History Literature / ABleedingHeartOfSteel

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Subverted. The NKVD constantly butts heads with the KSR (the Soviet equivalent to the CIA). However, both of them are portrayed as being equally bad.

In our timeline, Joseph Stalin died in his cottage from a stroke in 1953. Nine years before his death, two spies attempted to assassinate Stalin during the height of World War Two. While they failed in our timeline, a Bleeding Heart of Steel imagines a world where they were successful in killing the Man of Steel.

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--> ''"I know that after my death, they will heap a pile of rubbish on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.''
--> - '''Joseph Stalin'''

A Bleeding Heart of Steel is an alternate history timeline written by Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom user Kerguelen.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Vice President [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Jenner/ William E. Jenner]] blames plenty of America's issues on Soviet infiltration and the United Nations, much like OTL.

* AGodAmI: Ba Cut believes himself to be this as he fights against the Viet Minh.

* KickMePrank: Beria does this to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn after Molotov tells him to stop threatening his subordinates.

* FeigningIntelligence: Molotov starts discussing Das Kapital, Mao tells him that it was one of Marx's best works, despite never having read it.

** Chiang Kai-Shek is brought before one before Mao sentences him to death by hanging.

* KingOnHisDeathbed: Eskandari forces Mossadegh to make him the next Prime Minister when Mossadegh is hospitalized after an assassination attempt.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Molotov, despite being a devout Stalinist, does his best to retain positive relations with the West while strengthening the Soviet position.

* RiddleForTheAges: Did Beria really poison Zhdanov or was it just some trumped-up charge from his opponents?

** King Paul of Greece is a lot more successful by relocating his government to Crete after the Greek Revolution.
* WhatAnIdiot: Mao and Kim Il-Sung ignore multiple threats from America of a [[spoiler:nuclear bombing if they refuse to end the war.]]

* TheAlliance:
** Adverted. America never joins NATO without the Berlin Blockade turning them against the Soviets.
** Iraq and Syria end up joining forces to take down Communist Iran.

--> "I know that after my death, they will heap a pile of rubbish on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

* TheAllegedBoss: Andreas Tsipas is an incompetent and alcoholic General Secretary and is mostly a puppet for General Vafiadis.

** Pakistan and Afghanistan end up

* BalkanizeMe: Both Libya and Greece are split between communists and capitalist nations.

--> - Joseph Stalin

!!''All Along the Watchtower'' contains the following tropes:

* TheAllegedBoss: Andreas Tsipas is incompetent and alcoholic General Secretary and is mostly a puppet for General Vafiadis.

--> [[JosefStalin Joseph Stalin]]

-Joseph Stalin, OTL"

In our timeline, Stalin died in his cottage from a stroke in 1953. Nine years before his death, two spies attempted to assassinate Stalin during the height of World War Two. While they failed in our timeline, a Bleeding Heart of Steel imagines a world where they were successful in killing the Man of Steel.

--> "I know that after my death, they will heap a pile of rubbish on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy."

* ConspiracyTheorist: Vice President [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Jenner/William E. Jenner]] blames plenty of America's issues on Soviet infiltration and the United Nations, much like OTL.

* FeigningIntelligence: When discussing Das Kapital, Mao agrees with Molotov that it was one of Marx's best works, despite never having read it.

* Jerkass: Much like in our timeline, Beria is an utter bastard who constantly bullies his peers and subordinates.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Goering chooses to surrender to the Allies after the Red Army starts sieging Berlin.

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Several prominent anti-communist leaders from OTL such as Park Chung-hee and Ngo Dinh Diem are fervent communist.
* RiddleForTheAges: Did Beria really poison Zhdanov or was it propaganda from Molotov.

* ConspiracyTheorist: MacArthur's vice president, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Jenner/William E. Jenner]] is a conspiracy theorist, much like OTL.

* TheAlliance: Adverted. America never joins NATO without the Berlin Blockade turning them against the Soviets.

* BalkanizeMe: Several nations such as

* AGodAmI: Ba Cụt believes himself to be this as he fights against the Viet Minh.

* VestigialEmpire: Attempted. Chiang Kai-shek tries to flee to Taiwan like in OTL but ends up falling to infighting and a communist invasion.
* WhatAnIdiot: Mao and Kim Il-Sung ignore multiple threats from the US of a [[spoiler:nuclear bombing if they refuse to end the war.]]

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* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Several prominent anti-communist leaders from OTL such as Park Chung-hee and Ngo Dinh Diem are fervent communist.

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[[caption-width-right:350:I know that after my death, they will heap a pile of rubbish on my grave, but the wind of history will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.]

In our timeline, Stalin died in his cottage from a stroke in 1953. Nine years before his death, two spies attempted to assassinate Stalin during the height of World War Two. While they failed in our timeline, a Bleeding Heart of Steel imagines a world where they were successful in killing the Man of Steel. With a new Soviet leadership taking over, the world is guided towards a different path.