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The Soviets considered it very possible and were so concerned as to share said issues with the Americans. On the flipside, though, the Japanese had ceased all offensive planning in 1944 and had begun to use the Kwantung Army as a reserve bank. That was the other major factor for the Soviet...

A thought: part of the Soviet success in August Storm was derived from the Russians achieving a certain level of surprise. IGHQ and the like expected they (the Soviets) would be unready to commence an offensive until early 1946 or late 1945; some, particularly in the Kwantung Army itself, were...

One long term idea that has popped into my head is the Third World War breaking out in the early 1950s, as a result of Stalin dying and an earlier Hungarian uprising due to Western influence and operations out of Austria.

OTL there was a serious insurgency in both Poland and Romania, so I would be surprised if Stalin doesn't find himself facing a better armed one in Poland and one in Hungary too. Presuming something like 1956 happens, that'll be interesting given a NATO land connection with Hungary.

I'm with you, it seems, fully. Very likely the Western Allies meet the Soviets at the Oder, if not further East. Austria likely ends up in the Western Zone and thus joins NATO, while the liberation of Bohemia by the Anglo-Americans would probably result in them being neutral in the coming Cold...

Been a minute since I reviewed/wrote all that, so I'm kinda rusty on this era of the war. Hard to see what, exactly, the Germans would do at this juncture but using 16th SS Panzergrenadier division as flank guard (along with the OTL divisions used in that capacity) would screen 6th Panzer...

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