That is a big wrong move on Nixon's part, I have to say. With the hellhole the USSR has become, and how anti leftist the USA has become, the Third World is really by itself in this timeline.
Twilight of the Red Tsar
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That is a big wrong move on Nixon's part, I have to say. With the hellhole the USSR has become, and how anti leftist the USA has become, the Third World is really by itself in this timeline.
In the end, not even adhering to a different strain of socialist thought prevented Cuba from sliding into authoritarianism; in fact, ATL's syndicalist Cuba might be even poorer than OTL's communist Cuba, a state that at least punched far above its weight in some areas. "If the moderate Fidel Castro hadn't been killed Cuba would be a worker's paradise by now" and "If the United States had left Cuba alone things would've been far better than they are now" will probably become common mantras in the syndicalist world.
How's the left doing in Italy? The PCI used to be the West's most important communist party, but it became a shadow of its former self soon after the Berlin Wall fell. Stalin's second Holocaust probably made the DC even more obscenely powerful than it already was, and the trend of former communists becoming stalwart conservatives that begun here in the early 1990s has most likely started already... hopefully, syndicalism will pick up enough pieces from communism to prevent the left's slide into irrelevance - even though I'm sure apologism of even the most brutal syndicalist personalities and regimes will run rampant among them...
How's the left doing in Italy? The PCI used to be the West's most important communist party, but it became a shadow of its former self soon after the Berlin Wall fell. Stalin's second Holocaust probably made the DC even more obscenely powerful than it already was, and the trend of former communists becoming stalwart conservatives that begun here in the early 1990s has most likely started already... hopefully, syndicalism will pick up enough pieces from communism to prevent the left's slide into irrelevance - even though I'm sure apologism of even the most brutal syndicalist personalities and regimes will run rampant among them...
Berlinguer syndacalist will probably poach voters from both DC (expecially if don't attach itselfs to anti-religion/anti-clerical policies) and PCI/PSI becoming the third italian party in term of power; The Democrazia Cristiana exclusive hold on power will probably be over in a decade with Syndacalist becoming part of the ruling coalition first and forming her own...not that's a bad thing, in this way much of the corruption problem of the first repubblic can be lessened as there will be more incentive for earlier social reform.
I'm optimistic that the 'years of lead' while not interely butterflyed away will be much less bloody than OTL even becuase Berlinguer never was an hardliner and know perfectely that 'rethoric' aside...being in a western type democracy and working in the system it's the best route towards prosperity and security.
America's policy throughout the Cold War was to make it seem like they were a benevolent benefactor. This is especially true ITTL, because it helps illustrate the difference between them and the USSR. Nixon blockading Cuba into mass famine would completely tear that image apart, and at the very least turn many governments and peoples against the United States.
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It's also why he doesn't just invade the country outright: despite the worse reputation the USSR has ITTL, it doesn't mean Nixon has a blank check to invade whatever country he wants. He may be anticommunist to a malicious degree, but he is still a good deal more pragmatic.
I think its because no one really knows enough about it (and the politics there)
Also I'm wondering how Suslov and the gang of Four are coping with events in Eastern Europe.
Well, I'd guess the economy is now back into a nosedive. They just blew up a lot of Eastern Europe and ensured the workers there are not happy.
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Yep. They've brought back the violence of the Second World War, and many workers are probably lying down on the job.
If they can't get control of the situation, then whatever gains they've made since Stalin died are going to be lost.
Nah, not lie down. That way lies a trip to SIberia.
Now, following some simple guidelines, like the ones mentioned below....
I think the "Managers" section got inadvertently introduced into a lot of corporate training manuals
The workers would certainly be onboard with such measures. The management would be a bit more divided, since a lot of managers are lower level apparatchiks. Some are true believers in Communism, some just want to make things work to help their career, etc.
And the committees I feel are either incompetent anyway and/or are also at like apparatchiks.
Well, it's plausible...I think the "Managers" section got inadvertently introduced into a lot of corporate training manuals
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I bet right now, the Jewish agency is working overdrive to bring Jewish communities to Israel. How many European Jews, frightened by the Communist pogrom, are running out of Europe?
If the Soviet Union does fall into chaos, could we see Mossad working to evacuate those ghettos in Siberia? I would call that operation, Operation Exodus.
If the Soviet Union does fall into chaos, could we see Mossad working to evacuate those ghettos in Siberia? I would call that operation, Operation Exodus.
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All of them?
But seriously, this newest atrocity ought to have convinced surviving Jews that they have no future and they should move to Israel.
By the way, whatever became of Wladyslaw Szpilman? He opted to stay in Poland OTL, but considered all the horrors of ITTL, he would probably have gotten out of dodge by now.
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