1938: Stalin doesn’t kill all the smart Communists
1947: Truman loses his nerve
1976: Operation RED DAWN
1979: Lenin stays out of the jungles
1988: The China Syndrome
Easy. Jimmy Carter wins instead of Ronald Reagan.
Imo, the only hope Soviet Union had to exist intact for the long haul was to not be communist in the first place.
The entire ideology is contrary to human nature and has always failed because it is a concept that can not succeed.
An interesting ‘what if’ would be FDR serving a full 4th term and perhaps Henry Wallace (a flaming Red) succeeding him.
This would have meant an extremrly pro-Soviet US foreign policy after WW2. Truman turned fully against Stalin in 1947... also thanks to men like George Kennan. FDR snd Wallace would have helped Stalin spread his red Empire in even more countries and barely contained him. Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy and also France were quite at risk back then.
Stopped reading right there. This premise violates "henkster's Law of Alternate History." Henkster's Law states that an alternate history is not valid if it requires people or nations to act substantially out of character. In this scenario, it requires Stalin to not be Stalin. Therefore, it isn't valid.
Who’s to say they didn’t? After all, they symbolically voted themselves out of existence in 1991, which isn’t the same as being conquered and communism extirpated. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is still the second-largest political party in Russia after United Russia; there are other far-left parties in the Duma such as “A Just Russia” (social democrats, as the precursor to the CPSU was under Lenin) and “Communists of Russia”.
Never mind the radical changes that have happened right here in the USA, all due to politicians filled with doctrine straight out of the USSR’s Kremlin.
They would have survived if we had not stopped subsidizing them.
I think the more interesting question was whether the American Republic could survive winning the cold war. Under Clinton/Bush/Obama, we nearly didn't and another Clinton administration would have ended it.
The path down-hill started with Clinton and Algores "Reinventing Government" which was the start of the effort to privatize government operations - and the bottm feeders showed up in D.C. pretty quickly to try to buy off pieces at 3 cents on the dollar. BushII/Cheney just continued that trend with our "private" war in the Middle East and DHS and all of its contractors. The result - a swath of highrises around the D.C. Beltway to house the corrupt cronies when they are not at home in their McClean VA and Potomac MD mansions.
Now we are on a path to recovery. But we have to DTS. Countries always rot from the inside out. We were in a race to the bottom with the Soviet Union. They augered in first.
Not have started it...
It’s really an exercise in mental masturbation. Liberals like to do it with their wet dream scenarios like the erstwhile “West Wing,” “Madam Secretary,” that short one with Sigourney Weaver, and all the other liberal trash shows.
Until somebody invents a time machine and can go back and really do something about ‘history,’ it is IMMUTABLE. Diversions otherwise are pointless.
Senator Joe McCarthy doesn’t flush all the commies out of the State Department and other agencies
A de industrialized USA is helpless in the long run.
Red China is based on the same lie, and it's thriving.
The latest re-invention of commiescumism is the SJW/PCist ineptocracy.
Lenin’s dad runs to the drugstore
But we had Reagan. They didn’t.
The time period from 1976-1980 was their last best shot at expanding communism.
Our military was weak and hollowed out after Vietnam. We had a feckless leader in the WH. Our European allies, save England, would have abandoned NATO.
I well remember the concern that the Ruskies were winning and we were losing.
When they invaded Afghanistan I thought it was a precursor to invading Iran.
Imagine the world scene if that'd happened!