Plausibility of a Red Germany?

Okay, so I have seen TLs where if D-day fails then Russia is able to take over to crazy speculations that Stalin would have invaded Europe and take over.

My thread question is just what it is. Is there any chance of it happening. Could it equal a Red Germany equal to a Red Europe?

But more importantly, I want to talk about the chance of a Red Germany? Was it ever possible to do so?

I want to see if this can be accomplished with minor possible PODs. Like Rosa Luxembourg living, or the US not entering WW1, and Germany is in a greater economic spiral? I don't know if those make it happen, that's why I am creating this thread.

I have heard around this board that it has to happen right after World War One, or it has to happen during the Depression with the Communists taking power instead of the Nazis.
 
Any other ways for a Red Germany to have happened? I know there are TLs on the subject, but a revived discussion of the subject for 2017 won't hurt.
 
I think the main problem is the German army. If the Communists peacefully seize power in the 30s (assuming the Nazi movement loses its momentum and Hitler doesn't take power in 1933), the Reichswehr is going to stage a coup and simply remove the leftist government out of power - they might be supported by Poland and France, which both don't want a satellite state of the Soviet Union in the middle of Europe.
 
Sorry for the necro, but I was wondering if there is any plausibility for a Germany becoming communist in 1933. What would happen then? Would Stalin see this as a message that he would have the ability to take over all of Europe in less than a year? Would this Germany be able to go to war, since they would retain their scientific base, and adopt communist efficiency such as standardizing tanks?
 
Sorry for the necro, but I was wondering if there is any plausibility for a Germany becoming communist in 1933. What would happen then? Would Stalin see this as a message that he would have the ability to take over all of Europe in less than a year? Would this Germany be able to go to war, since they would retain their scientific base, and adopt communist efficiency such as standardizing tanks?

For Germany get Communist, you have to make a lot of POD in WW1 to make it work
First: get Rid of the Little Annoying Austrian", Göring and Hess best in military cemetery in Belgium
Two: make sure that Rosa Luxemburg or Karl Liebrecht survive the massacre the German Soldiers made in 1918, because Germany need strong Leadership in Communist movement !
Three: a United Communist front in Germany not a Mess of OTL were communist were splinter in countless fraction with out central leader ship (see point two)

Stalin would not see as Message to take over Europe he would not care for moment
but with Communist Germany and USSR forming a union could bring War, because of Poland
German and USSR would have trade agreement but Poland could refuse cooperation
here could Communist Germany and USSR invade Poland in order to connect Both nation and Create additional communist State of Poland

Alternative replace Josep Stalin with Leo Trotsky in Russian civil war
Leo Trotsky was ruthless like Stalin but wanted to export the Soviet Revolution
With 1930s German and Spain become Communist state and Communist election victory in France, Leo Trotsky see this as a message that he would have the ability to take over all of Europe i
 
I would say that if Germany went Red, we'd be arguing over how unrealistic anywhere else going Red would be. Germany in the post-war period is exactly where I would have thought communism would arise, if I didn't already know it didn't.

Russia may not be Red, though. And if they are, we aren't looking at socialist brothers, but two rival communist world systems. Maybe they get a Stalin and keep the revolution at home for a while, maybe they get some Trotsky's and go to war immediately.
 
Not to be a dick but East Germany was a Red Germany. I think Communism could've succeeded in Germany, but only if it didn't occur in Russia, and occurred shortly after the World War, and up to the Kapp Putsch.
 
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