Ways the USSR could have started ww2

New mod I'm working for a disclosed video game, want to make Red Menace the bad guy, so how do I get Hitler, the Nazis, and Imperial Japan out of the way.
 
Perhaps the Red Alert type scenario; kill Hitler when he's still a painter.

Although you'd probably kill him with a car, and not Einstein and his time-travel machine.
 

Vault-Scope

Banned
Trotsky instead of Stalin seizes power, initially he slowly exports bolchevik revolution to nearby countries in 27-32(western China, baltic countries, Iran, Turkey).
That causes Hitler to take power slightly earlier than OTL (that is, 1932), Trotsky reacts agressively.
In 1933, soviet-union invades Poland but since effort toward massive industrialisation and militarisation barely started a year earlier the war is unsucessfull and last till 1934.
Anschluss of Austria occures 4 years earlier, since this time Italia this time supports it.
1935 sees a major bolchevik attack uppon the soviet-union, red army encircles Berlin but cannot seize the city.
With Hungaryan and Italian help, Berlin is relieved, red army advance is stopped.
Later this year the invasion of romania begins, to stop oil exports to Germany/Hungarya/Italia, Bulgaria sides with Germany.
In early 1936, a major axis offensive from Hungarya encircles a large bulke of the bolchevik armies and retakes most of Romania where the Iron Guard is put in power.
In summer 1936, the soviet-union launched a major offensive in Poland, which was beaten back by the axis.
By the end of 1936, Warsawa is seized by axis forces and the bolchevik armies faces increased desertion.
A new axis army, the Russian Liberation Army is officially formed.
In 1937, the axis launches a major armored assault and defeats the bolcheviks in open battle.
Slovakia later gain independence as an axis nation.
Japan decides to join the axis and attack western China and the far east.
1938: capital of the Russian Nation is established in Novogorord, Moscow is mostly levelled in street fightings.
1939:Japan seizes central asia, dismantling of Yougoslavia. Pro-German regime is established in Iran and Ukraine/Turkey/Baltics/Poland/Belarus faces German colonisation.

After years of war, axis technology have advanced considerably. Germany becomes a superpower in the 1940s, France and Britain becomes increasingly economically dependent on the 3rd reich.
Roosevelt looses the 1944 elections, with time, new US governements establish politics increasingly similar to that of the 3rd reich.
Pro-German governements eventualy gains power in France and Britain in the early 50s, european colonies in asia progressively gain independence and join the asian cooprosperity sphere.
 
New mod I'm working for a disclosed video game, want to make Red Menace the bad guy, so how do I get Hitler, the Nazis, and Imperial Japan out of the way.
When? 1940-1950?It isnt interest for USSR-to have a global war; maybe, Poland attacked USSR in 1930-1936, and was defeated?
 

~The Doctor~

If you want to go for the simplistic, have Russia attack Poland in 1939, invoking France and Britain's entry into the war. Germany joins as well, once the Allies sign some formal pact giving them free reign over their eastern borders.
 
There is no "miracle of the Vistula" in 1922, the soviets make Poland part of the USSR. The allies let Germany rearm to stop the soviets, there are no nazis in power. The war begins in 1940 when the soviets invade Finland and the Baltics.
 

Redbeard

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They did start WWII, by making a non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939!

But apart from that an ATL with Trotsky in power would most likely mean a much more aggressive SU. The global economical crisis from 1929 would provide plenty of opportunities for stirring the pot and eventually intervening (with massive infantry and cavalry armies).

If Barbarossa has not taken place by mid 1942 (for whatever reason), Stalin would have at his disposal have an army of more than 500 Divisions well equipped for offense - more than the rest of the world combined. No matter Stalin's cautious nature such a force demands utilisation!

Regards

Steffen Redbeard
 
You could have it start due to miscalculation. Stalin may have been rather cautious, but that does not mean he made mistakes (obviously). Perhaps he tries to make a move on the Baltic States without World War 2?
 
But apart from that an ATL with Trotsky in power would most likely mean a much more aggressive SU. The global economical crisis from 1929 would provide plenty of opportunities for stirring the pot and eventually intervening (with massive infantry and cavalry armies).

Maybe, but be careful! Trotsky, after all, opposed subsidies to revolutionaries in the British Empire and the invasion of Poland.
 
New mod I'm working for a disclosed video game, want to make Red Menace the bad guy, so how do I get Hitler, the Nazis, and Imperial Japan out of the way.


Making History anyone?
Change aggressivness of Ussr to 30 and they will go to war nearly instantly.

Most likely result? a 3 way between allies, axis and soviet alliance
 
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