If the US had a genuine socialist revolution during the Cold War would the Soviet Union have seen it as a friend or as...

If the US had a genuine socialist revolution during the Cold War would the Soviet Union have seen it as a friend or as a threat?

This is a pretty stupid question and is better to ask on alt-history forums

It would be marxism-lincoism?

What would be more important though, socialist brotherhood or remaining the revolutionary vanguard?

Generally the USSR only liked revolutions when they were sanctioned and guided by the USSR

If you look at Cuba, it took a while for the USSR to catch on and trust Castro.

Probably not, the USSR fucked over Cambodia and the GDR

Do tankies justify this?

Threat, 100%. Having matching economic systems doesn't suddenly dissolve geopolitics as long as any sort of scarcity or power exists.

don't they always?

How though, is it /notrealsocialism/ to them?

pick one faggot

The whole Cold War and mass rivalry played out because of the ideological conflict that it was. This wasn't some petty conflict between two imperial powers, this was instead an ideological clash that would determine the fate of humanity.

I'm not saying a revolution in America would just mean a clean slate between the USSR and Communist US, but it would definitely mark the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new era of Soviet-American cooperation.

They were you faggot.

Those particular cases were done by the anti-Stalinist Khrushchev revisionists tho

This. If there was a revolution the Soviets would reject it unless it immediately cucked itself out to their shitty state capitalism.

yes
they see hungary as a fascist coup

Threat. The whole ordeal wasn't a matter of Communism versus Capitalism, and the Cold War never ended.

b-but muh fascism, muh counterrevolution, muh revisionism etc

After WW2 the USA wanted to cooperate with the USSR, but the USSR refused.

It was the other way around actually. Rosevelt and Stalin got along really well, but when Truman took over he just did whatever his Wall Street advisors told him. He went back on a bunch of agreements Rosevelt had made with Stalin. Kruschev literally wanted the USSR to join NATO.

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Yeah, because all the capitalist powers got along so well. Or China and the USSR. Ideology is hardly ever the driving factor for conflict.

roosevelt and stalin "got on well" till ww2 ended
even before then stalin was being a tricky faggot like always
it was just in stalin's nature

the rest of the left disagrees with you as well as vietnam and the workering class people he slaughtered

He said "genuine socialist revolution" so they would have very different economic systems actually.


Big time threat. Not only did the USSR have no interest in socialism, they were often on the brink of war with a lot of the governments they initially supported like China, and that was still far from socialist.

The whole "Cold War never ended" meme is just retarded. The Cold War was over in 1991 when the USSR was liqduated and the rest of the Eastern Bloc collapsed in on itself. It was certainly ideological.

Cold War is over, stop trying to act like some enlightened geo-political thinker.


Mere competition doesn't create a half-century long struggle across the globe. The Cold War was so desperate and annihilating because it wasn't just pure economics, it was greater than that, it was a conflict of views points of how humanity itself should be fundamentally organized.

Roosevelt died before the war ended, you mong.

yeah good point anyway after the war the usa wanted to ally with the ussr.
usa saw the british empire as the main rival to them