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What if instead of being a surprise attack in the summer of 1941, the Soviet Union gets wind of a German pre-invasion build up along the border and is able to convince Stalin to take action? What difference does this make?
What if instead of being a surprise attack in the summer of 1941, the Soviet Union gets wind of a German pre-invasion build up along the border and is able to convince Stalin to take action? What difference does this make?
Everyone knew it was coming. Stalin was deep in denial about it; he had miscalculated how badly Hitler wanted a war with the Soviet Union.Do they have concrete evidence, or just rumors?
Of course, every POD involving the WWII Eastern Front somehow favors the Germans, even it is losing the enormous advantage of attacking with total surprise.![]()
Maybe, but it would allow them to reinforce the Stalin Line, which would at least delay a thrust.I'm seriously of the mindset that it hurts Russia, simply because Russian doctrine would have been to put more men at the border, if not pre-emptively attack, instead of holding back in fear of "escalating" things as they did OTL.