Economics and politics of a mega-Soviet Union after WW1

So, let's assume that the Bolsheviks are really successful and manage to defeat Poland in the Polish-Soviet war. They move into Germany and in combination with a German Spartacist revolution, take the country.

Now I've read that if the Bolsheviks had such success early on, they would have made Poland and Germany SSRs akin to the Ukraine.

Naturally that would completely and utterly change the economics and politics of the Soviet state (for example, much of the Bolshevik decisions in the early 20s were because of the economic limitations they had within Russia - with Russia, Germany and Poland they would have different - and looser - economic limitations). Also the Russian politicians and scientists would be complemented (and have to compete with) Polish and German politicians and scientists. At the same time, I could see the Bolsheviks trying to stay in control of the new groups with their habitual brutality (which, albeit, would not be Stalin grade brutality at first and could well never be Stalin-grade).

So how do people think such a giant Soviet Union would evolve?

Would it be able to hold Germany and Poland? (I could see Germany breaking free under a Socialist counter-revolution if the conditions were right).

And how would foreign relations develop in such a world?

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I don't think they would even be able to swallow Germany, by the time of Warsaw the Spartacists were pretty much dead.

Assuming that somehow they are able to get Berlin they wouldn't be able to hold for much longer, the Western powers and the Germans themselves would resist bloody and the Eastern European countries (even if new-born) weren't really interested in joinning (or returning) to the Russian yoke.

The failure of Germany would probably discredit the World Revolution idea and strenght Socialism in One Country even more, but now the world is much more hostile to the Soviet Union, since they nearly "consumed" the whole continent.
 
I don't see it being realistic to say that Poland and especially Germany, would become an SSR like Ukraine. There's a big difference between Ukraine and Germany, at least Poland is Slavic and has cultural and historic ties to other Soviet territory; every other SSR created at least had historic ties to the old Russian Empire. Germany's history as a communist country would follow the path of Mongolia. Independent but with strong control from Moscow on foreign policy and intervention to keep them internally communist; Germany would be like East Germany ITTL. Would Einstein and others be able to leave for the USA or would they be forced to work under Soviet domination? Einstein's main contributions were already behind him, but could the Soviets use him as a poster child for better science and the "communist way", could the Soviets end up having better Jewish relationship that keeps Stalin from seizing power, perhaps in favor of Trotsky (a person many claim was Jewish, though I suppose the evidence is weak despite his last name being Bronstein, his first marriage was performed by a rabbi, and his sister married a man whose father was Jewish).
 
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