To: risk
I'm confident that the Russians would have continued to beat the Germans in the East. Continued to? Hitler attacked Russia June 22, 1941. If he was going to beat Britain, he would have done it before that. And without Britain to supply her (and provide her with intelligence,) Russia would have had a much harder job surviving a German invasion.
To: aristeides
The decisive factor in the failure of Barbarossa was geography--simply put, Russia was too damn big to be swallowed up in one campaign season.
62 posted on
05/08/2003 4:32:01 PM PDT by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: aristeides
Continued to [beat the Russians] Good point, thanks for the correction both in terms of the order of events and in the assumptions of the outcome.
66 posted on
05/08/2003 4:38:09 PM PDT by
risk
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