London Hookers save millions (of people)? (they Kill Stalin)

Was watching interesting documentary on BBC IPlayer (i love that), about the turbulent anglo-russo relationship and found out an interesting factoid:

when in London attending a communist gathering of some such Stalin chatted up a London hooker and was almost beaten to death by her and her "work collegues" (a harmless bit of xenophobia) and was saved by the person he was out with (whose name escapes me)

I dunno if this has been done before, but what would the result be? I think the POD (around 1907) is fairly close enough to stop any major butterflies occuring...

I'm sure a POD that removes stalin has been done before, but i mainly wanted to share the hooker story with you :D

and without furhter ado: Discuss

(and sorry for the prolific use of parentheses in this post)
 
The USSR is still a dictatorship. I think that the rest of the leadership would still be scared of Trotsky.

There would be deaths and disruption from trying to collectivize agriculture but not on the scale of OTL.

I do NOT believe that without Stalin there would be the total terror of the later 1930s.

In OTL the safest thing in Germany until the very end was to be a true Nazi from the start.

In Stalin's USSR it was probably even more dangerous to have been a true believer in the Bolshevik cause from before 1917.

I wonder if Hitler might have been butterflied out. In OTL the Soviet leadership was telling the German Communists that the Social Democrats were at least as much their enemy as the Nazis.


One thing that might not change all that much would be the degree of fear of the USSR by Western powers.
 
If Hitler wasnt butteflied, this would not bode well for the USSR. Stalin's ruthless 5 year plan programs managed to built enough heavy industry to withstand the Hitlerite assault... I dont see a Soviet Union without Stalin leading it accomplishing the same feat with ease.

However without Stalin the Red Army would not be so weak in 1941 due to the lack of the Great Purge of the late thirties.
 
Without the Great Purge, the Winter war against Finland might not have been such a complete humiliation.
 
The Purge is overrated. Only about 20 or 30,000 officers were removed, and most weren't killed, merely fired. They needed to fill, what, 150,000 vacancies that resulted from the huge expansion of the RKKA in the late '30s alone. Except for at the uppermost levels, it didn't have as large an impact as is generally believed.
 
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