What if Japan invaded the Soviet Union in World War 2?
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Date: 2022-07-15
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Andrei
If Japan wouldn't have attacked China in 1936 and USA in 1941, and instead focused on occupying South-East Asia in 1939, they would have had plenty of resources to attack USSR in 1941 and occupy even more of Siberia than what they are credited with in this video. The German-Soviet-Japanese war would have become a prolonged bloodbath, with the Soviets at the losing end. After slowly grinding down the USSR, the Yenisei river could have become the German-Japanese border. Over the following decades, the newly-acquired resources would have allowed Germany and Japan to take on their enemies one by one, leaving the USA last.
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If Japan wouldn't have attacked China in 1936 and USA in 1941, and instead focused on occupying South-East Asia in 1939, they would have had plenty of resources to attack USSR in 1941 and occupy even more of Siberia than what they are credited with in this video. The German-Soviet-Japanese war would have become a prolonged bloodbath, with the Soviets at the losing end. After slowly grinding down the USSR, the Yenisei river could have become the German-Japanese border. Over the following decades, the newly-acquired resources would have allowed Germany and Japan to take on their enemies one by one, leaving the USA last.
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Rogier
The Japanese might have won at Khalkin Gol if Stalin had not sent in Zhukov in 1939 but say Grigory Kulik who was Stalins favourite general at the time, and who favoured WOI style tactics. Alternatively, if Zhukov had lost because he couldn't get as much men and equipment as he did, he might have been shot or died in the Gulag like so many other Soviet officers of the period, rather than becoming the main Soviet general of WOII. Either way the Soviets would not have had their own Blitzkrieg experience and history might have been quite different.
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The Japanese might have won at Khalkin Gol if Stalin had not sent in Zhukov in 1939 but say Grigory Kulik who was Stalins favourite general at the time, and who favoured WOI style tactics. Alternatively, if Zhukov had lost because he couldn't get as much men and equipment as he did, he might have been shot or died in the Gulag like so many other Soviet officers of the period, rather than becoming the main Soviet general of WOII. Either way the Soviets would not have had their own Blitzkrieg experience and history might have been quite different.
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Womble
This comment section is full of a bunch of libtard, commie, and antifa
Who think that the USSR can survive a two front war, they simply wouldn't have enough man nor ground to sacrifice
because of the Japanese invasion of the USSR the German would probably captured Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad because the USSR would committed many division to hold against the Japanese
Although I don't think that the Japanese have the resources to invade northern china and south east Asia in this timeline
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This comment section is full of a bunch of libtard, commie, and antifa
Who think that the USSR can survive a two front war, they simply wouldn't have enough man nor ground to sacrifice
because of the Japanese invasion of the USSR the German would probably captured Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad because the USSR would committed many division to hold against the Japanese
Although I don't think that the Japanese have the resources to invade northern china and south east Asia in this timeline
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Renan_PS
I think you're overestimating Japanese forces, their Navy was powerful but the land force was barely enough to beat the chinese, but indeed any little help would enable the germans to take Moscow, as they almost took it without japanese help. Basically any help the germans received would enable they to win the war, in my personal opnion if Alan Turing didn't joined the British war effort the germans would win.
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I think you're overestimating Japanese forces, their Navy was powerful but the land force was barely enough to beat the chinese, but indeed any little help would enable the germans to take Moscow, as they almost took it without japanese help. Basically any help the germans received would enable they to win the war, in my personal opnion if Alan Turing didn't joined the British war effort the germans would win.
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Christian
I think you are completely missing the point. The only reason the Soviets were able to withstand the German offensives of 1941 and 1942 was the constant delivery of US aid - mainly across the pacific. If Japan had declared war on the Soviets in 1941, this vital supply line would have been cut. Even if the Japanese had done nothing else in Siberia, the Soviets would have lost against Germany.
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I think you are completely missing the point. The only reason the Soviets were able to withstand the German offensives of 1941 and 1942 was the constant delivery of US aid - mainly across the pacific. If Japan had declared war on the Soviets in 1941, this vital supply line would have been cut. Even if the Japanese had done nothing else in Siberia, the Soviets would have lost against Germany.
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Fouzia
It actually happened when the Japanese made 2 plans the northern plan and the southern plan the northern plan was where the Japanese would invade the USSR for resources and the southern plan was the plan to take most of Southern Asia and they attempted the northern plan first after an incident with soviet troops and the plan failed so they did the southern plan
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It actually happened when the Japanese made 2 plans the northern plan and the southern plan the northern plan was where the Japanese would invade the USSR for resources and the southern plan was the plan to take most of Southern Asia and they attempted the northern plan first after an incident with soviet troops and the plan failed so they did the southern plan
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awsumguy7680
I think Japan had a perfect opportunity to invade the Soviet Union. they could have worked with the germans to carry out operation Barbarossa as a joint operation between the soviets and the Japanese invading from the east and west. the soviets would have easily been stretched thin trying to fight 2 massive militaries. and probably would have surrendered
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I think Japan had a perfect opportunity to invade the Soviet Union. they could have worked with the germans to carry out operation Barbarossa as a joint operation between the soviets and the Japanese invading from the east and west. the soviets would have easily been stretched thin trying to fight 2 massive militaries. and probably would have surrendered
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Simon
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor instead of CCCP was its biggest mistake ever. Otherwise Japan would be a much bigger and stronger country by now, probably with a power on par with the U. S. A. As the CCCP would be greatly weakened, there won't be a communist era in East Europe or East and Southeast Asia. The world today might be a better place as a whole.
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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor instead of CCCP was its biggest mistake ever. Otherwise Japan would be a much bigger and stronger country by now, probably with a power on par with the U. S. A. As the CCCP would be greatly weakened, there won't be a communist era in East Europe or East and Southeast Asia. The world today might be a better place as a whole.
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Alexander
I think the Soviet Union would have mostly ignored the Japanese presence if they had to, sacrificing land in the far East in the short to medium term, being far more concerned with the war in the West. It is probably likely that forces from the USA would have been deployed to counter the Japanese, if the situation became desperate and required it.
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I think the Soviet Union would have mostly ignored the Japanese presence if they had to, sacrificing land in the far East in the short to medium term, being far more concerned with the war in the West. It is probably likely that forces from the USA would have been deployed to counter the Japanese, if the situation became desperate and required it.
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