24.12.2009, 19:13
Good question. Here is their situation. The large majority of the Soviet troops are in the South of France on the Spanish border. They are over 1200 miles from the Ukraine border. To make matters worse the Ukraine has been liberated by NATO and the other Soviet satellites are following along the same path. They are turning on their would be Soviet masters.
So basically the Soviet troops would have to fight their way on foot, without any supplies, farther than any other army has ever retreated in history. All of their trail of tears would be through hostile territory. Unlike Napoleon, who made the trip the other way, there are a couple of well supplied, mobile, motivated, and experienced NATO armies between them and home.
To make matters worse the army they are presently facing has been newly supplied and is chomping at the bit for revenge and is mobile and out for blood. At anytime another force could cross the English Channel as well and interdict your progress home.
Another factor is air power. There is no where to hide and no where to run. Napoleon did not have to worry about P-38s and P- 47s. NATO planes from both the East, West, North and South own the skies because your air forces do not have the fuel needed to escape, much less offer any opposition. Plus you have been fighting for constantly 15 months with commissars threatening you and your family back home and making you do inhumane things and perform impossible feats.
I know of no army in a similar situation that has done anything but surrender.
The Soviet forces in the Mideast are in a similar if not worse situation. They are surrounded on three sides North, South and West. To the East is desert. They have to face marching over 1200 miles through hostile territory on foot under constant attack with no way to fight back at your antagonizers. No food and more importantly in the Mideast and Turkey, there is no water. They too face mobile armies both to their rear and to their front. I'm betting that they will surrender as well.
Now, in contrast, the forces facing the NATO armies near Smolensk, Kursk and Stalingrad have plenty of supply and the newest equipment. All of the equipment that is being produced in the Urals is piling up in Moscow with no where to go. Food, tanks, the newest jets are all sitting in storage and transit areas.
There still are plenty of soldiers on hand to man the defenses of Moscow and Stalingrad. They are however the very young, very old, very inexperienced and untrained.
The cream of the Soviet forces are trapped in the Mideast and France. Stalin is obviously not in control and possibly insane at this point.
The NATO Allies have no desire to invade any further into the USSR with winter coming on. Generous terms are offered for the soldiers who surrender and this they do by the tens of thousands. The commissars and fanatical communist party members start killing their own troops to keep them from surrendering. Revolts start to spread with memories of 1918 are in the air.
Stalin has rejected NATO's unconditional surrender demands.
This is my idea of how to end WWIII 1946.
British MI6 finds out that Stalin and his HQ staff are going to inspect the troops in Stalingrad. The morning of Stalin's visit to the front an ominous silence falls over the defensive lines. It's almost as if the NATO troops had retreated and where giving up.
Just then three heavily escorted B29s appear on radar heading towards Stalingrad.
Stalin and the city of Stalingrad disappear from the face of the earth in a blinding flash.
The new Free Russian Government unconditionally surrenders within 24 hours.
So basically the Soviet troops would have to fight their way on foot, without any supplies, farther than any other army has ever retreated in history. All of their trail of tears would be through hostile territory. Unlike Napoleon, who made the trip the other way, there are a couple of well supplied, mobile, motivated, and experienced NATO armies between them and home.
To make matters worse the army they are presently facing has been newly supplied and is chomping at the bit for revenge and is mobile and out for blood. At anytime another force could cross the English Channel as well and interdict your progress home.
Another factor is air power. There is no where to hide and no where to run. Napoleon did not have to worry about P-38s and P- 47s. NATO planes from both the East, West, North and South own the skies because your air forces do not have the fuel needed to escape, much less offer any opposition. Plus you have been fighting for constantly 15 months with commissars threatening you and your family back home and making you do inhumane things and perform impossible feats.
I know of no army in a similar situation that has done anything but surrender.
The Soviet forces in the Mideast are in a similar if not worse situation. They are surrounded on three sides North, South and West. To the East is desert. They have to face marching over 1200 miles through hostile territory on foot under constant attack with no way to fight back at your antagonizers. No food and more importantly in the Mideast and Turkey, there is no water. They too face mobile armies both to their rear and to their front. I'm betting that they will surrender as well.
Now, in contrast, the forces facing the NATO armies near Smolensk, Kursk and Stalingrad have plenty of supply and the newest equipment. All of the equipment that is being produced in the Urals is piling up in Moscow with no where to go. Food, tanks, the newest jets are all sitting in storage and transit areas.
There still are plenty of soldiers on hand to man the defenses of Moscow and Stalingrad. They are however the very young, very old, very inexperienced and untrained.
The cream of the Soviet forces are trapped in the Mideast and France. Stalin is obviously not in control and possibly insane at this point.
The NATO Allies have no desire to invade any further into the USSR with winter coming on. Generous terms are offered for the soldiers who surrender and this they do by the tens of thousands. The commissars and fanatical communist party members start killing their own troops to keep them from surrendering. Revolts start to spread with memories of 1918 are in the air.
Stalin has rejected NATO's unconditional surrender demands.
This is my idea of how to end WWIII 1946.
British MI6 finds out that Stalin and his HQ staff are going to inspect the troops in Stalingrad. The morning of Stalin's visit to the front an ominous silence falls over the defensive lines. It's almost as if the NATO troops had retreated and where giving up.
Just then three heavily escorted B29s appear on radar heading towards Stalingrad.
Stalin and the city of Stalingrad disappear from the face of the earth in a blinding flash.
The new Free Russian Government unconditionally surrenders within 24 hours.