Historically, the February 6 coup in France led to the overthrow of the Third French Republic and it's replacement with a nationalist, authoritarian, fascist-lite "presidential dictatorship" under the rule of Francois de La Rocque, who led the Fourth French Republic through the Second Great War, but what if the February 6 Coup had failed? What PODs might be needed to avoid the February 6 Coup? How long could the Third Republic have lasted if not for the February 6 Coup?
DBWI: Have the February 6 Coup Fail
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With these obscure events its best to put so details out. Sorry the link was only Wiki, but I did not find anything better in five minutes search.
There has been some interesting speculation on the effect of different French leadership in the 1930s. This one is worth pursuing.
There has been some interesting speculation on the effect of different French leadership in the 1930s. This one is worth pursuing.
FillyofDelphi
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That's going to be pretty hard to do without the Third Republic having agreed to financial terms with the Germans or having fought The First Great War in such a way as to have already not survived. Really, you just need the moderate Leftists-Liberals and Communists-Socialists to form a coherent response, rather than splinter into a thousand and one individual factions. This could most easily be done by preventing the rising populatirty of the Anarcho-Communists and Syndicalists in the preceding years following the intellectual migration out of Spain as a result of their own right wing winning the culture wars of the "Long 19th century" on the penninsula, which created the actual and perceived impotency in the French Left that allowed and encouraged the militant right to take matters into their own hands in order to protect The Fatherland via the formation of the "Catholic League" with Italy Spain, and Portugal to contain Communist influence.
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BigBlueBox
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One of the reasons for the far right's rise to power in France was the Red Scare, which reached a fever pitch after the KPD took control of Germany. Maybe if Germany didn't go communist France wouldn't have gone fascist.
Or if the French liberals actually joined with the left to have a goddamn response to the fascists like the KPD in Germany the decade prior, but, of course, the liberals, in an effort to protect their property rights, threw their hat in with the fascists. Frankly I find the "blaming" of fascism on the left disgusting.