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The Eastern Front in 1940

All quiet on the Eastern front.  Germany and Russia remain suspicious of each other, with their extreme ideologies, but it is still peacetime, allowing Germany free reign to conclude their conquests in the West.  By the end of 1940, Hitler has given up on a possible invasion of Britain, considering that Britain is now sterile and no threat any longer.   He now turns his attention Eastward.

All along, right up to June 1941, Stalin refuses to believe that Hitler would ever consider attacking the military might and huge expanse of the Soviet Union.

Russia attempts to pursue some imperial ambitions of its own in the far North, against Finland.  However, their armies are poorly led and underequiped for the severe arctic winter.  Russian suffers over 100,000 casualties , at the expense of a few thousand for the Finns, who utilise a mobile defense with many ski troops.  In the end though Finland is forced to hand over the border province of Karelia, but the war is an embarrassing lesson for the USSR.