Could you make scenario in which SU is bigger and communism is more spread in Europe and world.
Possible development, nothing ASBish here.Soviet/ Red Russian victory on the Vistula sees Warsaw fall, and the destruction of the Polish armed forces leaves the nation defenceless.
At this point Estonia is recognized by the RSFSR (although ink is still fresh on the Tartu peace treaty), but not by other countries, "Lithuania" and "Latvia" are regions, where nationalist, communist and Baltic German gangs are fighting one another. They're no more independent than "independent Basque state".The Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are going to be in trouble very quickly now...
I guess this will be the turning point. Entente will arm every freikorp and every marauding gang they will be able to find in Germany to fight reds. Would it fail (although I'm lost regarding how could it be), direct military intervention will follow. Therefore everything described after it is ASB.Interference in a Left Wing uprising in Germany, (or alternatively, a decsion to crush a right wing one) leads to the Red Terror marching into Germany.
Could you make scenario in which SU is bigger and communism is more spread in Europe and world.
I would say that any POD in the 1910s/20s involving a Communist Germany joining Russia etc. does not count, because the resulting combined state would be so different from OTL's USSR that it's a meaningless comparison.
I tend to agree, in that Union the decisions would have been take in Moscow but in Berlin, thanks to the fact that it would be there the Communist party would be strongest.
And it probably couldn't have held together as a single state for that long, what with both Moscow/Petrograd and Berlin.
That would be an interesting TL, actually...I suppose it might turn people off internationalism in general if there was a messy collapse and civil war...
Hm. What would happen to the areas that Germany lost...If the Red Army defeats the Poles then the Soviet Union could rather easily reclaim all the former Tsarist territory.
Any further expansion would mean another Allied intervention but this time a more serious one.
Some questions need to be answered however. Where would the Soviet Union expand to? Why would the Soviet Union expand once Stalin comes to power when his chief point of differrentation is Socialism in One Country? Even if Trotsky or a similar figure emerges triumphant why would they expand the Soviet Union? International communism is not and was not the same as a larger USSR.
Hm. What would happen to the areas that Germany lost...