Nuking China over Korea?

[Saim]

Stalin wanted nothing of the short- after all, Stalin's regime prevented the use of nuclear weapons in the Korean War, despite Chinese demands for their use. Stalin may have been a psychotic butcher, but he wasn't an idiot.

Don't forget paranoid and totalitarian.

 

[Captain2]

still, paranoid and totalitarian don't make you suicidal

 

[Alpha Killer II]

he only wanted exactly no opposition, whats wrong with that?

 

[Bugfatty300]

he only wanted exactly no opposition, whats wrong with that?

So having no opposition meant murdering millions of people, enslaving multiple countries, threatening world war? Yeah what is wrong with that?

 

[Alpha Killer II]

Least he thinned down the population, since when did Stalin "enslaved" a country and Stalin was planning a great World War to destroy Captalism once and for all

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Least he thinned down the population, since when did Stalin "enslaved" a country and Stalin was planning a great World War to destroy Captalism once and for all

You don't seem to understand Stalin very well. Stalin was more of an old-school Russian than he was a Communist. Most of his policies were concerned with bettering the Soviet Union one way or another, hardly with spreading communism for the sake of hurting capitalism.

 

[Traitorfish]

Yeah- he's not known as the "Last Tsar" for nothing.
Stalin's regime progressed from one-party oligarchy to outright despotism, an utter betrayal of the USSR's socialist origins from start to finish. Why do you think he was so concerned with rooting out Trotsky's supporters?

 

[Bugfatty300]

since when did Stalin "enslaved" a country

Since 1944.

Least he thinned down the population

Oh yeah, Russia was ready to burst at the seams.

and Stalin was planning a great World War to destroy Captalism once and for all

ie threatening a third world war.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Yeah- he's not known as the "Last Tsar" for nothing.
Stalin's regime progressed from one-party oligarchy to outright despotism, an utter betrayal of the USSR's socialist origins from start to finish. Why do you think he was so concerned with rooting out Trotsky's supporters?

One could argue it was because Trotskyism meant shooting for an immediate worldwide Worker's Revolution, while Leninism, and thus Stalin at least to an extent, wanted, and needed, to get Russia working first. For Lenin that meant having Communism fully functioning and working in Russia, for Stalin that meant having Russia up and running as a great country. Since it was the Communist Party that brought him to power, and probably that kept him in power, you can sort of see why Leninism would appeal more to him that Trotskyism would, at least on the political scene.

Since 1944.

I would go so far as to set that back a Generation, to 1924.

Oh yeah, Russia was ready to burst at the seams.

There wasn't enough poverty to go around, so he had to make it more available to people.

 

[Alpha Killer II]

You don't seem to understand Stalin very well. Stalin was more of an old-school Russian than he was a Communist. Most of his policies were concerned with bettering the Soviet Union one way or another, hardly with spreading communism for the sake of hurting capitalism.

Stalin used a theory of "Socialism in one country" rather than the worldwide revolution envisioned by Karl Marx, but Stalin's theory of "Socialism in one country" did work out in a few ways...

Yeah- he's not known as the "Last Tsar" for nothing. Why do you think he was so concerned with rooting out Trotsky's supporters?

Where the hell u get "Tsar" from?
Stalin was known for manipulating minds ever since he was a little kid nicknamed "Soso", he had to root out Trotsky's supporters to destroy another threat to his rule, thus leading him to complete power/no opposition, so no one would dare question his rule

 

[Traitorfish]

Where the hell u get "Tsar" from?

Stalin is sometimes called the "Last Tsar" in reference to his autocratic regime. It's intended to highlight the irony of the corrupt and despotic nature of his supposedly egalitarian state.
Unless you're referring to my spelling, which is because in the UK the transliteration "Tsar" is usually preferred to "Czar". If you want to be completely accurate, I'll say "царь", but then most people will have no idea what I said.

 

[Antilogic]

Stalin is sometimes called the "Last Tsar" in reference to his autocratic regime. It's intended to highlight the irony of the corrupt and despotic nature of his supposedly egalitarian state.
Unless you're referring to my spelling, which is because in the UK the transliteration "Tsar" is usually preferred to "Czar". If you want to be completely accurate, I'll say "царь", but then most people will have no idea what I said.

Believe it or not, I haven't heard that one before. Sort of funny in a sad way.

 

[EdwardTking]

this is about the us nuking china with 2-3 nuclear bombs, not occupying it or even change its regime... i dont see a reason for the ussr to incend a world war as reaction...

I could easily type.

Japane bombed Pearl Harbour to neutralise the USA's ability to intefere with
Japanese operations in Indonesia and SE ASia. They had no plans to occupy
the continental USA and did not think it would lead to a protracted world war.

Well look what happened.

Well this assuming that China would surrender after the bomb hit like Japan did. Most likely China won't. The USSR would send in troops since it was a direct attack on China which is its main ally at the time and an invasion might would follow soon after.

The USSR might have responded by doing exactly nothing, except sell
communist China a couple of submarines with nuclear bombs on board.