Remember this is Post-Stalin and pre-warsaw, the USSR wanted peace and Khrushchev thought that if the USSR was allies again they could prevent an invasion of Russia.NATO existed for the defense against the USSR so I seriously doubt that the USSR would want to join the capitalist west and I don't think that NATO would want the Communist Soviet Union to join their defense pact.
I was reading that too, which is why i made my thread also lol.I blame this thread on The Chosen End.
That is something I would like to seewhile Pamela Anderson is made Fuher of France.
Uh what? I dont see why the USSR would fall apart just cause they joined NATO, hell they may even last longer than rl.It would take a democrartic USSR that actually survives. OTL once the SSR´s get a choice they leave.
Uh what? I dont see why the USSR would fall apart just cause they joined NATO, hell they may even last longer than rl.
Or maybe im not understanding your post, it doesnt make much sense to me.
As I understand it the USSR's application was to show the nature of NATO. In theory collective security is an alliance of everyone against ANY aggressor and is different from an alliance system to protect a defined group of states.
NATO called itself a collective security organization, but in reality it was an exclusive alliance aimed at a particular potential enemy.
If I recall correctly the Warsaw Pact was formed after the USSR was refused NATO membership - precisely after the ideological point had been made.