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Yeah the war and its aftermath propelled the US into superpower status. Superprofits were instrumental in the crushing / buying-out of domestic labor.
A communist Europe takes a lot of pressure off the USSR. Doesn't have to exist as the sole communist power in the world, doesn't have to worry about imminent invasion. Industrialization can happen more carefully, purges aren't as urgent and messy. Potentially reduces the legitimacy of destalinization and other factionalism.
Stalin likely lives a decade or two longer. Maybe no sino-soviet split.
Still would have been plenty of realpolitik nonsense I'm sure. But worlds better.
For sure, and also USSR would've moved much quicker ahead too not having a huge chunk of infrastructure destroyed and population murdered in the war. If it was able to keep up technologically with the US during the Cold War after the devastation, imagine what would've been like without the war.