I’m sure the allied propaganda could have spun up something that would have gotten the public on side. The atrocities of the Soviets weren’t exactly a tightly held secret.
I mean, how well known were the atrocities committed by the commies by then?
Their numbers also aren’t the deciding factor here.
While true, they make a very good indication
How well equipped were they, how much fighting had they recently seen, was their officer corps still relatively intact after the push through Berlin, how many of those men were wounded, how much farther could the Soviet supply lines stretch, how many of those units were armed and fed by domestic Soviet industry and how many were instead supplied by lend-lease from the Allies?
By the end of the war they had gotten a good bit if thier own industry back up as well as supply lines. Most lend lease stuff was early war.
But good points, thiugh the aspect they had larger numbers was a big point, as well as having a potent air force that had a LOT more experience then the western powers bar Britian, but even then.
Majority of the societ force was a lot more veteran then that of the western allies.
Those are just some of the factors that came off the top of my head. I’m sure someone on here that’s more knowledgeable in WW2 era history could expand on that.
They had a good amount of hatred from the local populations they took control of. But managed to instil governmentd that kept them down.
If we were able to get them to revolt en mass maybe could have helped.
I don’t think they could push us out of our part of Germany, much less out of France. But assuming the absolute worst case scenario and we get pushed to the Alps and Pyrénées mountain ranges, I think any Soviet offensive would falter and eventually get reversed.
It would also depend on if the other nations would be willing to support us in this.
Would depend on how many of the british government would want to fight that war after dealing with the war as long as they had, same goes with the french, who i honestly doubt would join.
germany would due to the fact we would most likely easily be able to convicne the war torn people to help.
outside of that?
not mych else we could do.
This!
All this.
Before WWI
Russia was growing on average 9% PER YEAR! Via mostly capitalist methods and free-ish trade.
After, their GDP was falling until the 30s.
A conservative politician called
Gustav Stresemann, who had pretty liberal economic views, not Hitler, fixed Wiemar's hyperinflation.
Historic illiteracy is quite rampant.
At the time Truman could not do much, heck, he learned about the A-bomb only after he became president.
He actually tells Stalin about having a super bomb in development and Stalin is like "this guy learned just now..."
True, but Stalin knew due to spies.
Truman was the one that ended the war though, and okayed the bomb drops
