AHC: Stop the Cold War

With a POD of after 1943, stop the United Sates and the Soviet Union from entering a Cold War without the destorying ethier.
 
The "without destroying either" clause really let me down. I was hoping for Patton's plan to just charge straight through to Russia after Germany was conquered. Anyway, I think the best way to get rid of the Cold War is through changing up some of the negotiations over Europe following WWII. Not sure on the details. I'm afraid anything else I might suggest would sound stupid.
 
Have Iosif Stalin suffer a massive heart attack in October of (1943), two years before the one he would later have. Not impossible given his health was never that great to begin with. However, I am not versed enough regarding Soviet politics to determine not only who the ultimate successor(s) might be, but if it could be accomplished quickly enough to still make the Conference in Tehran, and even in that case if the demands would be all that different.​
 
Have Iosif Stalin suffer a massive heart attack in October of (1943), two years before the one he would later have. Not impossible given his health was never that great to begin with. However, I am not versed enough regarding Soviet politics to determine not only who the ultimate successor(s) might be, but if it could be accomplished quickly enough to still make the Conference in Tehran, and even in that case if the demands would be all that different.​

And have Zhukov, take charge and decide that he wants a deal. Some deal over Poland. (more or less "Finlandized" ) plus a different reaction to the Warsaw uprising.
 
Cancel Zitadelle and let Manstein do his earlier trick again. The balance of power in the war swinfgs to the western allies and the Theran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences reach different conclusions resulting in different power balances which are not favourable to the Soviets. As a result they do not take the confrontatinal stabce they took against the west for 40 years.
 
Have the Nazi plan to assassinate the leaders at Tehran go forward.
Stalin's replaced by someone willing to turn his attention more inward. Churchill's replaced by someone who does not have a visceral fear of the USSR.
FDR's replaced by Henry Wallace.
All three of them have a greater reason to hate the Nazis.
 
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