WI: The Soviets won the Polish-Soviet War?

Money no one actually has, in fact they need the money from Germany to pay off their own debts to not go broke. And let's not forget that there was in fact a communist revolution in Germany in 1918 - the Soviets would have plenty support from like minded people.
Yep. All the money going to pay Americans while the U.S. insisted on debt forgiveness for the Germans that was levied due to the deliberate destruction of Belgian and French industrial lands when they realized they were going to surrender. And then pouring twice the money the Germans actually paid to the Germans into their economy, basically making them better funded than the former Entente, in a fashion.
 
It doesn't follow that a Soviet victory equals a total annexation of Poland. They might have contented themselves with the Curzon Line.

In which case Stalin would never agree to Molotov-Ribbentrop, so WW2 might not happen until later, if at all.
It may depend on what other states are Red and independent, as well as how far west Poland goes. I imagine the Bolsheviks would try to roll them them up like they did the Far Eastern Republic, Turkestan, Transcaucasia, etc.
 
Yep. All the money going to pay Americans while the U.S. insisted on debt forgiveness for the Germans that was levied due to the deliberate destruction of Belgian and French industrial lands when they realized they were going to surrender. And then pouring twice the money the Germans actually paid to the Germans into their economy, basically making them better funded than the former Entente, in a fashion.
They already had France and UK on their side, getting Germany too would be the cherry on top but because they were the enemy during the war they had to pay some more to buy them - a pretty smart strategy on its own. Unfortunately it backfired because the USA retreated into isolationism.
 
They already had France and UK on their side, getting Germany too would be the cherry on top but because they were the enemy during the war they had to pay some more to buy them - a pretty smart strategy on its own. Unfortunately it backfired because the USA retreated into isolationism.
I think it was more that the Germans refused to pay the Americans back and blamed the Yankees not being able to send more money to them as part of the reason for German economic problems. And the Germans had committed actual acts of terrorism against the U.S. before they were in the war, so it seems questionable why they should be given so much money while demanding the British and French forgive German debts to them. Basically the German leadership printed massive amounts of money after deliberately destroying Belgian and French industry, then managed to not actually pay much to anyone, playing the sympathy card against their victims, who had millions of young men dead, who still had the pay the Americans despite not going out of their way to kill Americans.
 
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