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This is inspired by Onkel Willie's recent excellent "Munich Coup" TL. Let's assume that ITTL the Nazis get overthrown by the generals in 1938, Germany returns to a democratic constitutional monarchy, the Munich Agreement and the First Vienna Award iare implemented and followed by detente between Germany, Britain, France, and Czechoslovakia, the Western powers support German irredentist claim on Poland, Germany recovers 1914 borders after a limited German-Polish war, Yugoslavia is broken up in another limited war by a coalition of Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria (Italy gains Dalmatia and a protectorate over independent Slovenia and Croatia, Hungary regains Vojvodina, Bulgaria gets Vardar Macedonia).
Stalin is emboldened by Western appeasement and regime change in Germany, annexes the Baltic states, attacks Romania and gains Bessarabia despite subpar performance of the Red Army (which allows Hungary to snatch northern Transylvania and Bulgaria, southern Dobruja), attacks and conquers Finland after military reforms, eventually invades Poland and Romania and triggers WWII, the Red Army conquers Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the Balkans, the Middle East, Persia, and western India, in an alliance of convenience with Japan that invades South East Asia. The SovJap Axis is eventually stalemated at the Oder-Neisse-Vienna-Prague-Trieste line, at the Suez Canal and Turkish border, and at Delhi and Calcutta, and gradually pushed back by an alliance of America, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
Japan goes down just like IOTL, the Soviets are pushed back and eventually forced to surrender when Allied armies get close to Moscow and nukes destroy several Russian cities (both Americans and the Anglo-Germans develop their nukes). Russian generals pull a Valkyrie on the Soviet regime and surrender.
Now, the thread issue is, which top Soviet leaders get indicted and convicted in TTL equivalent of the Nuremberg trials. Let's assume that Stalin and Beria die during the coup. Soviet leaders get indicted both for war crimes and genocidal atrocities on civilian population of occupied countries (it is assumed that up to half of it died) and for the crimes against the peoples of the USSR from 1917 to WWII.
Who gets to star in those process (let's assume that the defendants are at least as many as in the OTL Nuremberg Trials, including a mix of Communist party, NKVD, and Red Army leaders), which sentences do they get, and where the Trials get held ?
The international tribunal is made up of one judge each from the Five Great Powers, plus a Canadian one to represent the Commonwealth countries and a Swedish one for the European minors.
Stalin is emboldened by Western appeasement and regime change in Germany, annexes the Baltic states, attacks Romania and gains Bessarabia despite subpar performance of the Red Army (which allows Hungary to snatch northern Transylvania and Bulgaria, southern Dobruja), attacks and conquers Finland after military reforms, eventually invades Poland and Romania and triggers WWII, the Red Army conquers Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the Balkans, the Middle East, Persia, and western India, in an alliance of convenience with Japan that invades South East Asia. The SovJap Axis is eventually stalemated at the Oder-Neisse-Vienna-Prague-Trieste line, at the Suez Canal and Turkish border, and at Delhi and Calcutta, and gradually pushed back by an alliance of America, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
Japan goes down just like IOTL, the Soviets are pushed back and eventually forced to surrender when Allied armies get close to Moscow and nukes destroy several Russian cities (both Americans and the Anglo-Germans develop their nukes). Russian generals pull a Valkyrie on the Soviet regime and surrender.
Now, the thread issue is, which top Soviet leaders get indicted and convicted in TTL equivalent of the Nuremberg trials. Let's assume that Stalin and Beria die during the coup. Soviet leaders get indicted both for war crimes and genocidal atrocities on civilian population of occupied countries (it is assumed that up to half of it died) and for the crimes against the peoples of the USSR from 1917 to WWII.
Who gets to star in those process (let's assume that the defendants are at least as many as in the OTL Nuremberg Trials, including a mix of Communist party, NKVD, and Red Army leaders), which sentences do they get, and where the Trials get held ?
The international tribunal is made up of one judge each from the Five Great Powers, plus a Canadian one to represent the Commonwealth countries and a Swedish one for the European minors.