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In the 1912 United States presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt wins the election by the landslide. After his inauguration as the President of the United States, he quickly forges an alliance with the Kaiser Wilhelm II, promising that the United States will support Imperial Germany should war ever break out. Shortly after Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungarian Empire, war breaks out in Europe leading to the Great War.

With war breaking out, the United States led by Theodore Roosevelt quickly supports Imperial Germany by supplying armaments and other victuals. The supplies from the United States help Imperial Germany and the Central Powers in the war effort, preventing severe casualties and overcoming the Blockade of Germany. The Ottoman Empire collapses with the Armenian Genocide exposed to the world. In the end, Imperial Germany and the Central Powers achieve total victory with the support of the United States of America.

After the war, the Central Powers forces the Soviet Union to accede the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The Soviet Union is forced to give up most of its territories in Eastern Europe and forced to pay an indemnity of six billion reichsmarks. France too is forced to accede the Treaty of Munich, which mean that France were compelled to return Alsace-Lorraine and forced to reduce its military power and pay a large amount of reparations to Germany. Imperial Germany along with the Hapsburg Empire initiate the Septemberprogramm, an extensive program designed to expand the territories of the German Empire, as well leading to a Golden Age for the victorious Central Powers.

Meanwhile, a wave of Germanophobia sweeps the world, especially France and the Soviet Union. Anti-German literature, or properly called 'Littérature de haine allemande' becomes a popular but infamous literary genre that flourished in the twenties and thirties, and extremely popular in France and the Soviet Union. Many of these inflammatory, poorly-written books are written and published anonymously to avoid libel laws, and purport canards to propagate anti-German hatred by scapegoating them for disasters and the scourge of communism (France), or the bringing fascism (Soviet Union).

In France, the Action Francaise party, a far-right party wins the national elections thanks to the pervasive anti-German sentiment among the populace of France and promises to take revenge on Germany. Their leader, Charles Maurras is inaugurated as the President of France and spouts out anti-German speeches to inflame the populace reinforcing the antipathy for Germany.

In Italy, Benito Mussolini is elected leader and he enacts fascist policies under his regime. He uses this regime to cut ties with Imperial Germany, citing anti-German hatred and not involving himself in German politics. Following this, he makes an alliance with Maurras' France and promises to support should war break out in Europe ever again. Since then, Mussolini's Italy and Maurras' France maintain good relations before the Second Great War.

In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin becomes the General Secretary shortly after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924. Under Joseph Stalin's regime, he blames the problems and chaos on Germans, Ukrainians, Muslims, Christians, capitalists, fascists, ethnic minorities, nationalists, kulaks and other scapegoats that he considered 'enemies of the people', and promises to create a global communist state by taking over Europe and destroying Imperial Germany down to its roots. The Soviet Union rapidly industrializes and mobilizes the Red Army as well training a large number of NKVD officers and the construction of Gulag system.

In 1939, the Soviet Union makes an alliance with Italy and France. It is a conspiracy to invade and occupy the territories of Imperial Germany and the Hapsburg Empire. Unbeknownst to anyone - Joseph Stalin along with Lavrentiy Beria and Lazar Kaganovich planned a program of mass repression and eventually the decimation of Europe to emerge a communist order under the Soviet Union.

In 1940, the Soviet Union invades Imperial Germany and the Hapsburg Empire, sparking off the Second Great War - a war more horrible than the War to end all Wars.
 
The main goals of Stalin instigating an invasion of Imperial Germany in the ATL were:
  1. Destroy the German state and its influence over Eastern Europe from its roots and core by any means necessary. It meant that the entire population of ethnic Germans were targeted for decimation through deportations to the Gulags in Siberia and mass executions by the NKVD, the Red Army and its auxiliaries. Once the nation of Germany and its influence was gone, the Soviet Union would absorb its power vacuum left upon its demise.
  2. Create a communist superstate spanning Europe under the Soviet Union, with the technological prosperity of Western Europe coupled with the abundant natural resources of the Soviet Union lay the foundation of starting a world revolution based on Marx's ideals. This meant the formation of extremely totalitarian puppet states which applied Stalinist policies.
 
