The USSR is by far the easiest to knock out. Just have the Germans keep Lenin in Switzerland and have Trotsky decided not to go into politics and the USSR will most likely die in the Russian civil war.
Hm, except both Britain and Russian had modern industries producing modern equipment, whereas Japan...
The UK. Completely destroy the forces in the North France-Belgium pocket and the government falls to be replaced by those wanting peace. The UK makes peace with Germany, meaning no Lend-Lease and meaning that as the UK is no longer an enemy, there is no need to attack ships travelling between the US and UK, meaning the US doesn't get dragged into the war. With no Lend-Lease Germany quite possibly mauls the USSR badly enough to force a negotiated peace and territorial concessions on the part of the USSR. The US goes to war only against Japan. So does what's left of the USSR, to save its pride. As it's no longer preoccupied with the war in Europe, and still has its massive technological advantage, they can devote more supply to the Manchurian offensive, meaning they take Manchuria faster and go all the way to Pusan by the time Japan surrenders. As a result, China still goes Communist, and the USSR devotes more resources to Communists in Asia, there being none left in Europe, causing Indochina, Thailand, and Burma at least to go Communist, and quite possibly Iran and/or at least one of the Indias. Iraq maybe too. Turkey will probably stay independent as a buffer state by playing off the Germans and Soviets against each other, and the Middle East may well become its own power bloc, using oil to pull the strings of the rest of the world, and the Arabs win in Palestine. Also no Sino-Soviet split, since the Soviets will need China to stay allied and devote more time and diplomacy towards that end.
Oh lookie, I knocked out both. (Still think the UK is easier, though.)
It relates to something called defense of trade.JacktheCat said:It all relates to something called Strategic Depth
The poll asks which is easier to knock out with the right PODs
Great Britain
The USSR
Best thing would be introduce the Type XXI streamlining & battery capacity to a *Type VII/40 or *Type IX/40.Vonar Roberts said:What can Germany do to win?
It also had the weakness of people willing to cooperate with invaders thanks to years of repression and of famine.
German brutality is famous for making Stalin's reign of terror look tolerable by comparison. Hitler wanted to take the land to fufill that grand plan for a German "lebenstraum" which involved displacement, subjugation and extermination of the people living there. How the people would have reacted to a power instead intent on simply defeating and overthrowing Stalin is hard to say but it would have been a liability for the country.Even with Vlasov's army and Stalin's incredible stupidity about sending war prisoners to be investigated/imprisoned upon liberation (which allowed Vlasov to form the army in the first place), the percentages are somewhat small, definitely not on the same scale as in Yugoslavia or France. This point is often overemphasized, usually coupled with underplaying just how brutal German occupation was even in areas that were the most collaborationist (former Eastern Poland, for example), and how important this brutal approach was to extracting food and labour to be able to carry on the war.
German brutality was famously worse even than Stalin's, which is quite a feat. Hitler wanted to take the land to fufill that grand plan for a German "lebenstraum" which involved displacement, subjugation and extermination of the people living there. How the people would have reacted to a power instead intent on simply defeating and overthrowing Stalin is hard to say but it would have been a liability for the country.
German brutality is famous for making Stalin's reign of terror look tolerable by comparison. Hitler wanted to take the land to fufill that grand plan for a German "lebenstraum" which involved displacement, subjugation and extermination of the people living there. How the people would have reacted to a power instead intent on simply defeating and overthrowing Stalin is hard to say but it would have been a liability for the country.
But the British Empire was "knocked out" several decades before the USSR ended, so this seems rather even.In principle since the USSR doesn't exist anymore and was much shorter lived than Great Britain has been....well the answer is obvious that the USSR was easier to 'knock out'.