have that many nukes and that it would take them a while to make more.
Even then, they were exhausted and suffered enormous casualties. No way Stalin was going to convince his people that they needed to spill even more blood to liberate the rest of Europe. Especially since most of Western Europe would just end up resenting Soviet occupation.
Even under Stalin the Soviet education system was a haven for liberalism. Many of the officials who'd go on to do revisionism and liberalization were educated during the Stalin era or shortly after, so there had to already be fundamental issues with how people were being taught at that point.
Not sure how to avoid problems like that, since China had similar problems with the children of good revolutionaries growing up to be revisionist, elitist little shits too.