Beria succeeds Stalin could lead to a possible Soviet Wank. There was a suggestion that he might be willing negotiate IF Churchill attends Stalin's Funeral - on his table would be letting French Indochina go to UN monitored elections (results in no Vietnam war), partition of the Middle East in spheres of influence, Germany reunified as a strictly neutral nation ala Switzerland, and the public castration of Joseph McCarthy. The end result would be that the Soviet Union would be around in 2010, instead of imploding.