pragmatic liberal
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« on: November 08, 2009, 01:50:13 AM » |
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There was apparently some discussion near the end of WWII about incorporating Poland into the USSR - Wanda Wasilewska, a leading Polish Communist, favored it.
Also, had the Soviet-Finnish War gone better for the Soviets, Finland would, like the Baltic States, become a Soviet Socialist Republic. (As it was, Stalin did create a "Karelo-Finnish SSR" out of Russian Karelia and the regions taken from Finland in 1939 - although, that Republic was annexed by the Russian SFSR in the '50s.)
And, Bulgaria's Communist Dictator, Todor Zhivkov, reportedly expressed interest in becoming a 16th SSR in the 1960s, although it isn't clear how serious his offer was or whether he was simply sycophantically trying to curry favor with Soviet leaders. (There's no evidence Soviet leaders took the offer seriously at all.)
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