Re: To sadly turn this political
So no, I wouldn't do that.
Cederic, having the benefit of eighty years of hindsight, what would you have done instead on 22nd June 1941 to defend the USSR in its historical condition on that date (i.e. without changing events or situations prior to that date, e.g. no “don’t purge the officer corps in the Great Terror of 1936–1939” or “redeploy more of the Red Army away from the western borders”)?