WI Long Jumped worked?

Given FDR had planned on getting rid of Wallace, and the Democratic machine was intractably opposed to him, I doubt he could get renominated, though his Third party run would certainly have a lot more momentum behind it (initially) if he'd actually been president.
 
I keep turning this one around in my mind. Whats the equivalent Allied operation vs the Axis. SOE managed to Heydrich, which is not the same level. One of the many meetings between Hitler and Mussolini? Maybe the 1940 meeting between Hitler and Franco?

So, a surprise explosion whacks Adolf & Benito, along with Kesselring, Bagdoglio, the Italian king, and a dozen others. all in late 1942. Where go events after the dust settles on the corpses?
 
I thought Hitler was dead against gas?, anyway you have just given every single allied soldier the motivation to go to a total war situation “no quarter given”, the western front has become the eastern front and the eastern front will make hell look like a nice place for a peaceful holiday. The German population will be treated very poorly to say the least even compared to OTL by the soviets but this time also by the western allies. There will be little sympathy at all from the home front for the nazi regime or the German general population.
 
I don't see stability for the U.S.S.R. if it's Beria in a war on everyone around him. The factions are not going to suddenly agree once he's been ousted.
 
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Probably the only person whose than Stalin would have to be Beria, He would purge every government/military agency, the GRU would disappear or be absorbed into the KGB which itself would basically become the government/police/domestic international spy agency. Beria would end up making Hitler look like a Boy Scout as Beria’s domestic politics would kill or in prison millions.
 
Probably the only person whose than Stalin would have to be Beria, He would purge every government/military agency, the GRU would disappear or be absorbed into the KGB which itself would basically become the government/police/domestic international spy agency. Beria would end up making Hitler look like a Boy Scout as Beria’s domestic politics would kill or in prison millions.

How long would Beria last pulling this destructive, war effort crippling garbage.

Alternatively how much damage will the Heer be able to do to the chaos ravaged Red Army over and above OTL.

What effect will this have on the rest of the war.
 
How about instead of Molotov or Beria (who was pretty much hated by everyone in the party) being elected as leader, Malenkov manages to take over as head honcho of the SU.
 
How about Zhukov taking over power?, has the Red armies backing very popular with the general population, and maybe with the armies backing can reel in the KGB and given Beria a .22 headache. Yes he would still have to be brutal to crack down on his critics but image having someone with military knowledge running the Soviet Union in the great patriotic war again the German hordes.
 
OTL no one took over the USSR right away when Stalin died. Initially there was a coalition that last some months and gradually shook out to Kruschev. I'd expect the same in this situation. While Beria is likely to be eliminated first and swiftly its probably going to be a year or more before any single individual acquires the level of power folks are thinking of here.
 
OTL no one took over the USSR right away when Stalin died. Initially there was a coalition that last some months and gradually shook out to Kruschev. I'd expect the same in this situation. While Beria is likely to be eliminated first and swiftly its probably going to be a year or more before any single individual acquires the level of power folks are thinking of here.
The USSR was more or less at peace when Stalin died a natural death in OTL. That's not the case here.
 
Either way I don't see any single individual able to take over in a few weeks. That would imply a strong power base, something that Stalin made sure no one had. There were no urgent emergencies . By this time intermediate and short term strategy were pretty much set & a Politburo without a strong executive could function for months while the individuals plotted.
 
A couple of things to note.

Eden was at the Tehran Conference, as well as Winston, so he would likely also be killed/debilitated.

Beria was in charge of organising the security. After this the chances of him living out the week, much less taking over the USSR, are almost non-existent. Everyone else already hated him so him dropping the ball on this would be the perfect excuse to off him.

Postwar, with Wallace in the White House I can see closer cooperation between the superpowers, possibly averting or delaying the Cold War. I actually have an idea for a no Cold War timeline with this PoD.
 
Probably the only person whose than Stalin would have to be Beria, He would purge every government/military agency, the GRU would disappear or be absorbed into the KGB which itself would basically become the government/police/domestic international spy agency. Beria would end up making Hitler look like a Boy Scout as Beria’s domestic politics would kill or in prison millions.

As Alexander says, Beria's chances of living out the day, much less the week, are incredibly small. Fucking up this badly... you'd have everyone scrambling over each other to be the first to sign a death warrant for him. Unless Beria is INCREDIBLY lucky and manages to massacre everyone else within the span of a handful of hours, he is a dead man walking. And even if he does, some general probably just gets the smart idea of marching a motorized rifle regiment into the Kremlin, hauling Beria in front of a wall, and calling themselves "The Savior of the Revolution".
 
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Postwar, with Wallace in the White House I can see closer cooperation between the superpowers, possibly averting or delaying the Cold War. I actually have an idea for a no Cold War timeline with this PoD.

The PoD here is November 1943. To be a postwar president Wallace has to be reelected a year later.

Given FDR had planned on getting rid of Wallace, and the Democratic machine was intractably opposed to him, I doubt he could get renominated, though his Third party run would certainly have a lot more momentum behind it (initially) if he'd actually been president.

For this & other reasons I think its long odds Wallace would remain president after the 1944 election. He might not even gain the Democratic party nomination.
 
The PoD here is November 1943. To be a postwar president Wallace has to be reelected a year later.
I had him win the nomination and election in 1944 on account of the war still going on and playing up FDR's legacy. Then in 1948 the Republicans nominate Taft, which alienates enough moderates who decide to either stay home or stick with Wallace giving him two full terms.
 
Like I wrote before, the guy had no base in the Democratic party. He'd been a Republican party member until 1936, & came to the Roosevelt administration as one of the New Deal men. In 1944 the Party convention showed even more opposition to Wallace than in 1940 & the conservative wing worked hard to select a different candidate for VP & the Party center was not particularly committed to him. The guy would have to change his core philosophies, at least post 1940 & get in line with conservative wing of the Party to get the support.
 
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