Could the USSR have stabilized the Middle East?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Could the USSR have stabilized the Middle East?

Short answer, no.

Everyone would have been feed (even though not much)

That's gonna come as a shock to the millions who starved in the USSR under a succession of Five Year Plans.

and everyone would have had a decent education (no matter how censored).

So, a heavily censored education counts as 'decent'?

Education usually exterminates radical thought. Not always, but usually.

Beg to differ - history is chock-a-block with well-educated radicals.

As well, with that form of socialism/communism, you get atheism.

Don't equate an official government position for the religious views of the population. The notion that the USSR was an atheist country is just as false at the notion that the USA is a Christian one.

This would mean that there would be no radical religion stoning women to death for being raped.

No, it simply means that such stoning wouldn't be sanctioned by the government.

In fact, women would be seen as equal.

If you think there was gender equality in the USSR, you should study up.

When comparing the USA to the USSR, there's no doubt that the USA is/was better. When comparing that kind of dictatorship to the kinds that are there now, and to how the people in these places are now, I think a USSR type of government would be better. There would no longer be ignorant goat herders killing and mutilating women, and you'd have a country educated enough to go to the moon.

Awww....lookit how cute you are.

I understand that allowing the USSR to get their hands on the oil fields would have spelled certain doom for everyone else while giving the socialist/communist countries much more money, meaning it'd be harder to bankrupt them, but it might have ended up better for the world if we allowed the middle east to be conquered by the Russians. That system still would have fallen anyways, eventually.

OK, so your solution to unrest in the Middle East would be to have the SovUn conquer it, causing war on a large scale to free up the oil fields, devolving the world into chaos, while the eventual collapse of the USSR would return the Middle East to a state of instability?

While this is not the worst speculation I've ever read, it might well be in the top three.

Boru