[lbo-talk] How close was it?

[Mike Ballard]

Yeah, it was closer than we might like to think. If
Hitler had taken Moscow _or_ Leningrad in the winter
of 42-43, if the drive for the Caucauses had
succeeded, if Hitler hadn't spread himself so thin
over a 100 mile front. . . . Of course, the US would
still have had the bomb on most versions of this
story, and the Germans wouldn't, so WWII might have
ended with the atom bombing of Berlin and Munich. jks
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It was late November early December, 1941.  The
Germans were within binocular distance of Red Square.
On the Far Eastern Front, Zhukov led the Red Army to
victory against the Japanese too many times and a
non-agression treaty had been signed with them in
April of that year.  Stalin ordered Zhukov to bring
his army to Moscow and the tide was turned, especially
after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. 

Also, another big factor (in addition to working on
the bomb), the Allies had radar and sonar.  The Axis
didn't.  Did the Allies ever allow the Stalin's
military to get ahold of that technology?

Ever curious,
Mike B)

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“How would we live?” He kept asking this question.  Of course, I wondered whether we  were doing anything more than merely existing.  I saw most of our work time as being  superfluous.  On the other hand, Fred’s need for things and creature comforts had grown  too much to be sustained by any reduction in our income.  Thus, spending our lives to obtain credits had become the norm.  

from WAGE-SLAVE'S ESCAPE

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