Xen
Banned
I'm looking for a way to stop the Cold War from occuring, this is a start, I hope it looks okay to go with. I am sure there are things that need to be hammered out, but thats okay.
My first thought is to get rid of Joseph Stalin, so let us say Stalin dies of heart failure in late 1944, there are three likely successors at this point Vyacheslav Molotov, Lavrentiy Beria, and Andrei Zhdanov. All three are formidable and each conspired with another to bring down the other at some point in this chaotic period. For the time being they agree on cooperating in a triumvirate until the war against Germany is won. In December 1944, Zhdanov is found dead in his house having apparently fallen down the stairs in a drunken stupor and breaking his neck, foul play is expected and the Politburo begins to fall into two camps favoring either Molotov or Beria. Both sides believe the other responsible for murdering Zhdanov, although anti-climatic, Zhdanov a well known drunk chastised many times by Stalin really had fallen down the stairs in a drunken stupor after having secretly bedded a subordinates wife.
In the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s condition grew worse, although he was sworn in for an unprecedented Fourth Term, the President died a few short days later on January 30. Out of respect for President Roosevelt and their alliance with the United States, both Great Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to delay the Yalta Conference until the beginning of March. Both Molotov and Beria intended on attending the conference, both hoping to gain an advantage on the other and possibly gaining the help of one of their wartime allies in resolving the situation the delay gave Beria time to make his move. Using his position as the head of the NKVD Beria dug up dirt on Molotov and his supporters, and was able to blackmail many leaders of the Red Army into supporting him. Molotov and his supporters were arrested, tried for treason and promptly executed within a six day time frame.
The general feeling of Beria’s takeover did not set well with Prime Minister Churchill or President Truman, neither of whom really cared for Beria and were aware of his role in the Katyn Massacre. Truman and Churchill met in private shortly before the scheduled Yalta Conference to discuss a joint British-American proposal for post-war Europe and their joint declaration proposing free internationally supervised democratic elections in Eastern Europe to determine their own fate.
The Yalta Conference opened on March 12, 1945 with the Big Three discussing the shape of postwar Europe. President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill stood together firmly in their joint support for Free Elections in Eastern Europe. To their surprise Beria relented and agreed to allow Eastern Europe to have any form their people wish, in return he demanded the Soviet Union be permitted to build military bases in Romania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. It was agreed to by Britain and the US that the Soviets will be able to build their military bases, only if the Soviets would not interfere with their domestic affairs.
• Germany would be divided into no less than four and up to six new states with reunification strictly forbidden.
• France will be allowed to have a part in the Occupation Zone as long as it is carved out of American and British spheres
• Each of the German States would undergo an undetermined period of denazification and demilitarization
• The Soviet Union would participate in the war against Japan within 120 days after the surrender of Nazi Germany
• Volga Germans in the Soviet Union would be resettled into the new German states as punishment for their cooperation with the Nazis
• Beria secured loans from the United States government to help rebuild the Soviet Union’s infrastructure.
The war proceeded differently with George Patton and his army free to liberate Prague the beat the Soviets to the Czech capital on 5 May 1945. With the capture of the Flensburg Government by British Forces in late May, the Second World War came to a close in Europe with President Karl Donitz ordering the unconditional surrender of the army and navy. After nearly six long years of fighting, the war in Europe was over.
Premier Beria, President Truman and new British Prime Minister Clement Attlee agree to meet at Berlin.
• With Beria’s armies in control of much of Eastern Europe, Beria insisted the nations under control of the Red Army not to be allowed to form Foreign Alliances nor spend more than .5% of its GDP on military expenditures. Beria insisted that it was for defensive measures against any possible future invasion of Russia. Beria demanded that the nations of Eastern Europe to be protectorates of the Soviet Union with Moscow controlling the Foreign Affairs of the states, while they maintained sovereignty over their own domestic affairs. {Essentially a Finlandization of Eastern Europe}
• Germany was to be split into five new states Germania (with its capital in Berlin), Rhineland (with its capital in Frankfurt), Bavaria (with its capital in Munich), Austria (with its capital in Vienna) and Prussia (with its capital in Königsberg)
• Agreement to hunt down and prosecute Nazi War Criminals
• Expulsion of Germans from Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, and Poland.
• Polish-German border shifted to the Oder-Neisse River, this is strictly observed with Germania maintaining dominion of Silesia west of the Oder.
• Each of the German states would pay war reparations to the USSR
The United States drops a nuclear bomb the Little Boy on the Japanese city of Kyoto on 31 July, the USSR invaded Manchuria the next day. On August 3 the United States dropped a second nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On the 8th of August the Empire of Japan agreed to surrender ending the Second World War.
With Beria much more interested in Manchuria he did not oppose the US occupation of Korea so long as the Japanese factories were dismantled and moved to the USSR. Truman complied with Beria’s demand; Japanese POW’s began the process of dismantling their factories and loading them onto US trucks for delivery to Soviet occupied Manchuria where Soviet troops were doing the same.
The world is not quite at peace, the Chinese Civil War is once again raging across the ancient nation, in Korea Communist guerillas are attacking the government forces of President Syngman Rhee and the occupying US military, and yet another Civil War rages in Greece with Communists covertly supported by Tito fighting the governmental forces supported by Italy, France and Britain.
Lt. General George Patton is forced to pull out of Czechoslovakia by Harry Truman, publicly Patton says nothing, but privately blasts Truman. In spite of his problems with the President he is never the less promoted to General and given command of US forces in Bavaria & Austria, he is unhappy with this post however and is eventually transferred to the command of Douglas MacArthur and given command of all Allied forces in Korea. Because of their similar personalities MacArthur and Patton can not stand each other, they do however share a tremendous respect for one another.
