What if the Soviet Union joins the Axis in 1941 and declares war on the British

What if the ideology of Hitler took a different turn and became closely aligned with Strasserism and it's anti-capitalist bent, while playing down the anti-Communism and anti-Slavic elements of Nazism.

Hitler still becomes chancellor of Germany in January 1933 but with a slightly different ideology.

What if this led Hitler to see the British Empire and the United States as evil corrupt plutocracies, the true enemies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as a potential ally.

World War II enfolds as it did to 1941.

Leading from this what if the Soviet Union becomes a full fledged member of the Axis Powers in June 1941 and joins Germany and Italy in their war against Britain in the Middle East and North Africa through Iran attacking British forces in Iraq.

Six months later in December 1941 Japan attacks the United States at Pearl Harbour. Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union declare war on the United States.

What would happen next?

Would the British and Americans successfully carry out D-Day?

Would India be conquered by the Axis?

Would Britain be defeated and occupied by Germany?

Would the United States be able to carry on a war against Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan and Italy in these circumstances?
 
I'm guessing WW2 would be longer and more desperate than OTL, with perhaps some kind of allied victory by 1950, with a dozen mushroom clouds over central and eastern Europe bringing about the end.
 
Well the Spanish Civil War probably goes the other way for starters.
Possibly earlier. For instance I can't see the Rhineland re-occupation happening the same way with an anti-capitalist and anti-West Germany, such a nation would be a far more obvious a threat than OTL and that has to change the reaction in Paris and London.

In fact even that assumes that Hitler can still rise to absolute power with this alternative ideology, which I don't think is something you can simply handwave away.
 
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