America Under the Red Syrup:Who Would Make a Better Puppet Leader?

Bernie Sanders Representative from Vermont would be a possibility if the USSR was around today and the USA was occupied.

Bernie Sanders is even less likely than Henry Wallace. Being a democratic socialist is a really long ways from being a Communist puppet. He's doesn't have a dictator's personality, and nor is he a follower type.
 
He is a Socialist and has admitted to that. That would have looked good on the list of qualifications to the USSR.

I repeat, self made millionaire, and once he became awake of the USSR's crimes he renounced his previous opinions.
 

katchen

Banned
John L. Lewis.
Lewis was head of CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and opposed US entry into WWII during the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Lewis had much more of a following than William Z. Foster. Foster organized for Lewis, not the other way around. When war broke out, though, Lewis was able to moderate his rhetoric to save his union. He could work with the Russians just as easily if they took over and probably a lot more enthusiastically than he did the US government after Taft-Hartley became law. (Though he was probably a big part of the reason Taft-Hartley passed!)
 

NothingNow

Banned
John L. Lewis.
Lewis was head of CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and opposed US entry into WWII during the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Lewis had much more of a following than William Z. Foster. Foster organized for Lewis, not the other way around. When war broke out, though, Lewis was able to moderate his rhetoric to save his union. He could work with the Russians just as easily if they took over and probably a lot more enthusiastically than he did the US government after Taft-Hartley became law. (Though he was probably a big part of the reason Taft-Hartley passed!)

I doubt Lewis would've been chosen for such a thing. Probably would've been quietly shot instead. Successful labor organizers are a serious threat to authoritarians everywhere.

Foster OTOH would've been perfect if he had a decent Propagandist.
 
Let's just start throwing around the name of anyone vaguely leftist. Henry Wallace! Bernie Sanders! George McGovern! Ralph Nader! Bruce Spingsteen and the E Street Politburo!
 
Let's just start throwing around the name of anyone vaguely leftist. Henry Wallace! Bernie Sanders! George McGovern! Ralph Nader! Bruce Spingsteen and the E Street Politburo!

Some people legitimately believe Kennedy was a Soviet stooge.
 
Some people legitimately believe Kennedy was a Soviet stooge.
Forget Kennedy! See revealed the true enemy:
[John Birch Society Founder] Welch wrote in a widely circulated statement, The Politician, "Could Eisenhower really be simply a smart politician, entirely without principles and hungry for glory, who is only the tool of the Communists? The answer is yes." He went on. "With regard to ... Eisenhower, it is difficult to avoid raising the question of deliberate treason."
 
Some people legitimately believe Kennedy was a Soviet stooge.

On March 23, 1983, President Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which the pro-Soviet Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy derided as “Star Wars”. The Lion of the Senate sent a letter to General Secretary of the Communist Party Comrade Y.V. Andropov on May 14, 1983 offering to work with him to stop our anti-missile program.
In a saner world, that would be considered treason.
 
John L. Lewis.
Lewis was head of CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and opposed US entry into WWII during the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Lewis had much more of a following than William Z. Foster. Foster organized for Lewis, not the other way around. When war broke out, though, Lewis was able to moderate his rhetoric to save his union. He could work with the Russians just as easily if they took over and probably a lot more enthusiastically than he did the US government after Taft-Hartley became law. (Though he was probably a big part of the reason Taft-Hartley passed!)


Walter Reuther of the UAW would be a pretty good candidate. He cooperated with a Communist anti-fascist popular front in the late 30s.
 
The early UAW were too disorderly, practically syndicalist, not liking their shop stewards anymore than the company managers.
 
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