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The Iron Curtain was certainly one of the big factors in changing the European landscape for several decades. As such, this brings different questions on where it would be...

Or if there would even be one?

What if through different allies or so on, the Western Allies was able to have under their domain all of Europe (except maybe Poland) under their domain? How would that affect matters with the USSR (who still have the Baltic states, Ukraine and Belarus as part of themselves)?

Now, some context: The USSR did not suffer any major setbacks or defeats. They just got stalled with the Nazis due to Barbarossa being set back months and giving Stalin time while the Nazis had to deal with Autumn rains and Winter cold.

In that time, some new Allies would end up taking the Balkans and would eventually even take Berlin and so on.

So, with pretty much most of Europe as part of NATO and a unified Germany sooner, how would this affect the Cold War? Would the USSR double down on efforts in Asia and China? Or, if in final years of the war, focus more on Europe and neglect China?
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