I agree.... ( damn it I, hate saying that! )

This would fit in with the what-if "Russia was not industrialized" thread as they are attached. With no Railroad Russia would simply fail to industrialize. Hence like Miguel said, no USSR!

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler