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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Date: 12 Oct 2024 12:38:43 -0000
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In article <pan$5fddf$76efbbea$10bf7d0d$6c752a2e@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>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.

Okay, here's the story:

Near the end of WWII, Germany has lost control of the air and develops
weather control devices based on the Wurzburg tracking radars in an
attempt to stop Allied bombing.  This also has the side effect of halting
progress on their atomic bomb project as all of the accelerator engineers
and technicians are diverted to the weather control project.

When Germany collapses, the Soviets take control over the weather control
devices, moving them east where they are used to turn Siberia into lush
green farmland.  The result of the Soviet grain surplus is that the
market becomes flooded with cheap vodka.

After Stalin is killed in a drunk driving incident (his chauffeur had
consumed a full bottle of Heroes of the Revolution vodka and passed out
behind the wheel), Lavrenti Beria becomes the new premier of the Soviet 
Union and declares all-out war...
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."