Soviet Naval What If

In reading in one of my Cold War histories I found an interesting tidbit, although I cannot find the source now, oh bother. That  is Stalin was concerned that he was to need a ocean going fleet to fight a war with the United States between 1955 and 1960. This was not to happen as Stalin was to die in 1953.

It is relatively easy to keep him alive until the early 1960s. In doing further further reading (see below) it is possible with a few points of departure (POD) to come up with a plausible naval time line with a war occurring in the late 1950s. 

My personal library is rather extensive, consider it a profession liability, when dealing with the Cold War and the Soviet Navy. Here are a few.

• Russian Submarines in the Artic by I Kolyshkin
• Stalin's Ocean-Going Fleet by Jurgen Rohwer and Mikhail S. Monakov
• Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718-1990 by Norman Polmar and Jurrien Noot
• Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001 by Norman Polmar
• Assorted Jane's Fighting Ships and Conways 
• Polmar's Guides to the Soviet Navy 

So I may have a new project, new a few miniatures and a suitable rule set and I should be off.