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if the Soviets defeat the Poles at Warsaw and occupy Poland, will they also be able to occupy East Prussia and set up a Communist state there?

Would the Freikorps and whatever remobilized formations the Germans have in East Prussia be stonger than the Poles?

i have heard of the idea of a Soviet German deal that lets the Germans retake the corridor while the Soviets get the rest of Poland, but I would think if victorious in Poland, Lenin would want occupy East Prussia too. After all he was trying to support revolution in Germany via the invasion of Poland.

even with all the German Communist risings in "mainland" Germany doomed to fail, Lenin would probably want a german speakiing territory as a consolation prize, and geographically speaking, East Plrussia fits the bill.

Would Red Poland and Red Prussia become constituent republics of the USSR or remain Soviet satellites outside the union, like outer mongolia was?

What does this outcome do to German foreign and domestic policy and German communism?



Are estates in Prussia turned into collective or communal farms from the beginning or do Communists start by distributing estates to peasant households?

in Germany won't this kill any chance of Rapallo and Soviet Weimar collaboration on military matters? What does that do to Reichswehr and Red Army development?

Do the WAllies relax restrictions on German armament? If so, how much?

I would presume there would be patriotic German backlash against Communism and Communists in Weimar Germany. Might we see some geographic sorting, with noncommunist refugees fleeing to mainland Weimar Germany and many Communists from throughout Germany fleeing to East Prussia?

how do Soviet and German relations with another mutual neighbor, Czechoslivakia, go? Do the Czechs ally with either?

Do the Baltic states retain their independence? What happens to Weimar noncommunist Germany in the 20s and 30s, and its relations with France?

Do the Communist regimes bar all immigration from the beginning, reducing the pool of zionist settlers hailing from Poland?
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