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Recall that when America’s World War II envoy to Moscow, Averell Harriman, congratulated him on the Red Army’s taking of Berlin, Stalin fired back: “Yes, but Alexander I made it to Paris.” Stalin liked to sit over dinner in one of his Abkhazian villas on the Black Sea, poring over maps: “Yes, we haven’t done badly.”

It isn't that hard to imagine Stalin instantly betraying the Western Allies and attacking the moment that both huge armies encountered each other so how do you think the war would have gone if suddenly the British, Canadians and Americans found themselves fighting the Soviets in June 1945 with the Soviet Union determined to take France?

Also for this, can we assume that nuclear weapons would not be a factor as I think that would make a more interesting discussion.

How would the war have gone if suddenly the Soviets were fighting the Western Allies pretty much the moment Germany was defeated?
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