DBWI: No Second Great War against the Soviet Union

As we all know, the Second Great War (1941-1947) was fought by the Grand Alliance against the Soviet Union and the victory of the Grand Alliance led to the Silent War between liberal democracy (the Alliance of Free Nations between Germany, the US, Britain, India, and allies) and fascism (the Iron Pact of Italy, Japan, France, Brazil, and allies) which defined the late 20th century. But what if the Second Great War wasn't against the USSR? What PODs would be needed for such a situation? Leon Trotsky not taking over the USSR after Lenin's death? The "National Socialist Party" somehow taking over Germany while France remains democratic? What would such a world look like?
 
Well, China would have been reunified a long time ago. The Japanese pull-out from Manchuria and Coastal China was real proof that the Silent War had finally ended.

Of course...the Japanese government is democratic now but they still own Eastern Siberia. With millions of second and third generation settlers living there plus all their resource extraction and heavy industry, there's no way they'll ever leave.

I doubt National Socialism would have won out in Germany. Though that's a scary thought...the German Republic is one of the most progressive nations in the world and has always been so. So much social progress might have been lost... :(
 
What about Trotsky not winning out in the post-Lenin power struggle, then?

That's an interesting one...might have ended up with someone more focused on internal development rather than exporting the Revolution. Hard to imagine who though... Bolsheviks tended not to be that diplomatic anyway, we'd probably have had a war eventually. And even more might have died in the gulags than the millions who did :(

Oh: you forgot one member of the Alliance. Finland bled the Reds white, both during the initial invasion and in the Resistance. They're pretty much the poster children for tenacious resistance. Of course they got their disputed land back and then some - the Kola Peninsula is pretty thoroughly planted with Finns these days :D
 
That's an interesting one...might have ended up with someone more focused on internal development rather than exporting the Revolution. Hard to imagine who though... Bolsheviks tended not to be that diplomatic anyway, we'd probably have had a war eventually. And even more might have died in the gulags than the millions who did :(
Well, the "Socialism in One Country" that one Joseph Stalin proposed probably means that a USSR led by say Stalin would have been more focused on internal development.
 
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