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The idea of the Soviet Union collapsing into internal war because of Stalinist madness during ww2 has been discussed often and there are two obvious circumstances and results.
1. 1941/1942 the Germans role over the collapsing soviets and achieve total conventional military dominance over Europe until the Americans make peace/nuke them to oblivion
2. 1945 I haven't really seen this discussed but it's quite obvious that the third reich was a spent force and so would end albeit later and Eastern Europe would be liberated by the allies/ partisans
The option that I don't have a clear answer for this is my personal what if?
Very soon after the Normandy landings in 1944 after the allies have established a beachhead but before the start of 1945 Stalin becomes Ill and assumes an assassination attempt. He goes purge crazy and dies/is killed. The nkvd under Beria attempts to carry "the great purge 2: electric boogaloo" segments of the military/government resist and soon Russia collapses into warlordism with internal chaos taking it out of the picture for the foreseeable future. (Bear in mind i don't care if this particular scenario is unlikely/impossible any soviet internal collapse could work for this scenarios these details don't matter for what I'm asking it's just an example)
Does the third reich have the ability to drive the allies out of Europe/ make some sort of peace that allies the Nazis to survive , I can't find exact Wehrmacht numbers for 1944.
If the allies could stop this how long would the war last after that?
If something similar has been discussed before I'm sorry but I can't find anything