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No way Germany is defeated by 1945, without the USSR there is no way any D-day invasion succeeds and the British are going to have a lot of problems even beating Rommel.

Lenin used self-determination to get support from non-Russian minorities, even if he weren't to truly believe in it, it's the most logical choice for the Bolsheviks.

Why? The whole point of investing in Russia was because they were backwards, AH is not so no reason to loan as much money as they gave to Russia. Russia perfectly shows that who you are allied to doesn't change your policies, just because they're allied to Britain and France absolutely does not...

Just out of interest how were they historically used?

Historically the moment when Makhno retreats to Bolshevik territory was when their alliance ended as he agreed to ally himself with the Greens, the best case scenario for him is that their opponents exhaust themselves and the Reds support Makhno. And with a little bit of luck he can be a threat...

I agree that there are reasons to do so but fully joining the Axis doesn't seem like something he wanted to do, it's true that IOTL he had relatively close ties with the USSR but I find it unlikely he joins the Nazis in their crusade against the Soviets. In 1945 they were collecting the...

Before annexing the Sudetenland the German army was very bad and most of the fighting will happen on Austria, and Southern Tirol wasn't a core region of Italy even if it were to become a battleground. And there's basically no way Germany puts the Sudetenland before Austria.

What was the quality of these troops? Because if they're troops of the Duchy of Warsaw itself then the quality must be very bad (the duchy was bankrupt and soldiers weren't paid for months).

From where did these troops arrive?

Not all of these divisions come from where the Chinese and Soviets will fight, several divisions were marching either from before Barbarossa or in its (very) early stages and what do you think is more important to Stalin, Moscow or Vladivostok? Plus it's not like Stalin left the Far East...

The article specifies that the most important thing were the recruits and not the transferred divisions; the divisions which were diverted for a good part don't come from the fronts where China is most likely to attack. And could you please explain me how the Germans can realistically take...

Assuming that there will be a Security Council (since Britain and France know no one will really oppose them) Japan would probably not be included since they would see no point to do so, the US would probably have the same reaction as OTL and Italy might be included but it's far from certain.

If he is pro-German or Hitler sees him as an ally he would be warned, just as Finland was IOTL before Barbarossa. He was very willing to do so, he didn't help the CCP in its struggle for the KMT most of the time and probably viewed it as a lost cause. No...

IIRC at the end of WW2 there was some oil found in the Pianura Padana, you could make them find it in the 30's.

The population in the British Raj still suffered a lot from the war, I doubt they would be very happy about the British if they are responsible for the Bengal Famine, and with better Indo-British relations they might try to conscript Indians (unless they do something else to anger them in the...