It began when the Bolshevik forces commanded by Tukhachevsky marched onto Warsaw with the aim of spreading the revolution internationally, besieging the Polish capital and handing a decisive blow on the young Polish state by August 1920. The Polish government collapsing, its leadership seeking refuge in France. With its wake The Polish Soviet Republic was established as a puppet to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The Baltic states without Polish protection were promptly strong-armed into Soviet annexation with the formation of the Transbaltic SSRs.

Weimar Germany was destabilised through Soviet-backed uprisings, The German People’s Soviet was established in Saxony and Thuringia after the 1923 uprising. This act sent the Weimar government into a state of national emergency with president Ebert invoking Article 48 and a Hindenburg presidency after the 1925 elections in a landslide allowed power to be concentrated amongst a gang of Great War era military generals onwards under a presidential dictatorship, the NSDAP is a fringe and ridiculed sector of German politics acting as “useful idiots” to break up leftist cells. The Reichswehr maintains a heavily fortified border with the Soviet Union alongside a shaky alliance with the French and British. France leads a coalition of necessity in the Balkans and Central Europe, consisting of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Romania. The three nations received vast military support from the French.

In Asia, Mongolia is a staunch Soviet ally serving as a satellite state near China and buffer against the Japanese; the Xinjiang Soviet, a Soviet-sponsored insurgency, fights against the Kuomintang alongside regional warlords in Northwestern China; the Bolsheviks intervene in Northern Manchuria under the guise of maintaining regional stability; the Chinese Civil War combined with their international efforts remains a burden on Soviet coffers; and the recently unified, fledgling ROC reluctantly turns to the British and French for aid. An opportunistic Japanese Empire waits for a moment of weakness from the USSR before pursuing their plan of northern expansion. In the Middle East, Comintern agents stoked anti-colonial sentiments across the Arab world. Across the Atlantic, the Roaring Twenties were even more isolationist. American policy is one of strict neutrality, viewing Europe's troubles as the death throes of the old world. American banks, however, did a brisk business lending to the French and German industrial complexes before the Great Depression. Latin America is an ideological battleground provoked by Comintern agents as labor movements and intellectuals threaten traditional circles in Mexico, Brazil, and Chile along with challenging American influence.

1927 would mark Trotsky’s victory over Stalin in an internal struggle, the latter purged and emboldening the “Permanent Revolution” foreign doctrine, an aggressive but ultimately costly export-oriented ideology seeking to destabilise the West. The 1930s became a cold war from a static border between the bloated USSR and a rearming Weimar Germany, a proxy war in the Republic of China, the British Empire and the Soviets battle for influence in Afghanistan as the overextended Trotskyists quashed domestic peasant revolts in Russia and the ethnic separatist movements in their newly formed SSRs. In isolationist America, the Great Depression reached its height by 1933, leading to an increasingly disgruntled population turning towards radicalism with agitators from all ends of the political spectrum fueling the flames of divide. Socialist and syndicalistic ideologies grip the Midwestern states and the South. The US government walks a dangerous tightrope teetering on civil war and the policies of increasingly authoritarian measures to maintain order is universally unpopular with the American public.

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