Die Rotfront Marschiert

future alt-history thing. will work on it when am done with the current ones. and also gotta wait for my laptop to get fixed so can do stuff with paint.net mayb.

=Summary= The Spartacus League successfully overthrew Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918. The Workers and Soldiers establish a German socialist state. they immediately sue for peace and because of this don't lose as much land, only losing Alsace-Lorraine. Germany remains incredibly powerful and devoted to advancing Socialism. =1910s=

Russia
After losing to Germany in 1917 the Russian Empire lost massive amounts of land in eastern Europe, because of this loss to the german the Tzar was forced to abdicate the throne. After his abdication, the Russian Republic was established but not long after they would be overthrown by the Bolsheviks, and the Russian civil war would begin. The Russian civil war would go from 1917 to 1921 when the Reds would fight against the Whites, the Polish, Austria, Japan, and Western intervention but would win against all odds creating the USSR.

Germany
in 1917 Germany won a great victory against the Russian empire and was able to reroute troops from the East to the West. Although it might look like Germany might win now with the eastern front won but it wouldn't be that easy as the stalemate continued.

with the continuation of the stalemate so did the slow starvation of Germany. the German people were sick and tired of the war so they revolted against the Kaiser and overthrew him and executed him. Right after this, they sue for peace with the Entente. in the Treaty of Versailles Germany was to pay reparations and give territory. Germany lost Alsace-Lorraine and paid some reparations but stopped paying in 1921. a Communist Germany sacred the entente, so they would try and sabotage it by starting a civil war. After the successful revolution, Germany gave all the territory it won in the treaty brest-litovsk back to the Soviets allowing them to have extra manpower letting them win the civil war in 1921.

German Civil War (1919 - 1920)
Kaiser Willhelm II was executed but his son now Whillhelm III was able to escape Berlin in time. he fled to the Netherlands before returning to Germany and go and try to retake his throne. He started his counter-revolution in Hanover where there was still a strong loyalist force, this force was called white forces by some in parallel with white Russian monarchist forces. soon he was able to take a good part of northwestern Germany. this Civil War was short-lived and ended not long after Whillhelm III was assassinated. after the defeat of the White forces, no attempt at counter-revolution would ever happen again.

Austria-Hungary
After Germany leaves the war Austria-Hungary quickly falls apart and loses control of Hungary with all of the lands of the Kingdom of Hungary revolting, not for an independent kingdom but a Soviet republic. Now just Austria again the Austrian Empire now has to fight on multiple fronts, in Italy, Hungary, and Galicia. the Hungarian soviet republic has to fight against the Austrians but Slovak nationalists, the Kingdom of Romania, and Yugoslavia.

this all only ends in 1923 after the war in Transilvania ended with the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia forcing Romania to surrender and The Communist Revolution in Bohemia and Moravia ending the Austrian empire.

the Hungarian Soviet Republic was able to keep a majority of its territory only losing Croatia.

France
France was ruined by the war and Germany refused to pay war reparations and with British moderatism france would receive no reparations and although they technically won the great war they had lost greatly.

Belgium
Belgium was one of the worse off after the great war being left destroyed after the war and many dead. After the great war Belgium became proper a British puppet state.

Romania
Romania faced humiliation during the great war but did eventually pushed back the Austro-Hungarians. Romania was not done with war and immediately entered the transylvania war with the Hungarian Soviet republic. Romania would lose alot of territory it had gained from the past few years after they lost the transylvania war and Soviet-Romanian war.

Serbia
Serbia took Bosnia and it united with Montenegro after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and wanted to expand further, it joined the war against the Hungarian Soviet Republic for Croatia and actually won against them unlike everyone else going to war with them and was able to push the Hungarians out of Croatia and the Austrians out of Slovenia.

Italy
After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Italy immediately took Trieste and south Tyrol but was not allowed to take any more territory in the east Adriatic coast because the new Yugoslavia had established itself. not gaining as much territory as promised, Italy felt betrayed, and with their economy in ruins the future doesn't look good.

