If Stalin didn’t stop at Berlin America would have eaten shit for like a year until they built more nukes which they had a monopoly on at the time.
They would have used them.
I don’t see a path to victory there unless it’s acceptable to be losing like two entire cities a year (I honestly have no idea how many nukes could be built a year at that time, I say two because that’s how many were built for Japan) to a nuclear and bloodthirsty empire in its prime.
I know it’s a meme. But I see it said enough I wanted to hear what people actually thought on the matter memes aside.
Edit: lots of good takes and I’ve learned some stuff, thanks for all the responses.
Nah, Stalin was on the verge of perfecting the Iron Curtain device that would have allowed the Red Army to render critical units completely invulnerable, meaning that even a direct nuclear strike could not cripple the Red Army.
The real problem was poor economy management in the early game - Stalin refused to use Engineer Sell MCV Rush in preference of a booming resource exploitation strat.