Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24577079-20150113025115/@comment-24002937-20150113150535

That still doesn't detract from the fact that the German/Axis logistical and supply capabilities in on the Eastern Front were absolutely miserable at the height of their advance, and it'd just keep getting worse the further east they marched. I don't buy that many of the native peoples in the invaded areas would join the Germans if they weren't "as brutal" (yes, there were a few Axis regiments in OTL that were composed of Slavs and other conquered people, but not enough to help the invaders bring the Soviets to a peace). Hell, the only realistic (well, plausible) events I can see happening that would result in an Axis victory against the USSR would be a combination of lucky victories for the Germans beyond Stalingrad/Moscow/Leningrad and the deaths of Stalin and most of the men in his immediate line of succession (I could see Beria maybe brining the war to a conclusion, but without absolute chaos in the Soviet high command, the generals and major politicians would never let that man near the reigns of power).