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On 11 Oct 2024 13:24:36 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>A related line of thinking more congenial to SF is the following:
>>What would history have been like if it had been discovered, say, during
>>World War II that control like that could have been achieved?
> 
> Would Stalin have succeeded in converting Siberia to a warm and
> temperate land able to grow many crops?  Or would he have decided to
> leave it the way it was so he had a good place to keep gulags?
> --scott

Don't you think he would have used the capability to pester the
West? That's always seemed to be at the top of the Russian agenda,
according to history that I've read.