I think the best thing we could have done is not sell out to the communists during the peacetalks but it's hard when your top advisor is a communist spy (FDR's guy, I forget who) and you're sick from being crippled. Try and use the threat of military intervention to convince the soviets that occupying the east isn't a good idea.
Also intervening in the chinese civil war would have done wonders and probably would mean we don't have to worry about north korea. My god would that have solved so many problems. I think china is the reason communism is still a thing
If the soviets weren't involved in the war with the soviets, the germany army that was in the east (like 80% of their entire army was in eastern europe) would have been available to fight in places like africa or normandy. Normandy wouldn't go so well when you don't outnumber the enemy 3 to 1. But their oil shortage would mean they're mostly infantry and cavalry based.
There's some good discussion on askhistorians and by TIK about the war between germany and the SU,
The overall is:
The thing is germany got kind of lucky during operation barbarossa. The soviets and even stalin knew they weren't ready for a fight but though hitler wouldn't open up a two front war (too bad the oil situation was worse than they thought). Germans did a surprise attack on an army that wasn't dug in properly and many units didn't even have equipment (winter war showed how much their army sucked so they were redoing everything from the ground up).
The army eventually got their act together and that's why the soviets win at places like moscow, holding the caucus mountains, and surrounding the 6th army at stalingrad.
I think the best thing we could have done is not sell out to the communists during the peacetalks but it's hard when your top advisor is a communist spy (FDR's guy, I forget who) and you're sick from being crippled. Try and use the threat of military intervention to convince the soviets that occupying the east isn't a good idea.
Also intervening in the chinese civil war would have done wonders and probably would mean we don't have to worry about north korea. My god would that have solved so many problems. I think china is the reason communism is still a thing
If the soviets weren't involved in the war with the soviets, the germany army that was in the east (like 80% of their entire army was in eastern europe) would have been available to fight in places like africa or normandy. Normandy wouldn't go so well when you don't outnumber the enemy 3 to 1. But their oil shortage would mean they're mostly infantry and cavalry based.
There's some good discussion on askhistorians and by TIK about the war between germany and the SU,
The overall is:
The thing is germany got kind of lucky during operation barbarossa. The soviets and even stalin knew they weren't ready for a fight but though hitler wouldn't open up a two front war (too bad the oil situation was worse than they thought). Germans did a surprise attack on an army that wasn't dug in properly and many units didn't even have equipment (winter war showed how much their army sucked so they were redoing everything from the ground up).
The army eventually got their act together and that's why the soviets win at places like moscow, holding the caucus mountains, and surrounding the 6th army at stalingrad.