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How would the course of history have changed if the Italians held off the counter-offensive that the Russians launched to eliminate the Italian and Hungarian forces out of Russia.
Crucial Steps:
Mussolini stations several more units in Russia to aid the German offensive

Hitler's forces are able to rely on the Italian units on their flanks. (This could either fully prevent the Russian counter-offensive or drastically change the outcome).

Italian units would be able to hold off the resistance with the Germans.

But what other things would be the result of this?
A quicker Eastern Front for the German war machine?
A decisive blow to the morale of Russian soldiers, leading to a long but decisive victory over the Russians in Stalingrad?
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