Here's a alternate timeline from my message-board for your entertainment. It's entitled "Funeral Games" and was written by the user whose handle is Gemellus. It begins with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin suffering a pulmonary embolism soon after the German invasion of Poland, an invasion made possible by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and dropping dead. The new Soviet government repudiates the deal Stalin made and things get interesting...
I'm not going to give away details, but the timeline features...
*A short Nazi-Soviet War instead of our world's swift annexation of the Baltic States and the Winter War with the Finns.
*A peace treaty ending said war that involves a population swap of three million Jews for millions of ethnic Germans living in Soviet territory. The one time I have ever actually used the phrase, "good job Commies," considering what would happen to these Jews if history had continued as it did in our world.
*Japan's land empire in Asia is dealt with a few years ahead of schedule.
*Germany still manages to pull off Battle of France in a similar fashion to our history and establish their Vichy puppet regime. However, the Italians do something rather unexpected...
*The Soviets don't ignore all evidence of the coming German attack and take certain steps...
*The German Resistance is about to do something. Let's hope it works out better than in our history...
I think it's pretty interesting and well worth a look. I'd definitely read a book set in this timeline.
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