Interested in a Polish-Soviet War timeline?

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I've been thinking about writing a Polish-Soviet War in which Trotsky manages to win the Battle of Warsaw despite Stalin's refusal to send troops northwards. Stalin still loses the Battle of Lviv, humiliating and discrediting him in the eyes of the rest of the Bolsheviks even more than OTL, as he is compared to Trotsky's victory at Warsaw. The Poles are forced to sue for peace and the USSR manages to regain most of Russia's prewar Polish territory, leaving a rump, revanchist, and rightist Polish state highly dependent on Germany. Stalin eventually resigns his government posts in disgrace and returns to Georgia, where he dies of influenza later in the year, leaving a nearly-democratic USSR ruled by a herd-of-cats committee with a far-superior officer corps and army to OTL, while collectivization and industrialization proceed at a much slower pace. Meanwhile, in the West, Red Terror surges at an alarming rate, leading to an Entente attempt to strengthen Germany as a bulwark against the Soviets. Nonetheless, the USSR manages to inspire several communist revolutions, both failed and successful in Europe's colonial empires and on the continent itself, leading to waves of revolution and revanchism. Finally, as tensions rise throughout the world, the US commits itself to an ever-deepening isolationism, leaving Europe alone against the rising tide of communism.

The title (taken from DirtyCommie with his permission) would be Can You Hear The Thunder?
 
Almost democratic, I said. So basically it'll stay true to the idea of democratic centralism--yes, the CP will make the ultimate decision in policy and will select candidates for elections, but there will be elections. Not terribly democratic ones, but not complete farces either.
 

Naturi

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The Poles are forced to sue for peace and the USSR manages to regain most of Russia's prewar Polish territory, leaving a rump, revanchist, and rightist Polish state highly dependent on Germany.
It depends if Poland still has access to the sea. If it does and contains parts of Upper Silesia, it won't be dependent on Germany to provide its trade.
If Poland will be dependent on Germany, and Germany takes over Polish areas as well as politics, there is a chance for communist to sponsor communist-nationalist movement(they did this OTL) that will call on restoration of Poland in direction of the West with Pomorze and Silesia once again Polish, end of German yoke and liberation of their Polish brethren from both oppressive German-capitalist rule.
 
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