This is ASB. For as degenerated as the soviet workers state was under Stalins rule, the burocracy still relied on an internationalist rhetoric. The OTL deportation of cossacks, volga germans, kalmyks, etc. could still be justified as "measures against foreign agents". An outright and open genocide in occupied Germany is impossible.

Please note that I'm in no way defending the stalinist regime. Yet, the OP's idea is simply not possible.
 
The timeline is basically a horror timeline, a type of story that reveals deep-seated fears and contain dark themes. But I need a discussion on how would a war of annihilation committed and planned by the Soviet Union would play out?
 
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The timeline is basically a horror timeline, a type of story that reveals deep-seated fears and contain dark themes. But I need a discussion on how would a war of annihilation committed and planned by the Soviet Union would play out?

Its less "horror" and more "fantasy", essentially from the very first sentence. How does the landslide election of "fuck the germans" roosevelt result in a massive and decisive german-american alliance? Why do the murderous, but fundamentally non-genocidial Soviets suddenly decide on an Endlösung on an even bigger scale then the Nazis?
 
This is ASB. For as degenerated as the soviet workers state was under Stalins rule, the burocracy still relied on an internationalist rhetoric. The OTL deportation of cossacks, volga germans, kalmyks, etc. could still be justified as "measures against foreign agents". An outright and open genocide in occupied Germany is impossible.

Please note that I'm in no way defending the stalinist regime. Yet, the OP's idea is simply not possible.
Idea to get around this
A small German war against their neightbors, not Hitler's genocidal war but still fascist Germany with some pretty heinous war crimes. Germany would become hated for everyone and the Soviet ideologues would say that effectively, the only war to stop German crimes is to destroy German culture.
 
Idea to get around this
A small German war against their neightbors, not Hitler's genocidal war but still fascist Germany with some pretty heinous war crimes. Germany would become hated for everyone and the Soviet ideologues would say that effectively, the only war to stop German crimes is to destroy German culture.

"Destroy German culture!!" might be a bit of an awkward slogan for a regime claiming direct ideological inspiration from Marx and Engels, and before them Hegel and Feuerbach.

I think you'd need the Soviets to abandon Marxism as their governing ideology, and go whole hog for wild-eyed hypernationalism, for this to happen.
 
Idea to get around this
A small German war against their neightbors, not Hitler's genocidal war but still fascist Germany with some pretty heinous war crimes. Germany would become hated for everyone and the Soviet ideologues would say that effectively, the only war to stop German crimes is to destroy German culture.
Easier, have some Germans resist after their formal surrender (possibly with some international arms supplies). The Soviet system of disproportionate reprisals will ensure that even if they don't have a policy of German genocide they'd act as though they did.
 
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Easier, have some Germans resist after their formal surrender (possibly with so me international arms supplies). The Soviet system of disproportionate reprisals will ensure that even if they don't have a policy of German genocide they'd act as though they did.
This is a good idea
"Destroy German culture!!" might be a bit of an awkward slogan for a regime claiming direct ideological inspiration from Marx and Engels, and before them Hegel and Feuerbach.

I think you'd need the Soviets to abandon Marxism as their governing ideology, and go whole hog for wild-eyed hypernationalism, for this to happen.
"German Militarism"?

I don't think Soviets would need to abandon Internationalism to get to this IMO. They simply can portray their acts as a "Service to Humanity"

What role does Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe play in this TL?
 
