I don't understand anything you were talking about in that last paragraph or the point of the first and second paragraph, however I just noticed your bio and I love Blue Öyster Cult.
How were all mentions of Trotsky purged in an army? The "Great Purge" or as it is called Yezhovshchina was done...
The US had maybe 3.5 good presidents including Lincoln, Grant, FDR, and possibly JFK who died two months after proposing a joint moon mission with the Soviet Union and after he was upset with the CIA for lying to him about conditions and public opinion in Cuba before he launched the Bay of Pigs...
I didn't say NEP was needed for FNV at the time of the NCR - Legion Hoover Dam conflict with the Courier, but NEP was needed in the Soviet Union for a time, however after its time was up the Soviet Union needed to move on and go through industrialization, which they did and it ended famines in...
About a year and a half later, if you get the NCR all the allies possible and don't set up any major failures like having them guard Primm over Primm Slim, then that is the best ending.
In conditions of extreme instability and extreme scarcity like the postapocalyptic world of Fallout, you need...