My first thought is to get rid of Joseph Stalin, so let us say Stalin dies of heart failure in late 1944, there are three likely successors at this point Vyacheslav Molotov, Lavrentiy Beria, and Andrei Zhdanov. All three are formidable and each conspired with another to bring down the other at some point in this chaotic period. For the time being they agree on cooperating in a triumvirate until the war against Germany is won. In December 1944, Zhdanov is found dead in his house having apparently fallen down the stairs in a drunken stupor and breaking his neck, foul play is expected and the Politburo begins to fall into two camps favoring either Molotov or Beria. Both sides believe the other responsible for murdering Zhdanov, although anti-climatic, Zhdanov a well known drunk chastised many times by Stalin really had fallen down the stairs in a drunken stupor after having secretly bedded a subordinates wife.
In the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s condition grew worse, although he was sworn in for an unprecedented Fourth Term, the President died a few short days later on January 30. Out of respect for President Roosevelt and their alliance with the United States, both Great Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to delay the Yalta Conference until the beginning of March. Both Molotov and Beria intended on attending the conference, both hoping to gain an advantage on the other and possibly gaining the help of one of their wartime allies in resolving the situation the delay gave Beria time to make his move. Using his position as the head of the NKVD Beria dug up dirt on Molotov and his supporters, and was able to blackmail many leaders of the Red Army into supporting him. Molotov and his supporters were arrested, tried for treason and promptly executed within a six day time frame.
The general feeling of Beria’s takeover did not set well with Prime Minister Churchill or President Truman, neither of whom really cared for Beria and were aware of his role in the Katyn Massacre. Truman and Churchill met in private shortly before the scheduled Yalta Conference to discuss a joint British-American proposal for post-war Europe and their joint declaration proposing free internationally supervised democratic elections in Eastern Europe to determine their own fate.
The Yalta Conference opened on March 12, 1945 with the Big Three discussing the shape of postwar Europe. President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill stood together firmly in their joint support for Free Elections in Eastern Europe. To their surprise Beria relented and agreed to allow Eastern Europe to have any form their people wish, in return he demanded the Soviet Union be permitted to build military bases in Romania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. It was agreed to by Britain and the US that the Soviets will be able to build their military bases, only if the Soviets would not interfere with their domestic affairs.
• Germany would be divided into no less than four and up to six new states with reunification strictly forbidden.
• France will be allowed to have a part in the Occupation Zone as long as it is carved out of American and British spheres
• Each of the German States would undergo an undetermined period of denazification and demilitarization
• The Soviet Union would participate in the war against Japan within 120 days after the surrender of Nazi Germany
• Volga Germans in the Soviet Union would be resettled into the new German states as punishment for their cooperation with the Nazis
• Beria secured loans from the United States government to help rebuild the Soviet Union’s infrastructure.
The war proceeded differently with George Patton and his army free to liberate Prague the beat the Soviets to the Czech capital on 5 May 1945. With the capture of the Flensburg Government by British Forces in late May, the Second World War came to a close in Europe with President Karl Donitz ordering the unconditional surrender of the army and navy. After nearly six long years of fighting, the war in Europe was over.
Premier Beria, President Truman and new British Prime Minister Clement Attlee agree to meet at Berlin.
• With Beria’s armies in control of much of Eastern Europe, Beria insisted the nations under control of the Red Army not to be allowed to form Foreign Alliances nor spend more than .5% of its GDP on military expenditures. Beria insisted that it was for defensive measures against any possible future invasion of Russia. Beria demanded that the nations of Eastern Europe to be protectorates of the Soviet Union with Moscow controlling the Foreign Affairs of the states, while they maintained sovereignty over their own domestic affairs. {Essentially a Finlandization of Eastern Europe}
• Germany was to be split into five new states Germania (with its capital in Berlin), Rhineland (with its capital in Frankfurt), Bavaria (with its capital in Munich), Austria (with its capital in Vienna) and Prussia (with its capital in Königsberg)
• Agreement to hunt down and prosecute Nazi War Criminals
• Expulsion of Germans from Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, and Poland.
• Polish-German border shifted to the Oder-Neisse River, this is strictly observed with Germania maintaining dominion of Silesia west of the Oder.
• Each of the German states would pay war reparations to the USSR
The United States drops a nuclear bomb the Little Boy on the Japanese city of Kyoto on 31 July, the USSR invaded Manchuria the next day. On August 3 the United States dropped a second nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On the 8th of August the Empire of Japan agreed to surrender ending the Second World War.
With Beria much more interested in Manchuria he did not oppose the US occupation of Korea so long as the Japanese factories were dismantled and moved to the USSR. Truman complied with Beria’s demand; Japanese POW’s began the process of dismantling their factories and loading them onto US trucks for delivery to Soviet occupied Manchuria where Soviet troops were doing the same.
The world is not quite at peace, the Chinese Civil War is once again raging across the ancient nation, in Korea Communist guerillas are attacking the government forces of President Syngman Rhee and the occupying US military, and yet another Civil War rages in Greece with Communists covertly supported by Tito fighting the governmental forces supported by Italy, France and Britain.
Lt. General George Patton is forced to pull out of Czechoslovakia by Harry Truman, publicly Patton says nothing, but privately blasts Truman. In spite of his problems with the President he is never the less promoted to General and given command of US forces in Bavaria & Austria, he is unhappy with this post however and is eventually transferred to the command of Douglas MacArthur and given command of all Allied forces in Korea. Because of their similar personalities MacArthur and Patton can not stand each other, they do however share a tremendous respect for one another.