Bulgaria
Bulgaria was the second to capitulate in the great war, it was unable to sustain the war after the Germans sued for peace and stopped supporting the central powers. The rest of the central powers fell apart after the German peace deal as they supported the entire central powers. Bulgaria lost all the territory it had annexed during the Great War and lost land in Macedonia after the war. With the Bulgarian economy in tatters the future of Bulgaria looked red.

Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire had been on the verge of collapse for decades now after the loss of its Balkan lands its end drew even closer. when the Great War started the Ottoman Empire quickly began losing ground and worse for them, Arabs had begun revolting against them and were winning massive victories along with the British and French invading. after the end of German involvement in the Great War the Ottoman Empire was unable to support itself and soon would go into civil war and fighting to keep its independence.

Greece
Greece was split from the beginning on what side to join the Great War, but it eventually decide to join the Entente in the summer of 1917. Because of this decision, Greece would be forever divided politically. With Greek participation on the winning side of the war, Greece was going to win the spoils of war and gain more land, taking over all of southern Macedonia and plans to take more territory from the Ottomans. With this victory, it might seem that Greece may be one of the best-off countries in Europe and may become a world power but those dreams were ruined by piling debt after the Great War and Depts they were owed being unable to be paid. The War had only just begun for Greece.

=1920s=

Germany
After the end of the German civil war and the defeat of the whites, the new Communist government's next task was to rebuild Germany from the ground up by beginning the collectivization of the economy. although these collectivization efforts were accepted and welcomed by the majority of Germans it was opposed by German kulaks in the more rural areas in the east like Pomerania, Silesia, and Prussia. This would lead to the kulaks threatening to burn crops which many did but the Government Reacted quickly and seized crops and arrested kulaks.

The new German state was going to need a new name and flag, the new name of this state would become the Freie Sozialistische Republik Deutschland, or Free Socialist Republic of Germany, and use the same flag as the Spartacist League. This new state would also move the capital from Berlin to Frankfurt for its symbolism during the 1848 revolutions. The FSRG wanted to appear different from the soviet union as the leader of the FSRG Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg had their disagreements with Lenin, but they did want to keep good relations with the Soviet Union because they now shared an even bigger border since the USSR took Galicia from Austria, and the Red Army was Massive. The rule of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg would sadly be cut short after Karl was assassinated in 1923 by a Freikorp operative and Rosa Luxemburg later retired in 1925 after increasing fear for her life. The successor to these two would change the history of Germany forever, this man's name was Ernst Thälmann, the New Chairman of the new KPD.

Ernst Thälmann would radically change the FSRG first by changing the flag back to the German tri-colour of black, red, and black with the symbol of the KPD on the flag. The Second was to start good relations with the USSR, Thälmann was far more pro-soviet and thought that the new Germany should ally itself with the USSR. The third was to move the capital back to Berlin and create the Volkskammer in the old Reichstag building. The fourth was to change the name of the country from the Freie Sozialistische Republik Deutschland to the Deutsche Demokratische Republik or the German Democratic Republic.

USSR
The civil war ends in 1921 with Soviet victory but another potential war starts after the Japanese who are still angry about their losses in Siberia tried to take the port city of vladivostok but fail after a quick reaction by the red army. Because of this Soviet-Japanese tensions rise high and the next war the Soviets fight will likely be against Japan.

In 1921 only a few weeks after the end of the civil war the Soviet union joins the anti-Austria coalition and goes to war with what's left of the austrian empire and begin what's know as "The galician war." They absolutely crush the Austrians with Hungarian support and also arm revolutionaries in bohemia-moravia against the Austrians. By 1922 the Austrians surrender to Hungary and the Soviet Union, in the treaty of Bratislava bohemia-moravia becomes and independent socialist state and Austria is forced to recognize all its losses during the war.

