The Grand Alliance

Is there any way to create a USSR that rather than be expansionist and try to export their philosophy by hook or by crook, decides instead to simply hunker down in Russian and spend their energies improving the country and proselytising by way of example? That at least could improve relations a fair bit, although they would never be bosom buddies. With somewhat decent relations they decide to continue coordinating on international affairs where mutually advantageous, with the UK as the junior partner of the affair.
 

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Is there any way to create a USSR that rather than be expansionist and try to export their philosophy by hook or by crook, decides instead to simply hunker down in Russian and spend their energies improving the country and proselytising by way of example? That at least could improve relations a fair bit, although they would never be bosom buddies. With somewhat decent relations they decide to continue coordinating on international affairs where mutually advantageous, with the UK as the junior partner of the affair.

Only if you butterfly away Nazi Germany. Otherwise we still have the trauma of WWII that gives the russian the mindset that they need bufferstates to protect themselves from west europe.
 
How would you guys go about keeping the war time alliance of the USA, UK and the USSR to this modern day? or is that ASB?

Don't forget France ... although I never quite understood why France was allowed into the quartet post war except maybe as a bit of a sympathy thing or maybe out of respect for their pre-war stature ...
 

Cyan

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Common sense and much faster developement of internet porn and fast food to make the population stop caring about nation states in as much as ideologies leading to a modern era by the late 1970's during the hippie movement.

Maan, hippies had just had the internet. *makes that sipping sound with his lips.*
 
The United States is in the League of Nations from the start and the USSR joins as per OTL and doesn't get expelled. I think that's about as close as you get.
 
I think the fear of invasions in a Russian society is simply too great to not create buffer states.

Look at what happened over a 150 year period: Napoleon, WWI, WWII.

That is a pretty big thing to overlook.

On top of, when US generals start talking about the cold war started 1 February 1943 (Stalingrad), then I would also be mighty afraid.

US nuclear developments were directly aimed at USSR.

Maybe the better question to ask is: Could US, by way of positioning itself as less an opponent to USSR, eliminate the cold war? or at least diminish the USSR fears of a nuclear strike?

Was USSR really a big threat to US (maybe to UK due to distance) in 1945 and the years thereafter?

As much as the alliance needed an enemy to usnite against, did US need an "enemy" (USSR) after 1945?

Ivan
 
That is a very good question, of course.

In this, as in many other instances, Stalin would not be able to totally act in total isolation.

I tend to believe that it could be a more general paranoia.

Stalin might have been the "spokesperson" for this.

Comments anybody?

Ivan
 
FDR dies earlier and Wallace becomes President.

Stalin dies and Molotov is seen as his natural successor. Together they can work better with Attlee

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
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