
Originally Posted by
Al Khalifah
He he.
I'm not sure how far the Soviet propaganda would have worked against the western powers though. While it was effective against the Nazis in World War II, this was because the Nazis were committing attrocities against Soviet prisonners of war and civilians, effectively galvanising the Russian people in resistance against them. Whether they would have been so willing to oppose the western powers who might have used the carrot rather than the stick is not so certain. The Soviets had committed quite a few attrocities against their own people as well and there were large organised groups in the territories that had come under Soviet control that were ready to continue the war they had been waging against the Communists after the Nazis (the Lienez (sp.) Cossacks).
It would probably depend on whether the west decided to re-arm the German army. If they had done so, then the people in the Eastern Bloc would have probably fought fiercely against the west because they would be seen to be sympathising with their former abusers.
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