What do you think of my Darkest Hour mod's plot-A World To Win?

As I followup to my Kaiserreich plausibility thread, I'd like to ask: what do you think about the plausibility of my own (now released as BETA) A World To Win mod?

The plot, for those who don't know in brief below:

--Europe--

In a period spanning roughly from 1918-23 violent revolutions shook the whole of Europe following a Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War. Italy, Hungary, Germany and other nations in Europe quickly "fell to Communism," dubbing themselves Socialist states.

Democracy rapidly and suddenly deteriorated in France, and to a lesser extent in the British Isles and elsewhere.

A brutal German Civil War had meanwhile ruined the once proud and now dead politcally Second German Reich. Communists rule the north, while a vengeful Adolf Hitler, having taken power in his native homeland of Austria, has vowed to one day liberate the north. The state of Rheinland is strategically positioned as an artificial buffer state owned by France between the German and French border lands, while the last vestiges of Imperial German power stands isolated in Prussia, claiming all of Germany for itself when in reality it has now power.

Italy has lost all its colonies following a Socialist victory in the Italian revolution after the untimely death of Benito Mussolini. Brief French intervention has restored the Kingdom of Italy up north in and around the Alps region.

Fascism has spread across the the whole of Europe, as the unaffected portion of Europe finds itself gripped in fear of potential Communist revolution in their homelands as well.

--America--

America is split. A second American Civil War forged in blood the American Commune in the early first half of the 1930's, based around the failed experiment of the Paris Commune. FDR sits on a shaky throne of bayonets, keeping his country together through sheer force of will and propaganda. For right now, an uneasy peace transpires across the land.


--Asia--

the Japanese Empire rules the Pacific, having extended its power all the way to Manchuria to the north and even the port city of Vladivostock and a good chunk of the Pacific's island chains in the east.

Meanwhile, Mao wages a desperate guerrilla war against the Nationalists, while the Philippines falls apart following the outbreak of a Third American Civil War. Vietnam is gripped in fascist French rule, while a determined Ho Chi Mihn, with blessings from an interventionist Moscow led by Joseph Stalin, has vowed to return to his homeland and free his people.

Impoverished villagers in India are in revolt, rising up against oppressive British tyranny, spearheaded by the last then sympathetic to their plight British leader Oswald Mosley, who in his efforts to keep the British Empire together, is using every means at his disposal to hold onto India.
 
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Much of this is pure ASB.

While having the communists in their respective nations give a better showing is possible, this is a bit much.

Britain and France going more authoritarian is somewhat plausible if you accept the other revolutions elsewhere.

I'm assuming that Hitler gets to where he is through some ATL analogue to the beer hall putsch in Austria as opposed to Munich. But the problem is that he never really had the support necessary OTL for it to go very far, plus IIRC he always had more of a love of Germany rather than his native Austria.

Even during the worst parts of the depression, the American people were never in any real danger of going through a communist revolution, and I cannot see a single issue from the time that was polarizing or popular enough to get the United States to split.

The Japanese invasion of China and Manchuria was a boondoggle to say the least. Just about everyone agrees that they stood little chance of winning there, even if they didn't piss off any other major powers(i.e. the US).

Also, the nationalists and communists had a truce during OTL until the Japanese had been repelled, and the Soviets could have just as easily gone for the Generalissimo as they did Mao, and with an aggressive Japanese empire that had seemingly just kicked their asses and gobbled up a good bit of Soviet territory, I can easily see Stalin doing everything in his power to get both sides in the civil war to come together to oppose the Japanese, not promote a civil war.

Also, a slight nitpick, I believe that Vietnam didn't get that name until the 50's or 60's.

EDIT: I see that it was called Annam until 1945.
 
thanks for the critique(I'm serious.)

Is it worse then Kaisrreich when it comes to ASB alternate history? on a scale of 1-10, what would you guys give it?

I must stress it was never meant to be realistic, an was purposely ASB.

I'm releasing a history textbook style AAR/text on this forum and the Paradox Plaza forums as well later on in the year. It is about the German Socialist Republic's history, from 1936 to the end of WWII.
 
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