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Within 4 weeks of the start of operation Barbarossa, a military coup occures in Moscow and the Soviet-Union descends into disorder.
Within several months, resistance have completely collapsed, much of the former Soviet-Union have broken appart in a full-scale armed popular revolution. Caucase is in complete anarchy and central asia rapidly becomes a warzone, with Cossack-lead rebellion and Uzbekistan declaring independence(only ex-SSR that retain such level of organization).
Across the whole of the Union, supporters of the regime are in general brutally murdered by the populations, survivors flee to Moscow, about the only place where anti-bolchevik revolts have been contained (with several city-blocks having been torched in the process).
Meanwhile German forces from Finland enters Leningrad after a popular insurrection overthrows the bolcheviks there, German forces does not let themself distracted from Moscow TTL, for good reasons.
Region of Kiev, everything south and west of it, only offer ghost towns and farms that are undermanned or completely empty, many seems to have been burned down to the ground years ago.
Further east and north, the mobilized have taken the rifles given to them and turned it against the sovietic system, announces by radio their pro-axis stance.
Seeing the collapse of the Soviet-Union and the Siberian armies offering support against China in exchange for Japanese assistance, Japanese and some Manchu divisions start moving into the ex-sovietic far east.

Former baltic countries are also pretty much empty of their 1939 populations.


Detention facilities are discovered by the Germans, biggest have 330 000 inmates, inmates are mostly dressed in rags and look like skelettons.
Gigantic mass graves or rather mass dumps are discovered, biggest have over 100 000 victimes.

Much nastier things are discovered by the Japanese.



1) Strategic consequence: Japanese does not attack Pearl Harbour, at least not in the immediate, as Hitler promises oil from the caucase, later Iran and Iraq.
2) Strategical gains: The Soviet-Union may have collapsed as Hitler believed but the prophetized economical gains from the Soviet campaign are evidently far smaller than expected, especially in the matter of food production. Because of health reasons, over 80% of an already meager production is deemed unfit for German consumption.
Since the crumbling Soviet regime could not organize scorched earth policies, they have netherless gained the Soviet industrial capacity pretty much intact. That industrial capacity is about 2/3 that of of Germany itself, military equippement it produce is approx 1-2 years behind Germany, production process approx 2-3 years.
3) Consequences of Battle: Axis casualties are lower, having faced only 2.1 millions soldiers in the beginning of the campaign, which quickly surrendered. They did not have as much equippement also.
Before the Soviet-Union broke appart, that number barely got beyond 2.5 millions. There are many more axis soldiers that are victimes of diseases, some of which are very demoralizing.
Biggest resistance spot, Moscow, but by October 2 millions German and other axis soldiers encircles the place.
4) Reconsideration of the eastern strategy?: The support for axis forces is much more extended, instead of just a few regions (ukrainian poland and baltic countries).
Also, the revolution operation Barbarossa started have exposed the failures of an extensively organized mass repression politic.
That much of the Sovietic population was so brutally repressed for so many years and that the revolutionnaries didn´t just wait to greet the Germans as liberators but wasted no time to solve much of the Bolchevik problem themself gaines them Hitler´s consideration, some of it at least.
Also, the best regions for colonists are pretty much cleared anywhay, Rosenberg reveals that the remaining populations there are ready to sell their lands for cheap.
5) Future campaign prospects: With a minimal number of forces left in the former Soviet-Union. The axis will be able to move into the middle-east through the caucase and turkey in the course of 1942, will it be enough to knock the UK out of the war?
6) Political consequences in the world: There might be some political fallouts for Churchill, having initially supported the Soviet-Union. Its blood-drenched collapse also is hardly going to make Britons more eager for war, as it is clear Britain remaines alone against a power that now dominates most of europe. How will Roosevelt react?
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