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I don't know if anyone else has touched on this,but I was batting this around with a friend,and fellow alt history junkie,and we think it has some possibilities.The tiny Finnish army handed quite a shellacking to the Red Army in 1939-40,and inflicted hundreds of thousands of casualties,if not more,with very little to work with.I'm sure that observers on the General Staff in Berlin were paying close attention to this,and could well have seen this as an opportune moment to launch Operation Barborossa,rather than in June of '41,as it actually happened.Looking at this from an alt history standpoint,there are several factors that would make it quite plausible-although the Soviets had won a victory,through sheer numbers,they were still badly bloodied by the Finns,their officer corps was in a shambles after the purges of 1937-38,and they would not have had time to institute the post war reforms that Stalin did,prior to the actual invasion in '41.In addition,they would not have had an extra year to produce the T-34 or KV-1 tanks that so vexed the Germans,nor time to copy the Finnish Suomi 9mm SMG,which the PPSH-41 was copied from,and which proved to be a formidable weapon.In addition,there were 9 divisions of pissed off and battle hardened Finns,itching for payback,which would have proven quite an asset to the Germans.

In addition,the Germans already had sizable forces in place in Western Poland,after the Polish campaign of 1939,and I was thinking also that the NKVD and other organs of Soviet state terror,would have had limited time to fully subjugate the Baltic nations of Latvia,Lithuania and Estonia,and these could also have proven to be valued allies.I served with Estonians on my last tour in Iraq,and they're warriors to the bone,so,in an alt history scenario,if treated well by the Germans,they would've been a nightmare to the Red Army.

I'm sure that there are a zillion other alt history variables that I have'nt thought of,but I thought that I would throw this out,and see what you guys think.
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