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Originally Posted by Amled
It would have made more sense if he could have gotten a quid pro quo from the Japanese and had them declare war on the USSR, thereby tying up those 50 Siberian divisions OoE mentioned. But he didn't. All he got was the entire industrial might of the US thrown in his face.
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The Japanese would have lost the war right there and then. Stalin was too pre-occupied with Hitler to worry about Tojo. Those Siberian divisions were his reserves, not an army to stamp the Japanese Kwangtung Army with. In 1945 when Stalin got rid of Hitler, he turned his attention towards Tojo. In less than 20 days, the Japanese Kwangtung Army was destroyed.