Posted on 02/27/2015 11:10:40 AM PST by No One Special
the germans would have had their army split as long as they abandoned any idea of attacking Britain
that would have left them weak and 1000 miles away from their other front
The Russians would have kept fighting without our help, not as well, but kept at it
Too many Ukrainians liked the Nazis, though, the german army would have had a lot of free warriors
But there were too few troops sent and most of the participants of WWI were understandably sick of war. The Allied troops fought halfheartedly for a about a year and were then withdrawn. All the White forces were subsequently defeated by the Bolsheviks, and that set the course of history for the next seventy years.
If the democratic world could have seen what evil the Soviet Union would perpetrate in the next seventy years, maybe they would have stuck with it and helped the Whites defeat the Bolsheviks. 20-20 hindsight.
Although I had great admiration for Marshall Pilsudski, his biggest mistake was not aiding the Whites against the Reds, because of his hatred of the Czar, he found out real soon that was a big mistake when the Red Army was just outside of Warsaw in 1920.
The better question is “would Hitler have come to power” if the Soviet Union did not exist?
His main enemy in the German street were Communists. Fighting them was his legitimacy.
If Kerensky had prevailed, would any of this have happened?
Good point, the German industrialists were scared of the Bolsheviks, and while they didn’t particularly like Hitler, they saw him as their best chance to oppose them.
Hitler had a lot of opposition within the Nazi party ranks, because many in the SA, were pretty much Communists themselves, who wanted complete government control of all German industry; that was one of the reasons for the Night of the Long Knives.
If I recall my Russian history correctly, an earlier World War was largely responsible for Kerensky's failure.
He insisted that Russia stay in the very unpopular First World War, which meant more Russians dead or grievously wounded, and which meant further destruction of Russia's already terrible economy.
One other point, from memory...
As I recall, Kerensky, at heart, was a decent man and a Utopian socialist.
Lenin, at heart, was a radical revolutionary, and a ruthless murderer.
Not exactly a fair fight, for Russia, or for world history.
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