How powerful would a Communist Germany be?

In a scenario where the Communists instead of the Nazis took advantage of disillusionment with the weak "Weimar Republic" during the Great Depression to seize power, how powerful would a hypothetical "Deutsche Volksrepublik" be? What would their strengths and weaknesses be compared to OTL's Third Reich? Could they have had a higher chance of winning *WW2 than Nazi Germany (as they are probably allied with the USSR)?
 

Pellaeon

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A communist Germany would be immensely powerful. Imagine it in some sort of union or confederate with Soviet Russia-it would have a tremendous industrial and technological advantage and would the the dominant member in such a partnership.

Though there details of such a country's power, strengths, and weaknesses would depend greatly on the circumstances of how it came to be? Red army bayonets? A successful and fairly bloodless spartacist uprising? A civil war like the the Russian one? The reaction and potential intervention of France and the U.K.?

All in all it would be quite strong.
 
(as they are probably allied with the USSR)?
If Stalin still runs the USSR the two countries probably won't ally.
Stalin's greatest personality trait was his paranoia and he was extremely wary of any Communist movement that wasn't totally dependent on the Soviets (as a Red Germany would be).
The relationship between the leader of Red Germany and Stalin would probably be analogous to the relationship between Stalin and Mao.
 
Though there details of such a country's power, strengths, and weaknesses would depend greatly on the circumstances of how it came to be? Red army bayonets? A successful and fairly bloodless spartacist uprising? A civil war like the the Russian one? The reaction and potential intervention of France and the U.K.?
Well, I was thinking the German Communists came to power via political maneuvering and elections.
 
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