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by senderista 4 days ago
Well, a lot of that US (and German!) industrial expertise was applied well before the war, in the 20s and 30s.

It's certainly plausible that Moscow could have fallen if Hitler hadn't diverted Army Group Center to Kiev etc., which would have been a major political/logistical setback, but I still doubt it would have changed the ultimate outcome (especially if it had left the units of the Red Army intact that were encircled and destroyed in that diversion).