In 1924 lenin passes away from a stroke and is succeeded by stalin, trotsky and bukharin both oppose this from each of their sides but both are purged, bukharin is ousted from the party later arrested and executed, trotsky and some of his supporters flee to Norway then france where then they make their way to Mexico.

In 1928 the leaders of Germany, the Soviet union, Finland, Hungary, bohemia-moravia, and Mongolia meet in Budapest to create an Alliance between the socialist states and create the Budapest pact, a defensive but also economic and general military alliance between socialist nations.

Finland
Finland was under a German puppet until 1918 when the new german government gave all the territory they won from Russia back to the Soviet union, Finland stated under Soviet control but was allowed Independence as a socialist state. In 1920 the Finnish Socialist republic was born.

Italy
Italy was on the winning side of the great war and the anti-Austrian war but had come out with a terrible economy, it had suffered greatly against Austria-Hungary and when it pushed back against Austria it was a very costly offensive. Not to mention the millions now unemployed after the end of the great war and now italy seemed like it would collapse. But then in 1922 a man marched to the Capitol and demanded he be made prime minister, this man was Benito Mussolini.

France
After the war much of northern France was destroyed and the economy fell apart and became more reliant of America and Britain. After the great war ended extremism became popular in France as everything only seemd to get worse. In 1922 inspired by Mussolini's fascists in Italy far-right politician Francois Rocque leader of Le parti radical national leads a coup of the French third republic. This coup was also joined by louis prince napoleon, who wanted to reestablish the French empire and the imperial thrown, Francois agreed to this believing he could use louis as a puppet while he did the actual ruling. In 1923 louis was declared Napoleon VI and with this the third French empire was created.

United States
In 1923 the United states helps found the league of nations after peace has finally been settled.

In 1928 the great depression happens which causes all of capitalist Europe to crash as well as they were dependent on American investments for their economy to stay afloat. The great depression would have grave consequences and change the history of European countries like Yugoslavia, UK, Spain, France, and many mor but also, their own country.

=1930s=

Austria
After the abdication of Karl I Austria became a republic, this didn't change the fact that Austria was just humiliated in two massive wars and was left in ruins. The problem seemed to be fixed after American investors arrived but that quickly failed after 1928. All of this instability led to a syndicalist revolution in 1935 creating the Austrian commune. The Austrian commune denounces the Budapest pact and the entente causing them to be surrounded by enemies, this leads to the Austrian civil-war in 1937 which leads to the defacto collapse of the Austrian commune as they now only control the north-east while fascists control the south. This civil war quickly ended though with German intervention, Germany occupied Austria and annexed it in 1938.

Germany
After the annexation of Austria Germany seeks to integrate Austria into the rest of Germany by collectivizing its economy into the Greater German economy.

In 1939 Germany has grown to be one of the world's strongest economies and has a population of 120 million.

because of Mussolini's imperial ambitions, the German annexation of Austria was met with strong opposition from Italy. this laid the seed for a future war.

Yugoslavia
Economic depression effects Yugoslavia too in 1928 and the country goes on a downward spiral. Ethnic conflict explodes and the country is taken over by a regent council after King Alexander I was assassinated in 1930 and his heir Peter II was only 7. This council is later taken over by the military and Yugoslavia officially becomes a military dictatorship. This military dictatorship doesn't last as the country is split in 2 with fascists in Croatia and communists in Serbia. Yugoslavia luckily was able to avoid civil war and dissolved in 1932 creating the Croatian state as a fascist dictatorship and the People's Republic of Serbia as a Communist State.

China
in 1936 the Budapest Pact decided to stop supporting Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists against the Japanese. this came as a shock to the nationalists as the Budapest pact supplied them with the majority of their ammunition, guns, and armored vehicles. without their support, the nationalists would fall to the Japanese in the next war. but in 1938 the Soviet Union invaded the Ma clique and occupied their territory and told all Chinese communists to either hide until the right time or come to Xinjiang.

in 1937 japan invaded mainland China and without Budapest pact support they didn't stand much of a chance and lost even more land by 1939.

Japan
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