Hey everyone! I wanted to ask as to the potential effects of an even earlier Red victory in the Russian Civil War. To me, it seems that it was the revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion along the Trans-Siberian Railway that truly set the White Movement going, nearly leading to the destruction of the Bolshevik regime, as the Bolsheviks had conquered almost all of Russia by mid-1918 when the revolt occurred and would not retake this for another year and a half. If the Bolsheviks do not also have to spare as many troops fighting the now-last remnants of the Russian Republic, they will likely succeed in their 1918 westward offensive to capture the Baltics, Ukraine, and Belarus, and I could also see them capturing Poland sometime in 1919. I would also like to pair this up with a Red victory in the Finnish Civil War a few months before the POD, as the Finnish Civil War was rather close and I feel that if you could come up with a secondary POD such as C. G. E. Mannerheim dying in combat during WWI that the Reds would have a much better chance at winning, seeing as no man in the White Finnish leadership was as capable as him. A Red Finland would also mean that the Finnish volunteers fighting in the Estonian War of Independence for the White Estonians would now be fighting alongside the Estonian Red Riflemen as well. As a last thought, the South Caucasus would also be subdued much earlier, with the Soviets keeping control of Kars and the Baku Commune continuing to exist, and perhaps an invasion of Iran could lead to new SSRs created from Iranian Azerbaijan, Gilan, Khorasan, and Mazandaran.
Thoughts? Would the Bolsheviks consolidate their position or would they choose the more likely option of attempting a conquest of the rest of Europe?
Thoughts? Would the Bolsheviks consolidate their position or would they choose the more likely option of attempting a conquest of the rest of Europe?
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