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Okay, the Genoa Conference, in OTL, met in April to May of 1922, wihth som pretty heady goals. Basically, it was the culmination of three nation's goals.

The USSR was willing to pay back Tsarist loans from before 1914 because it was desperate for long term low interest loans and diplomatic recognition.

Germany, meanwhile, wanted access to the German marketto make up for lossess to Britain and France on the world stage. Yet Germany lacked the capital to invest in Russia. An international agreement would help it do so.

Britain, under Lloyd Gerorge, wanted to stimulate European trade, promote disarmament, and develop a peace structure that incorporated the Weimar Republic and Soviet Russia.


This culminated in the Genoa Conference, which, "had it been accomplished in its most elaborate form, Soviet Russia would have received full and immediate diplomatic recognition as well as Western technology and capital, either in the form of long-term loans and credit or through a consortium led by Germany and financed by the victors of theWorld War. A portion of the German profits would hve been pledged to reparations payments, and until those proceeds were avaialble there would have been a payment moratorium. The Soviet government would have acknowledged as its obligation both the prewar debt and the Russian war debt, and it would have agreed to compensate the owners of property nationalized in the revolution. "

(Jon Jacobson, when the Soviet Union entered World Politics)

Okay, clearly, this won't succeed in full. But I think it has potential.

Thoughts?
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