On 12/26/23 11:14, MummyChunk wrote:
> The year was 1938, and Vladimir Putin was the undisputed leader of the
> Soviet Union. He had risen to power after the death of Joseph Stalin,
> who had been assassinated by a disgruntled NKVD agent. Putin had
> inherited a vast empire, but also a host of enemies, both internal and
> external. He was determined to make the Soviet Union the most powerful
> and prosperous nation in the world, by any means necessary.
Who would have what specific powers after the death of Stalin
at different times is one question.
But how Putin would get into one of them to make him considered
to be an 'undisputed leader' at least somewhat later is not trivial.
Is Putin going to go back to 1908 and have another pen name
like 'man from the river Lena' or 'man of Steel'?
But when did he actually arrive? Is his mind transferred
into someone else? If so who? Does he get transferred with
his current age and health? Maybe younger?
Predicting the course of the time line is not obvious due to unspecified
parameters.
> He had a vision of a new world order, where communism would prevail
> over capitalism, and where the Soviet Union would be the leader of a
> global alliance of socialist states. He had a secret weapon, a project
> that he had initiated soon after taking power: the development of
> nuclear weapons. He had recruited the best scientists and engineers
> from across the country, and had spared no expense or effort in
> pursuing his goal. He had also infiltrated and sabotaged the efforts
> of his rivals, especially Nazi Germany and the United States, who were
> also working on their own atomic bombs.
>
> He was confident that he would be the first to achieve the ultimate
> weapon, and that he would use it to end the Second World War, which
> had been raging for three years.
This part here is confusing. So is this time line a different
WW2 started in 1935? Or is this a fast forward to 1942? If you
remember if this is in 1938 it is before the invasion of Poland,
and also before our time line's start of Operation Barbarossa
or the invasion of the USSR by NAZI German forces. Both of them
were before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in our time line.
A lot of this would depend upon the nature of his arrival
to - how far back? 1928? 1918? Again, predicting the
course of the time line is not obvious due to unspecified
parameters.