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A silly little one-shot which involves the a successful putsch against the SPD in the early 1920's, and a right-wing unitary government which includes everything from the monarchists to the national-socialists. Kaiser Wilhelm II was returned to power in '22 to prevent infighting over who should have the Presidency, and spent much of his return being pulled between the Junkers, the military, the Zentrum and other conservative parties, and his family in a grand squabble over how to best control him. One plus to this was that there was no concentrated national effort at expansionism, there being too much disagreement between the factions and within them over whether they should play along with France and Britain, make an agreement with Poles, or just lie in wait for the opportunity to snatch up territory when and where they could. Even within these parties there was no coherent strategy on the specifics of reacquiring lost territory.

Stalin and Trotsky ham-stringed each other enough that some slightly less maniacal players eventually outmaneuver them both following Lenin's death, however this also provided a useful opportunity for the Soviets to take back a bit of authority away from the Party and the Politburo. Currently there's a bit of a a detente between the Soviets, the states of the Union, and the Bolshevik Party who run most of the mess. The Union of Soviet Councils is essentially a confederation of Russia, Ukraine, and the Caucasian Republics- though the Central Committee of the Union (a G7 type talking club than an executive body) has discussed the possibility of elevating Russia's Central Asian or Far Eastern Soviets to their own Soviet Councils. Purging has largely been kept to a bloody period immediately following Lenin's death in 1923 when the Bolshevik's were briefly split into Stalinist and Trotskyist factions, as veterans of the Civil War both men were more than willing to risk blood to neutralise their opponent. An alliance of rival committee members such as Nikolai Bukharin and Mikhail Tomsky, and threats from party apparatus in Ukraine and the Caucuses eventually broke the two factions with Trotsky and Stalin's personal influence declining as the years went by- in 1939 Stalin has returned to his native Georgia where he sits on the Caucasian Republics Presidium, Trotsky meanwhile is currently attached as an adviser to the Fourth Republics provisional government in Bordeaux.

My knowledge of what exactly went down in Eastern Europe is sketchy to say the least. All I really have down is that Germany and Poland agreed to a border treaty in the 1930's which gave Germany land access to East Prussia in exchange for a few concessions in Posen and Silesia and a secret treaty involving the division of Lithuania. However after this there's a war between Charles IV's Hungary and Codreanu's Romania which eventually escalates out. The sides of the various participants of the war are also unclear. Mussolini could easily back either faction, as could Poland depending how far along their ZLN government has gone. The partition of Czechoslovakia and the Italian-Hungarian war with Yugoslavia are interlinked, though whether they're connected to the Romanian-Hungarian conflict I'm also unsure.

The big change is in 1937 however when the German Worker's Party took control of the country. Wilhelm II is currently in a catatonic state and is under house arrest, as is the rest of the royal family and many leaders of the other conservative factions. Gregor Strasser is currently Chancellor and de facto Head of State as well, though there is still a lack of willingness to execute the royals even after the seizure of power has been mostly successful.

The Democrats, Fascists, Communists, and National Socialists are finally gearing up to see who's going to control the future of Europe, and it's going to be one hell of a fight.

Description
A silly little one-shot which involves the a successful putsch against the SPD in the early 1920's, and a right-wing unitary government which includes everything from the monarchists to the national-socialists. Kaiser Wilhelm II was returned to power in '22 to prevent infighting over who should have the Presidency, and spent much of his return being pulled between the Junkers, the military, the Zentrum and other conservative parties, and his family in a grand squabble over how to best control him. One plus to this was that there was no concentrated national effort at expansionism, there being too much disagreement between the factions and within them over whether they should play along with France and Britain, make an agreement with Poles, or just lie in wait for the opportunity to snatch up territory when and where they could. Even within these parties there was no coherent strategy on the specifics of reacquiring lost territory.

Stalin and Trotsky ham-stringed each other enough that some slightly less maniacal players eventually outmaneuver them both following Lenin's death, however this also provided a useful opportunity for the Soviets to take back a bit of authority away from the Party and the Politburo. Currently there's a bit of a a detente between the Soviets, the states of the Union, and the Bolshevik Party who run most of the mess. The Union of Soviet Councils is essentially a confederation of Russia, Ukraine, and the Caucasian Republics- though the Central Committee of the Union (a G7 type talking club than an executive body) has discussed the possibility of elevating Russia's Central Asian or Far Eastern Soviets to their own Soviet Councils. Purging has largely been kept to a bloody period immediately following Lenin's death in 1923 when the Bolshevik's were briefly split into Stalinist and Trotskyist factions, as veterans of the Civil War both men were more than willing to risk blood to neutralise their opponent. An alliance of rival committee members such as Nikolai Bukharin and Mikhail Tomsky, and threats from party apparatus in Ukraine and the Caucuses eventually broke the two factions with Trotsky and Stalin's personal influence declining as the years went by- in 1939 Stalin has returned to his native Georgia where he sits on the Caucasian Republics Presidium, Trotsky meanwhile is currently attached as an adviser to the Fourth Republics provisional government in Bordeaux.

My knowledge of what exactly went down in Eastern Europe is sketchy to say the least. All I really have down is that Germany and Poland agreed to a border treaty in the 1930's which gave Germany land access to East Prussia in exchange for a few concessions in Posen and Silesia and a secret treaty involving the division of Lithuania. However after this there's a war between Charles IV's Hungary and Codreanu's Romania which eventually escalates out. The sides of the various participants of the war are also unclear. Mussolini could easily back either faction, as could Poland depending how far along their ZLN government has gone. The partition of Czechoslovakia and the Italian-Hungarian war with Yugoslavia are interlinked, though whether they're connected to the Romanian-Hungarian conflict I'm also unsure.

The big change is in 1937 however when the German Worker's Party took control of the country. Wilhelm II is currently in a catatonic state and is under house arrest, as is the rest of the royal family and many leaders of the other conservative factions. Gregor Strasser is currently Chancellor and de facto Head of State as well, though there is still a lack of willingness to execute the royals even after the seizure of power has been mostly successful.

The Democrats, Fascists, Communists, and National Socialists are finally gearing up to see who's going to control the future of Europe, and it's going to be one hell of a fight.