Japan falls to communism

I don't know. Japan was an unstable place post-war, and if the US mismanaged the occupation (which is not an unrealistic possibility) then there's always a chance. In the 1949 parliamentary elections IOTL, the Japanese Communist Party took 10% of the vote. That share could potentially be higher.

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Ganesha

No. The Japanese Communists had the same chances to win democratically than the East European Communist parties: 0 %

The only way possible is a Soviet occupation, but the butterflies are so big and so old that frankly ...
 
His point is that Czechoslovakia did have free elections before 1948 where the Communists did very well, as they did in Italy postwar.

Did very well =/= winning an election.

But yes Europe did a left wing turn ... being how well the radical right worked just before, if even then they were unable to win ( alone, mind you, not in coalition with the moderate left ) they would rather difficultly win IMHO.
 
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