This question must have been asked at this site at least once but if so - looking for the threads is pointless because comments are hidden.
This question must have been asked at this site at least once but if so - looking for the threads is pointless because comments are hidden.
Yeah that's such a goofy what-if full of myths I don't even know where to start with it. If anything I believe WW2 would have started earlier, maybe even with the UK joining the Axis. It's true Stalin was more cautious than Lenin, but that's one of the reasons why WW2 was delayed like it was. Stalin kept getting ambassadors like Kollontai to mediate hostilities with western Europe. Lenin in the 30s would have put the fear of god into western Europe. I really believe they were more afraid of him than of Stalin or Molotov or Kalinin.
I also do not understand at all why this writer would say WW2 would have started later if the Molotov–Ribbentrop wasn't signed. That pact delayed the war by at least a year. This writer seems to believe the pact kicked off the war. Yeah wars start with ceasefire agreements. Ok, christ.
also yeah great man theory, I know, but it's interesting to think about
??? a trotskyist site said Kollontai was relegated to useless diplomatic posts as punishment for opposing the party on women's rights. at the time i was like ".....??? was she actually?" and just kept reading but fucking hell i thought the main thrust of things shared on communist info sites, even trotskyist ones, were generally true
Kollontai was instrumental in delaying the war through mediation with Germany through her job as Swedish ambassador. It was a really important job when she had it. She had enemies in the party for sure, but the idea she was given a job as an ambassador as a punishment is just weird. If they truly didn't want nor need her, they could have expulsed her from the party entirely.