Hitler does not invade Poland

I don't know if this has been proposed beforeI may have even posted this before, but the idea is this.

Germany and Russia still sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, with the secret clause for the division of eastern europe.

But one thing that is not clear to me, is whether or not they ever decide on a schedule. What if Hitler does not invade Poland, what if he creates false intelligence via a double agent that he will invade Poland by a certain date and intend to take it all?

Essentially what if Russia invades first, and Hitler reacts with outrage, offers an alliance with Poland (it's either that or face destruction) and goes to war with Russia with the fall support of the international community?

Germany would almost certainly win such a war, capturing a huge swathe of russia and being in de-facto control of Poland maybe one day de-jura. Probably forming a 'Warsaw Pact' against Russia consisting of finland, estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland, hungary etc.

If Hitler leaves it there he would have created a german super-power and probably be much vaunted as Europes saviour against Communism.

Of course it is possible that once Russia is dealt with he turns back onto the west, with a far greater chance of winning that.

Any thoughts?
 
He most certainly would gain the support of one of the largest armies in eastern Europe and thus gain a boost for the invasion of Russia. In addition he would not be at war with the two western European powers.
 
The famigerate two fronts war is avoided, germans know it wold be bad, te russians know it too, how do they lure Stalin?
 
Essentially what if Russia invades first
You need to replace Stalin with an ASB for USSR to invade Poland 1st, especially taking into account Polish-French and Polish-British defence pacts, as it would almost automatically become "Western crusade against USSR", a thought which gave many sleepless nights to Soviet leaders from Lenin all the way to Gorby.
 
There's no chance of this happening. Until Stalin actually sees a major German invasion of Poland he's going to be suspicious of a trap laid to present the USSR as the aggressor instead of Germany.
 

King Thomas

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Stalin may have been evil, but he was not totally stupid, and was not going to attack Poland until Germany attacked first.
 
Isn't it annoying when something you thought was sensible gets shot down in flames, scratch that POD for my Nazi timeline.

PS: Thanks.
 
Actually Stalin might attack the Poles if he thought that he could get away with it. He was burning to avenge the defeat that he suffered by them during the Soviet -Polish War.
 
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