Comments by "Regis" (@Timbo5000) on "If the Soviets and the West went to war in 1945 - who would have won?" video.

  1. Only at the start. Better western tanks were already developed and saw limited use on the front. Tanks that could more or less rival their Soviet counterparts. The USSR capability of victory lies only near the beginning of the war. If they managed to push away the Western allies quick enough and manage nother Fortress Europe, if you will, then I give it to the Soviets. But if the Western allies stood their ground well enough, limiting the advance, the Soviets faced an inevitable downfall. The Germans lost because of oil, lack of production quality and lacklustre supply capabilities. The Western Allies suffered from none of this. And they had fighting capabilities that the USSR simply wasn't prepared for. The British idea of essentially using long range bombers to decimate the industry of the enemy was highly succesful on Germany and Italy and when the US joined they also geared themselves to this kind of warfare. The western allies had options against the Soviets that the Germans could only dream of. Bombing Soviet oil fields near Stalingrad would be a piece of cake. Cities could be nuked. Maybe eventually the Soviet industry could be reached but if not the West should have air superiority (more and technologically superior planes) so them hunting down Soviet supply lines should be a serious problem for the USSR. The USSR would face naval lockdown and a trade blockade due to the West controlling the seas and most of the world. France would be mobilising (1.3 million men by 1945 and still mobilising....), as well as other liberated Western territories. Eventually one would wonder whether the Soviets would even have the numerical advantage (their only advantage) left.
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