I don't necessarily think so. After all, Japan had attacked the USSR in 1938-9 and the Soviet victory at Nomonhan would not have seemed enough to the USSR of 1945. The Soviets had obliterated that army in the rather short amount of time in real life, and here it would be quite tempting to invade Japan once the bulk of Japanese troops are occupied with the US Army and Navy against them.
Japan's mobility would be nil to nada against the Soviets in this case and the Soviets would have the perfect ability to negate what amounts to the tactics of the Germans in the late part of the war without the firepower to go with it. The bitter irony is that the more the Soviets conquer faster in the short term, the more Japanese are going to be living after the war's over.
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Date: 1/12/10 22:23 (UTC)I don't necessarily think so. After all, Japan had attacked the USSR in 1938-9 and the Soviet victory at Nomonhan would not have seemed enough to the USSR of 1945. The Soviets had obliterated that army in the rather short amount of time in real life, and here it would be quite tempting to invade Japan once the bulk of Japanese troops are occupied with the US Army and Navy against them.
Japan's mobility would be nil to nada against the Soviets in this case and the Soviets would have the perfect ability to negate what amounts to the tactics of the Germans in the late part of the war without the firepower to go with it. The bitter irony is that the more the Soviets conquer faster in the short term, the more Japanese are going to be living after the war's over.