Re: Storm Front Part 2

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> In part 1, the Nazis said that the Russians were trying to retake
> Moscow.  In part 2, we learn that the timeline went off track when
> someone assassinated Lenin in 1916.  As a result, the Communists did not
> take over Russia and industrialize it, so Hitler didn't consider Russia
> to be a threat.  Therefore he concentrated all his resources on the
> West.  Why then would German troops be in control of Russia at least as
> far as Moscow?
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> How did Hitler even come to power without a Communist threat with which
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> scare people?
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There would still be the Teutonic drive for "Push to the East" and 
"Living Room." Also, Poland and Russia have vast natural resources for 
the German war effort.

RCL