Greatest possible separatist and anti-communist collaborations with Nazis within USSR

Fenestella

Banned
Leadership of Third Reich takes any measure necessary to exploit and encourage separatism and anti-communism within USSR from day one of Operation Barbarossa
(Nazi racial ideology takes a backseat to the destruction of the Soviet state)

How much further would Soviet regime be undermined?
 

Fenestella

Banned
How many Gulag inmates did the Nazis recruit in captured territories?
So many inmates hated the Soviets with the fire of a thousand suns, the ways they would have terrorized the red terrorists would impress the Nazis.
 
Capitalizing on anti-soviet (and anti-russian) stances would have given an huge boost to Barbarossa. For an example, think about the impact of having much less resistance behind the lines and being able to outsource the remaining anti-guerrilla operations to the locals.

I believe that with vast coorperation from ucrainians, baltics and bielorussians the nazis would have managed to secure a Leningrad-Moscow-Stalingrad line by the end of 1942.
 
they had enough troops.

what they needed was, if not AFVs, at least trucks and artillery for the Romanians.

and get cooperation from Finland beyond set boundaries (have no idea how you achieve that unless Mannerheim dies?)

p.s. someone wake up the KM and have u-boats transported to Black Sea before 1942
 
From my understanding, while there were some gulags in the areas the Germans conquered, the vast majority were in the east. Recruiting armies of gulag inmates isn't really an option.
 
Capitalizing on anti-soviet (and anti-russian) stances would have given an huge boost to Barbarossa. For an example, think about the impact of having much less resistance behind the lines and being able to outsource the remaining anti-guerrilla operations to the locals.

I believe that with vast coorperation from ucrainians, baltics and bielorussians the nazis would have managed to secure a Leningrad-Moscow-Stalingrad line by the end of 1942.

They maxed out on collaborators as it was. The cooperation of locals was central to the Holocaust by Bullets.
 
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