Snake Featherston
Banned
No, but the Russian Rightists didn't enjoy near as much popular support as Rightists in Germany. And both Maoism and Leninism rose to power in the wake of apocalyptic civil wars. Bad as things were in Weimar Germany was, they weren't anywhere near that.
Leninism also arose with a fair degree of foreign backing, which backing a popular front to make the Social Democrats the KPD's DVNP is well within Soviet talents were they so hot and bothered.
Germany invaded the USSR in a war of racist imperialism and brutal conquest. China invaded North Korea because it didn't want hostile troops on its border--these situations don't strike me as all that similar.
China invaded North Korea for the clear nationalist reason of not wanting hostile troops on its border. Mao's reasons for authorizing intervention were quite transparently nationalistic. The logic of German power politics makes a clash with the USSR inevitable. Clashing does not, of course, imply OTL.
Also, won't a Red Germany with a heavy nationalist influence be more focused on scooping up the pan-German lands than going to war with the Soviets? If the German Reds are pan-Germanist (as most were IOTL), then you're going to see a lot of long-term issues with Czechoslovakia and Austria that are going to warrant more attention than plans to piss off your one and only ally.
This would be the Czechoslovakia the USSR offered to defend IOTL?
Why would a Red Germany go to war with the USSR when they can just restore the 1914 borders--or whichever they like--in the East by invading Poland?I'm sorry, but I'm just not seeing why a Red Germany-USSR war is inevitable or even all that likely.
Because no USSR is going to just accept that without its own gains, which pan-Germans are unlikely to accept in a real sense?