Talk:Tempest Flare

I'm afraid this is ASB for two reasons.

1.) As you noted in the opening, the Red Army didn't help the OTL uprising. Why? Because a non-Soviet dominated, western aligned Poland is completely against Soviet interests. Why again? After the devestation wrought by the Germans over the last few years, it was Stalin's goal to establish a large buffer zone of nations utterly subserivant to the USSR in Eastern Europe to prevent any future attacks from the rest of Europe into the Soviet heartland.

2.) Next, from what I've read and research, the Western Allies only planned to send a few thousand Polish paratroopers at the most. This force would be totally insufficent to face the large number of troops the Germans have in place in Poland. These Paras would also have to fly in slow moving transports across occupied Europe, exposed to attack from the Luftwaffe and flak defenses. Finally, if any of them survived the flight to Poland in the first place, these paras would rapidly expend all of their supplies and be forced to surrender. Unless of course the Wehrmact stomps them out before supplies become a problem.

God Bless the United States of America (talk) 07:45, June 26, 2014 (UTC)