DBWI: Lenin's testament suppressed?

So I was reading about Lenin's testament, and apparently Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev had initially planned to suppress its reading in order to reduce its political effect (which was, IOTL, devastating to Stalin). Of course, they failed, but what if they had succeeded? Would we see a "Stalinist" USSR, or would Trotsky had succeeded in spite of it?
 
I think that If Stalin would got to Power we wouldn't have an USSR going from Portugal to Japan, today. As I know he wanted a strong Communist Russia, while Trotsy went for Worldrevolution. So I think: No Trotsky = No KPD-Revolution in Reichstag in Germany, which I think lead to the furter events.

Oh and BTW the Picture "Sturm auf den Reichstag" by the famous Painter Adolf Hitler, I got hangig on my wall, wouldn't be so expensive. :)
 
OOC: that's ASB. Trotsky would have had more forced famines and more disease, worse off infrastructure (rapid industrialisation at the expense of the peasantry) and a significantly weaker USSR.

IC: The USSR is on the brink of collapse. Every day, i get reports of riots across Eurasia, with the neo-bushido movement in Japan gaining strength.

I have also read that the US, Britain, India and China have this beast well-contained. let us hope that its demise does not cause much of a mess.

OOC: this is from Britain and Ireland, the last free countries in europe other than iceland.
 
OOC: that's ASB. Trotsky would have had more forced famines and more disease, worse off infrastructure (rapid industrialisation at the expense of the peasantry) and a significantly weaker USSR.

IC: The USSR is on the brink of collapse. Every day, i get reports of riots across Eurasia, with the neo-bushido movement in Japan gaining strength.

I have also read that the US, Britain, India and China have this beast well-contained. let us hope that its demise does not cause much of a mess.

OOC: this is from Britain and Ireland, the last free countries in europe other than iceland.

Don't forget the guerrilla warfare by the Poles and Balts who survived the genocide.

A Stalinist USSR is ASB. Stalin would have alienated his best generals, and some warlord would end up ripping the nation apart in a second Civil War.
 
[VK];2631515 said:
I think that If Stalin would got to Power we wouldn't have an USSR going from Portugal to Japan, today. As I know he wanted a strong Communist Russia, while Trotsy went for Worldrevolution. So I think: No Trotsky = No KPD-Revolution in Reichstag in Germany, which I think lead to the furter events.

Oh and BTW the Picture "Sturm auf den Reichstag" by the famous Painter Adolf Hitler, I got hangig on my wall, wouldn't be so expensive. :)
(OOC: *sigh* People tend to misunderstand the point of Trotskyist "world revolution". The idea wasn't that the USSR itself would expand to cover the world: the idea was to aid communist revolutions in other countries so they would become individual communist countries allied with the USSR. So with Trotsky in charge of the USSR there might have been a successful communist revolution in Germany -- but it would not have been followed by the USSR annexing them.)
 
(OOC: *sigh* People tend to misunderstand the point of Trotskyist "world revolution". The idea wasn't that the USSR itself would expand to cover the world: the idea was to aid communist revolutions in other countries so they would become individual communist countries allied with the USSR. So with Trotsky in charge of the USSR there might have been a successful communist revolution in Germany -- but it would not have been followed by the USSR annexing them.)


OOC: People also tend to forget that Trotsky actually had a pretty level-headed foreign policy when he was inside Russia with a shot at power. People also forget that communist Germany was next to impossible.

Really, this thread is a forlorn hope.
 
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