AHC/WI: Aims of Russia and Germany Reversed

What if Russia was a fascist, expansionist power with the aim of lebensraum and Germany was communist with the aim of spreading its ideology?
 
What if Russia was a fascist, expansionist power with the aim of lebensraum and Germany was communist with the aim of spreading its ideology?

Russia has more land than it has people to fill it. "We want *lebensraum" doesn't make any sense in that context.
 
Russia has more land than it has people to fill it. "We want *lebensraum" doesn't make any sense in that context.

Pretty much, plus a big part of Lebensraum was both retaking the historic lands of Germany as well as unting the lands in which Germans lived, which was pretty damned big since Germans migrated so incredibly much over the last two millenia that they were found in every part of Europe between France and the Urals by the beginning of the 20th century.
 
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It could be more along the lines of 'reconquer our glorius empire'. With poland, the baltic and finland being in the sphere of influence of the German Communist regime. It'd be interesting what sort of communist society develops in Germany, to be honest. It's a far more highly developed region of Europe and if it evolves into the same sort of state-capitalist regime that USSR did then who knows what massive building projects get underway. On the other hand, it could be a far more decentralised style of communism as envisaged by the likes of Paul Mattick.
 
Or perhaps fascist, pan-Slavic/ultra-Orthodox Russia? It is our sacred duty to reconquer our empire, unite all Slavic people, and help our cousins of Orthodox faith. So their first target would be all former parts of the Russian Empire - Baltic states, Finland, Poland; then it would be time for Czechoslovakia and Balkans, including Greece. Their enemy number one, however, would be Turkey - after all AFAIK Russians tsars dreamed about conquering the former centre of the Orthodox faith - Constantinople. Not to mention the Russians might not be happy about treatment of Orthodox Armenians by the turks.
 
A ultra-nationalistic Pan-Slavic ideology that calls for all Slavs to unite under one banner and calls for war to annex Slavic eastern lands of Germany and possibly more.
 
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