Let us look at it another way. This made the Soviets look weak, the Red Army inept, and Stalin incompetent. You can mix and match the previous three. There was once a map on here involving an ISOT with New York and California being sent back to before WWII. In it Hitler becomes an idol for many, with Neo-Hitlerite movements spreading to Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. People didn't necessarily believe the stuff on the Holocaust, but they were smug about how far Hitler got and thought that, if a few mistakes were fixed, or if he had been a bit quicker with the genocide... Also some stuff with Stalin getting a civil war due to various reasons, it those are just mentoined to bring up one other character. Mussolini. As the entire map key mentioned, people didn't mind the stuff about tyranny and foreign conquests so much. What they cared about was how the future viewed Moosey as a clown. Fear and respect are needed for any government basing its power upon power. Can't afford to be embarrassed too often.