I can't remember where I read it, I'd have to do some googling, but from what I remember there were very real material obstacles to the Red Army making it all t

I can't remember where I read it, I'd have to do some googling, but from what I remember there were very real material obstacles to the Red Army making it all the way to Germany. While the German revolution of 1918 was absolutely a tragedy (in a myriad of ways) there's some decent scholarship on how isolated the Soviet state would still have remained. iirc things like Polish nationalism, and internal disagreements within Russia( bol vs Left SR; bolsheviks wanted to wait and the Left SRs wanted to march all the way to Germany)