USSR Without Stalin: Alliance in WWII?

Let's say that Stalin and his purges of the Red Army are erased from the picture. In my mind's eye, I have a less expansionist SU organizing eastern Europe into a bulwark against the Western capitalists, and later Nazism.

How would this come about? Who would be the best member of the Soviet Union's upper echelons to lead the SU?
 
Let's say that Stalin and his purges of the Red Army are erased from the picture. In my mind's eye, I have a less expansionist SU organizing eastern Europe into a bulwark against the Western capitalists, and later Nazism.

The Poles, Romanians, etc. are unlikely to _want_ to be bulwarks against Western Capitalism. And if they want an ally vs the Germans, they'll look to France and the UK first.

Bruce
 
He wasn't really, no.

But what exactly happens to Stalin? At what point does he disappear? Military coup any one?
He dies at the age of six because of a rail accident/influenza/freak sickness/wipe him out of the picture before he's in it, maybe?
 

yourworstnightmare

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Depends on who is in charge of USSR. If it's not Stalin there are dozens of other candidates with their own ideas how a Communist State should be run and what kind of foreign policies it should have.
 
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