This doesn't make sense. This scenario posits that the German Empire is triumphant and stable; why would they not, say, sponsor further anti-communist revolts in the nascent USSR? How can the latter even consider going on the offensive later if they lack Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltics?
he blames the problems and chaos on Germans, Ukrainians, Muslims, Christians, capitalists, fascists, ethnic minorities, nationalists, kulaks and other scapegoats that he considered 'enemies of the people',
To create an initial propaganda campaign against these would be technically possible, but the problem would come with carrying out its inhumane promises. Stalin, no matter how much red he wore, still restored the Russian Orthodox Church to legality, approved the policy of Korenizatsiya, appeased local Muslim authorities across the peripheral territories, among a slew of other programs which mostly contradict the pop culture image he often has. He might have abused his power and authority to notable excesses, but he was by no means a god, and had to relent to outside pressures on multiple occasions. Any Soviet leader faced with similar circumstances would.
One contradiction there, for example, is you mentioning Russia wanting to exterminate fascists and nationalists yet allying with French and Italian fascists in its conflict with Germany and Austria. They'll have to amend their whole discourse to work around that.
At most, i believe TTL's alliance between France, fascist Italy, and Russia would be a defensive one aimed at containing the excesses of German and Austrian imperialism, not dismantling these empires altogether. They're too weak for the latter.
 
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WHumboldt

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Elsass-lothringen was already a part of Germany at the time and I'd like to also point out that TR was quite explicit in his desire to crush Germany, and criticized Wilson to that effect.
 

Thomas1195

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Theodore Roosevelt wins the election by the landslide. After his inauguration as the President of the United States, he quickly forges an alliance with the Kaiser Wilhelm II, promising that the United States will support Imperial Germany should war ever break out
Not going to happen. Theodore was an Anglophile Atlanticist. In addition, just several years earlier, the US stood with France against Germany over the Moroccan Crisis.

Overall, the whole Theodore Roosevelt allying with Germany following a 1912 victory is ASB in the classic sense of the word.
 
Why would you choose Roosevelt over say Champ Clark? Especially when the USA seems irrelevant to the rest of the timeline. Just have them be neutral and that's enough for Germany to win with some other easy pods
 
How can the latter even consider going on the offensive later if they lack Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltics?
What role does Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe play in this TL?

Poland and the Eastern European states are considered puppet states of the German Empire and the Hapsburg Empire. Due to the Septemberprogramm, lack of apparent free government and other meddling in said states by the German Empire and the Hapsburg Empire, anti-German sentiment and anti-Imperialist movements are extremely common among the subjugated populace. These factors allow the Soviet Union to influence and install communist puppet governments as well inflame anti-German hatred through propaganda and disinformation.

Under the influence of the Soviet Union through puppet rulers, communist movements and secretly-aligned figures, the populace of Eastern Europe is swayed to adopt communism, and accept and support the Soviet Union as 'liberators from Austro-German imperialist tyranny', and falsely promises the people an independent government and a fulfilled life under Joseph Stalin's regime.

To create an initial propaganda campaign against these would be technically possible, but the problem would come with carrying out its inhumane promises. Stalin, no matter how much red he wore, still restored the Russian Orthodox Church to legality, approved the policy of Korenizatsiya, appeased local Muslim authorities across the peripheral territories, among a slew of other programs which mostly contradict the pop culture image he often has. He might have abused his power and authority to notable excesses, but he was by no means a god, and had to relent to outside pressures on multiple occasions. Any Soviet leader faced with similar circumstances would.

In this timeline, Joseph Stalin develops a deep-seated, irrational theophobia (Fear, hatred and prejudice against religion) as early when he became interested in communism during his time as a member of the forbidden book club in the Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary, and developed into a vicious version shortly after the Russian Civil War
breaks out.
In the ATL, Joseph Stalin views religion as a root of all problems in the world, a rotten relic from a bygone, superstitious past that harms people than it brings good. He uses extremely offensive language about religions, and spreads stereotypes about religions in his rhetoric, as well enacting and enforcing laws to discriminate and oppress religion. The ultimate conclusion was to eradicate religion after the complete takeover of Europe by the criminalizing religions and the mass-destruction of religious paraphernalia, scriptures and writing, as well the decimation of religious groups through 're-education camps' and extrajudicial executions.

At most, I believe TTL's alliance between France, fascist Italy, and Russia would be a defensive one aimed at containing the excesses of German and Austrian imperialism, not dismantling these empires altogether. They're too weak for the latter.

Elaborate why?
 
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