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So, here's a world map in 1936.



Now, let's say that Hitler has just pulled off the Anschluss. In OTL, of course, he soon ended up partitioning Poland with the USSR, triggering World War 2.

What happens in Hitler picks his enemies a bit differently, and tries to court Japan, Turkey, Poland, plus maybe Finland and some of the Baltic states for a war against the USSR?

The goal would be a partition of the Soviet Union as shown in the map below, and expulsion of all ethnic Russians to the rump USSR in Siberia.

earth1936.png

My questions are:

1) Is this plausible, or would some of the nations I mentioned refuse to work with Germany, even against the USSR?
2) Would Turkey even want to expand into central Asia? I don't know how widespread pan-Turkicism is at this time.
3) This scenario assumes that Poland cedes a bit of its northern territory to Germany and Lithuania, but in return it will gain a much larger amount of territory in the east. Would Poland agree to this?
4) I assume the anti-USSR alliance would win, but how long would the war last?
5) Would the USA, France, the UK, or Italy intervene in the war (on either side)?
6) Would a mass deportation of Russians to the rump USSR be logistically feasible? How many deaths would occur as a result?
7) If the anti-USSR alliance achieves their full goals, would further German expansionism into Europe be halted for the foreseeable future, seeing as Germany would now have a massive amount of "Lebensraum" in what was formerly European Russia, now emptied of Russians?
8) Would the Central Asian Turks view Turkey as a liberator or as an occupier?
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