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Annexing Stettin only as a symbolic gesture sounds absolutely more realistic than dealing with both integration of GDR, war damage and whole Pomerania full of Poles.

You would still need wartime dictatorship in the north; no democracy would tolerate so long warfare.

Depends how often these birth defects happened. And I'm not sure that this one part is realistic, animals around Chernobyl, including mammals like wolves, are able to reproduce after all. Radical increase in defects surely, but generation utterly unable to live, humph...

When there is not enough equipment and electricity for universal use of radio and TV, and yet your military forces are able to retain control & extract taxes/tribute from rural areas, a Soviet idea from 1940' can be used - sometimes there was one loudspeaker in the center of village, where...

Civilisation and government in Threads continued to function. As far as I remember the movie, most of the urban population died from starvation in organised camps (instead of completely overflowing the countryside), and military was able to squash dissent. Twenty years later Britain was perhaps...

Generally speaking, subsistence, where you have enough wheat-equivalent to live and work as adult (about half of children died) - note, that you can suffer from bad nutrition, you need to be able to work your field and remain alive, not be in good health - lies around 400$ (1990 purchasing power...

According to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP) In the absence of sufficient data for nearly all economies until well into the 19th century, past GDP cannot be calculated, but at best only roughly estimated. In a first step, economic historians try to reconstruct...

No, not all Albanians can buy 1 BTC for 5$, because even before half of Albanians would complete their transaction, prices would be probably at 20 000$/coin or more. Law of supply and demand. This scenario is against laws of logic/economics. xd

This was not the case during 1920', no. You need to basically freeze levels of development around 1920', but outside of very badly governed (much worse at industrialization than USSR, almost ASB levels of incompetence needed) totalitarianism - it would be hard.

I have no idea about details, but I imagine very marginalized rubber-stamp government and "communist" party, with all true power that would lie in the internal security machine (that would fear and strictly control the army, much smaller than army of the OTL USSR). Soviet economy may be, very...

Beria liked to do very unpleasant (understatement of the century) stuff to teenage girls, but politically he was less paranoid than Stalin IMHO (and this is among reasons why he OTL lost, overconfidence is among reasons in my humble opinion).

Yes, it's highly possible that Beria simply wanted to have his own despotic dictatorship, without too much care for outside influence or great geopolitical games.

Wasn't American lend-lease much more important than native Soviet industry?