If Barbarossa Succeeds...

Could Nazi Germany then push into Central Asia and the Russian Far East, linking up with the Japanese in Manchuria to aid them in their war against China. Or is it this ASB?
 
Verging on ASB considering the vast distances involved.

You will need a more effective German campaign - no stopping for the infantry by the panzers, and a no 'western front' would help.

The Kremlin still dazed from the German armoured thrusts, are in shock when news comes in that Leningrad has fallen to a 'coup de main' by the Germans at the end of July - before effective defense could be arranged. The NKVD firing squads were busy when it learnt that the Germans were even using T-34s straight off the Leningrad production line! Only two weeks before, Smolensk had fallen - what next was in store.
The Kremlin was confused - retake Leningrad or defend Moscow. The result neither occurred, Moscow fell - though attacks were made by Soviet Army Division in the South, they did not succeed. Moscow fell late August, with panic in the streets - looting, although some army units and the NKVD held firm many were attacked by the mob who watched as they were abandoned.
Stalin's train pulled away, was he on it - who knows - he wasn't seen again. The 'new' government hoped to pick up the pieces, and continue the fight with the many new factories in the east, but some of the trains carrying the equipment didn't make it - damaged by marauding Lw bombers.
Perhaps the drive to the east would continue, but that would wait till '42 and better campaigning weather. Now, it was a drive to the south, where from Tula German forces went on through Voronezh to meet those from Kiev at Rostov. Sevastopol was left to wither, as the Black Sea became a dead sea for the Russians.
In '42 the Russians were either withdrawing east fast or else switching sides. From Rostov the Germans drove south-east one thrust took Astrakhan, with another continuing south into Persia - where a link up with the Japanese was anticipated.

From here on in - it depends on whether the Russian state can hold or disintegrate, will it seek terms, if so could it become a satelite state to Nazi Germany owing military assistance when required.
The only way any link-up is possible in the far far east!!
 
The was written as an AH possibility, assuming that the Germans push out the English from the Middle east, and the Japanese attack English colonies. Italy falls to Japan, Middle-east falls to Germans, all meet up around the red sea to share wurst and sushi.
 
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