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What if the Labour Government of Clement Attlee, after frustrations over the US' decisions to cut financial support by a 3rd immediately after WWII, levy massive interest payments on all outstanding wartime loans and it's imposed repealing of wartime pound-sterling currency controls, decides to move the UK diplomatically toward a special economic relationship with the Soviet Union?

What could be the immediate and long term results of said influence on war torn Britian?
Could the empire last longer with a Soviet-style economic assistance program?
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