AHC/WI: Libyan SSR

So let's say after he assumes power, Gaddafi becomes increasingly aligned with the Soviets and eventually hits on the idea of Libya being annexed into the USSR.

What happens if the USSR attempts this-and what happens if they succeed?
 
It's more likely that the apparent attempt of the USSR to be given Italian Libya post World War II goes through probably, and that's absurd sounding enough.
 
There was an apparent attempt by U.S.S.R. to gain Italian Libya? :eek:

When? Where? How?

When, during the late and post war finagling over borders and spheres of influence, where, Italian Libya :)p), how, Stalin I guess.

I was pretty sure such a thing existed at least, but a very cursory search turns up nothing. I'm sure someone else knows what I'm thinking of.

EDIT: Apparently the Soviets proposed they be given UN trusteeship over Tripolitania at Potsdam;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Libya#History
 
Going the U.S.S.R being given Trusteeship after WWII route, if they do incorproate it through a (likely fixed) Referendum as an SSR, their would be major geopolitical changes.

Firstly the decolonization era would be fundamentally different; with a Soviet Union that's seen to be just another colonizer it could'nt legitimately (that is the Africans won't take them seriously or think their system is necessarily good) go on about ani-colonialism, which could cause alot of colonies to gain independence later, heck it may even provide enough extra time to get Europe to convince the U.S. to go along with the plans of infrastructure and civil society building and gradual independence, which would elave Africa alot better off, however if it does'nt, then America will become the primary (and possibly only) power that supports decolonization, which would lead to the large majority of the independence movements to be aligned with the U.S., which would likely lead to an Africa that's a mixture of Federal Republics, partial-democracies and states that would be similar to Chile under Pinochet.
 
Even if the Soviets were to gain control, Stalin wasn't stupid enough to make his puppets SSRs. Only Trotsky would have tired something as dumb as that.
 
So let's say after he assumes power, Gaddafi becomes increasingly aligned with the Soviets and eventually hits on the idea of Libya being annexed into the USSR.

What happens if the USSR attempts this-and what happens if they succeed?

Gaddafi would never go for that. He was all about Arab nationalism.

Also, while he was a socialist, turning him into a full-blown communist is verging on impossible. He held various beliefs that were counter to a communist agenda, including believing that every nation needs a religion and that it's paramount for people to own their own house, he believed that even renting was wrong.

You could easily have him closer to the USSR, but in it - Not a chance.
 
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