WI: Reverse Barbarossa?

I see an deplomatic fallout that will result in if USSR invaded Germany. the red Invasion of germany will make germany more sympathetic, as even back then the west saw USSR as threat, just less than germany. but if USSR invades germany, than the WAllies would make emergency armistice with nazis and fights againsts the soviets.
 
I see an deplomatic fallout that will result in if USSR invaded Germany. the red Invasion of germany will make germany more sympathetic, as even back then the west saw USSR as threat, just less than germany. but if USSR invades germany, than the WAllies would make emergency armistice with nazis and fights againsts the soviets.

Well, I don't.
 
It depends very much on the circumstances. Do the Soviets have a real casus belli?
Otherwise it's going to be a tough sell to the US public.

We don't know in what situation the Soviet attack takes place, because the OP hasn't explained it. But the other poster I was replying to mentions "the Western Allies", which is a term of significance only if there's a war on - a war against Germany.
And in this situation, a new combatant jumps in - a power that attacks the Western Allies' enemy, Germany.
I don't see it as a tough sell, let alone the occasion for the Westerners to turn their coats and side with the enemy.
The above, even without taking into account that Stalin isn't stupid. If he wants war with Germany, and Germany is already at war with at least two other countries, the Soviet attack won't come in a vacuum. He'll talk with the Westerners, beforehand. He'll do his best to secure agreements all around.

Let's assume, OTOH, that Germany has managed to make peace with Britain, thus ending the war. Now the continent is at peace... and the Soviets are the aggressors. Would the USA declare war on country A because it has invaded country B, where B is no ally of the USA? How many countries were bloodlessly annexated, or invaded and subjugated, in the 1930s-early 40s, and how many times did the USA declare war on the aggressor?

That said, yeah, there would be a casus belli. We know that thanks to Stalin's track record. Whether the casus belli were real or fabricated, well, the jury's would be out in the immediate aftermath of it, naturally. The credibility of the casus would be judged on the basis of sympathies; while only a minuscule minority in the USA would have sympathy for the Communists, OTOH the other party is at war with the USA.
 
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