Post-Unthinkable Society and Culture

[Elidor]

What if, for whatever reasons Operation Unthinkable (the offensive variant) comes to fruition, and the allies succeed in defeating the soviet union in a long, protracted war, restoring a much weakened "White Russia" as it were and liberating all central Asian peoples, Ukrainians, etc.

What kind of a toll will take on the allied nations, and what kind of a post war world would it be?

Certainly a transition to a peacetime economy will take a very long time. And given how popular soviet propaganda made Stalin in '45, there might be an insurgency movement-- maybe by both far right and far left guerillas might unite against what is essentially an American-led allied world domination. There might be a sense that the war ended, and the wartime institutions and measures might last decades in order to remake the world in the allied image. The communists in America during the war, might get treated like the Japanese in internment camps, while all in all, the US and the UK become more authoritarian as societies.

But, apart from these immediate effects, what would global politics be without the cold war? What would the American and British domestic politics be? How would 2000 look like. I am more interested in popular culture and politics of such a TL. Any thoughts?

 

[Raymann]

For starters, I think it would depend on the trigger.

A massacre somewhere of Allied troops by the Soviets would be a definite cause belli for war along with a Soviet seizure of West Berlin, the British and US especially would rage at a Soviet betrayal. Then again, the Allies could just attack and claim the Soviets fired first...who would you believe, us or the damn commies?

Next is when? The allies were rapidly pulling troops out of Europe, much faster then Russia who obviously intended to stay. There is also the Patton factor, if the war starts before 12/9/45 then I'm pretty sure he won't be out hunting...at least not for birds.

And then of course there are the nukes, the Russians of course didn't develop them until the end of '49 and with another war on they would be set back even further. The second the Allies attain air superiority they will be used, on military formations at first but on cities soon enough.

 

[DuQuense]

There is also the Patton factor, if the war starts before 12/9/45 then I'm pretty sure he won't be out hunting...at least not for birds.

For a total Patton-Wank Read -A Damm Fine War-
Eisenhower is killed in a Plane crash at the start of Russia's Push to take all of Germany, and Patton becomes Commander Allied Forces Europe.