Soviet two-front Blitz in 1940: success in Finland, then failure in Alaska, what next?

Fenestella

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In mid 1940, the Soviets, emboldened/deluded ‎by their swift and complete victory in the Winter War, launched their version of Operation Sea Lion on Alaska. How decisive/indecisive would the result be? Would the US then ally themselves with the Reich?

Then the Reich launched Operation Barbarossa in mid 1941. How decisive/indecisive would the result be?
 
Wait, what? You know the Winter War wasn't planned in order to capture snow, right?

Reality isn't Red Alert. Stalin was a (generally) effective and conservative strategist.

The US wouldn't ally themselves with the Reich. The way they saw the USSR and the Reich was the same as the way that the USSR saw the Reich and the West: Both as potential threats that are better off expending energy fighting each other.

Although the Bering Sea can be very stormy at times, the US Pacific Fleet is still massive, they aren't at war with Japan yet, and they would only need to detach a relatively small squadron in order to interdict the overstretched Soviet supply lines, and can essentially starve out the Soviet soldiers. They won't be able to mount an effective resistance to American offensives once their ammo quickly runs dry. In other words, the Russians are fucked if they land in Alaska. Now, I don't believe America would have any real ability or inclination to mount a counterinvasion of the Soviet Union, especially from the east, but it would still unnecessarily create a massive enemy that can inconvenience them in many other ways. No Lend-Lease, for example.

Even in some universe where the Soviets successfully captured Alaska, the British/Canadians would almost certainly be outright hostile, whilst Alaska had very little of value (at least that would be easily exploitable for the Soviets).
 

Fenestella

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Soviets sent agitators to stir up unrest over the issue of Alaskan statehood before dropping Molotov bread baskets, and promise Alaskan statehood as a Soviet republic once liberated by the Red Army .
 
well that ends the war for stalin quick fast and in a hurry. Do you have a concept as to how big Alaska is? and also how much nothing is in Alaska? and that the terrain sucks.

so operation polar bear is going to invade where? anchorage? Juneau? Kodiak? since there is nothing 50 miles from mainland Russian for the Russians to land on and move into the interior by.

they plan to use their mythical fleet to move men and supplies from Vladivostok to where? you do realize that the ocean is rather large and the waves quite impressive in that part of the world, so barges are out.

great they nab a few volcanos. this is not worth war with the United States and western Allies who maybe look like they are loosing, but in the mid to not so long term that changes pretty quick doesn't it.

Hittler and Stalin are slugging it out as Stalin recalls his POlar bear operation from the depths of the pacific or a few crap volcanos, who then take the next 9 months trying to get to the western front.

In he mean time the southern strategy continues to play out as Italy falls, D-day goes off..Germany is ddefeated and one nation. Patton gets his wish to keep marching to berlin.

bomb time rolls around, Japanese surrender and soviets as well.

so world war II just became a three way match. Germany Looses, the soviets loose and the Japanese loose. hell The western allies could get to Moscow and burn it to the ground before the Soviets could get to British Columbia. It would make absolutely no sense for the Soviets to invade Alaska at any point.

The Soviets are not facing frozen wasteland gap.. they are the leader!
 
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Soviets sent agitators to stir up unrest over the issue of Alaskan statehood before dropping Molotov bread baskets, and promise Alaskan statehood as a Soviet republic once liberated by the Red Army .

Why would they be any more inclined to help the SU on the promise of Statehood in a foreign country that they share no connection to? And after they have been bombed by that same country?

Also does the SU even have airfields and bombers capable of bombing Alaska in 1940?
 
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