Communist Austria

What if, after the Vienna Offensive, Soviet forces would have captured all of Austria, installed a pro-Soviet satellite government, and incorporated Austria in the Warsaw Pact? I think the UK and US would have opposed such an action but, couldn't really intervene because driving back the Germans was the main priority.
 
The Soviets aren't going to occupy all of Austria. By the Vienna Offensive the post-war order had already been mostly determined. They could however impose a situation like in Germany, where East Austria (which was occupied by the Soviets) becomes its own state.
 
The Soviets aren't going to occupy all of Austria. By the Vienna Offensive the post-war order had already been mostly determined. They could however impose a situation like in Germany, where East Austria (which was occupied by the Soviets) becomes its own state.

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Simply we need a few things to occur.

1.) Austria is treated by the allied powers not as a state invaded by Germany, as the Red-White-Red book claimed, but a fully allied and thus liable power.

2.) USSR-Yugoslavia split remains thus creating the continued need to have forces to invade the north of the state.

3.) Informbiro period never occurs at all, or merely is a cool affair of mutual disdain. Which would be Stalin deciding to keep expanding his borders to secure a "friendly" communist state.

4.) Stalin in the moment of occupation openly calls for a Austrian people republic instead of adhering to the occupation as per OTL.

Lots of options are present but a lot of this hinges on the Allied powers treating Austria as an occupied enemy rather then a state forced into joining Germany. Perhaps something as simple as 13% of the SS was Austrian.
 
The Soviets aren't going to occupy all of Austria. By the Vienna Offensive the post-war order had already been mostly determined. They could however impose a situation like in Germany, where East Austria (which was occupied by the Soviets) becomes its own state.

There is a discussion of such a scenario here.
 
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