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What would you do as Stalin in the 50s? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[โ€“] jack@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Preventing that split probably would have prevented the Sino-Soviet split, which was a result of the same intersocialist tensions. Yugoslavia would've been able to avoid the IMF and marketization path it was forced to take and meaningfully increased the economic sustainability of the socialist bloc. Definitely Stalin's biggest error.

[โ€“] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I want to read more of the thought from that time period, because it definitely seems to coincide with the Americans having nuclear weapons at a time when the soviets didn't- I can see the rationale to not want to be contesting something that is so essential that it risks a wider war, but by getting bluffed into inaction they effectively surrendered in the long run.