Lenin in charge until 1940s

WI Lenin were healthier and stayed in power longer.

I am asuming he would still be a ruthless dictator but not a bat shit crazy paranoid one (like otl's Stalin)

Would he have done a deal with Hitler?

If not how would he have handled relations with both Nazi Germany and the Democracies?
 
Stalin was a lot of things but bat shit crazy isn't among them. He was in fact the absolute opposite - a cold ruthless SOB.
 
I'm not sure if the Soviet Union would be in a better position re: W.W. II if Lenin lives. I don't think Lenin would've starved the country to industrialize it the way Stalin did. Slower industrialization means less military equipment is produced.
 
I agree the Soviet Union would be less industrialized. tThe Soviet military would not be as well equipped as it was OTL. tThere would not have been the purges so the officer corps would be in better shape.
 
WWII as we know it might not happen.

To get him living longer, maybe no assassinatiom attempt? This would have its own butterflies, like no terror directed against the Socialist Revolutionaries, at least at that point.
 
Will NEP policy will be continued?
How Lenin will pursue World Revolution... Stalin was more interested in restoring order at Home. But Lenin was more romantic about World Proletarian Revolution.
 
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