User blog comment:Enclavehunter/Favorite Timeline/@comment-2303-20111215142839/@comment-32656-20120106160511

Comparing that Poland to Napoleonic France is like comparing Elizabethan England to an early 1900s British Empire: they are so different in structure, technology, and power that you simply cannot compare them.

Polish forces in the period you refer to were only a small number, and couldn't hold anything else. Only like 20,000 at most type of deal is what they moved in with - and they won some incredibly lucky victories to do it. That doesn't even begin to compare to the French numbers or abilities.

It's not a question of communications - though, you're missing that any resistance will not be organized for exactly those reasons.

Spain, while a festering wound, was more or less harmless overall until after defeat in Russia. And in the timelines you're condemning, it has already been dealt with. It's also a terrain that very much so lends itself to that kind of war, while Russia itself - in Europe, anyways - does not.

There's also a hell of lot less Russians that the Nazis dealt with. 600k, so long as used sensibly - which, again, is the case in the timelines you're condemning - would be enough. More than, even.

Russia's always overinflated in how it's represented today as being in that period. You're falling into that trap. I can understand why, even, given that you're from there.