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Originally Posted by Fireball
B) Russia was just as guilty of being about-faced back then as America. When Hitler first started the war, Russia was on his side. If the US didn't get involved in Europe, Hitler would have had full access to slowly blitzkreig just about every morsel of resistance that the Russians had left to the close of the war. They probably would have surrendered prior to that, though. The Russians didn't get rich until after the war ended, and they pretty much devoured every resource that the Nazis were able to accumulate.
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This is the one thing that I really disagree with - go to St. Petersburg (or what was then known as Leningrad) and you will know that the Russian people would never surrender. They did blitzkrieg everything in the city which was starved for months at a time leading to people starving to death in the streets and having their bodies used as food for the living. Say what you will about the Russians but make no mistake they are a very proud people who are extremely proud of their military past and knowing that I can't see how Russia would ever surrender in a war.
Stalin as was mentioned by Captain Crunch was completely baffled by the actions of Hitler after the pact was broken. He wasn't prepared for a war and that was evident from the moment the war started in Russia and the Russians were pushed back. THe purges has left them with no generals with the ability to put together a battle. The supplies just were not there. When Russia was able to get back on it's feet after the betrayal by Hitler that is when the war began to end (in my opinion of course)