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Getting back to handling China and the Far East, sorry to obsess about it- If the Soviets had their way, the KMT northern expedition never would have been as fast or aggressive, especially in the northeastward direction toward Shanghai, as Chiang Kai-shek took it. I think in OTL, Chiang was...

good question to ask! Let’s look at the reasons (circumstantial evidence) Stalin would/should or not make thwarting Hitler a primary focus from his 1938 standpoint. reasons not, and why Hitler might be a “fun” chaotic element to have around to divide the capitalist west: -the USSR has not...

The other part of the trick will be forging reliably revolutionary, pro-Soviet, anti-imperialist ruling authorities in China, but not provoking a unified Japanese and western intervention against United Front China and its Soviet backers where Japan and the West come to agree eye-to-eye that...

Not the worst idea. The trick will be watching him like a hawk and surrounding him with a peer group determined to stand up against Japanese pressure, so that he doesn't discard Soviet patronage and united front with Communist Party at a moment when he conveniently feels the Japanese are...

The difficulty with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) trying to oppose Hitler through parliamentary maneuvers is that they have the opposite of political "magnetism". They are politically repellent/repulsive to all political parties of the center and right. So one can criticize them for...

What if Stalin's mind, from August 1938, self-inserts, into his mind and body of January 1926? Stalin, as of August 1938, has multiple achievements under his belt, and multiple concerns. He has rapidly constructed Socialism by implementing two Five-Year plans of collectivization and heavy...