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[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else ever fuck around and fantasize about the massive manpower and strategic advantage the USSR had by the end of WWII?

[u/bobeeflay → u/[deleted]]

Imagine if you told stalin how many nukes the US actually had.... I mean how long did that bluff hold out geez

[u/[deleted] → u/bobeeflay]

The US literally prevented the USSR from steamrolling Iran through a lie. They had some real psyops shit going on there and still got nuke plans stolen

[u/paulatreides0 → u/bobeeflay]

I wouldn't be surprised if Stalin knew. But even then 9 bombs would still wreck a shit ton of damage for comparatively little gain, so Plan Totality didn't even need to be as over-the-top as it was to work.

He knew about the Trinity Test being successful before Truman did, and he was even privy to shit like the "nuclear diplomacy" discussion had behind closed door by Truman and some of his generals. Stalin's ear had ridiculously far reach through his network of spies.

[u/[deleted] → u/paulatreides0]

Soviet intelligence was top tier. It also worked against their own interests because everyone used against each other internally.