DBWI; German- Russian axis inevitable??

yourworstnightmare

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There has been much talk that the German- Russian axis that started WW2 in the late 30s was quite inevitable. Both countries were lead by irrenditist authoritarian governments. Both countries felt isolated from the rest of the world. Both Beck and Denikin came to power after they stamped out both the far left and right in their countries and dissolved democracy with promises of greatness and progress. But really, was it so naturally for Berlin and Petrograd to approach each other??
 
It suprised the world and it still suprises most to this day. However the launch Operation Peter after the British surrender shows that it was merely an alliance of convience.
 

yourworstnightmare

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It suprised the world and it still suprises most to this day. However the launch Operation Peter after the British surrender shows that it was merely an alliance of convience.
Yeah, but it backfired completely and ironically made exhausted both Germany and Russia. I know many have questioned what the world would look like without Operation Peter, but I am more interrested in what would have happened if Beck and Denikin had not allied in the first place.
 
Yeah, but it backfired completely and ironically made exhausted both Germany and Russia. I know many have questioned what the world would look like without Operation Peter, but I am more interrested in what would have happened if Beck and Denikin had not allied in the first place.

There will be no cold war between the US and Russia with his Europeab puppets
 

The Vulture

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They each needed the others raw materials and manpower to accomplish their own goals before turning on each other. Denikin should have listened to Wrangel and the others who warned him about Beck, though.

Maybe it's a crazy idea, but I think without Beck and Denikin siding with each other, the Russians might have looked East, to emerging China or maybe even Japan (though that'd be a bit ASB). Mongolia was already essentially a puppet with Ungern von Sternberg in charge. Ungern had good relations with both, perhaps he could've served as an intermediary to help broker an alliance.
 

yourworstnightmare

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Russia looking East, more likely following Kolchak's suggestion for an alliance with Japan and campaigns into China?? I somehow always saw Kolchak as the odd bird, one Denikin had to put up with since he was needed for the defence of Siberia.
 
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