Professor
This was noribori, in your prior Ukraine post,
"...At this point, an alternative version of the course of history should be discussed: what would have happened if Germany had been made a "neutral" buffer state between the blocs after the Second World War, as the USSR envisioned. How long could this "neutral" state have lasted anyway? After all, this is precisely Putin's demand, and also Gorbachev's regret: the states between Poland and Ukraine should have remained "neutral"..." noribori
Nori espousing the US/USSR Morgenthau Plan, not merely a buffer, but a full agrarianization and deindustrialization, for Germany, after WWII.
FDR had been wholehearteedly on board, hated Germany since at least WWI, and this plan was promoted and envisioned (as Nori admits), by Stalin, and put into effect at first (so not fully an "alternative" version of history, but for a time, the real one) by us, by use of Stalin's agents of influence within the US administration itself, especially Harry Dexter White at Treasury, Lauchlin Currie White House, and of course Harry Hopkins, etc. See, for example, Stalin's Secret Agents.
Since FDR had already agreed to give Stalin all of Eastern Europe for free, The Morgenthau Plan was really over egging the pudding! An agrarianized Germany and Austria would have been less a buffer than a further extention West of the Slavic Pale of Settlement.
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