http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/tennessee-valley-authority_n_3055345.html
Okay, first off, is that article from April 10th or from October 4th?
Second off, woah, woah, no, bad idea. Tennessee and the surrounding states have a lot of poverty going on, but one of the things that helps everyone survive is electricity being pretty darn cheap. Employment with benefits with TVA is also a really big deal for people. If you privatize the TVA, that all goes to hell, electricity costs whatever the owners want it to, employment benefits disappear, likely tons of legal loopholes after its sale due to it being a federal entity for the longest time and probably being exempt all over the place, etc.
It would ruin Tennessee. We'd lose the current re-industrialization we've got going on due to the low cost of electricity and other incentives (we don't have a lot else going for us, really). I don't know how far away the energy distribution for the TVA goes, but it would likely ruin them, too.
And on the other hand, if it weren't for Hitlers rabid and crippling hate of communists, they might have very well allied, Nazis and Commies. Even WITH Hitler's stupidity, they did manage to split Poland between the two of them.
(I might be wrong~)
You're wrong, at least for it being mostly Hitler's fault. Stalin didn't like
anybody. He was damn near criminally insane, if not just plain criminally insane. Even if Germany were communist, I'm not sure Russia would have much to do with them unless a war broke out or they would agree to become a part of Stalin's Soviet Union, because he didn't like any other version of communism than the one he was tweaking. The only reason the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact happened was because Russia did not want to fight Germany (They couldn't even beat Finland, for goodness sake! ), and Germany wanted to deal with France and Britain first.
The only reason why Russia had anything to do with the West is because Germany was picking on everyone, and even though we sent tons of supplies to Russia, Stalin
still wasn't happy. Granted, we were not happy with him either, but we weren't being little bitches about it.