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Something I have in my mind for... quite a while. From the original version of this story, and now the rewrite.
Imagine the Sabaton band of this Alternate Timeline wrote a song about our mad lad?
Original version: link
If Mikhail or Joe wants to kill you, Lady Elsa (Angela of Siberia, the Merciful of Soviet) will try to save you and succeed.
But if Lady Elsa wants you dead, you are just a dead man walking.
I'd half expect Elsa to be on a list of all intelligence agencies. A list of "Protected personnel, with all cost". After all Elsa is the only known figure who can control our man... and she can even publicly admonish him.
Also, a nice shadowing on future developments.
IRL, one such approach was seen in China (the PR one) when they implement SEZ. Different contexts, different goals. But arguably same approach. And history remembers what happens.
Anyway, in the ATL, it'd mean a precedent. "Talk is cheap. Show me the work. "
The most frightening part is that, Mika makes sense. In both the alternate timeline and in our timeline. He wants his daughter to be safe, by her father-in-law reputation (our TL) and/or a good husband (this timeline... and I think Yakov is also a reasonable guy OTL as well).
Nice touch on...
Ribbentrop in 1930s: this brute is too suspicious of our own people, our state and our Fuhrer.
Ribbentrop in 1950s: this bastard is too suspicious of our own people, our state and our Fuhrer... but he has a point and he's correct.
A freaking madlad.
I actually laugh while readimg this at night
It'd be funny if in the future, every single spies and diplomats actually think like this. And somehow, Stalin would be officially recorded as the nicer guy.
Jugashvili isn't the man that the (early) Soviet wants, but what they need.
And from the snippets into the future? It's confirmed again with the Alternate WW2. And to think, that Alternate WW2 with semi-liberal use of chemical weapons is the less terrible version compared to our original...