How could you get a reversed WW2?

King Thomas

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Instead of the democracies and Communist Russia fighting against Nazi Germany, Nazi Germany and the democracies fight together against Communist Russia. Afterwards there is a Cold War.
 
OTL while Hitler was "negotiating" (or extorting) the Munich Agreement, Poland seized some portions of Czechoslovakia. Then in 1939 Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia, and demanded the Poles join an anti-communist alliance, allow the Germans to pass through, annex Danzing, etc. If our PoD is that the British do NOT give a guarantee of protection making the Poles believe they could thumb their noses; perhaps the Polish govt joins the alliance seeing possibilities in annexing portions of Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine; and becomes like Hungary in OTL, an independent but minor Axis player. OTL Poland between the wars was very war-mongering and fought wars to expand their influence in Eastern Europe against the Soviets, so it's not unlikely they'd believe this is their best interest. Now with Poland, Hungary, and Germany (with a rump Slovakia) going up against the USSR (and the 3 Baltic states who would be independent) the West (UK and France) aren't all that worried most likely. Finland is already fighting the USSR and is a democracy, and now a German ally as in OTL. Probably Italy doesn't get involved in a war with the USSR. Once USSR is pushed back significantly I think Mussolini goes for reviving the Roman Empire and invades Yugoslavia, Hungary and Germany join in; Hungary attacks Romania; Bulgaria joins Axis and gets in on the spoils. West is worried but does nothing; If Bulgaria and Italy invade Greece, west gets involved against Axis, unless Turkey had joined the Axis in this ATL and went after the USSR when it saw Hitler was winning, then Turkey would push for a Bulgarian/Turkish/Italian/German invasion of Greece and the West would think twice in that case. I can only see the West being neutral or delayed, I can't see France and UK actually joining in on a war against the USSR with fascism. You'd have to have a POD before the Spanish Civil War which was the first time the USSR was seen as the lesser of two evils compared to fascism in the eyes of France and the UK.
 
While there is very little possibility of Nazi and UK/France being actual allies there is a possibility of simultaneous wars against USSR. UK/France contemplated intervening in Finland favor. If that happens and Hitler seized an opportunity and instead of attacking France joined the fun, USSR would be in big trouble.
Of course, realizing that USSR is not a Nazi ally as it would seem, Allies could promptly conclude peace with USSR in exchange of leaving Finns alone, and concentrate on Nazi instead.
 
Hitler gets killed by Maurice Bavaud.

Later Stalin attacks a Eastern European country for whatever reason (Finland, Poland, take your pick) and the conflict spiralles out into a total war.
 
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