One thing to keep in mind is that NATO may have thought a successful invasion of the Soviet Union would bring PACT countries like Hungary, Poland and the Czechs over to their side and thus adding to their forces. That is one thing that the timeline I feel fails to address by having the vast majority, if not all of the forces of those PACT countries stay loyal to the Soviets thru most of the war.
I can understand the Poles not wanting the Germans on their territory and fighting as they did but the Hungarians and Czechs stayed a little too loyal to the Soviets. Neither of those countries were invaded in the initial offensive yet none of their units went over to NATO as NATO pushed thru Poland and into the Soviet Union.
I think the writers very heavily overestimated how loyal the Czechs and Hungarians would have been - given that kind of offensive, where the Russians are kicked right back to their border you would have to figure you would have had significant defections of whole units over to NATO.
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