[Colonel Kangaroo]

If Davis lived only five more years he could have seen the glorious collapse of the glorious Soviet Union.

Tidwell says that Davis “felt betrayed” when Soviet dictator Stalin signed the 1939 nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, which triggered World War II, but that Stalin’s eventual decision to join the U.S. and its allies in a war on the Axis powers “restored a measure of Davis’ confidence in the USSR.”

Stalin's decision? Hitler made that decision for him when he double crossed Uncle Joe and invaded the USSR. Stalin would have been quite happy to stay on the sidelines and pick up the pieces after the rest of the world ruined itself.

[ETL]

If Davis lived only five more years he could have seen the glorious collapse of the glorious Soviet Union.

And if he lived til the present, he would witness their reemergence.