User blog comment:Saturn120/Alternate Axis Changes/@comment-4621372-20140414001422/@comment-32656-20140416004419

Stalin has survived the fall of most of European Russia, including many major cities, enormous numbers of dead, attacks almost to Moscow, and a siege of Leningrad with no dissent on a real level. And, had no challengers worth mentioning.

At that point, another city is irrelevant. Stalin would survive.

A mutiny? Not happening. Can't get any worse than it was there otl, and they didn't. Thus, they would not.