...A German advance that leaves the West in the field produces a very different world. Hitler is seen as a flash in the pan. Stalin is never seen as one of the triumphant forces of democracy. He may take Eastern Europe but he will be seen as a thug who helped Hitler. Because of the Fall of France and then Barbarossa the old conservative parties of Europe were forever tagged as collaborators while the Reds who actively worked to undermine France became social patriots because they switched lines 41-45. This has changed the politics of Europe to this day...