Not criticizism, but if I were a time traveler with hindsight I’d tell Stalin not to purge certain people, to purge Khrushchev, and military secrets. I’d tell Mao not to listen the bunk science that contributed to famine and not to do ultraleft stuff after sino-Soviet split (assuming previous time traveling didn’t prevent that already).
if I were a time traveler with hindsight I’d tell Stalin not to purge certain people, to purge Khrushchev, and military secrets.
Now I’m imagining that you burst into Stalin’s office during his interview with H. G. Wells: Wells, the guy who wrote the book that spawned much of the popular time travel tropes, faints from seeing real life time travel.
Unless @QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml was Wells’ inspiration but doesn’t know it yet and you were sent to plant the seed now so that all this can happen in ten years time / 80 years ago.
I’ve daydreamed about this. I remember that I don’t speak any of the local languages and I’d hope whoever I teleport next to speaks English, lest I absolutely freak them the fuck out. Not that it’d be much better, and an English speaking guy coming through a fuckin portal or whatever would be… suspicious to say the least lol. I’d also have to be really meticulous about what info to bring back down to minute details, and have to trust that the future-source is worthwhile and not falsified history.
Silly, just daydreamin.
That’s all true, but if we’ve got time travel working out the kinks is a piece of cake in relativity.
I assume that practically every major country on Earth going back decades would have trained translators versed in English.
Likely. Just hoping I end up somewhere where one’s available and not, say, in a local bakery’s store room.
I am not sure how accurate or inaccurate I’m imagining this time travel device or spell to be. Perhaps we can teleport directly in front of Stalin himself.
I can imagine Stalin facepalming and thinking “You have invented time travel, yet you still have capitalism.”
“What? Did it cost you a fourth of a month’s salary for this trip?”
“Nah, we popped a cap in some mothafuckin’ cracker-ass Kulak to fund the trip. We thought you’d be proud.”
On a tangent about time machines, I hear most libs would use their one free time travel ticket to go back to the 30s and blast Hitler. I say screw that, go back 10 years further and take out Churchill instead. Then there might never be a Hitler problem to begin with. Or even if there is, Churchill’s absence would likely result in the Nazi forces launching a disastrously ill-fated Operation Sea Lion. Their armies would get bogged down for years in England, and this would eventually be met with a D-Day style landing by the Americans in England instead of France. Meanwhile the job of the Red Army is significantly easier in this timeline, and it would be possible that all or most of continental Europe will consist of USSR-friendly states by 1950.
Do you think if you purged Khrushchev, Democratic Kampuchea wouldn’t exist in the timeline?
Stalin did some really cringe shit on 1953-03-05
Stalin stopped at Berlin
Stalin let Trotsky leave and spread ultra nonsense all over the west
Stalin should not have supported Lysenko
Elaborate please. Lysenko drew from Darwin’s evolutionary theory and imagined better ways of agriculture as a result.
From what I’ve read he didn’t really make any positive impact on soviet agriculture and in many ways set it back by many years. As well as his rejection of genetics and science based agriculture. I will admit, I haven’t really done enough reading on Soviet biology to know for sure but this analysis on Lysenkoism by Lewontin and Levins seems like a good place to start.
Thanks for the info, I’ll read up on it some more
