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I was thinking about some scenarios in which Germany could conquer Russia up to the Urals like Hitler wanted and have read some. But I was also looking into the Second Sino-Japanese War and, I think the conquest of Russia was not possible at all.

If we look at the Japan vs China war, we can clearly see that this war went from the Japanese, exactly how the Nazis thought the war against the USSR would go, an enemy army that could not oppose them in any way, they get to occupy all major cities, they take the capital, they take the most important economic center. Yet even with all of this, China did not surrendered and the situation got so bad for the Japanese that if they would had been forced to withdraw from China, simply because China was too big and the Japanese could not occupy all of it.

I think this is what would had happened if Germany had somehow really crushed the Soviet armies as they believed they would be able to. It doesn't help that Russia was even bigger than China.

What are your thoughts? Do you think that the Nazis could really had conquered the USSR if something went different? Or that no matter what, they were doomed?
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