WI: Enver Hoxha as leader of the Soviet Union

One thing we could do is have a radically different Soviet Union, where the postwar revolutionary surge was supper effective resulting in all of Europe east of the Rhine going red. On the national question the radical anti-nationalists, such as Rosa Luxemburg and the Austromarxists (awesome band name), prevail and all the revolutionary states, including Albania, are incorporated into a single Soviet Union. In this new union a young Enver enters politics and eventually rises to the top, championing women's rights and religious tolerance, and promising a cultural revolution in arts funding.
 
What if Enver Hoxha would be leader of the Soviet Union during Cold War? And how he would take Kremlin throne?
Maybe combined Albanian-Yugoslavian People's Republic with a significant Albanian population could see an Enver Hoxa ( who is earlier alienated from Stalin) as an important figure, maybe there could be an agreement with Tito concerning leadership.
 
Does not work. Even if we assume that the "Soviet version of Hoxha" comes to power, then ... he is not allowed to turn around.
The first question - "de-Stalinization" .... it was inevitable. The report at the twentieth congress was a Stalinist measure - remember where Stalin started .... he blamed the whole blame on the "members of the Trotsky-Zinoviev bloc" and the "right deviators." Khrushchev blamed everything on Stalin, thereby protecting himself. Then he liquidated the "anti-Party group" (also a Stalinist step). And do not forget that Khrushchev and Brezhnev (or rather their surroundings) created their own "Cults of Personality", but this did not help (Soviet people were no longer illiterate peasants, but engineers and geologists).
The second repression of the bureaucracy - Khrushchev is also constantly shaking the elite (not so bloody, just happened permanent layoffs), but the bureaucracy needed guarantees. Brumaire needed. To bring to its logical end - in the end he was removed.
And international isolation is simply unprofitable for the bureaucracy.
 
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promising a cultural revolution in arts funding.
If you mean the spread of avant-gardeism, then I will disappoint you - even in the twenties the Soviet leadership was very skeptical about the avant-garde freak out (the People's Commissar of Education - Lunachrsky - wrote realistic plays and loved the 19 th century coins). What is logical - modern flesh from the flesh of capitalism - a society where a person lost his face. In fact, this is counterrevolution in art.
 
If you mean the spread of avant-gardeism, then I will disappoint you - even in the twenties the Soviet leadership was very skeptical about the avant-garde freak out (the People's Commissar of Education - Lunachrsky - wrote realistic plays and loved the 19 th century coins). What is logical - modern flesh from the flesh of capitalism - a society where a person lost his face. In fact, this is counterrevolution in art.
It was a play on his OTL support for the Chinese Cultural Revolution and his attempts to implement it in Albania.
 
In general, in the Soviet cultural historiography of the 30-ies - the era of the "cultural revolution." Officially, it has already happened.
It was a joke.

The humour is derived from an ironic contrasting of the turmoil and upheaval of the Chinese Cultural Revolution with a modest policy of increasing arts subsidies.
 
It was a joke.

The humour is derived from an ironic contrasting of the turmoil and upheaval of the Chinese Cultural Revolution with a modest policy of increasing arts subsidies.
Oh. It's clear. Well, the true goal of the "cultural revolution" is destruction and not creation.
A politically charged Russian mixed with a hefty dose of British humor is never going to turn out well.
Russians have a normal sense of humor, I'm the only one.
What about politicization .... here is not so simple.
 
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