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Imagine the Battle of Bulge but with the attacks being made all along the Allied front. The Red Army outnumbered the Western Allies by about 3-1 and most of the strongest partisan forces in Western Europe were loyal to the USSR. Personally, I think the Red Army would have destroyed the Allied Armies in very short order.
Not without control of the air - look to Korea when the Chinese had and even larger force advantage. The Soviet logistics chain is a mirror exact similarity the Germans faced pushing to Moscow. May 1945 to August 6 1945 is a short time.
Imagine the Battle of Bulge but with the attacks being made all along the Allied front. The Red Army outnumbered the Western Allies by about 3-1 and most of the strongest partisan forces in Western Europe were loyal to the USSR. Personally, I think the Red Army would have destroyed the Allied Armies in very short order.
Look at it this way; could the Western Allies have prevailed against the Eastern German Army in June 1944? Then look at what the Red Army did to the Eastern German forces in June-Aug 1944. The Western Allies would have been steamrollered just as the German Army was.
Hold out for a month and drop a couple of atom bombs on Moscow and Leningrad. That should be the end of that.
Steve
A large portion of the Red Army's aviation gas was supplied thru lend lease also. I'm sure someone on this site can come up with the figures.
So unless the Russians had some big stockpiles of gas, and explosives left over after they smashed Germany, they're going to run running short of fuel and munitions pretty quick.
. as for if one a bomb woudl have made a difference....what if hitler had one at kursk and could have wiped out the soviet armor prior to them attacking? or dropped it on stalingrad at the beginning and not got bogged down in that mire....1 or 2 bombs ( with the capability to make a lot more ) does cout for something.
What makes you say that?
This is the scenerio WWII Germany hoped for. The German Government and armed forces would cooperate. So would Italy, Hungary, Poland, Finland, Croatia, Spain, Slovakia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, several ethnic groups in the Caucasus etc. The U.S. Army main supply hub would be ports such as Hamburg and they would have full use of the excellent German rail system.