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?
How would this come about? Who would be the best member of the Soviet Union's upper echelons to lead the SU?