WI Hitler was less batshit insane?

Something I find interesting:

It is assumed that, because Stalinism is sort of not nice, any force which can contrive to avoid field-brothels, the offensive use of starvation, racial demeaning, and so on can get all the Soviets to queue up and join.

Yet nobody finds it remarkable that German soldiers - increasingly disillusioned, if not always with Hitler or Nazism, then certainly with the Nazi state and the official propaganda, which was on the other side of the coin a common Soviet experience - were still willing to fight on in what was, by the end, a clearly hopeless situation.

And did every British and American soldier and civilian actively like the government and the organs of the state?

Yet apparently the USSR isn't a real country; and the fact that whether they like the regime or not the Red Army is a force made up of their brothers, sons, husbands, friends, and compatriots has no influence at all on Soviet citizens.

I have to say IBC, the main pre-condition for raising collaborationist is the occupation of all or part of their home nation. The Soviets only managed that in 1944/5 when the war was almost over.

However the Soviets, did indeed make use of ''anti-Fascist'' German POWs but not in large units. Instead they were sent into the German lines in small groups to spread disinformation or to persuade German landsers to lay down their arms. There were even a few cases where the Soviets played on the landsers resentment towards their commanders, by spreading rumours that thier higher-ranking officers had fled further west.

The Soviets also created a stable & reliable puppet state in East Germany which lasted for over forty years...
 
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