User blog comment:Saturn120/Alternate Axis Changes/@comment-4621372-20140414001422/@comment-109.156.205.62-20140414122620

Russia could survive without Stalin. Many more purges, and they would have found themselves in a position to see that. Not all the Generals would weakly roll over, I think. Also, Siberia does count. Population wise, it does not. In terms of places that Russia can put their Army, it does count. Hitler was a nutter. He didn't want to take Moscow, because that would be copying Napoleon. No way for him to be convinced otherwise before Russian Reinforcements arrived