• AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    How Germany could actually have won WW2: do a successful communist revolution after WW1, ally with the USSR, build nukes before the US does it

    It's not possible for fascists to win a world war, they all are strategic geniuses like the dork in OP's post. When you build an entire ideology on bullshitting yourself, it's inevitable to end up like that, fascism purposefully and by design wrecks your ability to think critically by turning its followers into the affectively volatile manchildren it needs to come to power in the first place and coming up with takes like "just be faster and win the battles where you got your ass handed to you" is perfect evidence of the galaxy brain takes that leads to. All ya fascists bound to lose.

    Not that "successful communist revolution in Germany after WW1" is something remotely possible when you start your masturbatory alternate history thought experiment at that point in time. You'd have to rewrite the entire organizational history of the German working class from the ground up for that to be a thing that's viable and at that point, it becomes unlikely that WW1 happens the way it did, which could in turn lead to the October Revolution lacking its material foundation. These things require so much stuff to be different that the entire timeline you're dealing with most likely becomes totally unrecognizable and unpredictable. But at least i'm aware of that instead of coming up with takes like "Munich Soviet Republic should have lasted instead of being crushed" or "zurge rush Battle of the Ruhr with troops you've pulled out of your ass".

    • Vncredleader
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      3 years ago

      Alt-history writing-wise I could kinda see having things be more or less the same up to the various German revolutionaries being able to (for the sake of fiction, not any single act) fight at the same time. But that sure as hell wouldn't get a communist Germany, it would likely mean the German army going hard against them, or crumbling still but the Allies moving right in to attack the Soviets from Bavaria all the way to Vladivostok. All this shit would change the treaties with the Baltics, etc.