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Inspired by Wir Sind Spartakus timeline, assume there was a successful communist takeover in Germany after World War I. Assume the revolution did not spread to other countries and the only communist countries are Germany, Russia and perhaps Hungary. Assume harsher Versailles treaty, with separate Rhineland, separate East Prussia and Upper Silesia lost to Poland. (Map reference.)

1. How is Germany’s industrial potential affected by the loss of two, well more accurately one-and-half, industrial regions and additional damage caused by the civil war? How fast can it recover?
2. Aside from obvious focus on German-Russian trade how are commerce patterns of Europe changed?
3. Assuming the is a Great Depression is Germany self-sufficient enough to avoid its greatest blows? How does Communist Germany affect the Great Depression itself?
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