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I'm not exactly sure how this would happen, but assume the USSR did at least OK against Finland. Could the German perception of the Red Army be made realistic enough that the OKW decides to at least postpone invading the Soviet Union? IIRC the abysmal Soviet performance against Finland was a major contributing factor to the assessment on the part of both Germany and the Wallies that the Soviet Union could easily be defeated, and when Hitler did find out the truth (after the war began) he stated that had he known beforehand he might have decided differently.
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