Towards the end of the War, Allied strength was around 4 million men and 85 divisions

Towards the end of the War, Allied strength was around 4 million men and 85 divisions.
Soviets, meanwhile, had around 6 million men and 500+ divisions.
Just leaving this out there.

America had 14 million servicemen by the end of the war
just saying...

If not for nuclear weapons, all of Europe would have fallen under the iron curtain by the end of 1970. There was simply no hope of containing the soviets by conventional means. They had more tanks than god.

It looks like their numbers were artificially inflated by them calling everything a "division."

Soviet divisions on paper where quite small (~12,000) and were usually quite under strength (some at the start of the Berlin operation where 4500 men total), and had separate companies/battalions/regiments of tanks/artillery/engineers/etc attached to them depending on the situation rather than having large numbers of equipment on the TO&E.
A Soviet corps in 1945 is usually equal to a US/UK division.

They still out numbered and out gunned the fuck out of the western allies in centeral europe though.

You have to be insane to think the Western Allies could advance, let alone defend against the Red Army in 45

Notice the difference between manpower and number of division user? They aren't artificially inflated, they're organized differently, a Soviet rifle division was about half the size of American/British/German infantry divisions. This varies when you have things like guard divisions and shock divisions which have more attached artillery and logistics components

Good luck advancing to Western Europe when the entire armada of RAF and USAAF are unleashed on your supply lines, communication lines and armored columns.
Tankies are delusional.

also when the entire Eastern Europe will rise against you in arms once they see that Western Allies are waging war against you

well, they may have been able to perform a reverse Halt am Rhein. If they retreated to the Rhine in the west and the Alps in the South, destroying all the infrastructure on the retreat, they could probably effectively mount a defense.

I was under the impression that the Soviet Union was pretty much exhausted after WWII and was more or less running on the patriotism of having overthrown an even more exhausted enemy. Kinda wonder how things would have gone down during Operation Unthinkable, obviously the Brits were equally exhausted but the United States had an enormous population and wholly intact manufacturing base. I think the Soviets would have had a strong initial push, but without nukes would ultimately have been pushed back by a surge of highly-equipped, well-supplied, fresh American troops. Can't say if it would have ultimately been a true defeat, but it isn't hard to see them ultimately being ground to a stalemate along or near the original borders of the Iron Curtain. Either way it would have been an extremely fucking costly war on both sides, and would probably dwarf all other conflicts the US had fought in terms of casualties.

Britain would probably have withdrawn from internal social upheaval caused by having to fight ANOTHER massive war though, they were utterly spent by that point.

Operation Unthinkable was to be launched in July, they didn't have nukes then and still had the whole Pacific issue to sort out

Yes, hence why I mentioned "without nukes". It wouldn't have been a walk in the park by any stretch of the imagination like some people make it out to be, but I think it would have ultimately resulted in a stalemate or allied victory due to the Americans providing fresher troops with more native manufacturing capabilities. Still probably would have cos them millions of lives to even push the Soviets back to a stalemate position though.

>the entire armada of RAF and USAAF are unleashed on your supply lines, communication lines and armored columns.

fucking this, why do tankies willfully ignore the aerial power imbalance?

They probably think Soviets are used to getting BTFO from the sky

>They still out numbered and out gunned the fuck out of the western allies in central Europe though

not in the air though, if they'd tried to take western Europe it would have been a turkey shoot for the ages

Air power alone wouldn't have been enough to stop the Soviets from pressing forward and seizing Paris for themselves. They would have sent over 1000 tanks through the Fulda gap.

>USSR tries to push into Western Euroe
>Allies get in contact with the various countries of Eastern Europe
>"will your nations help us fight the Sov-"
>"Russian genocide best day of my life we've already started"
>*explosions and gunfire in background*

tfw living in the worst timeline

Highly optimistic outlook, only the forest brothers and remnants of the AK would be of any use, maybe Yugoslavia as well. The rest were under communist parties vengeful over how they were treated before the Soviets came along and made them boss nigger

with what fuel?

>What fuel
Are you joking? It's like the one thing they don't lack

>Air power alone wouldn't have been enough to stop the Soviets from pressing forward and seizing Paris for themselves

probably would be though, and enough to send huge flights of bombers on raids into the heart of the USSR more or less unopposed in the air, plus all the aircraft based on airbases and carriers around Japan would likely attack the USSR from the other side of the continent

you also forget that lend-lease literally fed their armies
or do you think that their ravaged and destroyed fields back home would feed their 6 million large army?

>underestimating how much slavs hate each other

And they hate their own countrymen most of all

You got
>Balts
>Poles
>Tito
>Ukrainians
>Hungarians
>Rumanians
>Finns
>Czechs
>Slovaks
literally everyone hated the liberators