Man it could have been alot worse.....
Hitler spoiled evrything for himself, having not a high rank, not knowing any tactics. (he was the next rank up from seargent : i know what its called in russian but not in English, the rank was Efrighter? or something like that.)
We were pretty close to him developing Atomic weapons (if it wernt for the Brittish commando operations destroying the black water facilities in norway, he would have had them.) During all off this, revenge weapon 3 (v3) was developed.
What it was was a ballistic rocket that could fligh into the lower atmosphere and fly large distances. If he had atomic weapons, he could haver had the first ballistic missile. This is a fact that the Ussr stole the 2 existing v3's,
then made thir own. Thats how Russia won the Space Race, having the first sattelte, First animal in space, and first man in space. before the americans even sended up thir own.
Also after reading Erich Hartmann : Fighter ace (excellent book!) He apparently was misinformed by his generals (military info like : what caliber guns Russia had etc etc), who didnt want to displease him.... and told him info for 1939 status.
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