Stubborn Stalin

Point of Divergance
History has revealed that a single emotion could alter the timeline in such a way, that our textbooks in school or other forms of world education could change. Like what if Pontius Pilate did not get pressured into presecuting Jesus Christ? What if Adolf Hitler took more of an initiative to get in the front lines of World War I? This alternate timeline will cover the emotion of stubborness and one of history's famous dictators, Joseph Stalin.

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1953, which feature World War II and the beginnings of the Cold War. After World War II, the leaders of the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to discuss what to make of Germany. The allies settled and choose to divide Germany into four different areas, for the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France. The United States, France, and the United Kingdom decided to form West Germany under there idealogies of democracy and capitalism while the Sovet Union formed East Germany under the Soviet's idealogy of communism. But what was to make of Berlin, located in East Germany. The Western countries wanted it to divide it equally again. In O.T.L. this was agreed upon, however; in this timeline it was not.

Now back to our history, Stalin was stubborn. By what the Western countries described him, he seemed hard to talk to and very overpowering for communism. Toward the end of Stalin's life, he revealed his biggest mistake was dividing Berlin. So what if he said "NO."

1949
In April of that year, countries like France, the United Kingdom, and the United States formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). But the Soviet Union was not in. Already a divide between East and West was forming. So at the Potsdam Conferance in the fall of that year, the Big Three of Europe met to discuss what to do with Germany. So East and West Germany was formed. But what about Berlin? After countless threats and negotiations, Stalin would not give in the allies plea for a divided Berlin.

So on December 28th, members of NATO met in Paris, France and try to come to an understanding of how to deal with the Soviet Union. Out of all the ideas, three came down to the end: An invasion of the Soviet Union from Germany, Alaska and the Middle East, a series of air raids on Soviet military bases, or the most feared, a series of nuclear attacks on the Soviet Union. Harry S. Truman stood up and said to the other members, "Using the (atom) bomb on Hiroshima was tough. Using it again (on Nagasaki), was even harder. But having a series of bombs and killing millions upon millions, will not happen!" It was agreed that no nuclear war will come about. And many members felt Europe, and the world for that matter, was not ready for a another Great War and so an invasion was out. It came down to the bombings of Sovet military bases and was quickly agreed. Air raids were set to begin on January 2, 1950.