Wouldn't Stalin's removal be more likely than regime collapse? A cabal of military and NKVD types might decide that the boss had to go so the war effort could be more competently directed, although the time for that was probably the summer of '41.
Wouldn't Stalin's removal be more likely than regime collapse? A cabal of military and NKVD types might decide that the boss had to go so the war effort could be more competently directed, although the time for that was probably the summer of '41.
So what would happen if he was killed? What if he and Molotov were killed, shortly after Stalingrad falls in September?
The Soviets had been shipping everything that wasn't nailed down to Kuybyshyev for weeks.Taking moscow could be a huge punch in the balls to both sides. Mainly because I can see a lot of documents and key infrastructure being destroyed hampering the Red army because their government is so centralized but the Germans are likely going to beat themselves to death doing it. Stalingrad 2.0
Nonsense. This isn't Hitler's Germany; the Soviet system was much more stable and structured than the fascist one, especially post-1939.I think Stalin was the only thing holding it together. You're likely to see a small civil war.
What if Stalingrad falls in September...
In September 1941? Axis forces were a thousand kilometers west of Stalingrad then. Kiev only fell on 19 September. Axis forces took Kharkov, over 600 km west of Stalingrad. in November.