What do you think would have happened? I think that china would not have a socialist market economy and Deng Xiaoping would not ever come to power.
But what if Stalin didn't lead the Soviet Union? Could it possibly expand its borders into modern day China?For why I consider the whole idea totally implausible, see https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...-joins-the-soviet-union.468461/#post-18986683
But what if Stalin didn't lead the Soviet Union? Could it possibly expand its borders into modern day China?
There is no real communist country but nationalistic countries with a single party in charge and those in power receiving lavish benefits while others suffer. This is still true in North Korea, China and Vietname.The USSR wasn't a properly communist state. Communism at it's root aims was a global society where everyone was equal. The Soviet Union was a new Russian Empire, but with the "Communist Party", and in particular Stalin, ruling with an iron fist instead of the Tsars.
If the countries merged as a proper communist state, then the Han Chinese and not the Russians would dominate. Ultimately, as seen by the "Great Patriotic War", the USSR was a nationalist state.
This is one of the most bizarre topics that keeps being repeatedly posted in this forum. USSR didn’t even annex Poland, why the hell would it try to annex China?
There is no such thing as "communist state". That's an oxymoron. Communism is stateless. This is something both the Soviets and the Chinese understood very well. They never claimed to be communist; they claimed to be socialist states on the road to communism.The USSR wasn't a properly communist state. Communism at it's root aims was a global society where everyone was equal. The Soviet Union was a new Russian Empire, but with the "Communist Party", and in particular Stalin, ruling with an iron fist instead of the Tsars.
If the countries merged as a proper communist state, then the Han Chinese and not the Russians would dominate. Ultimately, as seen by the "Great Patriotic War", the USSR was a nationalist state.
In Canada we do have communist like communities. They Hutterite colonies as they are called are German origin religious community that like the Mennonites had emigrated to Russia in the 18th century but found it difficult to live there in the 19th century. Then these religious groups migrated to the Americas.There is no such thing as "communist state". That's an oxymoron. Communism is stateless. This is something both the Soviets and the Chinese understood very well. They never claimed to be communist; they claimed to be socialist states on the road to communism.
It'd become Sino-centric given China's massive population. They'd outweigh the European Soviets and control the USSR in a matter of years.
USSR can form a Mongolian SSR , how will china react to that ?
This of course was totally unacceptable to the Chinese and Mao who expected to be treated as equals.
What do you think would have happened? I think that china would not have a socialist market economy and Deng Xiaoping would not ever come to power.