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In the late 40s France and Italy’s Communist Parties won a significant number of votes, but still failed to take over their countries.

What if they actually took power and then did away with Capitalism and Democracy in Italy and France? Perhaps the Communists build better coalitions or have a few more successful speech’s to marginally improve their standings and America panics at the idea of the Communists or Socialist Coalitions winning and tries directly interfering, resulting in America getting caught with massive anti US backlash. Or America does something seemingly counter productive to American foreign policy at the time, like refusing to back France in its Empire. Or Italy narrowly keeps its unpopular monarchy which results in backlash against the Italian government that enough people feed off of to support the Communists.

Afterwards, France/Italy align with the Soviet Union.


What would the American and international reaction be? How would France treat its colonies? With Austria and Switzerland nearly surrounded, how does this change their politics? How does Spain deal with having a border with Communist France? Does France combine its occupation zone of Germany with East Germany?

Is Truman in trouble if he loses Italy, France, and China? Does this provoke an incredibly aggressive American response or cause them to give up much of what they did OTL?
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