[Svettie]

You can't really look at history in a compartmentalized manner like this, or rather, I guess I'm arguing that your "maybe" is closer to "probably not". If we're going to explore hypotheticals, it is very likely that without the harsh policies of forced industrialization in the USSR at the hands of Stalin that Russia would not have been in a position to resist Nazi Germany. Which would spell a worse fate for Eastern Europe at the hands of the Nazis (extermination, enslavement of the Slavic races, etc), not to mention a much bigger problem for the rest of the world in terms of dealing with Hitler.

[Fins]

It is also quite possible that without USSR to run interference in Weimar, and Stalin's support for NSDAP, nazis might not have come to power, or would have fewer resources to work with.

It is also not a given that Russia would not have industrialized even by more reasonable means.