kruschev

Once I made a discussion about Nikita Kruschev, and how the west (and the east) usually has a nicer-ish view on him, and one of the commentators pointed out that it was on some ways a blunder to denounce Stalin war crimes as this moved China away from the USSR influence, and also that Nikita...

Most of the scenarios with the USSR being a pleasant place or reforming into a libertarian socialist model usually ends with a longer Kruschev government and a Kruschevist sucessor replacing him, and many threads here has questions similar to "What if Kruschev succeded" or "No Brezhnev coup"...

Beria was a murderer and torturer by trade and a rapist by avocation. He was also the major Stalinist magnate who was not a Communist true believer. After Stalin died, he wanted to cut a deal with the West to let Germany reunify, he wanted to decollectivize agriculture, and he wanted to...