Sarah Paine

So I don't know.

Stalin was a pretty old enough guy when he died, and Russians in those days had a pretty lousy diet.

And I can't remember if he smoked.

His generation mostly did.

So I don't know how the future would have run with good old Uncle Joe there for longer.

The Korean War would have still gone on longer.

It's really his death why that war ends.

Yeah.

So then with the Korean War goes on and on and on, I don't know what the implications are for us or for Mao.

But on the China, the Chinese Civil War, there was an understanding that it was a really big deal.

And that's why Roosevelt and the British are just thinking he's laughable.

He keeps trying to treat China like a great power and the British are going, they're not a great power.

Franklin, not remotely, but he wants to bring them into the Cairo conference or wherever the one he brings them in.

And he also wants to include them as the big, he wants them to be a veto member, wielding member of the United Nations, which by China's military status, there's just no way that

But Roosevelt is looking, there's no Japan out there.

We want to have something in Asia to counter balance.

But then when you get to the Chinese Civil War, Americans who have fought some big wars, they're looking at it going, it is not feasible for us to alter this outcome.

And therefore, the thinking was, I think it was the Eisenhower archives, anyway, that...

That if they lived together long enough, they would go at each other eventually.

There are dictators all over the world who stay in power for a long time.