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.
It would have been virtually impossible to convince the Soviet people to continue to endure the extraordinary sacrifices demanded by the Great Patriotic War after the genocidal threat of Fascism was defeated, particularly when their new enemies would be a coalition of the world's only other remaining industrial powers, who had just been the Soviet Union allies against that very threat. The average Soviet citizen wouldn't care that the Allies only backed the USSR reluctantly, in the period immediately after WW2 ended feelings of warmth and good-will still pervaded in relations between the powers.
Add the nuclear bomb into the mix, and I'd bet you'd see coup of Red Army generals against Stalin within hours of him ordering them to make war on the Allies.