DBWI: Soviet Union reach Berlin

Unless if it was headed by Beria...
Unfortunately, when Operation UNTHINKABLE was launched, only PM Churchill was one of the only remaining Allied leaders still in power after the Potsdam Conference. To make matters worse, President Truman had just ordered the use of nuclear weapons on Kyoto and Osaka. As such, you had a situation wherein the Soviets feared that they were going to be the next target in a possible nuclear attack. Is it any wonder that the Soviets still hate our guts?
 
Unless if it was headed by Beria...

And that's the problem. Some people are convinced that Beria would have been a reformer--but this is clearly impossible. That man raped and killed little girls--bones of a presumed victim were recently discovered in his former residence, now the Turkish embassy.

Joesph Stalin and Laventi Beria were bad news for Europe. Its somewhat annoying when some idealist comes along and claims that Beria would have saved Europe from itself, or when the USA and UK are villified because things "might have been better" under the Soviet Union. Please.

That "moderate faction" was all a sham for Beria to try to grab power by "reforming the Soviet Leadership". That's all. And if Churchill is a monster because he wants to stop the execution of an order like:

"All Poles are German Collaborators and should be treated as such" that Stalin had attempted to execute in western Poland, it's pretty clear that someone has bought the Soviet line, hook and sinker.

Sorry, but this analyisis is widely inaccurate. The Soviets were not going to shape up and offer the free elections for Poland that they agreed to, and UNTHINKABLE really made the world a better place.
 
To make matters worse, President Truman had just ordered the use of nuclear weapons on Kyoto and Osaka. As such, you had a situation wherein the Soviets feared that they were going to be the next target in a possible nuclear attack. Is it any wonder that the Soviets still hate our guts?

That's why most people favored an invasion of Japan, so as not to provoke the SU. Of course, there have been very high estimates for casualties in the proposed Operation Olympic - but it's worth it. I mean, Operation UNTHINKABLE cost a lot more lives and caused several nuclear bombs to be dropped. We in the present day are starting to feel the real effects of those.
 
That's why most people favored an invasion of Japan, so as not to provoke the SU. Of course, there have been very high estimates for casualties in the proposed Operation Olympic - but it's worth it. I mean, Operation UNTHINKABLE cost a lot more lives and caused several nuclear bombs to be dropped. We in the present day are starting to feel the real effects of those.
So you would tell Truman to risk millions of American lives in the taking of the Japanese Home Islands, after 3 years of intense fighting, and based on a military operation that Churchill only revealed after the fact, and just prior to his own leaving office? This would be political suicide for any elected government, not to mention the Polish people caught in the middle of this debacle....
 
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