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Originally Posted by Aegir
It doesn't matter. You're assuming that Russians under German occupation would just sit down instead of resisting the occupation. That's one big elephant in the room there.
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Who knows? After the Nazi regime fell, the German people didn't really resist the occupation, did they?
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And this is assuming that the Germans would reach the Urals, something which doability ought to be questioned.
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In OTL they came pretty close to
occupying the core of Russia.
If the Soviets had crumbled at Smolensk, Leningrad and Stalingrad (and all 3 battles were close), there would have been very little from stopping them to continue all the way to the Urals. In summer, it's just dry steppe, easily crossed by Tanks. They would have overrun the fleeing Soviet forces.