Cookie Monster wrote:Alternative history speculation
... usually does not have any merit.
I do admit to it being entertaining.
Cookie Monster wrote:Could a Soviet victory in the 1919 Polish-Soviet War lead to the succeeding of a socialist revolution in Weimar Germany?
That certainly rings true in my opinion.
The young Soviet republic was eager to prove its worth and the internationality of its ideals by "liberating" Poland - that the Poles would simply see this as another episode of Russian imperialism should have been evident from the start.
In any case, the humiliating defeat of the Soviet army did indeed force the Russians to abandon any further adventurism for the next two decades - in that sense the war was not only fought for the independence of a single country but rather concerned the whole fate of Europe. That is why the Soviets winning the war is such an important idea.
If the Bolshevik's plan to support the German revolution - without which they believed Soviet Russia had no future would have been successful, perhaps the whole of Europe would have succumbed to communism. Without a victory in the Polish-Soviet War this was impossible, which leads one to believe that the Soviets actually winning it would have been an interesting prospect, to say the least.