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Soviet Russia was a pretty closed society. Could the Soviets hide the mobilization? Also, would AFTER the complete fall of France be right, or just before, to forces the nazis to have to pull forces from the middle of a battle, so that forces have to be pulled while perhaps under fire?

What do you mean, "no soviet aggression"? Are there thousands of soviet tanks in the center of Europe pointing West? Are the soviets constantly striving for nuclear superiority? Did the Soviets wage war by Proxy in Korea AND Vietnam costing tens of thousands of American lives? Did the Soviet...

WHy would the soviets NOT hit them?

Unless the soviets are on the edge or in the process of collapse Stalin will not want "peace". If the soviets are on the edge or in the process of collapse Hitler will not want "peace".

1. And the brits will have another year of cohorts reaching draft age to help with those manpower needs. And as they are pulling from the Empire also, that factor works better for them than for the Germans. 2. THe Japanese? Sure. But no more than OTL. With their rapidly sinking fleet and...

POD, 1961: Nikta Khrushchev develops Graves Disease, and it is not diagnosed. Come 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and under the influence of increased aggression, he orders a Decapitation Strike on the US, which is, against all odds, successful. The launch codes are lost in the...

That is an interesting point. When considering this scenario, of a peaceful Europe I always think more of avoiding the loss of political and financial and economic capital. And thus having far more political capital and social cohesion to try to hold unto the Empires. Thus question also...

1. Agreed, more bled soviet and nazis. Sort of the point of this question. 2. Why don't the British look better? Another cohort of recruits reach draft age. The Battle of Britain is over. The Battle of the Atlantic is mostly over, in that U-boats were becoming less effective and less numerous...

,.. HIde? Perhaps not. But the idea that it would be a scandal that we were NOT sending vast supplies to a co-belligerent that had started the War as an Ally of Hitler seems to be based on projecting modern knowledge backwards. Hell, Murmansk is above the Article Circle. How many people in...

I could see INITIALLY some resentment that the issue helped shatter the Union. BUT slavery is still going to be considered increasingly barbaric as time goes on, so, imo that would quickly diminish. Better Civil Rights would be one way to show up the neighbors. AND without the Grand...

I think in the absence of pro-soviet propaganda, it would be unremarkable that America and the UK were NOT sending supplies to the, until fairly recently, Nazi Allied Stalinist Soviet Union. if the question came up in a setting that was not suppressible with war time censor ship, citing fears...

bolster If the Soviet onslaught is weakening, is Hitler's response going to be to sensibly husband his resources and to bolster defenses on the quiet Western "Front",? Or is he going to push for massive and costly counter offensives in an attempt to WIN the war against Russia so that he can...

SO, lets say the POD, is that in 41, HItler tries browbeating Franco into joining the Axis. Franco not only refuses, but becomes concerned that if the Axis wins, that Hitler will be looking for payback. So he opens covert negotiations with the UK and US. Churchill and FDR, despite being...

I like this. Maybe not Gibraltar, but Libya and French dominated Morocco. This increases german supply lines while giving allied forces friendly ports to disembark at. Also, a landing in Norther France is in no way ruled out by this. And would be easier if significant German forces are...

Regardless of where the Eastern Front is, or even which direction it is moving, unless the Nazis WIN and the Russians stop fighting, it is still going to be a meat grinder, sucking up everything the Nazis can scrape up to send there. Indeed, even if the Nazis "win" the forces needed to occupy...

Allied leadership doesn't have to be "hardline anti-communists" or "clueless". THey just have to realize that Stalin is just as bad as Hitler, to be a little confident about their eventual victory and to give some serious consideration to the Post War situation. From the perspective of the...

Errr, soviets advance slower with far most losses and they end up in stronger position?

What about if he did it BEFORE d-day? So that Allied forces could stage out of Spain?

Agreed. The thing is that the West is still there, and causing more and more trouble as time goes on. If nothing else, eventually the Allies will get the bomb. Meanwhile in the East, every man that the Soviets put into farming or production is one less man to fight. And every man they DON'T...

Least we drown in the Red Tide has led me to do some reading on WWI. The Russians mobilized fast and sloppy. THe germans had to redirect the 8th army from the West to the East. I can't find how big that was, but if it was available for use in the West, Could it have breached the lines and...