DBWI: What if Stalin took power in the USSR?

The Soviets crossed the Oder only once and got enveloped when their attack on Berlin failed. The Germans spent the rest of the war destroying army after army (Breslau, Stettin Vienna) until the Grand Coalition chased the reds all the way back to Russia, which was also spearheaded by German Divisions. More Germans died to keep Europe free than most of the rest of the Grand Coalition combined, and only Poland paid a heavier price per capita for victory in Europe.

I think they held up pretty well against the Reds.

I never said the Germans never fought well. In fact they did amazing DESPITE government turmoil, communist sympathizers, and an attempted Nazi coup. The army declared martial law over the country and dictated all war decisions without political opinion or input.

I shudder to think what would happen to men like Kliest, Bock, or Rommel if some insane politician told them how to fight.
 
If Trotsky (Hail Trotsky) had failed to discredit Stalin, Russia would never have industrialised. Stalin would have probably sided with Hitler & his successor would be a Nazi puppet. The Allies would have still won, of course, but the victory would have been much more hard-fought. Who knows how the West would have divided Europe. You know those Westerners- irrational to the core.
 
No world war two, it was Trostky's invasion of poland that started that mess, no invasion of poland no world war.
I know, right? I mean, yeah, Poland wet ultra right and was in the middle of a pogrom against jews... But damn it, That's no excuse to send in the Red Army to brutalize, plunder and rape their way through the whole country!
 
If we butterfly away WW2, does that mean British/Irish relations don't improve like in OTL? I remember that supposedly the reason why Ireland ended up with much improved relations with Great Britain was because British and Irish troops found common ground fighting against 'godless' communism. Would that be different here?
 
I know, right? I mean, yeah, Poland wet ultra right and was in the middle of a pogrom against jews... But damn it, That's no excuse to send in the Red Army to brutalize, plunder and rape their way through the whole country!

Troksy didn't go in to help jews, the official excuse was to go in and rescue his fellow communists, as for the pogrom there was mass confiscation of assets, beatings and destruction of jewish business's, but according to the historical record only 50 people died. More jews died fighting alongside their Christian neighbors during the russian invasion then died during the Pogroms.

Of course the fact that the poles evicted all the jews to Israel post war was an amazingly large dick move.
 
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