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Post by oalexis on Nov 3, 2017 21:11:24 GMT
Your challenge, if you dare accept it:
Have a Communist France after WW2, in a FGR/GDR situation.
I would say that the POD can be as early as 1939/1940.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 3, 2017 21:14:55 GMT
Your challenge, if you dare accept it: Have a Communist France after WW2, in a FGR/GDR situation. I would say that the POD can be as early as 1939/1940. What about the February 6th 1934 crisis, could nothing be done with that POD. |
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Post by oalexis on Nov 3, 2017 21:17:32 GMT
I would say yes. A Fascist France getting more active on the Axis side? |
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Post by lordroel on Nov 3, 2017 21:20:32 GMT
I would say yes. A Fascist France getting more active on the Axis side? A communist France sounds nice, one who first blow with a Nazi Germany comes in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. |
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Post by stevep on Nov 4, 2017 11:47:08 GMT
I would say yes. A Fascist France getting more active on the Axis side? A communist France sounds nice, one who first blow with a Nazi Germany comes in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Possibly as there was a lot of tension with the left wing government that held power for a short period and a lot of the right wing elements. Although more likely to lead to civil war which, given the distrust of most neighbours for communism and having fascist Germany as its eastern neighbour I would find it difficult to see the left winning. In terms of the OP I suppose the powerful communist party in France might have come to power after WWII. Possibly with the Free French having less success and say the US retreating back into isolationism. |
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Post by lordroel on Nov 4, 2017 12:13:29 GMT
A communist France sounds nice, one who first blow with a Nazi Germany comes in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Possibly with the Free French having less success and say the US retreating back into isolationism. That might depend on who is president in the United States, lets say Henry A. Wallace . |
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Post by ankh on Nov 4, 2017 13:18:59 GMT
I would say yes. A Fascist France getting more active on the Axis side? A communist France sounds nice, one who first blow with a Nazi Germany comes in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. A communist France would certainly create an earlier two front war. I'm not sure if the UK would join the war on the Communist side though. |
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Post by lordroel on Nov 4, 2017 13:25:41 GMT
A communist France sounds nice, one who first blow with a Nazi Germany comes in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. A communist France would certainly create an earlier two front war. I'm not sure if the UK would join the war on the Communist side though. I would asume a Communist France by 1940 is weaker than OTL France of 1940. |
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Post by ankh on Nov 4, 2017 14:36:20 GMT
A communist France would certainly create an earlier two front war. I'm not sure if the UK would join the war on the Communist side though. I would asume a Communist France by 1940 is weaker than OTL France of 1940. That could well be trust, but I would also assume that it would be closely tied to the USSR and so any attack by Germany on one or the other would bring a two-front war. |
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Post by lordroel on Nov 4, 2017 14:44:53 GMT
I would asume a Communist France by 1940 is weaker than OTL France of 1940. That could well be trust, but I would also assume that it would be closely tied to the USSR and so any attack by Germany on one or the other would bring a two-front war. Wich would bring Poland in the war which then would bring the United Kingdom in the war wich would result that the United Kingdom is allied to Germany and at war with France. |
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Post by ankh on Nov 4, 2017 14:52:20 GMT
That could well be trust, but I would also assume that it would be closely tied to the USSR and so any attack by Germany on one or the other would bring a two-front war. Wich would bring Poland in the war which then would bring the United Kingdom in the war wich would result that the United Kingdom is allied to Germany and at war with France. Interesting, would the UK be able to so much in such a war? I guess a BEF could be dispatched to Belgium and then help the Wehrmacht from there. |
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Post by lordroel on Nov 4, 2017 14:55:12 GMT
Wich would bring Poland in the war which then would bring the United Kingdom in the war wich would result that the United Kingdom is allied to Germany and at war with France. Interesting, would the UK be able to so much in such a war? I guess a BEF could be dispatched to Belgium and then help the Wehrmacht from there. You mean France invading Belgium, the BEF being send to the Netherlands while Germany tries to hold the Soviet Union at bay in Poland and the Baltic's. |
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Post by ankh on Nov 4, 2017 14:57:28 GMT
Interesting, would the UK be able to so much in such a war? I guess a BEF could be dispatched to Belgium and then help the Wehrmacht from there. You mean France invading Belgium, the BEF being send to the Netherlands while Germany tries to hold the Soviet Union at bay in Poland and the Baltic's. It would be an interesting war, I wonder if the highly mobile Wehrmacht would be as good on the defensive as it was on the offensive. |
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Post by lordroel on Nov 4, 2017 14:58:42 GMT
You mean France invading Belgium, the BEF being send to the Netherlands while Germany tries to hold the Soviet Union at bay in Poland and the Baltic's. It would be an interesting war, I wonder if the highly mobile Wehrmacht would be as good on the defensive as it was on the offensive. Wonder if Poland who invaded by the Soviet Union is going to invite the help of Nazi Germany ore Germany invites itself into Poland. |
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Post by ankh on Nov 4, 2017 15:22:27 GMT
It would be an interesting war, I wonder if the highly mobile Wehrmacht would be as good on the defensive as it was on the offensive. Wonder if Poland who invaded by the Soviet Union is going to invite the help of Nazi Germany ore Germany invites itself into Poland. I believe they actually had a defense treaty before the war so Poland could well as for their help. |
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