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Originally Posted by Sloniksp
A Soviet Agent by the name of Victor Sorge found out that the only way that Japan would have ever even considered attacking the USSR again, was only if Moscow fell. This information was passed down to Stalin who was then relieved as this allowed him to free up the reserves from the East.
Japan had nothing to gain from attacking the USSR. Japan needed oil rather then empty land which she would have encountered in the Siberia. Also if the Germans were suffering from the cold, how would the Japanese fair in Siberia, who were used to fighting in tropical climates? Not to mention the lack of tanks.
As for the US, I believe that she would have eventualy gotten involved in the conflict coming to aid of Great Britain.
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Not good enough son, my thread says Japan opens a second front, so Japan and the Soviet Union are at war. So no freeing up the Eastern Reserves.
Nothing to gain, well then, Vladivostok, Sakhalin Island, Petropavlovsk, The Trans Siberian Railway from Vladivostok to Lake Baykal, the destruction of the entire Soviet Pacific Fleet.
Oh yes Japan needed oil, but consider this the fuel the Japanese used in spreading through South East Asia would be used in the Soviet Second Front.
Tanks are a problem but at the point of June 1941 how many T-34/76 are serving in the East, most Soviet Tanks in the East were the old BT series, the Japanese 75mm with high explosives would knock them out.