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Originally Posted by aka123
They did team up, so maybe there is some flaw in your plan?
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Nah, they didn't. here's the history lesson, you can verify it online in wiki for example.
When Germany attacked Poland in 1939 (who, itself, prior to this occupied a piece of Czechoslovakia when Germans invaded Chechs in 1938 and didn't allow the USSR army to pass through Poland to help Czechoslovakia), USSR took a chance to retook Western Ukraine and Belorussia from convulsing Poland, as these areas were lost to Poland in 1920th after the Revolution, split of Russian Empire, WWI defeat which resulted in Brest Peace accord with the germans and 4 years long Civil War. That's all.
Then Germans invaded USSR in 1941, so called 'Operation Barbarossa'. This was the mistake I would've fix. Instead of that the germans shoud have finish Britain - the last hostile state in Europe. I'm pretty sure all British colonial armies in Africa and Asia would've capitulated as soon as London got taken. Without any hostile states in rear, with the whole European manufacturing and scientific power, with USSR manpower and resources ready, all the world would lie at our boots in just a few years. Unfortunatelly Hitler was an anglophyle, he overestimated power and will of UK and greatly underestimated power of USSR.