What would a united Germany under Russian occupation look like?.

No Berlin Wall as they didn't have anywhere to run to.

Shifting center of gravity of world communist movement to the west.

Slightly better economy in communist Germany as main industrial regions added to its domains.

A dimension of ideological conflict added to the old ethnic rivalry with Western Europe. Although anti-Nazism could remain the consensus.

Anything more?
 
Having the population and resources of West Germany fall to the communists would mean a radical change in the strategy of the US in the region. For one, I'd expect US military presence to concentrate along the Rhine, Denmark and the Benelux (who would likely be scared shitless of a communist Germany at their footsteps). Denmark in particular would be in a perilious situation: it will probably see Iceland and Greenland reduced to American puppets as to secure access to the North Atlantic; and later on become one herself. I would also see a more aggresive US in the region, probably executing extensive anti-communist perations in Italy and seeking closer relations to Franco's Spain.

Also, on the political side, I think Gaullism in France would not be as strong having the most likeley number two nation in the Eastern Bloc in their borders. Militarism and anti-German sentiment would ensue throughout Europe , though. The Special Relationship would be further extended and it may also be extended to France.

Outside of Europe, I think America would support the Western powers in the Suez Crisis, in fears of weakening his few allies left. More pressure would be applied to the Middle East and Asia too.
 
The state itself would be pretty much like the GDR. For Stalin, it would be his most important puppet-state, what with the heavy industry regions in the Ruhr area also part of the German state.

The composition of the population would be different, though, and would lead to other kinds of resistance. In East Germany, the majority of the population was Protestant. Meanwhile in the West, there was a balance between Catholics and Protestants. Having a larger Catholic population in a unified Communist Germany might lead to a stronger and more lasting opposition. Throughout the years of the German empire - especially after the 1866 war and the defeat of Austria, a traumatic event for most Catholics -, it was always assumed that the Catholics had a strong loyalty to Rome. They were also less inclined to vote for the NSDAP (in 1933, the Catholic Centre Party still had majorities in Bavaria and Baden-Würrtemberg). With a full Soviet occupation, the Catholics would perceive the Communist policy as a new form of the Bismarckian kulturkampf. Catholic churches would form a fundamental part of oppositional movements, and there probably would have been more uprisings than in OTL GDR.
 
Just a thought: wouldn't the industry of Germany be relocated eastwards as much as possible? A brain and industrial drain bar none, especially from the Ruhr.

Also, what does Germany being completely under the aegis of the USSR imply about what happened in this (possible) alt WW2?
 
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