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Originally Posted by August
I don't think it's valid to use a 1945 campaign as an indication of how an early war campaign would go.
In 1945 the Red Army was at the peak of...
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I wasn't!
I was thinking more mid '44.
Why would Russia attack in 1940?
The Japanese certainly could not.
The Japanese where no threat. Until, and even after, '42 they where
still having trouble in Western China against Chinese resistance that
still held plenty of territory.
This was a Chinese army with hardly a field gun or tank to speak of.
If Japan
did try to attack Russia in '42, they would face a 4000+ mile
supply run across the Himalayan Foot hills, the Gobi Desert or
Siberia.
When they did get the the Russian industrial land, East of the Urals, it
would be a joke for the Russians.