Red Germany Triumphant

Kinda sorta a sequel to this map .... [link]

In this world, a somewhat different history of the German Socialists (with more shootings) and a longer WWI with no US intervention led to Red Germany and Hungary (and very nearly a Red France as well, making efforts to Crush the Revolution in Its Cradle not entirely successful).Lenin in the meantime never made it to the Finland Station and the Whites eventually won after a long and ennervating struggle and reconquered the no less than three quarreling Ukranian states.

In the 1930s, Spain going Red with heavy German aid led to a right-wing takeover of a panicky France, and later an alliance with Fascist Italy and White (brutal, unpopular regime) Russia to finish off the Red Menace once and for all. Fortunately, the French *Fascists were no more interested in fancy new tank maneuvers than their OTL counterparts, and the Germans were able to knock them out of the war fast enough to be able to turn the bulk of its forces east before the Russians were quite done with mopping up Poland. The UK joined the war late: as much as they disliked the Reds, they really weren't happy with aiding to create a Fascist-run Europe by joining a "pre-emptive" strike on the Germans. Only after the fall of France did the UK join in, but the White Russian regime was ultimately less stable than the Stalinist one..

The development of the atomic bomb by German, Czech and Hungarian scientists in 1946 probably spared Europe from a joint British-US-Japanese invasion, and added to the ferocious political in-fighting which developed over the "who lost Europe" question. The cold war that developed was no less acrimonious than that of OTL, and although Red Germany, albiet somewhat radicalized by the war, was never as nasty a place as OTLs Stalin's USSR or Mao's China, that did not prevent the Americans from developing a rather lurid image of the situation (the map reflects local US sentiments rather than being 100% accurate...)