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Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.

That sounds like outright mass murder given that they deported everyone to virtual wilderness and gave them zero support on arrival.

There were several tactics that were needed to defeat the UPA, infiltration was only one of them. Mass deportations did happen as well. Either as bad or worse than what the Germans did in Belarus to fight the partisans during the war, which was the focal point of the Soviet partisan movement.

That's what the brutal counter insurgency campaigns of 1944-1950 was for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army#Soviet_Union It was so bad the NKVD considered West Ukraine a hardship post since alcoholism and suicides were rather rampant in Soviet security forces. Turns out the...

Stalin did do that pretty well IOTL, but after the losses of WW2 the Soviets couldn't afford heavy body counts if they were going to rebuild and repopulate.

Sure, but what utility would that have?

I think you're right. Plus we were allied with the Soviets during the war and by making the Nazis out to be the worst monsters in history the US (and all allied powers, even modern Russia) can claim moral superiority for defeating them. That's not to say the Nazis weren't awful criminals, but...

Um...the USSR was an atrocity machine IOTL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_prisoner_massacres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror...

Unless they already have power they wouldn't have the warriors to seize control. Likely it would have to be a powerful army officer or clique of officers, which means Zhukov or Rokossovsky. Or Beria with the NKVD. Politicians with just words are not powerful enough in wartime.

Stalin likely wouldn't survive long enough to make it to the Urals. Kubiyshev (sp?) was the place for the government to evacuate to, but if Moscow is lost the Soviet regime wouldn't last since that city was the symbol of their power and its loss, likely followed soon by Leningrad due to the...

Wait what? You got a source on that?

In the case of the Soviets had they not needed so much labor to rebuild they probably would have been much more murderous in the treatment of PoWs, as from 1941-42 German PoWs in Soviet hands suffered a roughly 95% fatality rate (a worse rate than Soviet PoWs in German hands BTW). Policy...

It can be argued they were IOTL. They could have actually been worse had it not been for the Soviet need for labor after the horrible bloodbath of WW2 and FDR's death right before the end of the war prevented the worst of the adminstration's plans for the aftermath of the war.