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French Council Republic or the French Soviet Republic:

It all started with the French legislative elections to elect the 16th legislature of the French Third Republic in 26 April and 3 May 1936. Thanks to the collapse of the government in Spain in March and the attack of the Nationalist to overthrow the Popular Front in the escalating Spanish Civil War, the french left feared that a fascist Germany, Italy and Spain could encircle their great Third Republic, or the own right-wing could start a civil war just like in Spain. This fear led to the victory of the Cartel des Gauches (Coalition of the Left) in the 1936 elections and the creation of the left dominated French Council Republic, that had radical chances in the government to prevent the far-right in gaining any influence and power over politics and the military ever again.

A chain-reaction of this event was that Great Briton feared a communist continental block and backed of from any alliance and combined politics with France to ensure the Balance of Power for the Future of Europe. France, feeling left alone from Britain and encircled by fascist Nations joined the Communist International with the Sovjet Union and other communist Nations after the Nationalist won the Spanish Civil War in 1939 (some pocked resistance like the Republic of Catalonia/ Communist Catalonia with Barcelona as it's Capital fought on with Communist French help until 1940 when the Battle of France and the Fall of France would take place). Great Britain stayed neutral in the Spanish Civil War and Germany used it to secretly train new weapons and troops.

Fearing a new Communist or Fascist Rule over Europe the Empire accepted the German demands in the Munich Agreement in 29 September 1938, just like they didn't protest in the re-militarization of the Rhineland. As the Germans annexed Austria (Anschluss) and the Sudetenland neither Britain or Italy protested or opposed Hitler. But Hitlers feared the Sovjet Union and the French Council Republic surrounding Nazi Germany. The Second Polish Republic under the Regime of Ignacy Mościcki and Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski feared the communist rising in Europa just like the Germans and Italian did. So the Polish, also Anti-semitic and authoritarian joined the Axis Powers (and later the Anti-Comintern Pact) in 1939. Shortly before that they have participated in the Partition of Czechoslovakia.

In a secret agreement, the Polish Regime and the German Regime had agreed on the new boarders for central Europe. From the Prague Castle, Hitler declared the Czech populated Land the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, while Hungary annexed the Slovak Republic and the autonomous Carpathian Ruthenia, territories they lost after the Great War. According to the German-Polish agreement and pact, the Poles annexed some boarderlands and allowed the Germans to get Danzig an the allowanc to have a extraterritorial corridor railroad and Autobahn as well as Danzig to re-connected Nazi Germany and East Prussia. The German Regime keep the right to use the Corridor without Problems and Repressions and gained Poland and Hungary for their Pact against the Communist International. Shortly after, the German and Polish made a ultimatum towards Lithuania. Unable to resist, the Lithuanians ceded the Memel Territory back to Germany. The Britain's protested, but there was little they could do about it just like wihout France they could not guarantee the Polish independance in case of a Sovjet attack. In 1938 the Italian invasion of Albania took place and the world seemed to be on the brink of a new great war, as tensions between the Pact of Steel (Germany, Italy, Poland and Hungary, later followed by Spain that whould form the alliance of the Axis Powers) the Communist International as well as Great Britain and the free Allied Nations of Europe were brink of a new war as the year 1939 started.

(first Map Europe OTL, second Map Communist France, third Map Fashist Spain, last Map Anschluss and the partition of Czechoslovakia between Germany, Hungary and Poland)
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