if it wasn’t the 50s , but 1946 I would actually send weapons and support to the Greek civil war. absolutely headass maneuver. without the Tito/Stalin split things would have looked very different going into the 50s
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.
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.
TBH, the bottleneck with sending aid to Spanish Republicans was the merchant fleet. USSR managed to get some aid through France, but this pathway was constantly obstructed.
Yes, and they couldn’t send help by the sea because they would be attacked by Germany in the North and Italy in Mediterranean, and Soviet fleet was not prepared for such massive convoy missions.
if it wasn’t the 50s , but 1946 I would actually send weapons and support to the Greek civil war. absolutely headass maneuver. without the Tito/Stalin split things would have looked very different going into the 50s
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.
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.
dont forget spanish civil war
TBH, the bottleneck with sending aid to Spanish Republicans was the merchant fleet. USSR managed to get some aid through France, but this pathway was constantly obstructed.
Yes, and they couldn’t send help by the sea because they would be attacked by Germany in the North and Italy in Mediterranean, and Soviet fleet was not prepared for such massive convoy missions.
USSR did send help by the sea, but many transport ships were lost due to attacks by Italian submarines and Nationalist fleet.
The USSR sent a ton of aid to the republic.
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