WI: Stalin had lived longer?

As the title says. What if Stalin had lasted a handfull of more years? It was believed that he was planning on initiating a genocide against Soviet Jewry, and that after that he would initiate an invasion of Western Europe.

Is this true? If so what consequences does this have on history?
 
Stalin was planning a purge of his subordinates (most notably Beria, Molotov, and Mikoyan) and there is the possibility that he was planning on deporting Soviet Jews to camps in Siberia (although it isn't completely known if that was the plan). I've never heard of a Stalinist plot to invade Western Europe, and that would be out of character for the overcautious Stalin. Depending on how long Stalin lives it's possible that the purge expands to other subordinates such as Kaganovich or Khrushchev.
 
Stalin wouldn't invade Western Europe ... Not with out damn good reason ...

Purges yes .. Being popular in the Soviet Union was seldom a great idea during those days especially ..

One thing to note if he lived another 5 years and purged the nearest rivals and intelligent amongst the party .. It could be disastrous to the Soviet Union and eastern block with out people competent to take over .. And even if that.. Those who will come next knowing soviet history will swing the other way and maybe more extreme than the kruschev thaw.. Either way Stalin actually lasted a year or two too long in OTL

Thaw was needed earlier
 
I discuss the possibility of a mass deportation of the Jews at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/vphfMFXwZ7g/hytNAoRUqyMJ

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"According to Rubinstein, after Ehrenburg's letter was sent, no more
signatures were collected; the organizers of the campaign understood that
they could not proceed further until Stalin made some sort of response. He
concludes that it is unclear whether Ehrenburg's letter made Stalin
reconsider or at least hesitate--and whether this hesitation coupled with
Stalin's death, saved the Soviet Jews. In his footnote 60 on page 434
Rubinstein writes that Alexander Yakovlev--the famed "liberal" adviser to
Gorbachev, and a man who would not seem to have any motive to whitewash
Stalin--concluded, based on research into secret Kremlin archives, that
Stalin was not directly behind the plan to exile the country's Jews.
Yakovlev believes that Stalin put an end to the scheme before he died, and
that Ehrenburg's letter may have played a role. Rubinstein also notes that
"Nikita Khrushchev once provided a completely different view of what
happened. He claimed that Mikoyan and Molotov objected to the deportation
plan and that even Voroshilov said it would be criminal and resemble the
acts of Hitler. Khrushchev claimed that Stalin grew furious in the face of
their objections and that he suffered his fatal stroke a few days later;
see *Le Monde*, April 17, 1956, p. 3."

"In short, there definitely was an organized campaign to get Soviet Jews to
urge their own deportation, and it is difficult to imagine people as
prominent as the campaign's organizers proposing such a radical measure
unless they were at least led to believe it had Stalin's support.
Nevertheless, it is possible it was a "trial balloon" that Stalin would have
reconsidered had he lived longer--or that he already had reconsidered
before his death in OTL. OTOH, it is perfectly possible he would have gone
through with it."
 

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Brutal purges, anti-semitic purges, etc. It would have been a nightmare and might have caused the USSR to collapse much sooner.
 
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