WI Frunze lives past 1925?

Hi there, first thread here.

One question I have wondered was if Frunze lived past 1925?
Would it have made any difference in history is say he lived until 1937?

How would this affect the Soviet Union?
 
Hi there, first thread here.

One question I have wondered was if Frunze lived past 1925?
Would it have made any difference in history is say he lived until 1937?

How would this affect the Soviet Union?

They have to name the Soviet Military Academy something else, after Frunze was unmasked as always having worked for the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union, an agent of foreign intelligence services, and an associate of Trotsky, and sentenced to receive the supreme measure of social self-defense.

Stalin didn't like threats to his position.



In the last days of the Soviet Union, a writer for National Review toured the country; he was invited to the academy. His inviter, a senior Soviet officer, said, "Let's go to the Bronstein".

So much for Robert Heinlein's assertion that no one in the Soviet Union knew who Trotsky (ne Bronstein) was. Perhaps no one would admit this to a somewhat forward American.
 
True enough, but assuming just a later purge might it have had a negative effect upon the reforms he passed in 1924 and 1925?

My thoughts would be if he continued to live longer Mikhail Tukhachevsky might not acquire the importance he did, and perhaps because of it less German-Soviet coorporation during the late 20's?

Other than an academy name, I belived he played a key role in the idea of a modern soviet armaments industry, thus perhaps him living longer might see a more fully devloped industry for when WWII comes around?
 
IIRC Mikhail Frunze died due to complications from stomach surgery. It's widely suspected that Stalin killed him. So positing that he survives, and this is indeed the case, Stalin probably tries to kill him again.

Now assuming Frunze survives till say 1937 it becomes interesting. There remains the outside chance that his influence strengthens the anti-Stalin faction to the point of a Soviet Civil War or his removal from power. However it's far more likely that he is simply isolated like other anti-Stalin politicians and eventually exiled/sentanced to a gulag.
 
I have no thoughts of Frunze surviving Stalin, as he will likely be killed by him. But if he was Stalin's enemy his work towards the further industrialization of Russia. He did die of medical complications, thus the POD would be him surviving.

The efforts might be scrapped by Stalin after the purge leading to a weakened USSR defense industry for WWII?

Also if Frunze is purged at a later date would it also endanger Aleksandr Svechin of a purge?

My thoughts on this were that Frunze's survival will aid in increasing the priority and resources devoted to industrialization of the Soviet Union and leave a legacy of more fit Soviet Union when WWII rolls around.

Assuming Frunze is sent to the gulag, might he be reinstated at the onset of hostilities in 1941?
 
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