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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: March 11, 2012, 12:42:13 AM »

Only if you assume that a White Russian regime would be aggressive and would have the resources to go on the offensive after a long civil war. They might reconquer Finland and the Baltic countries and maybe Poland if Britain and France doesn't want to help those countries.

I was just assuming that nothing like the Stalinist programme of industrialization would have taken place, thus essentially eliminating the Eastern threat to fascism.

First off, in the era before Hitler came to power, Germany and the Soviets were considerably more chummy militarily than is customarily realized in the west.  Working together gave the Soviets access to better technology than they could develop by themselves or acquire from the West, and it gave the Germans a chance to try out ideas that they could not have back home because of Versailles.  A White Russia would have had less incentive to help the Germans evade Versailles.

Secondly, with a White Russia as a potential ally against Hitler, it is possible that the Western Allies would have considered the option they rejected in OTL and work with Russia to guarantee the territorial integrity of Czechoslovakia in 1938.  The Czechs had a tough little army with excellent equipment that the Germans made use of themselves in World War II.  If the Poles also attack Germany.  Hitler goes kaput in 1938.

(Of course if the Triple Entente remains intact, I think Hitler won't be crazy enough to invade Czechoslovakia in 1938.  Maybe 1939 if he can persuade Poland to remain neutral.)
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