AHC: Communist Monaco

Create a scenario where rather than being a playground for the wealthy, Monaco becomes a leftist state of some sort, whether Marxist-Leninist or otherwise.
 
Would Monaco have to remain independent?

Cause possibly a Communist France could annex it/invade it although I don't see much reason for the latter unless Monaco had their own communist revolution of some sort and they wanted to join France.
 
The clearest example I can think of is the Western Front majorly fails (say the weather is impossibly bad for a 1944 invasion of the Continent) and you end up with West and East France and a unified Soviet Germany.

Monaco-Nice gets annexed into a Mediterranean Kaliningrad. Monaco's scenery becomes the Mediterranean resort of choice for top Soviet/Warsaw Pact officials.

In addition, its location allows for extensive signals intelligence from Western and Southern Europe, plus North Africa.

Red France of course is also a good candidate.
 
You can't have a communist Monaco and an independent Monaco.
The country is so small that if it were to succumb to revolution France would send in the troops to restore order.
The only scenario where either France or Italy doesn't save Monaco is if they've both gone Red, in which case it will just be annexed into France (arbitrary feudalist borders and all that).
 
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