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A common argument I encounter on these boards is that if the Whites had won the Russian Civil War, there would have been no fear of Bolshevism in Germany for the Nazis to exploit, meaning no Third Reich. Is there much credence to this argument? I know fear of Bolshevism was a factor in the Nazis' rise to power but was it large and decisive enough a factor that without it, the Nazis could never have come to power? There would still be the conditions brought about by the Treaty of Versailles for the Nazis to exploit; economic depression, Pan-German irredentism, the "stabbed-in-the-back legend", instability, but where does fear of Bolshevism play in?

If the Nazis still come into existence ITTL, what would their stance be when it comes to Russia? Would they still view the Russians as untermenschen and their land as ripe lebensraum, even if it is under the legitimate reign of a restored Tsar, or some other White government? And there would most likely be plenty of antisemtism in White Russia, how would the Nazis react to that?
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