Originally posted by zraver
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The only time period that Stalin would have been pushed to the Urals and desperate enough to turn East would have been before Stalingrad. And that means the armies that Zukhov used for both MARS and URANUS would now be staring East.
Your point about the Red Army taking on both the KMT and the IJA is a curious observation. CKS always viewed the Communists as the greater threat than Japan. If Stalin had marched south, there is a small chance that CKS would have turned to Japan against the Communist threat ... but then again, that means turning against the Americans and the odds are against that.
I think CKS would have done the exact same thing. Stay out of the fight between Japan and the Allies as much as possible to conserve his strength against the Chinese communists. That is until Stalin starts shipping Chinese peasants West to fight in his war against Hitler. But by then, it would have been too late.
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