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POD: So, Stalin lives a few months later, and is able to impliment his last planned urge of the Soviet Union. Among the dead, including such notables as Molotov, is Kruschev. Now, assuming that a semi-liberal figure comes out on top in the USSR following Stalin's death (so: certainly no Beria!), how would this effect developments in the Middle East?

I know, during the 1950s, the British were struggling to allign the nortern-tier Middle Eastern states into the Baghdad pact, while the US was trying to form the Middle Eastern Treaty Organization (with Egypt meant to be the center of the later organization). However, Nasser was violently anti-British and was trying to play the US and USSR against each other in order to further his desire to make Egypt the preminent Middle Eastern state.

The reason he was able to do this, is that Kruschev proscribed to the, then, novel theory that a country did not have to Socialist in order to be an ally to the Soviets. As a result, he tried to help many anti-colonial, leftist, governments inthe developing world. If there is no Kruschev, is this policy likely to develop and, if it did so, would it be delayed?
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