Editor says, what if the Bolsheviks had failed in Russia and taken the Revolution to Germany? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the October 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.

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Editor says, in this article we pay homage to Phillip Roth's most excellent novel The Plot Against America, Norman Spinrad's "Iron Dream" developing an original idea proposed by Scott Palter. This Chancellor Ernst Thälmann timeline is a variation of Chris Oakley's thread Comrade Hitler: The Rise and Fall of an Infamous Marxist Icon.

Chris Oakley commented on 2012-10-13 15:08:46 ~ Joseph Goebbels a gossip columnist...LOL.

Eric Oppen commented on 2012-10-14 00:39:24 ~ Was Reagan even in movies in '44? Yes, forgettable classics like Knute Rockne, All American (1940), Kings Row (1942)..

Jackie Rose commented on 2012-10-14 04:42:29 ~ Yes, John, and that's not even mentioning his version of The Diary of Anne Frank...where he and his followers rush in at the last minute to rescue her from the anti-semites and anti-communists who have forced her to hide. Once again, the mind BOGGLES!

Mike McIlvain commented on 2012-10-14 08:22:32 ~ Wow!!! Even actors playing the actors would be quite a sight in this flick. And, the Communists were battling the Nazis for control there, too.

Scott Palter commented on 2012-10-14 08:43:04 ~ Adolph always saw himself as a frustrated artist. Now imagine him as a refugee in St. Petersburg, one of several hundred thousand Freikorps veterans who had failed to save Germany from Bolshevism and been offered asylum by the Social Revolutionary government of Czarist Russia. St. Petersburg would be an international city - a cross between Weimar Berlin, Hollywood and postWW2 Paris.