This is the closest socialism ever got to being victorious...

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I blame the fact of Trotsky being a shit general at the western front and somehow loosing even tho he had numerical superiority against the poles.

that damn trotsky!

Holla Forums loves poland though.

Just another way Holla Forums would disappoint Hitler, I suppose.

Memes aside, what would have happened if the Soviet defeated Poland? Could they have taken Germany?

Germany was a hot mess at this point so easily.

The real question is if they could take France.

Pole here, I wish this country lost in 1920, a lot of socialist/communist stuff had been formed around that time for eg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Tarnobrzeg
and a lot of workers councils in various cities, but Piłsudski decided to stop it for some reason (he was a socialist earlier), and of course dmowski and his nationalists

The Battle of Warsaw would probably be a close-run thing regardless, which means that the USSR would not exactly be in a position to keep going afterwards. They had already outrun their supply lines and were having trouble keeping in communication. They may not even be able to advance into the rest of Poland if the Poles receive urgent aid from the Entente. Additionally, they've been at war for like 6 years straight at this point, and the Russian Civil War is yet to be completely resolved: Wrangel is still active around the Crimea and the Japanese are still occupying the far east. It's not exactly the 1944 Red Army knocking at the door here so much as an exhausted, overstretched army without supplies and other stuff they should be taking care of. If they try to head further, they'll receive a bloody nose as they'd have minimal fighting capacity and the Entente absolutely cannot allow them to advance in Germany, no matter how much they dislike the place.

On the other hand, the Germans weren't exactly fond of Poland: dockworkers in Danzig tried to oppose delivery of munitions and supplies to Poland, for instance. Lenin was also a pretty smart and pragmatic guy for the most part. I could see them just stopping at Poland, and allowing Germany to move into the Danzig corridor under the pretense of "restoring order" and "protecting against the reds" or w/e. In which case we get an uneasy peace.

Anyway, Poland falling will cause everyone to piss their pants to an even greater extent than in history. To France and Britain, Poland was a cornerstone of their foreign policy as both a guarantee against Germany and a buffer against the red menace. With Poland gone, Germany must become that buffer. Expect them to be rather more forgiving towards Germany earlier than before. Mass fascism will likely take hold in eastern and central Europe. We may yet see a pan-European crusade against the red menace.

Not immediately after that you dunce, the USSR's presence in Poland would have changed everything after it.