In real life, the fascist countries of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan were huge expansionist powers. Nazi Germany had dreams of conquering the entire European part of the Soviet Union and subsequently expelling tens of millions of Slavs from there while Fascist Italy essentially dreamed of recreating the Roman Empire and Imperial Japan had a vision of a Japanese-led Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere:
In turn, this made me wonder--if Russia would have somehow avoided Communism (for instance, if Kerensky would have cooperated with Kornilov in restoring order to Russia instead of arming the Bolsheviks to fight Kornilov) and instead became fascist in the 1930s as a result of the Great Depression, would a Fascist Russia have been an expansionist power like Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan or a status quo power?
Any thoughts on this?
In turn, this made me wonder--if Russia would have somehow avoided Communism (for instance, if Kerensky would have cooperated with Kornilov in restoring order to Russia instead of arming the Bolsheviks to fight Kornilov) and instead became fascist in the 1930s as a result of the Great Depression, would a Fascist Russia have been an expansionist power like Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan or a status quo power?
Any thoughts on this?