While I'm decently sure that Finland would've lost the winter war without support, what do you reckon would've occured if the French-British plan to aid the Finns succeded? Just curious.
While I'm decently sure that Finland would've lost the winter war without support, what do you reckon would've occured if the French-British plan to aid the Finns succeded? Just curious.
Standstill? Nah. Russians had numbers and raw resources. Germany spent most of WWII slowly running out of oil to power their tanks with.
The Soviets would, slowly, have pushed the Germans back. Poland's gone, ditto around a third of what we called East Germany.
Well, Numbers are moot if the soldiers lack training. Thus, the Soviets would be sending their troops into a bloodbath.
Well, Spar, history kinda proves you wrong.
In individual battles, yes. Eventually, though...
How long would it have lasted, do yout think?
Which? Germany v Russia, or Germany + Russia v Britain +US?
Depends. If Hitler and Stalin remain in power throughout, Germany loses around 3-4 years in. If Hitler's idiocy is enough to enflame the Wehrmacht, you get something like a successful July 20th maybe two years in, and then the Wehrmacht, who actually know what they're doing, proceed to kill enough Russians to force a ceasefire in Mid-Poland, 6 or so years in.
Millions. Absolute Bloodbath, we're talking something like 20 million, mostly Russian.