Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.20.237.75-20150507060925/@comment-24577079-20150517032503

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In short, it's a likely German defeat. Without the European Axis, one wonders what the Soviets will do and if they will the ones to start the Second World War.

The Soviets were pretty militarily proactive in the late 1930's and 1940. The Winter War, Invasion of the Baltic states, and the Invasion of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina all got the Soviets a good deal of territory. If you think about it, these actions are pretty overshadowed compared to Germany's actions around this time. Without Germany getting all of the attention, I would assume the Soviets would attract more attention than OTL, and with pre-existsing tension between the USSR and the western world, I don't think things would have peacefully lasted much longer if they were continuing at that rate.