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In a scenario like the OTL interwar period and WW2, but reversed from reality, assume that:
  • After WW1, Germany fell to a communist revolution (possibly the Spartacists, possibly someone else), which first established a socialist/state capitalist union, which was slowly purged and taken over by a totalitarian figure who established a cult of personality and took away democracy, without using racial rhetoric. Basically, the German Empire becomes the Soviet Union.
  • After WW1, Russia lost land, had a failed communist revolution which was brutally suppressed, blamed territorial losses on ethnic minorities (such as Ukrainians, Kazakhs, and Germans) within the Russian Empire; sought to expand Russian "living space" west into Poland, the Baltic states, and Germany; and established a cult of personality and took away democracy while using racial rhetoric. Basically, the Russian Empire becomes Nazi Germany.
Furthermore, the foreign policy actions of Germany and Russia are exactly reversed, while the domestic policy is analogous:
  • Soviet Germany, which tried and failed to establish communism in Poland 1919-1921, later tries to "spread the world revolution by liberating German proletariat oppressed by the Austrian bourgeois", and creates an allied communist puppet state in Czechoslovakia, without annexing Bohemia or Moravia. Slovakia still becomes a puppet state, but is communist.
  • Fascist Russia enacts a crash-industrialization using nationalized corporations, and enacts a reign of terror against left-wing, far-left, as well as right-wing but non-fascist factions. No collectivization happens.
  • Russia proposes a non-aggression pact with Germany, splitting the Baltic states between German and Russian spheres, but "Nazi Russia" secretly plans to colonize Germany, while "Soviet Germany" secretly plans to bring communism to Russia. Nonetheless, the pact resolves some serious trade deficits for both nations.
Then "Soviet Germany" invades Poland, with "Nazi Russia" following right after.

Which one do the Allies side with? And how would reverse-WW2 develop from there?
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