User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/Spread of Communism/@comment-4727448-20120828225143/@comment-67.244.85.198-20120828231056

Actaully, to the first point, defenite no. Both the US and USSR had nukes, but neither in any quantity, and in either case it was pretty hard to deliver: by 1946, for instance, the US had 6 bombs avalible... but they wouldn't LAST, and they could only be delivered in big, bulky bombers, which could have been shot down. A bigger problem might have been things like Weaponized anthrax, but im not sure either side would have resorted to that: the US would have been horrified at the idea, and the USSR would have been winning.

No, they could do it, they just couldn't hold it. France and Belgium would both probably fall back to the allies, as well as any African areas, but other than that...

Korea, the allies are concerned about other areas and aren't really worrying about that, by the time they arrive, the Chinese will have probably also established a helping hand.

China, not a Soviet conquered territory, as well as actually fairly strong.

Japan, might fall. But again the allies would be more concerned with Europe.

Germany... the Soviets anyway controlled a large part of it OTL, its not hard to see them holding on to the WHOLE thing.

Italy, might fall but to do that they'd have to get through Glibratar, and with a revolution just having gone on there, the Communists might want payback. No go, unless they invade the whole thing: possible, but hard.

Any peace negociated will be a stale mate like the above.