AHC: A USSR with a Yugoslavia Tito type leader

How would that have change the cold war? Since Tito type communism was a little bit more free, then USSR commuism.

/Fred
 
It'd be a cooler cold war but its almost ASB cause to come out on top of the power struggles, you would have to be Stalinesque, conniving and brutal.
 

ninebucks

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I don't believe that America's antipathy towards the Soviet Union was reliant on the objective levels of brutality within the latter. So Stalin killed millions?, someone else could have killed tens of thousands and the American propaganda machine would have treated them exactly the same.
 
It's not really possible. The success of Tito was being able to work with both sides. That was the reason that Yugoslavia had a greater degree of freedom. If a Tito-figure is in Russia, he is one of the two big players and thus negating his beneficial influence.
 
It could unfold in different directions, but one possible outcome could be Cold War between Third Reich from Calais to Vladivostok and from Murmansk to Basra and USA/Great Britain/Latin America alliance. You see, more benevolent leadership will likely result in less industrial capacity for USSR in 1941. Taking into account that Nazi rise to power owns as much to fears of Red Coup inside as to fears of Red Wave from outside, Hitler faces weakened Soviet Union and wins. Fall of the USSR will trigger a chain reaction of whole Eurasia (with possible exception of India) falling into Axis hands.
 
Tito was not more benevolent tito was just smarter
they killed off ewrione they needed to kill back in 1945 and yugoslavia was much less maintanance than the soviet empire, and a freer economy and forein credits made for high living standards
also with someone like him on power in 1943 barbarossa would have to go a lot diferent becouse he would newer buy into the whole nonagression thing and stay alert constantly, and also less purges would mean a stronger red army
rampant industrialisation was a thing tipical of comunist regimes the man on power would change little, perhaps there would be more free trade thats all

but the fact is if someone like tito had the chance to gain power in sssr staljin would of kiled him
or someone like staljin
we can olnly imagine how many potentially brilliant leaders were killed off in the purges
 
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