If Stalin didn’t stop at Berlin America would have eaten shit for like a year until they built more nukes which they had a monopoly on at the time.
They would have used them.
I don’t see a path to victory there unless it’s acceptable to be losing like two entire cities a year (I honestly have no idea how many nukes could be built a year at that time, I say two because that’s how many were built for Japan) to a nuclear and bloodthirsty empire in its prime.
I know it’s a meme. But I see it said enough I wanted to hear what people actually thought on the matter memes aside.
Edit: lots of good takes and I’ve learned some stuff, thanks for all the responses.
The Russian people were tired they along with the rest of the world had fought their second major war in decades. Stalin had a duty of care to end the war once he could
I like this framing. Libs would lose their shit of somebody told them stalin’s benevolence overrode his desire to spread communism and decided to make peace as soon as possible.
I’m not framing it like that to take away from your point, I agree with you now that you’ve introduced the idea. Just a funny thought.
I read this book in college, which makes a similar argument to what usernames are difficult said
hell yeah, thanks for the theory rec!