^ Considering neither nation really won or lost the Cold War directly because of what the other did, the only way that the USSR would have "won" the Cold War was if it...wasn't the Cold War. If the rest of Europe had fallen into Soviet hands, then perhaps it would have been a hot War, so to speak, and then there would have been serious trouble.

At the same time, there's no way to predict that the USSR would have lasted if Britain had fallen and the US had never entered the war. With the fronts no longer divided in that situation, it's possible that Germany could have at least kept the Soviets back and maintained their borders rather than falling to them. Then there likely would have been a Cold War between the Germans and the USSR, providing that both sides developed nuclear weaponry at around the same time.

But here I am arguing 'what ifs' when it comes to history, which is something I really don't like to do.

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