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Here's the scenario:

Lenin's Octover revolution completely fails, he is executed and Russia instead suffers a takeover by extremist tsarists who install a military fascist junta similar to Franco's Spain, all by the beginning of 1919. This dictatorship naturally aligns itself with Nazi Germany (whose rise is just like in the OTL) and even permits the Germans a full access to Siberia and Central Asia.

Meanwhile, Imperial Japan's 1936 coup is successful in overthrowing the emperor but with a twist; this is a Communist coup. Japan still has invaded Manchuria like in the OTL, but the Communists completely withdraw from it by 1937 and cancel the plans to invade the rest of China.

This causes the following for WWII: Nazi Germany still starts the war in 1939 by invading Poland, but at the same time, sends troops to Russia's Asian coast to aid the Russian military in a full out invasion of Japan at the same time. The Communist Japanese, as a result, align themselves with the Allies.

What would happen in this scenario?
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