Apologies, work has been an absolute nightmare - update later this evening. Definately.
H.Appleby: Yeah, the Beria-Stalin relationship was a strange one to say the least, ironically Stalin had so little respect for him despite his secret policeman 'talents' he had very little suspicion for him. And guess who killed him! Goes to show if you are going to be a paranoid psychopath either go all the way or not at all. On the illnesses, yeah Stalin had a bit of the Bull Moose about him, hell the incredibly lethal dose of rat poison popped in his drink took 4-5 days to finally kill him.
c0d5579: Oh yes. More on this later.
El Pip: Israel is tricky for all parties involved, so we'll see.
Karelian: All interesting stuff. I've been debating over the Balkan Federation idea, because I can see Soviet-Yugoslav relations being better ITTL due both to no Stalin and Greece but I'm not decided. On Finland, I'll be honest I hadn't looked into it, but will make a point to do so, sounds a possible powder keg. Czechoslovakia and the Peace Conferences, I've been reading up on but again haven't had the time to lay out any concrete ideas.
H.Appleby: Yeah, the Beria-Stalin relationship was a strange one to say the least, ironically Stalin had so little respect for him despite his secret policeman 'talents' he had very little suspicion for him. And guess who killed him! Goes to show if you are going to be a paranoid psychopath either go all the way or not at all. On the illnesses, yeah Stalin had a bit of the Bull Moose about him, hell the incredibly lethal dose of rat poison popped in his drink took 4-5 days to finally kill him.
c0d5579: Oh yes. More on this later.
El Pip: Israel is tricky for all parties involved, so we'll see.
Karelian: All interesting stuff. I've been debating over the Balkan Federation idea, because I can see Soviet-Yugoslav relations being better ITTL due both to no Stalin and Greece but I'm not decided. On Finland, I'll be honest I hadn't looked into it, but will make a point to do so, sounds a possible powder keg. Czechoslovakia and the Peace Conferences, I've been reading up on but again haven't had the time to lay out any concrete ideas.