Earlier Cold War

[Faeelin]

There's a couple of things I have problems with.

Why wouldn't the Germans be able to stop the communists? I mean, the Freikorps alone should give em the What for.

I'd place the border closer to the 1914 border with Poland than the borders of the 1945 Germany.

Perhaps Briand's European Union gets a better hearing, in this TL.

 

[Lord Douglas]

What would the situation look like at the other end of Eurasia? Would an Eastern equivalent of the Brussels Pact be signed in order to contain Soviet expansion into, say, Mongolia, which in OTL was invaded by the Red Army in 1921 and formally turned into a Socialist Republic in 1924? Might the Republic of the Far East, a short-lived independent state in Eastern Siberia, be propped up by Western troops and used as a buffer zone? Might the Western powers get enough of a vested interest in a functional China to give the Nationalist government significant support? Lastly, might Japan successfully petition for control over the Kurile islands, Kamchatka and possibly northeastern Siberia?

The Far East certainly has possibilities. The Civil War here didn't end until October 1922, when Vladivostok fell. The Far Eastern Republic I wouldn't place too much hope on. It was a Soviet puppet state and completely dominated by Communists, so unless you have a coup by White elements with British/Japanese backing you won't get much out of it. However, the Amur Region and Vladivostok was under White control. Japanese troops were stationed there, so the Red Army didn't dare to touch them. The Japs left in Oct. 1922, and shortly after that the Civil War in Russia came to and end. But you could have British and Japanese support for the White government in Vladivostok and the White cossacks - Ataman Semeynov - and Mongolians that were going around. (You might have to look for a capable leader though). You could get them to invade the Republic of the Far East, and if that is successful you have everything east of Lake Baikal. If memory serves me right, Baron Wrangel was still holdiong out in the Crimea with the White Armies when the Red Army invaded Poland. You could have greater British and French support for that, and you could get Cossack revolts in the Kuban and Don regions to support Wrangel (who was a capable leader). The possibilities are really endless.