It may be just that I haven’t read enough of their interactions but it def seems like FDR got along more with Stalin then he did Churchill. Genuinely wonder what would have happens if he had lived a bit longer or if the conservative Dems hadn’t been able to oust Wallace as VP
It's a historical what-if I've always wondered about. Obviously :amerikkka:, and capital would've done the same things either way, but at the same time, I wonder how differently things might've gone if the political leadership in the US had been at least willing to treat the Soviets as potential partners. Probably didn't really matter and it's probably Great Man :brainworms: to think otherwise but still.
still might have bought the Soviet Union more time. Or done something weird and icky like lead to a socdem farmer-labour U.S. partnered with a market socialist USSR
One of my most haunting personal fantasies is if we'd buddied up hard with the Soviets, not had the Cold War, and become something of an AES state around the late 60s-early 70s. We would have been so fucking good at it too. :angery:
From much of the readings of first hand accounts, Stalin's dry and pragmatic straightforwardness went rather well with FDRs smooth charismatic wittiness while Churchill was an emotional drunk romanticist that didn't mesh well with Stalin's bluntness at times and saw a sort of kindred spirit in FDR - who seemingly put up with Churchill's emotive personality.
It may be just that I haven’t read enough of their interactions but it def seems like FDR got along more with Stalin then he did Churchill. Genuinely wonder what would have happens if he had lived a bit longer or if the conservative Dems hadn’t been able to oust Wallace as VP
It's a historical what-if I've always wondered about. Obviously :amerikkka:, and capital would've done the same things either way, but at the same time, I wonder how differently things might've gone if the political leadership in the US had been at least willing to treat the Soviets as potential partners. Probably didn't really matter and it's probably Great Man :brainworms: to think otherwise but still.
still might have bought the Soviet Union more time. Or done something weird and icky like lead to a socdem farmer-labour U.S. partnered with a market socialist USSR
Still sounds 10000% better than the hellworld we were born into
oh absolutely. better chance of actually getting world communism then the state we are in now no doubt,
One of my most haunting personal fantasies is if we'd buddied up hard with the Soviets, not had the Cold War, and become something of an AES state around the late 60s-early 70s. We would have been so fucking good at it too. :angery:
AES?
Actually Existing Socialism. (USSR, Cuba, China, etc.)
Actual Elder Scrolls
From much of the readings of first hand accounts, Stalin's dry and pragmatic straightforwardness went rather well with FDRs smooth charismatic wittiness while Churchill was an emotional drunk romanticist that didn't mesh well with Stalin's bluntness at times and saw a sort of kindred spirit in FDR - who seemingly put up with Churchill's emotive personality.