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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Happy Times
I also think this scenario should have happened after the fall of Germany, arm them again and take on the Soviets. Patton had the foresight and knew this but too many pussys in the US goverment. It wouldnt have been impossible to get the Euros to attack Russia with the right propaganda.
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I seriously doubt the western Allies could have beaten the Soviets militarily in 1945-46, especially with the war in the Pacific still going strong.
We did have the atom bomb but not very many of them and it would have taken a lot to wipe out the huge Soviet army that was already in Germany and eastern europe. I think long before we could have built and deployed them in sufficient numbers to do so, the Soviets would have been so closely engaged with our troops their use would have hurt us as much as them.
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You are forgetting the west had basically naval supremacy over the Atlantic after VE day. The Soviet Navy we know today didn't exist. Imagine an amphibious assault from the White Sea and Baltic followed by an invasion of Kamchatka. All of a sudden those massive forces in Germany have to worry about losing their Capital. Who would win in a race? Patton from Leningrad or Arkhangel’sk to Moscow or who ever the Soviets had in Berlin to Moscow? My money is on Patton.