WI: A united communist Germany in 1919

[komnenos]

I was wondering what the repercussions of a united communist Germany in 1919 would have been for 20th Century History.

Assuming the Spartacists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_League) had succeeded in overthrowing the Weimar government in 1919 as a POD, what would have happened?

[Hnau]

The Spartacists were hopelessly, hopelessly outmatched by the Freikorps and the German Army. You need more of a POD than that, man.

[yourworstnightmare]

The Spartacists had no chance to pull it off. They had no real armed forces and were surrounded by conservative Prussia. A succesful German revolution would have to take place in the more industrial West. For that the Social Democrats has to fail badly, and Communism become the mainstream worker ideology.

But it would be interresting. The USSR would not be politically isolated as OTL. The Baltic States and Poland would be doomed. And Stalin might not be able to get into power in the USSR, since the "Socialism in One State" would be disproved from the beginning.