Capitalists of the World, Unite

The German railroad car smuggling Lenin into St. Petersburg is intercepted by Tsarist forces, and Lenin is executed along with his compatriots. Russia bleeds itself dry but Communism never takes root. Tsar Nicholas II maintains his tenuous grasp on power long enough to bleed both Germany and his own country dry. Germany, having advanced accross much of the Russian front but pressured from the western front sues for peace in 1917 on slightly more favorable terms.

The western democracies, relieved of the damage of the 1918 offensive, resume their industrialized assent. Without the spiritual and logistical aid of the Soviet Union, socialist and communist movements in the west faulter. However without the 'Red Menace', the general fear of communism begins to subside.


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