WI Nadezhda Alliuyeva lives....

[Snake Featherston]

To go along with the Hitler thread, suppose Stalin's wife had lived into the WWII era. How would Stalin have done thngs? It seems that like Hitler with Geli, Stalin loved Alliuevya, so might these two people being alive have an impact on things like the Holocaust, the Holodomor, and the Purges?

[Admiral Canaris]

Originally Posted by Snake Featherston

To go along with the Hitler thread, suppose Stalin's wife had lived into the WWII era. How would Stalin have done thngs? It seems that like Hitler with Geli, Stalin loved Alliuevya, so might these two people being alive have an impact on things like the Holocaust, the Holodomor, and the Purges?

Why is it reasonable to assume that his wife not dying affects his policy, which was pretty laid out and something she likely didn't have any influence over to start with?

[Snake Featherston]

His wife's death supposedly severed any connection he still had with reality. The Great Purge occurred two years after her death, and many of the CCCP victims had some connections with the unfortunate incident. Obviously, with her still alive, those people will still be alive.

Like Paula Hitler could convince her brother Adolf to spare lives, Alliuevya could have done the same with Stalin. And her still being alive may have made Stalin more reasonable in the build-up to Barbarossa.

Stalin was still human, and his wife dying unhinged him. I'm asking what if he wasn't unhinged by his wife's suicide in the early part of his rule?