Teleology
Banned
I've heard scenarios where the pre-Purges Soviet military pushed into Central Europe to aid the German Spartakists, but another thought occurs to me.
Suppose the early Soviet Union decided to shape it's military adventurism/tendril of political influence around turning the Mediterranean into a Communist lake. Why and how might this happen?
I've got some vague notions about pushing down through the Balkans as well as beefed up support of the Arab Socialists, agitating either Turkey or Greece against the either, and some sort of Spanish Civil War analogue in which Soviet-supported communist South Italy separates from the North; leading into an alternate WWII where...
where I'd like the Soviets to take Vichy North Africa, but in a alt-WWII there's in all likelihood as much chance for French Africa to be Free French as there is for collaborators to not only be successful but to expand their influence into France's North African possessions.
Anyway, what are your thoughts?
Suppose the early Soviet Union decided to shape it's military adventurism/tendril of political influence around turning the Mediterranean into a Communist lake. Why and how might this happen?
I've got some vague notions about pushing down through the Balkans as well as beefed up support of the Arab Socialists, agitating either Turkey or Greece against the either, and some sort of Spanish Civil War analogue in which Soviet-supported communist South Italy separates from the North; leading into an alternate WWII where...
where I'd like the Soviets to take Vichy North Africa, but in a alt-WWII there's in all likelihood as much chance for French Africa to be Free French as there is for collaborators to not only be successful but to expand their influence into France's North African possessions.
Anyway, what are your thoughts?