Question:how would america become communist like the USSR

I have often thought about how america would become communist particular during the 1930s and 1940s and this came to fruition when i was playing hearts of iron.

i was playing as america and got message saying do i want to push the oil embargo on japan, seeing that i had already screwed my econmy by going to war with mexico (i got bored). i decided that japan fighting me as well wasn't such a good idea.

So i didnt push the embargo, then a few moths later, i got a message saying that a law has to be passed on either getting rid of all the communists in my country or all the facists in my country. so seeing that the soviets were going to be on my side later in th war i decided to get of all the facists. immediatley afterwards theres a revolution and Roosevelt is killed and america becomes stalinist.

so i know that this a bad example but i was wondering where the logic comes from for that to happen and was it at all possible in reality
 
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frieza i think youve gotten a bad rep for asking stupid questions so no one going answer this one because of that.
 
Not to be immodest, but that's basically the whole crux of my timeline, Reds!. Basically, long story short is that the Progressive movement is driven into the political wilderness by state repression and a reactionary government, and ends up going towards the socialists. Eventually, it leads to a revolution in the Great Depression.

Though, it's not exactly like the USSR, though it has uncomfortable similarities. For one, democracy survives the revolution, but the American socialist state has a lot of soul searching to do about its past.
 
Not to be immodest, but that's basically the whole crux of my timeline, Reds!. Basically, long story short is that the Progressive movement is driven into the political wilderness by state repression and a reactionary government, and ends up going towards the socialists. Eventually, it leads to a revolution in the Great Depression.

Though, it's not exactly like the USSR, though it has uncomfortable similarities. For one, democracy survives the revolution, but the American socialist state has a lot of soul searching to do about its past.


Given the quality of the TL so far, you are being modest.

This really is how it would happen. Basically, American federal government fails to react to the Great Depression/listen to Progressive elements and it falls.
 
Given the quality of the TL so far, you are being modest.

This really is how it would happen. Basically, American federal government fails to react to the Great Depression/listen to Progressive elements and it falls.
Well, this is a two-edged sword. We could move in the direction of possibly having a communist revolution, but at the same time we likely would see an increase in the strength of the National Socialist and Fascist elements. Charles Lindberg would likely become the champion of the right.
 

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Well, this is a two-edged sword. We could move in the direction of possibly having a communist revolution, but at the same time we likely would see an increase in the strength of the National Socialist and Fascist elements. Charles Lindberg would likely become the champion of the right.
If you read the TL there is a big fascist presence and WWII is going to be a basic slaughter of fascists by what I see so far. This is only my interpretation so far just read the TL.
 
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