Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
Banned
See the Nazi-Soviet Pact for an example of how the USSR was able to put aside ideology when it got in the way of a decent alliance.
It was a partition plan, not an alliance, and it was in bad faith on both sides (more so on Hitler's side, since Stalin provided him with material and moral support while it lasted). They were at war in less than 2 years.
Maybe if Japan have returned South Sakhalin and Kurils Islands.
Since it saw these as an integral part of its national territory I doubt it would return them... or even use the word "return", for that matter.
Гудериан
That's "Guderian". I have trouble reading Cyrillic and most of us can't do it at all. Please write in the Latin alphabet.
Given that the motto of Realpolitik is 'My Enemy's Enemy is my Friend' I don't find this ASB at all.
That is not its motto at all; Kissinger and zombie Bismarck would laugh in your face if they heard you say that.
Honestly, I'm getting pretty annoyed at people categorising the USSR as an evil empire. It may be appropriate if you want to go on an angry political rant, but if you genuinely want to understand the Soviet Union and its place in history, it will do you no good at all!!!
How can you sincerely expect to discuss how the Soviet Union may have acted in an alternate history if as far as you are concerned the entire state is objectively evil, run exclusively by objectively evil people with objectively evil plots to enslave the world?
Except that his analysis of Stalin's reasons for the Pact is dead-on.
Anyway, Imperial Japan and the USSR were mortal enemies and you can't just up and decide to make them allies no matter how much sense it might make to you. There are 2 roads that might lead to that direction, but they take work:
1) The Japanese do not invade Manchuria (the government wasn't planning on it anyway) and Nationalist China grows strong and ambitious. They continue to claim Mongolia, Tuva and some minor Soviet territories, seize the Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian Railways, plan on retaking Taiwan, Kwantung and Outer Manchuria, crush the Chinese Communists and pro-Soviet and pro-Japanese warlords, and aid Korean rebels, Trotskyites and White Russian emigres. This eventually leads to Soviet-Japanese cooperation against what has become their biggest rival in East Asia. This could be helped by China being closely aligned with Nazi Germany (see OTL Sino-German cooperation) and the USA (both easy to do) and turning fascist (not so easy to do).
2) Towards the end of WWII Japan was trying to use Soviet influence to shield it from being completely defeated in the war; this was before the Soviets intervened. The argument its diplomats presented to the USSR was that unconditional surrender would bring the Americans to its doorstep and that wouldn't be good. Maybe something can be done with this, though I don't really see how.
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