Germany becomes communist instead of fascist

The Weimar Republic was bound to fail from the beginning, but it wasn't necessarily going to become fascist. When Hitler rose to power, socialism was popular in Germany. What would have happened if a communist dictator rose to power instead of a fascist dictator in Germany?
 

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The Weimar Republic was bound to fail from the beginning...
I am so fed up with people saying that because it is absolutely baseless; the Weimer Republic for most of its history was far more stable than its neighbours, particularly the French Third Republic.

TWhen Hitler rose to power, socialism was popular in Germany. What would have happened if a communist dictator rose to power instead of a fascist dictator in Germany?
Socialism was popular (averaging 25% of the vote), as were the Communists (with ~15% of the vote, the third largest party in the Reichstag), but the two parties abhorred each other and refused to cooperate, even when it became obvious that the only way the Communists could survive was by working with the Socialists; a Popular Front government was never a possibility in Germany. The Socialists were better able to work with the Centre Party and the smaller conservative parties. The Communists were isolated and distrusted by all other parties in the Reichstag, and by the Army; the possibility of a Communist Coup in the late Weimer Republic was nil.
 
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The best window of opportunity for Germany to go Left was in the immediate aftermath of WWI. More specifically: in January 1919, workers in Berlin Started the Spartacist Uprising, which briefly placed the city into a situation not unlike that of Petrograd in October 1917. However, this uprising was crushed when the SPD-led government ordered the Freikorps based in and around the city to crush the rebellion. A lot of the German radical left's most important figures, such as Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, were killed in the crackdown.

Basically, have the POD for a Red Germany occur just before or during this event, delaying the uprising itself so that workers in other cities can rise up in sympathy with their Berlin counterparts at a later date.

There was actually a TL written quite a while ago which depicts such a scenario: Wir Sind Spartakus!
 
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If Germany becomes communist it becomes a military ally of the Soviet Union. Germans will still want revenge for World War I and will reunify by destroying Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Poland. If it's early enough then the communists will give financial support to more communists in the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco will not be made leader of the Spanish Empire. There is no Triple Alliance because of the natural opposition between communist and fascism. There probably won't be a major European conflict because Britain and France won't declare war on both Germany and the Soviet Union at the same time. There may be an attempt to assassinate Mussolini and create a communist cou in Rome, which can lead to a war. Imagine potentially a communist Italian and Spanish satellite states in Africa. Japan probably won't attack Allied colonies in the Pacific which will not cause it to invade Indochina nor America to put an oil embargo on Japan. I don't think Stalin would simply invade western Europe. An arms race of sorts might still erupt on the European mainland if the Soviets get the atom bomb in time, which Britain and France may know about and want to use as a deterrent against invasion or nuclear attack.

Japan eventually colonizes all of coastal China until a regional war breaks out. The Soviets will still eventually come to the aid of Chinese and Korean guerrillas against the Japanese occupation which eventually cause it to break down and both nations before the 1980s will be free communist states and the Japanese Empire will cease to exist. Communism will spread much more slowly on a global basis because the last European colonies will probably outlast communism through the 1980s.
 
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