Why didn't the UK send troops to help Russia in 1941?
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« on: February 05, 2017, 04:33:01 PM »

Surely they could have sent them through Canada/Alaska? If Hitler had captured Moscow he would have won the war, why didn't they send reinforcements to help?
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2017, 04:38:21 PM »

Are you joking?
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« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2017, 06:01:59 PM »

I mean in 1941 we were just about getting rifles for the Home Guard Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2017, 06:15:00 PM »

Surely they could have sent them through Canada/Alaska? If Hitler had captured Moscow he would have won the war, why didn't they send reinforcements to help?

Wait, what?

You want the beleaguered and besieged British to send forces away from their island to go around the world the long way to Vladivostok and to be shipped from there to the front lines?
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2017, 06:23:27 PM »

Aside everything else... what troops?
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2017, 06:59:55 PM »

Surely they could have sent them through Canada/Alaska? If Hitler had captured Moscow he would have won the war, why didn't they send reinforcements to help?

Wait, what?

You want the beleaguered and besieged British to send forces away from their island to go around the world the long way to Vladivostok and to be shipped from there to the front lines?

Shouldn't Moscow be secured at all cost? If Hitler gets a hold of Moscow and it's transport then the war is over no matter what the allies do.
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2017, 08:00:58 PM »

If Hitler had captured Moscow, the capital would have been transfered to the east of the Volga. Part of the government had already been transfered to the east of the Volga.
The USSR was too big. It could be defeated only if Japan invaded the east.
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2017, 01:17:25 AM »

If Hitler had captured Moscow, the capital would have been transfered to the east of the Volga. Part of the government had already been transfered to the east of the Volga.
The USSR was too big. It could be defeated only if Japan invaded the east.
If Moscow had been captured in the Autumn of 1941, Japan might well have sought to go north rather than south.
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« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2017, 08:42:42 AM »

Russia didn't need men, it needed stuff.  The west was sending them stuff.  That stuff is what kept them alive.
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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2017, 08:50:37 PM »

Surely they could have sent them through Canada/Alaska?

I think we call that "going around your elbow"

Really though Russia didn't need man power the needed arms which Churchill was on short supply on himself. It was the USA that was desperately trying to arm it's allies and not get its shipments sunk by U-boats.
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