Comments by "Fredinno" (@innosam123) on "What if the Cold War was a Normal War?" video.

  1.  @solvency2690  The Soviets could have lasted into the 21st century without Gorbechev. They just would have become increasingly poor and irrelevant as the stresses of their poor domestic situation, Afghanistan, and SDI played their toll. I would imagine the bloc would start collapsing right around now, considering the increasing irrelevance of their only real export/source of hard currency, Oil/Gas. Economic Reform is difficult (the USSR was stuck at the Middle Income Trap).
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  2. 4:00 Eh, not sure. McArthur was correct in viewing China and the USSR as only weak allies. North Korea wasn’t that important to the USSR, and they offered a lot less direct support than one would imagine to the North Koreans. Stalin was paranoid, but also kind of a dick. He wasn’t Trotsky. The USSR had supported the Kuomintang for longer than they’d supported Mao, and saddled the CCP with huge debts for their ‘assistance’. Which was one of the reasons for the Great Leap Forwards. When Mao didn’t blame the disaster on natural disaster, he blamed it on the debts the USSR forced on them. Also, the USSR and CCP almost went to nuclear war THEMSELVES a few decades later. Also, Mcarthur was only planning on nuking the border of North Korea as a tactical nuclear weapon. Also, Stalin was planning on invading Yugoslavia first, before the West, from what I’m aware. Made a lot of sense, it shortens the line in Europe enormously. Which would have ended about as well as Afghanistan did for the Soviets, because Tito was the one dude who could have pulled something like that off.
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  3.  @Schweizer_Politik  Whatifalthist already did a video on that scenario. Germany wins pretty hard.
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  4.  @foolsgold9993  Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus are very culturally similar aside from religion. It could work.
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  5.  @drago939393  Yugo was still a communist nation. I’m not sure how or if the US would support a communist nation pre-Kissinger and Sino-Soviet split. I do, however, think Tito would eventually win- he could just hide in the mountains, and I can’t see Kruchev continuing a guerilla war to subdue a peripheral communist state. Maybe it would unify Yugoslavia enough to not die a horrible, painful death in the 90s.
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