Red Star Triumphant

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They could have mobilized more material and men with appropriate planning. Even if they lack officers the Germans simply lack the numbers to grind through several million more Russian than OTL. Hell, IOTL STAVKA ordered all units to not fire on the attacking Germans as Stalin believed he could resolve the "incident".

There was also an incident where a German soldier surrendered to the Soviets before Barbarossa happened and he did say that they would invade. Stalin had that poor German soldier shot for spreading 'false propaganda'.
 
The only way they would have mobilized themselves properly would be to avoid the purge of the Red Army by Stalin as a whole. Heck, if the Soviets mobilized properly, the Germans may not even reach Kiev or Minsk.

I'm referring to even the post-purge environment and mobilized properly means more then calling up the reserves. Consider the Kiev Military District, whose commander ignored Stalin's orders and had his troops at their posts when the attack came, performance to the Minsk and Leningrad Military Districts. The result is a much slower and bloodier German advance in the Ukraine then in Belarus and the Baltic's.
 
I'm referring to even the post-purge environment and mobilized properly means more then calling up the reserves. Consider the Kiev Military District, whose commander ignored Stalin's orders and had his troops at their posts when the attack came, performance to the Minsk and Leningrad Military Districts. The result is a much slower and bloodier German advance in the Ukraine then in Belarus and the Baltic's.

That is quite a bloody debacle for the Germans.

As for the rest of the readers here, I'm going to use this thread as a discussion thread for any improvements.
 
I believe I may have come up with a possible PoD for an improved Red Star Triumphant: It starts with Germany intervening in the Spanish-American War on Spain's side but in the turn of events decides to purchase the Philippines from the Spanish Kingdom for roughly a similar amount to twenty million USD at that time.
 
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