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IF we go by the assumption that in 1942 an armistice between the western allies and Nazi Germany was in effect.

France no longer occupied, trade restrictions against Germany lifted and lend lease convoys toward the USSR stopped.

How would this affect the war on the eastern front.

Personally it has been my opinion that it was the added mobility provided by western trucks and locomotives which allowed the Soviets to hold cities like Leningrad, Moscow and ultimately Stalingrad.

In addition, if Moscow had fallen to the German advance then what would be the most plausible place to construct large scale "Siegfried line like" defensive fortifications?

Is it from the Caspian sea north to Leningrad or further east to the western edges of the Ural mountains.

The latter part being inspired by
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