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Originally Posted by Repulse
still i would reckon the japanese would of (if nationlist china signed the anti-comitern pact and the germans where still in the west) might of broken through DO NOT underestimate the japanese look at pearl harbour it might of failed because they did not send a thrid wave but the japanese thougt it through for months and months trying to get right they would of done this with the USSR in a giant surprise attack that could of broken through. (probably) the japanese might of designed new winter clothing who knows they might of won.
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See the thing the usual suspects don't or won't consider is that the Japanese would tie down the Central, Transbaikal, Far Eastern Commands so all those troops that would otherwise have been sent to the west would now be entrenched in the east. Also i point out that the Japanese only have to go as far as the Trans-Siberian Railway and to capture it entrapping those in the east and cutting of any supplies from the Ural idustrial centres.
And Yes the Soviets got their bums smacked by Poland, and initially by Finland, so i would hate to see those battle hardened Japanese troops that fought in China facing the ill-diciplined and untried troops in the East, also if thousands of Japanese were prepared to sacrifice themselves for the Emperor in the last stages of the war, death meant nothing to the Japanese, oh and one thing you have forgotten how may Soviet POW's would survive the war, not many.
Sloniksp make a good point about the Japanese having no tanks, just looking at the topography of that particular area, tanks would be useless, it is like sending an entire Panzer Armee through the Caucasus. So tanks on both sides would be useless, no this would be an old fashioned footslogger war. Most of the two million men you indicate came from the East with the tranference of many divisions from there.