And thus the reason the Libertarians can never have my vote.. a foreign policy based on wishful thinking and cotton headed dreams
As far as USSR winning on its own... with out the aid of the allies in fuel food and arms moscow would in all likelihood fallen and Stalin removed.. would the soviet replacement fought on or made a deal... the world wonders...
I believe the Russian Army would have gotten behind Vlasov if the Bolsheviks fell. That was the best case scenario, that Hitler would succeed to the point where Stalin and the Bolsheviks are out of power, and Russia rallies behind a non-Communist to defeat Germany and at least create a new Russian state.
“The Russian will never let you forget for a moment you are a hated enemy on his soil. He isn’t afraid of fire. He needs little food or sleep and he will willingly sacrifice his own life in order to kill you’’-— German POW speaking to Allied intelligence officers. Regardless of who sat in the Kremlin, Russians soldiers and civilians would have gone on fighting and killing Germans for as long as Germans were on Russian soil. Russians weren’t fighting for the “Party’’ but for “Rodina’’,’’ Holy Mother Russia’’.