Madness?
Originally posted by Vault-Scope
Why do you think Poland would need to be liberated? WI Poles manage to hold their own long enough for French and German troops to roll over Prussia and help Poland with Russians?
Simply... because... this is.....
THIS IS PR-USSI-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
it still doesn't stop the fact that France had lost most of her colonies in the following years after the war. ... her empire is gone
Loose colonies? How so? By armed native insurrections? They will only be crush.... subdued with chemical weapons, just like middle-easter populations after OTL WWI...
Japanes? They would only loose asian colonies, britain would be the main looser.
The United States?
and her military and navy isn't as large as it was before or during the war.
Which navy and military would be larger would be larger? Which military alliance would be stronger than the one centered around Paris,
if they won the war?
If Poland falls, then Germany will be devastated and its in France's best interest not to let the Russians gain a foothold in Germany.
It would be
Germany´s best interest to stop a Russian advance into Germanic territories, which might well lead to division between French and German armies...
Franco-Germans would face a fighting retreate, a far greater difficulty advancing than OTL european axis in 1942 and even 1943.
St-Petersburg would only have its population and governement evacuated eastward and made into a forteress, wich would be much better preparations for siege than OTL Leningrad, if Franco-German armies even reaches that far.
The Morgenthau Plan in OTL to reduce Germany into a cow pasture after the 2nd World War wasn't implemented because it would result in famine and the starvation of millions of Germans. It was designed to starve the German population. Tens of millions of Germans would have starved to death in the first two years after the war had the Plan been implemented. Think I made up the "Stauffenberg Plan?" I based that on the Morgenthau Plan. Russia would be even more devastated by this kind of plan because Russia has a much larger population and dismantling its factories that mass produce foods, and the railroads needed to get that food in the vast Russian interior especially during the hard winter months is a recipe for disaster that would result in the deaths of scores of millions of Russians.
No, it wasn´t implemented for the same reason the marshall plan was launched, the soviet-union. European powers will found themself in a potentially far worst post-war situation than the USA in OTL.
Industry doesn´t produce food, farming and agriculture do. At worst, it might prevent mecanised agriculture, something that might not be that widspread in TTL Russia.
See Zimbabwe and South Africa for example, industry left to decay resulted in little food shortage but when farming was attacked, food shortage expanded and would have resulted in disaster without foreign help.
TTL Russia have a much lower population density than OTL Germany, the coldest areas have little population, population that survived for centuries without railways.
OTL, it was only Stalinist industrialisation that brought first railways to these areas and it took a long time before they where properly connected.
