What if Poland stopped the blitz and the soviet invasion?

Answer 1

First of all, Poland would have needed to have overwhelmingly massive amounts of troops and military equipment and about 50 Generals of the quality of Patton or Rommel to stand a chance against the Germans, let alone the Soviets. Those were two of the most modern and powerful militaries in the world at the time, while Poland was still relying on WWI technology and had a relatively weak military. That being said, if Poland somehow magically held off the Germans, it probably would have seriously damaged German material forces as well as troop morale, since it was Germany's first serious large-scale military action since the end of WWI. France and England would have been able to more readily side with a victorious Poland per earlier agreements, due to it being strong and thus worth protecting, meaning that Germany would have been in the middle of a giant orgy of firepower that would end in Hitler's head on a pike on top of the Reichstag and with Germany in a similar situation to what it was in after WWI, in economic recession and with a VERY pissed-off populace. In the case of the Soviets, the effects may not have been as severe. Russia had an immensely powerful military in 1939, despite the fact that Stalin had killed off most of his capable officers in the 1930s purges. Finland was actually one of the few countries to successfully hold off the Soviet Army, in the Winter War of 1938-1939, but ended up settling for an armistice. If the Soviets had been stopped in Poland in the event of an invasion, then they could have simply gone around Poland to countries such as Romania or Hungary that were more vulnerable in the event of an invincible Poland. Britain and France, as well as the United States, potentially, would have most likely come to the aid of Poland and probably could have halted Stalin's Boys in Red, but an outright defeat of the Red Army in any case would have been extremely difficult.