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Would a non-communist Soviet Union with a non-communist, democratic, reactionary dictatorial, or some other form of radical leftist dictatorship, have been willing to make a deal with a similarly aggressive Germany in the 1930s or 1940s, at the expense of Poland and the Baltics?



And there's another potential question-

Suppose that the Soviet Union had ended up with a more "satisfying" further western border, possessing at least Poland up to the Curzon Line, and possibly ruling over Bessarabia and the Baltic States from the end of the Russian Civil War, instead of the OTL borders of the Treaty of Riga that left the USSR with more irredentist claims?

Would this expanded Soviet Union have been as likely as OTL's to engage in a nonaggression pact with an expansionist Germany and a fourth partition of Poland?

What if Poland had been snuffed out by the Soviets in 1921. Would that Soviet Union having more than the Russian Empire's borders in nearly all respects, have automatically become an opponent of an expansionist Germany that is aggressive against Austria, Czechoslovakia, Scandinavia, Western Europe and the Balkans. Or might this Soviet Union have stayed benevolently neutral against the Germans, or engaged in a non-aggression pact and partition of Czechoslovakia, Hungary or Romania?
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