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To: joey703
I don’t think so. It was clear that after the Battle of Stalingrad, which way the war was headed. The only difference between the U.S. enterring the war was after how many Russians had died and how much Soviet occupied territory the U.S. would be willing to accept in a post-world. The Soviets made sure their industrial heartland was out of reach of the Nazi’s and even if Stalingrad had been held by the Nazi’s... (I would cite Rise and Fall of the Great Powers here, but I dont have my copy with me)...

Russia may have inevitably won the war, but if Stalingrad fell, Stalin and the Bolsheviks might have been removed from power, and with it Communism.

24 posted on 09/08/2009 8:13:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
that's a huge, what if scenario... Communism was hugely popular at that time... I'm saying that if all other things were the same (no separate US peace treaty with Germany? Why?!), then the Soviet Union would have won.

Just because somebody points out an uncomfortable truth, doesn't make him communist. I mean I think it's a good idea the U.S. enterred the war when we did. i mean that shows how saavy the U.S. really was. And, getting Japan to attack Pearl Harbor... haha wow...

25 posted on 09/08/2009 8:53:14 AM PDT by joey703 (northxkorea.blogspot.com)
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