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According to Wikipedia (which cites Montefiore's Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar): "After signing the Anglo–Soviet Treaty of 1942 on 26 May Molotov left for Washington, D.C., United States. Molotov met with Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States, and ratified a Lend-Lease Treaty between the USSR and the US. Both the British and the United States government, albeit vaguely, promised to open up a second front against Germany. On his flight back to the USSR his plane was attacked by German fighters, and then later by Soviet fighters."

My question, let's say for whatever reason, Molotov's plane isn't so lucky and gets shot down by German fighters (or Soviet fighters) and Molotov is killed. How does this affect the Soviet Union? Post-War negotiations, etc.
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