Looks like we have another dollar legionnaire here. What's with this site attracting them and crazy Hungarian nationalists?OOC: radical ramblings incoming
I was hoping that Operation Barbarossa would have been avoided, thanks to the rise of the glorious revolutionary general Trotsky. And MacArthur, the Fascist American Nazi allying president would have been murdered with an ice pick as Trotsky would have liked to.
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Trotsky was smart and talented, but his star was on the wane in the party itself since the mid-30's, when he and Kamenev were outmaneuvered by their erstwhile friend Zinoviev with the help of Kirov. Ironically, I think he was better off serving as an international figure for the communist movement than if he was the sole leader of the USSR; he in particular would not have been able to personally assist in training and fighting with the guerrillas of the PRC for one thing, something that really helped them become the unifying force in china.
Kamenev, Trotsky, or Zinoviev were the three big picks during that time, though if the whole Stalin thing is true, he might have been able to arrange an upset.I think Kamenev or Zinoviev would both have been in a good position to succeed Lenin in 1924.
He mostly did that so he could claim his own master inventor. The fact that the Soviets tend to have a rather advanced electrical grid and have even dabbled in wireless energy transfer is just the product of this.Comrade, it would have been so much worse with out the leadership of Lenin. He only attacked bourgeois intellectuals, not revolutionary comrades and proletarian scientists. His programmes for the revolutionary sciences attached many bright idealists from around the world, like Nikola Tesla the master of physics
No shit, really? That was his role in the Bolshevik movement? Well, maybe if he also handled the money that might give him a bit better credit, but I was given the impression he was a bureaucrat at heart based on what Marty was saying... though being a bureaucrat probably didn't help his chances.And Stalin was just a dumb bank robber lolololololll
And reported for UKIP or Constitutionalist twaddle. The communism of now is not exactly the communism of the 20s and 30s.OoC: someone would almost certainly insert anti-communist comments, verging on trolling, so here goes:
The sooner all the f****g communists died the better. Communism ruined the world. It was a vicious nasty violent ideology - the worst thing to happen in the whole history of the world, ever. The Nazis didn't kill enough of them. The first nukes should have been used on the Kremlin and Leningrad, not on Kagoshima and Okayama.
OoC: Regarding the comment about the Nazis, no, that's not my real-life viewpoint. Standing by for an ITTL kick...
Eh, that comes a bit off as Liberal Whiggish in terms of how societies, and can be seen as somewhat wrong when you saw the brief golden age of Fascism, which died when the madness of the Nazis consumed themselves. Plus mixed economies tend to be somewhat more often the final result, as the Soviets and other communist states offer some degree of free enterprise nowadays.I'm not sure it would have made much of a difference. The historical proof of historical materialism would seem to indicate that such a "great man" view of history is unrealistic (although still useful for coming up with fun alt-hist scenarios I guess). Most likely the broad sweep of history would unfold as OTL, with socialism steadily rising, whilst capitalism steadily degenerates.