Hey all,
One of the more amusing comments in my Stalin class has been that using Hitler to justify Stalin seems to be a fortuitous circumstance; without Hitler, stalin would just be this guy who made a lot of Ukranians starve and a lot of Russians go to Siberia.
But I digress. Without HItler, it seems to me that the USSR's military buildup would be significantly less; on the other hand, by 1941 the USSR is clearly a large and powerful nation, and Stalin does not seem the type to sit around peacably...
So what happens?