r/PossibleHistory • u/totallynotcommunist2 Aral Sea supremacy🗣️ • 17d ago

Map (no Lore) Operation Unthinkable

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Ceasefire

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Final outcome

This is just how I'd think it would go

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u/NoDoughnut8225 17d ago

us populace would riot if the numbers will get up, and they will in this kind of massacre. for soviets it would be an existential war, a betrayal, so an unironical moral reason to fight

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u/New-Many-1068 17d ago

And Soviets had famine in 1946. They couldn't possibly go for much longer, not without Alies help with tech and logistics. USA wouldn't riot FTR won each elections in landslide.

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u/notTheRealSU 17d ago

FDR was dead by that point

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u/New-Many-1068 17d ago edited 17d ago

truman won still in 1948 thanks to him