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Oh boy. Patton on the road to topple the Nazis. One thought comes to mind.
Stepan Bandera OTL was complicit in a lot of shady shit, like the mass murder of Jews and persecution of Poles.
He might be an incredible wild card. I can see him becoming a horrible strongman dictator if he is given a position and power, and using that power to persecute the Jews and Poles he governs over. On the other hand, he might develop Ukrainian culture and tradition, and lead the battered nation into something of a golden age.
Wait, Stalin ITTL actually participated in the final solution? Did Soviet Jews get sent there (as a token gesture by Stalin to his old buddy?)
Another thing is that the Allies are not likely to commit mass murder against the Ukrainians and Belarusians. Once the allies give these starved people chocolates, they will happen pledge allegiance to America.
The sight of these people cheering as Americans liberate them would be something conservatives would celebrate for a long time to come.
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BTW, I wanted to ask.
If Truman is able to topple Stalin, would that give him the ability to push his social programs, like health care and housing? Since not only would there be no Soviet boogeyman to scare people away from reforms, but that he could take credit for toppling the boogeyman.
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Blood Spilled In a Battered City, December 1944
A New Direction, January 1945
Within hours of his inauguration, President Harry Truman was on the telephone with Winston Churchill, hoping to determine how much the British were capable of contributing to the war. Churchill, like Daladier, was beginning to grow concerned about the ability of his nation to provide enough manpower for the front while maintaining a productive economy back home. Unlike France, for Britain the situation was not so urgent as to require the immediate transfer of units to quiet parts of the line or occupation duty in Germany, but Churchill did say that the war needed to be ended within the next twelve or eighteen months.
As Patton’s troops were nearing Poland, the possibility of using liberated populations in the fight against communism was also raised. A brief discussion on the use of Germans had been shut down by Roosevelt as it risked allowing a revival of Nazism, but the formation of a new Polish Army carried no such risk, and similar liberation movements were also possible in Romania, the Baltic Region and even the Ukraine, the latter in particular having acquired considerable support after Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera had been freed from Nazi house arrest in Munich (his arrest likely having taken place at Stalin’s request).
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Stepan Bandera OTL was complicit in a lot of shady shit, like the mass murder of Jews and persecution of Poles.
He might be an incredible wild card. I can see him becoming a horrible strongman dictator if he is given a position and power, and using that power to persecute the Jews and Poles he governs over. On the other hand, he might develop Ukrainian culture and tradition, and lead the battered nation into something of a golden age.
While retaking Poland, Patton’s men found out that the ‘death camps’, discussed but never found in Germany, were true. Large factory-like complexes located in the middle of nowhere, along with evidence of mass graves, were found scattered across the region. Communist graffiti indicated that at some point after Hitler’s fall, Stalin had placed the camps under new management, while they continued their deadly business of murdering millions. Evacuated by the time the Americans arrived (with any survivors likely to have been shipped off to Siberia), the camps provided further proof of the need to win the war. But before Patton would have a chance to do that, he would have to negotiate the Molotov Line, a massive line of fortifications covering the length of the Soviet border, from Memel in the north to the Siret River in the south. It was here that the Red Army would make its stand.
Wait, Stalin ITTL actually participated in the final solution? Did Soviet Jews get sent there (as a token gesture by Stalin to his old buddy?)
The OTL German-led invasion was garrisoning or fighting on at least three other fronts and had critical materials shortages plus the Soviets were essentially fighting a one-front war and being propped up with lend-lease kit and food supplies. Here the Allies and Japan are attacking the Soviets on two fronts and have no blockade stopping them from bringing in all the logistics that they can carry. Nor like the Nazis are they going to alienate the populations that they liberate. And a lot of Soviet Jews may not be a desperately committed to the struggle as OTL. This invasion will have access to the British and US textile industry for warm winter woolies and be well supplied with Spam and Argentinean corned beef
Another thing is that the Allies are not likely to commit mass murder against the Ukrainians and Belarusians. Once the allies give these starved people chocolates, they will happen pledge allegiance to America.
The sight of these people cheering as Americans liberate them would be something conservatives would celebrate for a long time to come.
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BTW, I wanted to ask.
If Truman is able to topple Stalin, would that give him the ability to push his social programs, like health care and housing? Since not only would there be no Soviet boogeyman to scare people away from reforms, but that he could take credit for toppling the boogeyman.