AH Challenge: Make Puyi a Soviet ally.

Hello all, this is my first post at AH so I don't really know the terms or anything. Please guide me through it. Anyways, I always thought this was an interesting scenerio.

Must Have -

1. Puyi is the leader of Manchuria.
2. Puyi doesn't have to be Communist, but has to be allied with the USSR.
3. Nationalists remain in power in most of China.

Anything else is up for change, Chinese Revolutions, Japanese invasion of China, Operation August Storm, whatever as long as the above requirements are filled.

Bonus Points if you can describe what exactly happens to Mao and his guys.

Starting in 1911 and ending in 1949.
 
... Pu Yi was the last regent of China. The last Emperor. Unless you can have him disown his past, there is no way he is a communist.
Unless he's a monarcho-communist.
 
Can't he still be allied with the Soviets in some way? Like a puppet state like Manchuko to Japan except to the USSR?
 
Wouldn't think the Soviets would pick a royal for a leading position in a puppet state, when they could have any of the south's communists.
 
Maybe have a stronger independence streak in Chinese commies? Make them seem like they'd be less of Moscow's pawns maybe they'd look for someone else? And everyone one know's the last Emperor is willing to kowtow to whoever as long as he stays that way.
 

Hendryk

Banned
... Pu Yi was the last regent of China. The last Emperor. Unless you can have him disown his past, there is no way he is a communist.
Unless he's a monarcho-communist.
Well, actually he did become a communist in OTL, in the sense of becoming a normal citizen of the PRC.

Here's my suggestion for the challenge: sometime in the second half of the 1920s, Manchuria's ruling warlord, Zhang Zuolin, realizes he needs a figurehead to increase his legitimacy. He convinces Puyi to become the de jure ruler of Manchuria, while Zhang remains the one really in charge. Shortly afterwards, the Japanese, who consider Zhang too much of a loose cannon to be a useful pawn in their scheme to claim overlordship over Manchuria, have him assassinated more or less as per OTL.

Puyi now realizes that he's going to need help to prevent Japanese encroachment (we need to assume that for whatever reason he doesn't trust them to leave him in charge). He can't turn to the Nationalists, since their agenda as regards Manchuria is reunification with China, so that leaves Manchuria's northern neighbor, the USSR. Of course Puyi is technically a feudal ruler according to Marxist-Leninist terminology, but the USSR realizes that an independent Manchuria would make a useful buffer zone between itself and an increasingly aggressive Japan. After all, is that any stranger than the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
 
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