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During the 20's and into the 30's Russia spent a lot of Money building the Stalin Line.
The Stalin Line was a line of fortifications along the western border of the Soviet Union. Work began on the system in the 1920s to protect the USSR against western aggression. The line was made up of concrete bunkers and gun emplacements, somewhat similar but less elaborate than the Maginot Line.
However
In the aftermath of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with the westward expansion of the USSR in 1939 and 1940, into Poland, the Baltic, and Bessarabia the decision was made to abandon the line in favour of constructing the so-called Molotov Line further west, along the new border of the USSR. A number of Russian generals felt that it would be better to keep both lines and have defense in depth, but this conflicted with the pre-World War II Soviet military doctrine.
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Thus the guns were moved, but were mostly in storage as the new line began construction. The 1941 German invasion caught the new line unfinished and the Stalin Line largely abandoned and in disrepair. Neither was thus of any use in stopping the onslaught of Operation Barbarossa.
While the Molotov Line was being Constructed, the Germans started on their own defense line thro much less extensive.

?So WI there was no operation Barbarossa in 1941.?

Assume Pearl Harbor happens as per OTL. ?How would WW2 turn out?
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