No Cold War

Jonjo

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What if the US and USSR do not start the Cold war but instead the feeling of their alliance in WW2 carries over and they continue good relations? each country does not try to assert dominance in any other countries besides the spheres they captured in WW2.
 
Pretty much impossible IMO, the USSR owes the US a big wad of cash, and given their condition are understandably unwilling to pay up. Add in the political differences (Stalin's paranoia for example, and the fact that democrats and communists don't get along real well), and I think you'd have a real job even delaying it a few years.
 
Pretty much impossible. Even the "gentler" USSR of the post XX CPSU congress was very much set in the Cold War mindframe. The only way out of the cold war would be a multipolar world after WW2.
 
The Republican Party at the time had at least a sizable faction that opposed the Marshall Plan and wanted out of Asia/Europe. They even opposed sending troops to South Korea in 1950. Problem is getting them into power.

You wouldn't have "good relations" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. but there wouldn't be a "Cold War".
 
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I think that a deal over Poland (effectively 'Finlandizing; it) might have been enough. In the imediate aftermath of the war there were Communists in many Western European adminsitrations and non Communists in parts of the East.

Had it been linked to Soviet support for the 1944 Warsaw uprising it might also have shortened the war.

Big interesting thing to me is how severe would deNazification be. More so and longer lasting than in otl is clear
 
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