Originally posted by Urban Ranger
The Western allies were only facting at most 1/10 of Nazi Germany's military might, the rest was on the Eastern Front.
The Western allies were only facting at most 1/10 of Nazi Germany's military might, the rest was on the Eastern Front.
The Western allies also achieved full motorisation of their forces, something neither the Germans nor the Russians ever achieved, or even got close to. Allied airpower would have made an awful mess of the Red Army's horse and rail based transport.
The general state of the roads is another interesting point - the Western allies would have been using paved roads and other well developed and "thick" transport arteries whilst the Sovs would have been using unsealed dirt roads and narrow supply corridors, vulnerable to interdiction.
And just to cap off a bad year, there would have been famine in Russia if Western food supplies had been cut off in 1945.
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