What if Joseph Stalin had lived longer ?

[chad187]

What if Stalin had lived for another 5-10 years I hear at time of his death he was gearing up for another large purge in the USSR aswell was planning WW3 what impact would his survival have on history and what plans did he have?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

A lot more live baby heads would have been eaten.

 

[Tahuti]

A far more interesting question would be what would happen if Stalin died between the signing of Molotov-Ribbentrop and 22nd of June 1941.

 

[gay_Aleks]

A far more interesting question would be what would happen if Stalin died between the signing of Molotov-Ribbentrop and 22nd of June 1941.

The Trotskyists would rise! And the South will win!

 

[sherbz]

Has anyone been to the Stalin museum in Gori (Georgia)? I have, and it was an interesting place. It was almost like a shrine to him, with any negative image of his subsequent deeds purged from the record. This included things like saying during the collectivisation process, there were “difficulties encountered”. And for the great purges, they told us that “internal dissidents who threatened the state were removed”. In fact, it remained completely biased right up until the final room where evidence of the various atrocities were documented, but this was only inserted after the Georgian government insisted on its inclusion or else would shut the museum down.

 

[Bergerperson]

If Stalin lived, let's day the maximum you noted, another 10 years, that meant he would have died in 1963, a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis ended. If he was still head of the Soviet Union, things would have ended much differently.

 

[ParkCungHee]

What makes you assume that is Stalin had lived there would have been a Cuban Missile Crisis?