[dfwgator]

Many Russians and Ukrainians originally welcomed the Germans as “Liberators”.

Hitler made a mistake in not treating Russia more like France or Holland. Red Army soldiers would have surrendered in droves knowing that the Germans would treat them decently, it was better than continuing to live under the Stalinist boot.

Now of course, Hitler would have none of it, because he saw the war as a war of elimination. But, Hitler once he won in Russia then could have turned around and did whatever he wanted to the Russians, with the threat eliminated.

[BlackElk]

This is precisely true. First, Hitler sent into Western Russia the blond haired, blue eyed uniformly Arian Sturnabteilung or Storm Troopers. They made a point of friendly behavior towards Russian people who welcomed them with open arms as liberators. Next, however, came the Totenkopf Schutzstaffel or Death's head SS to round up and export Russian Jews to the camps. Many Russians were not lovers of Jews. Some probably were. Few wanted to turn Russian Jews over to Hitler and Eichmann and the welcoming came promptly to an end.

Knowing that he was nonetheless in substantial hot water, Dictator Stalin ordered his troops to march carrying aloft icons of Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ. The soviets managed to come out of it by the skin of their teeth. If the USA, under FDR, been inclined to adopt a policy of "Let's you and him fight!" then the nazis MIGHT have prevailed or the soviets might have prevailed. A rational US regime, with troops tanned, rested and ready, would have mopped the floor with the victor. Red China would not have happened. Ho Chi Minh might well have ended his days in a prison where he belonged and the Korean War and likely the Vietnam War would also have been unnecessary.

Without the liberal Lincoln, about 660,000 young American men need not have died to satisfy his political agenda. Without the liberal Woodrow Wilson, Kaiser Willie would have been defeated by Europeans and many young American men would have lived. Also, the world wide mega-epidemic of the Spanish Influenza originated not in Spain but in Iowa and was spread by Iowa troops to the world via WWI troop deployments.

It would have been likely necessary for American troops to fight and die at the END of WWII in Europe in any event but with far fewer casualties. Isoroku Yamamoto designed the attack on Pearl Harbor on orders of Tojo but Yamamoto made clear in advance that he thought the attack was a blunder. His hand would have been strengthened if the liberals of those days could not hold their water and appeared absolutely intent on fighting.