02-17-2017, 01:31 PM
(02-16-2017, 10:41 AM)SomeGuy Wrote: Oh, and roughly 80% of German casualties were suffered on the Eastern Front. Large Communist movements existed in France, Italy, and other places in Western Europe during that period. Had the US not intervened, the Red Army probably would have pushed through to the Channel.I disagree. Without the US there would have been no Western front. Germany was not a pushover and it would have taken the USSR quite some time to defeat them one-on-one. Britain might have tried something in the Balkans, and when they got bogged down maybe settle for recovering Norway. As the USSR rolled back the German positions at some point I think Churchill would have grown fearful of exactly what you suggest.
Hitler came to power partly because German capitalist elites preferred the Nazis to the Communists. In the end I think Churchill would have come to the same conclusion and made peace with Hitler. But Churchill had gambled that the Americans would get involved, in which case his side would have the preponderance of the power and the capitalist West would in the end come out on top (as they did in 1991).